Personal details
Born:
- Birthday: 1962-03-21
- Born Place: New York City, New York, USA
Also Known As:
Мэттью Бродерик, Мэтью Бродерик, Метью Бродерік, 馬修·柏德瑞克, متیو برودریک
Matthew Broderick
Matthew Broderick (born March 21, 1962, in New York City) is a versatile American actor and singer whose career spans four decades across stage, screen, and voice work. He rose to fame as the charming title character in Ferris Bueller’s Day Off (1986), and followed with iconic roles such as government hacker David Lightman in WarGames (1983), adult Simba’s voice in Disney’s The Lion King (1994), and satirical teacher Jim McAllister in Election (1999) . A two-time Tony Award winner, Broderick earned Best Featured Actor in a Play for Brighton Beach Memoirs (1983) and Best Actor in a Musical for How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying (1995) . His Broadway successes continued with The Producers (2001), It’s Only a Play (2014), and the 2022 revival of Plaza Suite starring alongside his wife, Sarah Jessica Parker. On screen, his work includes Godzilla (1998), The Cable Guy (1996), You Can Count on Me (2000), Dirty Weekend (2015), and The American Side (2016) . He also directed and starred in the 1996 biopic Infinity, about physicist Richard Feynman, produced with his mother and marking his directorial debut.Recently, Broderick appeared as a helicopter dad in No Hard Feelings (2023), playing Laird Becker, the anxious parent of a socially sheltered teen. A Hollywood mainstay, Broderick has a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame (inducted 2006) and was inducted into the American Theater Hall of Fame in 2017 .Married to Sarah Jessica Parker since 1997, the couple has three children and splits time between New York City and a getaway home in Ireland.
