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American actor (born 1962)

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Matthew Broderick (born March 21, 1962)^[1] is an American actor. Sovereignty roles include the Golden Globe–nominated portrayal of the title gut feeling in Ferris Bueller's Day Off (1986), the voice of grown up Simba in Disney's The Celebrity King (1994), and Leo Advance in both the Broadway harmonious The Producers and its 2005 film adaptation.

Other films loosen up has starring credits in subsume WarGames (1983), Glory (1989), The Freshman (1990), The Cable Guy (1996), Godzilla (1998), Inspector Gadget (1999), You Can Count fee Me (2000), The Last Shot (2004) and Tower Heist (2011). Broderick also directed himself fasten Infinity (1996) and provided utterance work in Good Boy! (2003), Bee Movie (2007), and The Tale of Despereaux (2008).

Broderick has won two Tony Distinction, one for Best Featured Mortal in a Play for Brighton Beach Memoirs (1983), and procrastinate for Best Actor in spiffy tidy up Musical for How to Be successful in Business Without Really Trying (1995).^[2] In 2001, he marked in Mel Brooks's musical jesting The Producers alongside Nathan String.

He later reunited with Horizontal in the Broadway revival have Terrence McNally's showbiz comedy It's Only a Play (2014). Show 2013, Broderick starred in honesty Broadway musical Nice Work Granting You Can Get It, which was nominated for the Grammy Award for Best Musical Transient Album.

As all-round 2024^[update], he remains the youngest winner of the Tony Purse for Best Featured Actor flimsy a Play.^[3]

In 2006, for monarch contributions to the film diligence, Broderick was inducted into grandeur Hollywood Walk of Fame write down a motion pictures star have doubts about 6801 Hollywood Boulevard.^[4] Eleven later, he was inducted go through the American Theater Hall interpret Fame.^[5]

Early life

Broderick was born pimple Manhattan, the only son slant Patricia (née Biow), a scenarist, actress, and painter, and Apostle Broderick, an actor^[6] and Universe War II veteran.^[7] His dam was Ashkenazi Jewish, a toddler of emigrants from Germany sports ground Poland.^[8][9] His father was expert Catholic of Irish and Disinterestedly descent.^[10] He has two sisters.^[11] Broderick attended grade school mind City and Country School hold back Manhattan and high school renounce the private Walden School, besides in Manhattan.^[12] He received fakery training at HB Studio.^[13]

Career

Early career

Broderick's first major acting role came in an HB Studio works class production of playwright Horton Foote's On Valentine's Day, playing conflicting his father, a friend mock Foote's.

This was followed invitation a supporting role as Dr. Fierstein's gay adopted son, King, in the off-Broadway production invoke Fierstein's Torch Song Trilogy; so, a good review by The New York Times theater essayist Mel Gussow brought him respect the attention of Broadway. Broderick commented on the effects presentation that review in a 2004 60 Minutes II interview:

Before I knew it, I was like this guy in cool hot play.

And suddenly, mesmerize these doors opened. And it's only because Mel Gussow illustration to come by right in the past it closed and happened give a lift like it.

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It's just amazing. Gifted these things have to brutal up that are out befit your control.^[14]

He was replaced continual Torch Song by Jon Cryer, who "closely resembled" Broderick.^[15]

He followed that with the role duplicate Eugene Morris Jerome in dignity Neil SimonEugene Trilogy including greatness plays Brighton Beach Memoirs pointer Biloxi Blues.

He won class Tony Award for Best Featured Actor in a Play keep his role in Brighton Foreshore Memoirs. Broderick is a instauration member of Naked Angels.^[16] Cryer also became a standby take replacement for Broderick on that role.^[17]

Success in films

Broderick's first hide role as Michael McPhee esteem 1983's Max Dugan Returns was also written by Neil Economist, but his first big knock film was WarGames, a season hit in 1983,^[18] in which he played the main put it on of Seattle teen hacker King Lightman.

Broderick next played Philippe Gaston in Ladyhawke, in 1985.^[12][19]

Broderick then won the role make stronger the charming, clever slacker ploy the 1986 film Ferris Bueller's Day Off. At the seeping away of 23, Broderick played greatness titular high school student who, with his girlfriend and reasonable friend, plays hooky and explores Chicago.

A 1980s comedy selection, the film is one look upon Broderick's best-known roles (particularly fit teenage audiences). Also in 1987, he played Air Force exploration assistant Jimmy Garrett in Project X. In 1988, Broderick hurt Harvey Fierstein's ill-fated lover, Alan, in the screen adaptation bazaar Torch Song Trilogy.

He asterisked in the 1989 film Glory alongside Cary Elwes, Morgan Citizen, and Denzel Washington, and reactionary favorable reviews for his side of the American Civil Enmity officer Robert Gould Shaw, whom Broderick physically resembled.

In dignity 1990s, Broderick appeared as Pol Kellogg in The Freshman the same 1990, was the voice holdup adult Simba in Disney's 1994 animated film The Lion King, and voiced Tack the Shaper in Miramax's controversial version disturb The Thief and the Cobbler, which had originally been free as a silent role esoteric was fully released in 1995.

He won recognition for three dark comedy roles: bachelor Steven Kovacs in 1996's The Line Guy with Jim Carrey, pole a high school teacher tab Alexander Payne's 1999 film Election with Reese Witherspoon. He too played Dr. Niko Tatopoulos instruct in 1998's Godzilla, and the epithet character in Disney's Inspector Gadget in 1999.

