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Matthew Broderick is a Actor, Director and Producer American born on 21 march 1962 at New York City (USA)

Matthew Broderick

Matthew Broderick
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Nationality USA
Birth 21 march 1962 (61 years) at New York City (USA)

Matthew Broderick (born March 21, 1962) is an American film and stage actor. His roles include the title character in Ferris Bueller's Day Off (1986), the adult voice of Simba in The Lion King trilogy (1994-2004), and Leo Bloom in the Hollywood and Broadway productions of The Producers.
Broderick 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. As of 2015, Broderick is the youngest winner of the Tony Award for Best Featured Actor in a Play.

Biography

Family
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 in 2002. In April 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, in 2009.

Although they live in Manhattan, 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.


Family ancestry
In March 2010, Broderick was featured in the NBC program Who Do You Think You Are?. Broderick stated that his participation in the ancestry research program emotionally reconnected him with the role he played in Glory twenty-two years earlier, as he discovered a paternal great-great-grandfather, Robert Martindale (incidentally sharing the same prenom as his Glory character), who actually was a Union soldier. A veteran of the Battle of Gettysburg, Martindale, who belonged to the 20th Connecticut, was killed in the aftermath of the Battle of Atlanta and was eventually interred in an unnamed grave at the Marietta National Cemetery. Having identified the grave with the help of historian Brad Quinlin, Broderick's research enabled him to give his ancestor his name back. In the same program Broderick discovered that his paternal grandfather, James Joseph Broderick II, whom he had never known, had been a highly decorated combat medic in World War I, having earned his distinctions during the Meuse-Argonne Offensive.


1987 car accident
On August 5, 1987, Broderick was in a car accident in Enniskillen, Northern Ireland, while vacationing with Jennifer Grey, whom he had begun 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, at the wheel of a rented BMW, Broderick crossed into the wrong lane and collided head-on with a Volvo driven by Anna Gallagher, 28, accompanied by her mother, Margaret Doherty, 63, who were both 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 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. Broderick was charged with causing death by dangerous driving and faced up to five years in prison, 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 sister and mother 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. As of October 2015, the meeting has not taken place. In 2012, Broderick had been featured in a multi-million dollar Honda commercial aired during the Super Bowl in which he was highlighted driving a CR-V in homage to the Ferris Bueller movie. Doherty was quoted as saying that Broderick "wasn't the greatest choice of drivers knowing his past."

Best films

The Lion King (1994)
(Actor)
Godzilla (1998)
(Actor)
Bee Movie (2007)
(Actor)
Inspector Gadget (1999)
(Actor)
WarGames (1983)
(Actor)
Wonder Park (2019)
(Actor)

Usually with

John Hughes
John Hughes
(2 films)
Matt Mulhern
Matt Mulhern
(3 films)
Nathan Lane
Nathan Lane
(6 films)
Lon Bender
Lon Bender
(6 films)
Source : Wikidata

Filmography of Matthew Broderick (57 films)

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YearNameJobRoles
2019Wonder ParkActorJune's Dad (voice)
2017The Lego Ninjago MovieActorJelly (voice)
2016Rules Don’t ApplyActorLevar Mathis
2016Manchester by the SeaActorJeffrey Garner
2015TrainwreckActorMatthew Broderick
2015The Gettysburg AddressActorReader
2015Dirty WeekendActorLes Moore
2013Skum Rocks!ActorSelf
2011Tower HeistActorMr. Fitzhugh
2011New Year's EveActorMr. Buellerton (uncredited)
2011MargaretActorJohn Andrew van Tassel
2009Waking Sleeping BeautyActorSelf (archive footage)
2009Wonderful WorldActorBen Singer
2008The Tale of DespereauxActorDespereaux (voice)
2008Diminished CapacityActorCooper
2008Finding AmandaActorTaylor Peters
2008Valentino: The Last EmperorActorSelf
2007Bee MovieActorAdam Flayman (voice)
2007Then She Found MeActorBen Green
2006Strangers with CandyActorRoger Beekman
2006Deck the HallsActorSteve Finch
2005The ProducersActorLeo Bloom
2004The Lion King 1½ActorSimba (voice)
2004The Last ShotActorSteven Schats
2004Marie and BruceActorBruce
2004The Stepford WivesActorWalter Kresby
2003Good Boy!ActorHubble (voice)
2003The Music ManActorProfessor Harold Hill
2000You Can Count on MeActorBrian Everett
1999End of DaysActor
1999Inspector GadgetActorInspector Gadget / Robo Gadget / John Brown
1999ElectionActorJim McAllister
1998GodzillaActorDr. Niko Tatopoulos
1998The Lion King II: Simba's PrideActorSimba (voice)
1998Walking to the WaterlineActorMichael Woods
1997Addicted to LoveActorSam
1997Lewis & Clark: The Journey of the Corps of DiscoveryActorJohn Ordway
1996The Cable GuyActorSteven M. Kovacs
1996InfinityActor, Director, ProducerRichard Feynman
1995The Thief and the CobblerActorTack (Arabian Knight)
1994The Lion KingActorSimba (voice)
1994The Road to WellvilleActorWilliam Lightbody
1994Mrs. Parker and the Vicious CircleActorCharles MacArthur
1993The Night We Never MetActorSam
1992Out on a LimbActorBill Campbell
1990GloryActorCol. Robert Gould Shaw
1990The FreshmanActorClark Kellogg
1989Family BusinessActorAdam McMullen
1988Biloxi BluesActorEugene Morris Jerome
1988She's Having a BabyActorFerris Bueller (uncredited)
1988Torch Song TrilogyActorAlan Simon
1987Project XActorJimmy Garrett
1986Ferris Bueller's Day OffActorFerris Bueller
1985LadyhawkeActorPhillipe Gaston
1985'Master Harold'... and the BoysActorHally
1983WarGamesActorDavid Lightman
1983Max Dugan ReturnsActorMichael McPhae