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Matthew Broderick Biography:

Matthew Broderick

Profile:
Famous as: Actor
Birth Date: March 21, 1962
Birth Place: New York, New York, USA
Claim to fame: As Ferris Bueller in ?Ferris Bueller?s Day Off? (1986)

Matthew Broderick young photo

Biography:
Matthew Broderick is an American film and stage actor who, among other roles, played the title character in Ferris Bueller?s Day Off, voiced the adult Simba in Disney?s The Lion King, and portrayed 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.

Matthew Broderick family photo

Early life:
Broderick was born in New York City, the son of Patricia, a playwright, actress, and painter, and James Joseph Broderick, an actor. His mother was Jewish, a descendant of immigrants from Germany and Poland. His father was a Catholic of Irish and English descent. Broderick attended grade school at the City & Country School 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.

Deck the Halls movie still

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 The New York Times theater critic Mel Gussow brought him to the attention of Broadway.? 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.

Then She Found Me movie stills

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.

Matthew Broderick, Fisher Stevens

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.

Matthew Broderick and Molly Ringwald

In October 2010, Broderick was featured in the US version of the BBC programme Who Do You Think You Are?.
He returned 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.

Personal life:
On August 5, 1987, Broderick was in a car accident in Enniskillen, Northern Ireland, while vacationing with Jennifer Grey, whom he began dating in semi-secrecy during the filming of Ferris Bueller?s Day Off. The accident, which was the event through which their relationship became public, occurred when the rented BMW Broderick was driving crossed into the wrong lane and slammed head-on into a Volvo driven by a local mother and daughter, Anna Gallagher 28, and Margaret Doherty 63, who were killed instantly in the accident. Broderick suffered a fractured leg, fractured ribs, a concussion, and a collapsed lung. Grey received minor injuries, including severe whiplash. Broderick was charged with causing death by dangerous driving and faced up to five years behind bars, but was later convicted of the lesser charge of careless driving and fined $175, which the victims? family called ?a travesty of justice.? Martin Doherty, whose wife and daughter were killed in the crash, later stated that he forgave Broderick, amid plans to meet with Broderick in 2003, in order to gain a sense of closure,.

Matthew Broderick attends the TFI Awards Ceremony during the 2011 Tribeca Film Festival at Riverpark

Broderick met actress Sarah Jessica Parker through her brother. 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, the ceremony was performed by his sister, Janet Broderick Kraft, an Episcopal priest. 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. Broderick and Parker?s surrogate delivered their twin daughters, Marion Loretta Elwell and Tabitha Hodge, on June 22, 2009. 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.

Matthew Broderick arrives at the 39th AFI Life Achievement Award honoring Morgan Freeman held at Sony Pictures Studios

Filmography:
Tower Heist (2011)
Margaret (2011)
Wonderful World (2009)
Then She Found Me (2008)
Finding Amanda (2008)
Diminished Capacity (2008)
The Tale of Despereaux (2008)
Bee Movie (2007)
Deck the Halls (2006)
Strangers with Candy (2006)
The Producers (2005)
Marie and Bruce (2004)
The Lion King 1? (2004) ? VI
The Stepford Wives (2004)
The Last Shot (2004)
Good Boy! (2003)
The Music Man (2003) ? TM
You Can Count on Me (2000)
Inspector Gadget (1999)
Election (1999)
The Lion King II: Simba?s Pride (1998) ? VI
Walking to the Waterline (1998)
Godzilla (1998)
Addicted to Love (1997)
Infinity (1996)
The Cable Guy (1996)
Arabian Knight (1995)
The Road to Wellville (1994)
Mrs. Parker and the Vicious Circle (1994)
The Lion King (1994)
The Night We Never Met (1993)
A Life in the Theater (1993) ? TM
Out on a Limb (1992)
The Freshman (1990)
Family Business (1989)
Glory (1989)
Torch Song Trilogy (1988)
Biloxi Blues (1988)
She?s Having a Baby (1988)
Courtship (1987)
Project X (1987)
Ferris Bueller?s Day Off (1986)
On Valentine?s Day (1986) aka Story of a Marriage
1918 (1985)
?Master Harold?? and the Boys (1985) ? TM
Ladyhawke (1985)
WarGames (1983)
Max Dugan Returns (1983)

Matthew Broderick awards

Awards:
Academy of Science Fiction, Fantasy & Horror Films, USA
1984
Got nomination for Saturn Award
category Best Actor for WarGames (1983)

CableACE Awards
1985
Got nomination for ACE Award
category Actor in a Theatrical or Dramatic Special for ?Master Harold?? and the Boys (1985) (TV)

Drama Desk Awards
1995
Won Drama Desk Award
category Outstanding Actor ? Musical for ?How to Succeed in Business without Really Trying?

Emmy Awards
1994
Got nomination for Emmy
category Outstanding Supporting Actor in a Miniseries or a Special for A Life in the Theater (1993) (TV)

Golden Globes, USA
1987
Got nomination for Golden Globe
category Best Performance by an Actor in a Motion Picture ? Comedy/Musical for Ferris Bueller?s Day Off (1986)

MTV Movie Awards
1997
Got nomination for MTV Movie Award
category Best Fight for The Cable Guy (1996)
shared with Jim Carrey

PRISM Awards
2009
Got nomination for PRISM Award
category Performance in a Feature Film for Finding Amanda (2008)

Tony Awards
2001
Got nomination for Tony Award
category Best Performance by a Leading Actor in a Musical for ?The Producers, the new Mel Brooks musical?
1995
Won Tony Award
category Best Performance by a Leading Actor in a Musical for ?How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying!?
1983
Won Tony Award
category Best Performance by a Featured Actor in a Play for ?Brighton Beach Memoirs?

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