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Matthew Broderick
Broderick at the 2009 premiere of Wonderful World
Born	March 21, 1962 (1962-03-21) (age 47) New York City, New York, U.S.
Occupation	Actor
Years active	1979–present
Spouse(s)	Sarah Jessica Parker (1997–present)

Matthew Broderick (born March 21, 1962) is an American film and stage actor who is best known for his roles as the title character in Ferris Bueller's Day Off, Nick in Godzilla and David Lightman in WarGames. He voiced Simba (adult) in The Lion King and The Lion King II: Simba's Pride. He also voiced Tack the Cobbler in The Thief and the Cobbler. He also played Leo Bloom in the film and Broadway productions of The Producers, and played Colonel Robert Shaw in the Civil War drama Glory.

Contents 1 Early life 2 Career 3 Personal life 3.1 The Accident 4 Work 4.1 Film 4.2 Stage 4.3 Television 5 References 6 External links

Early life

Broderick was born in New York City, the son of Patricia (née Biow), a playwright, actress, and painter whose work was posthumously shown at the Tibor de Nagy gallery in New York, and James Broderick, an actor.¹² Broderick's mother was Jewish, and his father a Catholic of Irish descent.³⁴⁵ Broderick attended grade school at the City & Country School (a progressive K–8 school in Manhattan) and attended high school at Walden School (a defunct private school in Manhattan with a strong drama program).

Career

Broderick's first major acting role came in an HB Studio workshop production of playwright Horton Foote's On Valentine's Day, playing opposite his father, who was a friend of Foote's. This was followed by a lead role in the off-Broadway production of Harvey Fierstein's Torch Song Trilogy; then, a good review by New York Times theater critic Mel Gussow brought him to the attention of Broadway. Broderick commented on the effects of that review in a 2004 60 Minutes II interview:

“

Before I knew it, I was like this guy in a hot play. And suddenly, all these doors opened. And it’s only because Mel Gussow happened to come by right before it closed and happened to like it. It’s just amazing. All these things have to line up that are out of your control.

”

He followed that with the role of Eugene Morris Jerome in the Neil Simon Eugene Trilogy including the plays, Brighton Beach Memoirs and Biloxi Blues. His first movie role was also written by Neil Simon. Broderick debuted in Max Dugan Returns (1983). His first big hit film was WarGames, a summer hit in 1983. This was followed by the role of Philippe Gaston in Ladyhawke, in 1985. Broderick auditioned for the role of Alex P. Keaton on the NBC sitcom Family Ties and was offered the role, but he had to turn it down because of his movie schedule. (The role was claimed by Michael J. Fox.) Broderick then got the role as the charming, clever slacker in Ferris Bueller's Day Off. Broderick, who in real life was 23, played a high-school student who, with his girlfriend and best friend, plays hooky and explores Chicago while avoiding the clutches of the dean of students, who is eager to catch Bueller in the act. The movie remains a 1980s' comedy favorite today and is one of Broderick's best-known roles (particularly with teenage audiences). In 1989's Glory, Broderick received good notices for his portrayal of the American Civil War hero Robert Gould Shaw.

In the 1990s, Broderick took on the role as the adult lion, Simba, in the successful animated film, The Lion King. Also, he distinguished himself in two dark-comedy roles. The first was that of a bachelor who attracts the friendship of an insane and lonely cable repairman (played by Jim Carrey) in The Cable Guy. The second was that of an Omaha high-school teacher determined to stop an overachieving student (played by Reese Witherspoon) from becoming class president in Alexander Payne's Election.

Broderick returned to Broadway as a musical star in the 1990s, most notably his Tony Award–winning performance in How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying and his Tony Award–nominated performance in the Mel Brooks' stage version of The Producers in 2001. Also, he continues to make feature films, including the 2005 adaptation of The Producers. Broderick played the role of Leopold “Leo” Bloom, an accountant who co-produces a musical designed to fail, but which turns out to be successful. In The Producers, Broderick sings several songs, not only alone but with other characters.

Broderick reunited with his co-star from The Lion King and The Producers, Nathan Lane, in The Odd Couple, which opened on Broadway in October 2005. He is currently appearing on Broadway as a college professor in The Philanthropist, running April 10 through June 28, 2009.⁶

He has won two Tony Awards, one in 1983 for his featured role in the play Brighton Beach Memoirs and one in 1995 for his leading role in the musical How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying. He was also nominated for the Tony Award, Best Actor in a Musical, for the The Producers but lost to Lane. To date, Matthew Broderick is the youngest winner of the Tony Award, Best Featured Actor in a Play.

Personal life

Broderick met actress Jennifer Grey on the set of Ferris Bueller's Day Off and in 1986 was briefly engaged to her.

Broderick met actress Sarah Jessica Parker through her brother. The couple married on May 19, 1997 in a civil ceremony in an historic deconsecrated synagogue on the Lower East Side; and although Broderick considers himself culturally Jewish,⁷⁸ the ceremony was performed by his sister, Janet Broderick Kraft, an Episcopal priest.⁹ Parker and Broderick have a son, James Wilkie Broderick, born on October 28, 2002. On April 28, 2009, it was confirmed that Broderick and Parker were expecting twin girls through surrogacy.¹⁰ Broderick and Parker's surrogate delivered their twin daughters, Marion Loretta Elwell and Tabitha Hodge, on June 22, 2009.¹¹ Marion Loretta Elwell weighed 5 pounds, 11 ounces, while Tabitha Hodge was 6 pounds.¹²

Although they live in New York City, they spend a considerable amount of time at their holiday home in County Donegal, Ireland, where Broderick spent his summers as a child.

