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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 Hollywood 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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Background Information
Born March 21, 1962 (1962-03-21)
(age 49)
New York City, New York, U.S.
Occupation Actor, Director
Years active 1979–present
Spouse Sarah Jessica Parker
(1997–present; 3 children)
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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'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 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 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 and Tabitha Hodge, 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
WarGames David Lightman Nominated —
Saturn Award for Best Actor
1985 1918 Brother
Faerie Tale Theatre Prince Henry TV
Series: 1 Episode
Master Harold...and the Boys Harold
"Hally" Nominated — CableACE Award for Actor in a Theatrical or Dramatic Special
Ladyhawke Philippe Gaston
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 Ferris
Bueller Uncredited
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 TV
1994 The Lion King Adult Simba
Voice Only
Mrs. Parker and the Vicious Circle
Charles MacArthur
The Road to Wellville William
"Will" Lightbody
1995 Arabian Knight Tack the
Cobbler Voice Only
1996 The Cable Guy Steven M. Kovacs
Nominated — MTV Movie Award for Best Fight (against Jim Carrey)
Infinity Richard Feynman Also
Producer/Director
1997 Addicted to Love Sam
1998 Godzilla Dr. Niko "Nick"
Tatopoulos
The Lion King II: Simba's Pride
Adult Simba Voice Only
Direct-To-DVD
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 TV
Good Boy! Hubble Voice Only
2004 The Lion King 1½ Simba
(teenager and adult) Voice Only
Direct-To-DVD
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 TV
2011 Margaret John Van Tassel
Tower Heist Mr. Fitzhugh
New Year's Eve Mr. Buellerton
Uncredited
Stage
Year Title Role Notes
1981 Torch Song Trilogy David
1983 Brighton Beach Memoirs Eugene
Jerome
1985 Biloxi Blues Eugene Morris
Jerome
1995 How to Succeed in Business
Without Really Trying J. Pierrepont Finch revival
1999 Night Must Fall Dan revival
2000 Taller Than a Dwarf Howard
Miller
2001–2002, 2003 The Producers
Leopold "Leo" Bloom
2002 Short Talks on the Universe
2004 The Foreigner Charlie Baker
2005 The Odd Couple Felix Unger
revival
2009 The Philanthropist Phillip
revival
The Starry Messenger Mark
2012 Nice Work If You Can Get It
Jimmy Winter
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
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