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Matthew Broderick 
Broderick at the 2009 premiere of Wonderful WorldBorn March 21, 1962
New York City, New York, U.S.Occupation Actor Years active 1979–present Spouse Sarah Jessica Parker (1997–present; 3 children) Matthew Broderick (born March 21, 1962) is an American film and stage actor who, among other roles, played the title character in Ferris Bueller's Day Off, Adult Simba in The Lion King film series, and Leo Bloom in the film and Broadway productions of The Producers.
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 Producers but lost to his co-star Nathan Lane. To date, Broderick is the youngest winner of the Tony Award for Best Featured Actor in a Play.
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Early life
Broderick was born in New York City, the son of Patricia (née Biow), a playwright, actress, and painter, and James Joseph Broderick, an actor.[1][2] His mother was Jewish, a descendant of immigrants from Germany and Poland;[3] his father was a Catholic of Irish and English descent.[4][5][6] Broderick attended grade school at the City & Country School (a progressive K–8 school in Manhattan) and high school at Walden School (a defunct private school in Manhattan with a strong drama program). After the death of his mother, her paintings were exhibited at the Tibor de Nagy Gallery in New York.
Career
Broderick in Sweden during his promotion of Ferris Bueller's Day Off, December 1986.
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 supporting role as Harvey Fierstein's adopted son in the Off-Broadway production of 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 film 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 he played the main role of David Lightman, a Seattle teen hacker. This was followed by the role of Philippe Gaston in Ladyhawke, in 1985.
Broderick then got the role as the charming, clever slacker in Ferris Bueller's Day Off. At age 23, Broderick played a high-school student who, with his girlfriend and best friend, plays hooky and explores Chicago. The film remains a 1980s comedy favorite today and is one of Broderick's best-known roles (particularly with teenage audiences). Also in 1987, he played an air force troop pilot Jimmy Garrett in Project X. In 1988 Broderick played Harvey Fierstein's gay lover, Alan, in the screen adaptation of Torch Song Trilogy. In the 1989 film Glory, he received good reviews for his portrayal of the American Civil War officer Robert Gould Shaw.
In the 1990s, Broderick voiced the adult lion, Simba, in the successful animated film The Lion King, and also voiced Tack the Cobbler in Miramax's controversial version of The Thief and the Cobbler, which had originally been intended as a silent role. He won recognition for two dark-comedy roles. The first was that of a bachelor in The Cable Guy with Jim Carrey. The second was that of a high-school teacher in Alexander Payne's Election with Reese Witherspoon.
Broderick returned to Broadway as a musical star in the 1990s, most notably with 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. He continued 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.
Broderick with Sanaa Lathan at the 2009 Tribeca Film Festival premiere of Wonderful World.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 appeared on Broadway as a college professor in The Philanthropist, running April 10 through June 28, 2009.[7]
In October 2010, Broderick was featured in the US version of the BBC programme Who Do You Think You Are?.
He will return to the Broadway stage in Spring 2012 to star in the musical Nice Work If You Can Get It, directed and choreographed by Kathleen Marshall.[8]
Awards
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 Producers but lost to Lane. To date, Matthew Broderick is the youngest winner of the Tony Award for Best Featured Actor in a Play
Personal life
Relationships and family
Broderick and his wife Sarah Jessica Parker in 2009.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 and the couple married on May 19, 1997 in a civil ceremony in a historic deconsecrated synagogue on the Lower East Side. Although Broderick considers himself culturally Jewish,[9][10] the ceremony was performed by his sister, Janet Broderick Kraft, an Episcopal priest.[11]
Parker and Broderick have a son, James Wilke Broderick, born on October 28, 2002. On April 28, 2009, it was confirmed that Broderick and Parker were expecting twin girls through surrogacy.[12] Broderick and Parker's surrogate delivered their twin daughters, Marion Loretta Elwell (5 pounds, 11 ounces) and Tabitha Hodge (6 pounds), on June 22, 2009.[13][14]
Although they live in New York City, they spend a considerable amount of time at their holiday home near Kilcar, a village in County Donegal, Ireland, where Broderick spent his summers as a child. They also have a house in The Hamptons.[15]
Car accident
On August 5, 1987, Broderick was in Northern Ireland, vacationing with Jennifer Grey, when he veered their rented BMW 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, were killed.
