Matthew Broderick
Matthew Broderick | |
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 Broderick in 2009 | |
| Born | March 21, 1962 |
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| Years active | 1981–present |
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| Children | 3 |
| Parent(s) | James Broderick Patricia Broderick |
| Relatives | Milton H. Biow (grandfather) |
Matthew Broderick (born March 21, 1962)[1] is an American actor. comedian and singer. His roles include the Golden Globe-nominated portrayal of the title character in Ferris Bueller's Day Off (1986), the voice of the adult Simba in Disney's The Lion King trilogy (1994–2004), and Leo Bloom in both the Broadway musical The Producers and its 2005 film adaptation. Other films he had starring credits in include WarGames (1983), Glory (1989), The Freshman (1990), The Cable Guy (1996), Godzilla (1998), Election (1999), Inspector Gadget (1999) and You Can Count on Me (2000). Broderick also directed himself in Infinity (1996) and provided voice work in Good Boy! (2003), Bee Movie (2007), and The Tale of Despereaux (2008).
Broderick has won two Tony Awards, one for Best Featured Actor in a Play for Brighton Beach Memoirs (1983), and one for Best Actor in a Musical for How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying (1995).[2] As of 2018[update], Broderick remains the youngest winner of the Tony Award for Best Featured Actor in a Play.[citation needed]
In 2006, for his contributions to the film industry, Matthew Broderick was inducted into the Hollywood Walk of Fame with a motion pictures star located at 6801 Hollywood Boulevard.[3] Eleven years later, Broderick earned induction into the American Theater Hall of Fame.[4]
Early life and education
Broderick was born in Manhattan, New York, the son of Patricia (née Biow), a playwright, actress, and painter, and James Broderick, an actor[5] and a World War II veteran.[6] His mother was Jewish, a descendant of Jewish immigrants from Germany and Poland.[7][8][9][10][11][12] His father was a Catholic of Irish, and some English, descent.[13][14][15] Broderick attended grade school at City and Country School in Manhattan and high school at the private Walden School, also in Manhattan.[16] He received acting training at HB Studio.[17]
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 gay adopted son, David, 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. 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. He won the Tony Award for Best Featured Actor in a Play for his role in Brighton Beach Memoirs.
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,[18] in which 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.[16][19]
Broderick then won the role of the charming, clever slacker in the 1986 film Ferris Bueller's Day Off. At the age of 23, Broderick played a high school student who, with his girlfriend and best friend, plays hooky and explores Chicago. The film is a 1980s comedy favorite, and is one of Broderick's best known roles (particularly with teenage audiences). Also in 1987, he played Air Force research assistant Jimmy Garrett in Project X. In 1988, Broderick played Harvey Fierstein's gay lover, Alan, in the screen adaptation of Torch Song Trilogy.
He starred in the 1989 film Glory alongside Cary Elwes, Morgan Freeman, and Denzel Washington, where he received favorable reviews for his portrayal of the American Civil War officer Robert Gould Shaw, whom Broderick incidentally physically resembled at the time.
In the 1990s, Broderick was the voice of the adult Simba, in Disney's 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, winning a Tony Award for his performance in How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying. Broderick then starred alongside Nathan Lane in the Mel Brooks 2001 stage version of The Producers which was a critical and financial success. He played Leopold "Leo" Bloom, an accountant who co-produces a musical designed to fail, but which turns out to be successful. Broderick was nominated for another Tony Award but lost to his fellow co-star Nathan Lane. The musical went on to win the most Tony Awards in history with 12 wins.[20] Broderick and Lane reprised their roles in the 2005 film adaptation of the same name.