He is left-handed, a fact made evident in his first movie, Max Dugan Returns, in which he plays baseball.

Broderick is an avid baseball fan. His favorite team is the New York Mets. He narrated the DVD "Shea Goodbye: 45 Years of Amazin", which chronicled the life of Shea Stadium.

Broderick is good friends with actor and co-star Nathan Lane.

The Accident

On August 5, 1987, Broderick was in Ireland, vacationing with Grey, when their rented BMW veered into the wrong lane on a country road in Enniskillen, County Fermanagh and smashed head-on into a car driven by Anna Gallagher, 30. She and her mother, Margaret Doherty, 63, died instantly.

Broderick spent four weeks in a Belfast hospital with a fractured leg and ribs, collapsed lung and concussion. Grey suffered minor injuries.

Broderick told authorities he had no recollection of the crash and did not know why he was in the wrong lane. "I don't remember the day. I don't remember even getting up in the morning. I don't remember making my bed. What I first remember is waking up in the hospital, with a very strange feeling going on in my leg," he said at the time.¹³

Broderick was charged with causing death by dangerous driving and faced a prison term of up to five years. He was later convicted of the lesser charge of careless driving and fined $175. The victims' family called the case "a travesty of justice."¹³

Broderick agreed to meet with the family of the two women in the spring of 2003 so that the family could gain some sense of closure on the accident.¹³

Work

Film

Year	Film	Role	Notes
1983	Max Dugan Returns	Michael McPhee
	WarGames	David Lightman	Nominated — Saturn Award for Best Actor
1985	1918	Brother
	Master Harold...and the Boys	Hally	Nominated — CableACE Award for Actor in a Theatrical or Dramatic Special
	Ladyhawke	Phillipe Gaston
1986	Ferris Bueller's Day Off	Ferris Bueller
	On Valentine's Day	Brother
1987	Project X	Jimmy Garrett
1988	She's Having a Baby	cameo
	Biloxi Blues	Eugene Morris Jerome
	Torch Song Trilogy	Alan
1989	Family Business	Adam McMullen
	Glory	Colonel Robert Gould Shaw
1990	The Freshman	Clark Kellogg/Narrator
1992	Out on a Limb	Bill Campbell
1993	The Night We Never Met	Sam Lester
1994	The Lion King	Adult Simba	(voice only)
	Mrs. Parker and the Vicious Circle	Charles MacArthur
	The Road to Wellville	William Lightbody
1995	The Thief and the Cobbler	Tack the Cobbler	(voice only)
1996	The Cable Guy	Steven M. Kovacs
	Infinity	Richard Feynman
1997	Addicted to Love	Sam
1998	Godzilla	Dr. Niko "Nick" Tatopoulos
	The Lion King II: Simba's Pride	Adult Simba	(voice only)
	Walking to the Waterline	Michael Woods
1999	Election	Jim McAllister	Nominated — Chlotrudis Award for Best Actor
	Inspector Gadget	Inspector Gadget/RoboGadget/John Brown
2000	You Can Count on Me	Brian Everett
2003	The Music Man	Professor Harold Hill
	Good Boy!	Hubble	(voice only)
2004	The Lion King 1½	Adult/teenage Simba	(voice only)
	Marie and Bruce	Bruce
	The Stepford Wives	Walter Kresby
	The Last Shot	Steven Schats
2005	The Producers	Leo Bloom
2006	Strangers with Candy	Roger Beekman
	Deck the Halls	Steve Finch
2007	Then She Found Me	Ben
	Bee Movie	Adam Flayman	(voice only)
2008	Diminished Capacity	Cooper
	Finding Amanda	Taylor Peters	Nominated — Prism Award for Performance in a Feature Film
	The Tale of Despereaux	Despereaux	(voice only)
2009	Wonderful World	Ben Singer
	Margaret	TBA	awaiting release

Stage Torch Song Trilogy (1981) Brighton Beach Memoirs (1983) Biloxi Blues (1985) How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying (1995) (revival) Night Must Fall (1999) (revival) Taller Than a Dwarf (2000) The Producers (2001–2002, 2003) Short Talks on the Universe (2002) The Foreigner (2004) The Odd Couple (2005) (revival) The Philanthropist (2009) (revival)

Television Faerie Tale Theatre: Cinderella (1985) Master Harold...and the Boys (1985) A Life in the Theater (1993) The Music Man (2003) 30 Rock: "Cooter" (2008)

References

External links

Wikimedia Commons has media related to: Matthew Broderick

• Matthew Broderick at the Internet Broadway Database
• Matthew Broderick at the Internet off-Broadway Database
• Matthew Broderick at the Internet Movie Database
• Matthew Broderick at Allmovie
• 2004 Story from 60 Minutes II
• Matthew Broderick - Downstage Center 2004 interview at American Theatre Wing.org
• TonyAwards.com Interview with Matthew Broderick

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NAME	Broderick, Matthew
ALTERNATIVE NAMES
SHORT DESCRIPTION	Actor
DATE OF BIRTH	March 21, 1962
PLACE OF BIRTH	New York City, New York, U.S.
DATE OF DEATH
PLACE OF DEATH