Broderick spent four weeks in a Belfast hospital with a fractured leg and ribs, collapsed lung and concussion. Grey suffered severe whiplash.
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.[16]
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."[16]
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 about the accident.[16]
Credits
Film Year Title Role Notes 1983 Max Dugan Returns Michael McPhee Debut role WarGames David Lightman Nominated — Saturn Award for Best Actor 1985 1918 Brother Master Harold...and the Boys Harold "Hally" Nominated — CableACE Award for Actor in a Theatrical or Dramatic Special Ladyhawke Philippe Gaston, "The Mouse" 1986 Ferris Bueller's Day Off Ferris Bueller Nominated — Golden Globe Award for Best Actor – Motion Picture Musical or Comedy On Valentine's Day Brother 1987 Project X James "Jimmy" Garrett 1988 She's Having a Baby cameo "Ferris Bueller" Biloxi Blues Eugene Morris Jerome Torch Song Trilogy Alan Simon 1989 Family Business Adam McMullen Glory Colonel Robert Gould Shaw 1990 The Freshman Clark Kellogg / The Narrator 1992 Out on a Limb William "Bill" Campbell 1993 The Night We Never Met Samuel "Sam" Lester A Life in the Theater John Made-for-television film 1994 The Lion King Simba (voice only) Mrs. Parker and the Vicious Circle Charles MacArthur The Road to Wellville William "Will" Lightbody 1995 Arabian Knight Tack the Cobbler / The Narrator (voice only) 1996 The Cable Guy Steven M. Kovacs Nominated — MTV Movie Award for Best Fight (against Jim Carrey) Infinity Richard Feynman 1997 Addicted to Love Sam Lewis & Clark: The Journey of the Corps of Discovery Sgt. John Ordway (TV Special/voice only) 1998 Godzilla Dr. Niko "Nick" Tatopoulos The Lion King II: Simba's Pride Simba (voice only) Walking to the Waterline Michael Woods 1999 Election James "Jim" McAllister Nominated — Chlotrudis Award for Best Actor Inspector Gadget Inspector Gadget / Robo-Gadget / Jonathan "John" Brown 2000 You Can Count on Me Brian Everett 2003 The Music Man Professor Harold Hill Made-for-television film Good Boy! Canid 3942 the Dog ("Hubble") (voice only) 2004 The Lion King 1½ Simba (teenager and adult) Marie and Bruce Bruce The Stepford Wives Walter Kresby The Last Shot Steven Schats 2005 The Producers Leopold "Leo" Bloom Strangers with Candy Roger Beekman 2006 Deck the Halls Steven "Steve" Finch 2007 Then She Found Me Benjamin "Ben" Green Bee Movie Adam Flayman (voice only) 2008 Diminished Capacity Cooper Kennedy Finding Amanda Taylor Peters Mendon Nominated — Prism Award for Performance in a Feature Film The Tale of Despereaux Despereaux (voice only) 2010 Wonderful World Benjamin "Ben" Singer Beach Lane Mike Brennan television film Easy A Ferris Bueller Video Footage, uncredited. 2011 Margaret John Van Tassel Tower Heist Mr. Fitzhugh 2012 Davis Baton Davis Baton Hans Christian Andersen Hans Christian Andersen Stage Year Title Role Notes 1981 Torch Song Trilogy 1983 Brighton Beach Memoirs 1985 Biloxi Blues 1995 How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying revival 1999 Night Must Fall revival 2000 Taller Than a Dwarf 2001–2002, 2003 The Producers 2002 Short Talks on the Universe 2004 The Foreigner 2005 The Odd Couple revival 2009 The Philanthropist revival The Starry Messenger 2012 Nice Work If You Can Get It Television Year Title Role Notes 1981 Lou Grant Episode: "Generations" 1985 Faerie Tale Theatre Episode: "Cinderella" Master Harold...and the Boys 1993 A Life in the Theater (1993) 1995 Frasier Episode: "She's the Boss" 1997 Lewis & Clark: The Journey of the Corps of Discovery 2003 The Music Man (2003) 2008 30 Rock Episode: "Cooter" 2009 Cyberchase Episode: "Father's Day" 2010 Who Do You Think You Are? Louie Episode: "Heckler/Cop Movie" Beach Lane References
- ^ "Matthew Broderick". Genealogy.com. 2008. http://www.genealogy.com/famousfolks/brodrick/index.html. Retrieved 2008-05-19.