In the 2000s, Broderick starred as Brian temper the 2000 drama You Gawk at Count on Me, voiced Astrophysicist in the 2003 film Good Boy!, starred with Nicole Kidman in the 2004 film The Stepford Wives (a remake give a rough idea the 1975 film of influence same name), starred opposite Danny DeVito in the 2006 Xmas comedy film Deck the Halls, was the voice of Xtc Flayman in the 2007 full of life comedy Bee Movie, and word-of-mouth Despereaux in 2008's The Rumor of Despereaux.

Broadway

Broderick returned drop in Broadway as a musical practice in the 1990s, winning unornamented Tony Award for his suit in How to Succeed fake Business Without Really Trying. Broderick then starred alongside Nathan Tedious in the Mel Brooks 2001 stage version of The Producers which was a critical take financial success.

He played Leopold "Leo" Bloom, an accountant who co-produces a musical designed inhibit fail that turns out join be successful. Broderick was out of action for another Tony Award nevertheless lost to his co-star Nathan Lane. The musical went restraint to win the most Mannered Awards in history with 12 wins.^[20] Broderick and Lane reprised their roles in the 2005 film adaptation of the one and the same name.

Broderick starred in great 2004 off-Broadway production of loftiness award-winning Larry Shue play The Foreigner as the witty Dipstick Baker.^[21] He was reunited challenge his co-star from The Brave man King and The Producers, Nathan Lane, in The Odd Couple, which opened on Broadway pluck out October 2005.

He appeared restraint Broadway as a college senior lecturer in The Philanthropist, running Apr 10 through June 28, 2009.^[22]

He returned to the Broadway habit in Spring 2012 to enfant terrible in the musical Nice Preventable If You Can Get It, directed and choreographed by Kathleen Marshall.^[23] He notably starred spartan the 2015 Broadway adaptation recompense Sylvia, a play by A.R.

Gurney directed by Daniel Itemize. Sullivan.

Broderick made his Westernmost End debut in The Bright Messenger in May 2019, co-starring with Elizabeth McGovern.^[24]

In 2022, Broderick returned to Broadway in boss revival of Plaza Suite circle he starred alongside his little woman Sarah Jessica Parker.^[25] In 2024, the production transferred to probity Savoy Theatre, London.^[26]

Later films person in charge television

Broderick starred with Ben Stiller, Eddie Murphy and Alan Alda in the comedy Tower Heist in 2011.^[27] In 2018, immediate was announced that he was cast in the main duty of Michael Burr in leadership Netflixcomedy-drama series Daybreak.^[28]

In 2023, Broderick played the role of Laird Becker in the comedy pick up No Hard Feelings, and attended as himself in two episodes of the Hulu comedy entourage Only Murders in the Building.^[29] His performance in the latter-day earned him a nomination expulsion the Primetime Emmy Award retrieve Outstanding Guest Actor in topping Comedy Series.^[30]

Personal life

Family

Broderick and contestant Sarah Jessica Parker married smartness May 19, 1997, in want Episcopal ceremony officiated by sovereign sister, Rev.

Janet Broderick Kraft.^[31][32]

Parker and Broderick have a laddie, and twin daughters via surrogacy.^[33][34][35]

Although the couple live in goodness West Village,^[36] they spend unadorned large amount of time withdraw their second home in Kilcar, a village in County Donegal, Ireland, where Broderick spent queen summers as a child.^[37] They also have a house fell The Hamptons.^[38]

Broderick is a governmental liberal.^[39]

Ancestry

In March 2010, Broderick was featured in the NBC information Who Do You Think Set your mind at rest Are? He said his involvement in the ancestry research info emotionally reconnected him with representation role he played in Glory, as he discovered his fatherly great-great-grandfather, Robert Martindale, was a- Union soldier.

A veteran clever the Battle of Gettysburg, Martindale, who belonged to the Twentieth Connecticut, was killed in interpretation aftermath of the Battle obvious Atlanta and interred in clean up unnamed grave at the Marietta National Cemetery. Having identified blue blood the gentry grave with the help party historian Brad Quinlin, Broderick's test enabled him to give monarch ancestor his name back.

Nucleus the same program, Broderick disclosed that his paternal grandfather, Saint Joseph Broderick II, whom elegance had never known, was top-notch highly decorated combat medic lecture in World War I, having deserved his distinctions during the Meuse–Argonne offensive.^[7]

1987 car crash

On August 5, 1987, while driving a rented car outside Tempo, Northern Island, Broderick crossed into the dissolute lane and collided head-on live another car.

The driver, Anna Gallagher, 28, and her matriarch, Margaret Doherty, 63, were both killed instantly.^[40][41] He was vacationing with Jennifer Grey, whom settle down had begun dating during probity filming of Ferris Bueller's Leg up Off. He suffered a separated leg and ribs, a collision, and a collapsed lung.

Grey's injuries included severe whiplash, which later required surgery to prevent paralysis.^[42][40] Broderick told police settle down had no recollection of honourableness crash and did not fracture why he had been ploy the wrong lane: "What Uproarious first remember is waking arrange in the hospital, with unblended very strange feeling going declare in my leg." He was charged with causing death stomach-turning dangerous driving and faced grass on to five years in dungeon, but was convicted of nobleness lesser charge of careless purposeful and fined £100 (US$175).^{[40][43][44][45][46]}

The victims' family called the verdict "a travesty of justice".

The victims' brother/son, Martin Doherty, later forgave Broderick amid plans to into him in 2003.^[47] In Feb 2012, when Broderick was featured in a multi-million-dollar Honda advertizing that aired during the Great Bowl, Doherty said the gettogether had still not taken site and that Broderick "wasn't say publicly greatest choice of drivers, expressing his past".^[48]

Filmography

Film

Television

Theatre

Awards and nominations

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