Broderick was 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.[21] 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.[22]
Personal life
Family
Broderick and actress Sarah Jessica Parker married on May 19, 1997, in Manhattan's Lower East Side, in a ceremony officiated by his sister, Janet Broderick Kraft, an Episcopal priest.[23]
Parker and Broderick have a son, James, born October 28, 2002.[24] The couple had twin daughters Marion and Tabitha, born June 22, 2009, via surrogacy.[25][26]
Although the couple lives in Greenwich Village,[27] Broderick and Parker spend a considerable amount of time at their holiday home near Cill Charthaigh, a village in County Donegal, Ireland, where Broderick spent his summers as a child.[28] They also have a house in The Hamptons.[29]
They are renovating[when?] a double wide property on West 11th Street in Greenwich Village that they bought in 2016.[30]
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 22 years earlier, as he discovered a paternal great-great-grandfather, Robert Martindale, 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.[6]
1987 car crash
On August 5, 1987, while driving a rented BMW in Enniskillen, Northern Ireland, Broderick crossed into the wrong lane and collided head-on with a Volvo driven by Anna Gallagher, 30, accompanied by her mother, Margaret Doherty, 63, killing both instantly. He was vacationing with Jennifer Grey, whom he began dating in semi-secrecy during the filming of Ferris Bueller's Day Off; the crash publicly revealing their relationship. He had a fractured leg and ribs, a concussion, and a collapsed lung. Grey received minor injuries, including whiplash.
Broderick told police 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 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.[31][32][33][34]
The victims' son and brother, Martin Doherty, called the verdict "a travesty of justice". He later forgave Broderick, amid plans to meet with him in 2003, to gain a sense of closure. In February 2012, when Broderick was featured in a multi-million-dollar Honda commercial aired during the Super Bowl, Doherty said the meeting had not taken place and that Broderick "wasn't the greatest choice of drivers, knowing his past."[35]
Filmography
Film
Television
| Year | Title | Role | Notes |
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| 1981 | Lou Grant | Mike | Television debut Episode: "Generations" |
| 1985 | Faerie Tale Theatre | Prince Henry | Episode: "Cinderella" |
| 1985 | Master Harold...and the Boys | Hally Ballard | Television film Nominated - CableACE Award for Actor in a Theatrical or Dramatic Special |
| 1988, 1998 | Saturday Night Live | Himself (host) | 2 episodes |
| 1993 | A Life in the Theatre | John | Television film Nominated - Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Supporting Actor in a Miniseries or a Special |
| 1995 | Frasier | Mark (voice) | Episode: "She's the Boss" |
| 1996 | The West | William Swain (voice) | Episode: "Speck of the Future" |
| 2003 | The Music Man | Professor Harold Hill | Television film |
| 2008, 2012 | 30 Rock | Cooter Burger | 2 episodes Nominated - Gold Derby Award for Best Guest Actor in a Comedy Series |
| 2009 | Cyberchase | Max (voice) | Episode: "Father's Day" |
| 2010, 2015 | Louie | Himself | 2 episodes |
| 2010 | Beach Lane | Mike Brennan | Pilot |
| 2012 | Adventure Time | Dream Warrior (voice) | Episode: "Who Would Win" |
| 2012 | Modern Family | Dave | Episode: "Mistery Date" Nominated - Online Film & Television Association Award for Best Guest Actor in a Comedy Series |
| 2013 | Untitled Tad Quill project | Jack Lewis | Pilot |
| 2015 | The Jim Gaffigan Show | Himself | Episode: "Wonderful" |
| 2016 | Adventure Time | Spirit of the Forest (voice) | Episode: "Flute Spell" |
| 2017 | BoJack Horseman | Joseph Sugarman (voice) | 2 episodes |
| 2017 | A Christmas Story Live! | Narrator | TV special |
| 2018–2019 | The Conners | Peter | 4 episodes |
| 2019 | At Home with Amy Sedaris | Cliff | Episode: "Teenagers" |
| 2019 | Daybreak | Burr | Main role |
Theatre
References
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- ^ "Hollywood Walk of Fame - Matthew Broderick". walkoffame.com. Hollywood Chamber of Commerce. Retrieved November 30, 2017.
- ^ "Audra McDonald, Matthew Broderick, Marin Mazzie among 2017 Theater Hall of Fame Inductees". www.playbill.com. Retrieved December 29, 2017.
- ^ "Biography: Patricia Broderick". Tibor de Nagy. 2008. Archived from the original on December 16, 2006. Retrieved May 19, 2008.
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