- ^ "Biography: Patricia Broderick". Tibor de Nagy. 2008. http://www.tibordenagy.com/artists/broderick.html. Retrieved 2008-05-19.
- ^ Stated on Inside the Actors Studio, 2005
- ^ Tom Tugend (16 December 2005). "Bialystock and Bloom Tell the Truth". JewishJournal. http://www.jewishjournal.com/home/preview.php?id=15137. Retrieved 2008-05-19.
- ^ Celia McGee (18 April 2001). "Broderick's Set to Bloom in 'Producers'". The New York Daily News. http://www.matthewbroderick.net/article/nydaily01.html. Retrieved 2006-12-13.
- ^ Mark Seal (1 January 2006). "Magical Mystery Tour". American Way. http://www.matthewbroderick.net/interview/americanway060101.html. Retrieved 2008-05-19.
- ^ Jones, Kenneth.Broadway's Philanthropist, Starring Broderick, Goes On Sale", playbill.com, February 20, 2009
- ^ Jones, Kenneth."Kathleen Marshall To Make Matthew Broderick Tap-Happy in Broadway's 'Nice Work' Musical in 2012" playbill.com, June 16, 2011
- ^ Rachelle Unreich (1996). "Matthew Broderick: one of the guys". Detour Magazine: pp. 38–42. http://www.matthewbroderick.net/article/detour96.html. Retrieved 2008-05-19.
- ^ Nate Bloom (2005-12-16). "Celebrity Jews". Jewish News Weekly. http://www.jewishsf.com/content/2-0-/module/displaystory/story_id/27905/format/html/displaystory.html. Retrieved 2008-05-19.
- ^ Serena Kappes (2000-11-10). "Friend Finds He Can Count on Broderick". People. http://www.matthewbroderick.net/article/people00.html. Retrieved 2008-05-19.
- ^ "Sarah Jessica Parker & Matthew Broderick to Have Twins!". People. http://www.people.com/people/article/0,,20275425,00.html. Retrieved 2009-04-28.
- ^ Fleeman, Mike (2009-06-23). "Sarah Jessica Parker and Matthew Broderick Reveal Twins' Names – Babies, Matthew Broderick, Sarah Jessica Parker". People.com. http://www.people.com/people/article/0,,20286959,00.html. Retrieved 2010-05-06.
- ^ "Sarah Jessica Parker and Matthew Broderick Welcome Twin Girls". TVGuide.com. http://www.tvguide.com/News/Parker-Broderick-twins-1007199.aspx. Retrieved 2009-06-23.
- ^ "Sarah Jessica Parker & Matthew Broderick’s Hamptons House". Hookedonhouses.net. 2009-06-18. http://hookedonhouses.net/2009/04/29/sarah-jessica-parker-matthew-brodericks-hamptons-house/. Retrieved 2010-05-06.
- ^ a b c Bill Hoffmann (September 2, 2002). "Broderick's Guilt". New York Post. http://www.matthewbroderick.net/article/nypost02.html. Retrieved 2009-05-17.
External links
- 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 AllRovi
- 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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