 In 2006, Brake appeared in the music video for Muse's "Knights of Cydonia", playing a villainous sheriff in a strange futuristic western.Brake played paroled convict Bobby DeWitt in Brian De Palma's "The Black Dahlia", a fictional account of the murder of actress Elizabeth Short.Despite being a critical and commercial failure, the film received a nomination for the Academy Award for Best Cinematography, losing to "Pan's Labyrinth".