Background
Matthew Broderick was born on March 21, 1962 in New York. He is a son of James and Patricia Broderick.
Matthew Broderick was born on March 21, 1962 in New York. He is a son of James and Patricia Broderick.
Matthew Broderick attended grade school at City and Country School in Manhattan and high school at the private Walden School, also in Manhattan. He received acting training at HB Studio.
Despite instinctive whimsy (that Matthew Broderick might be an offshoot of Broderick Crayvford), he is actually the son of actor James Broderick and writer Patricia Broderick.
At forty, he was still the epitome of all well-intentioned, nice- looking kids—though in fact he was securely married to Sarah Jessica Parker and has been an enormous hit on Broadway in the musical version of The Producers (where he had the Gene Wilder role). Still, it was some relief to find him in Election (98, Alexander Pavne) as someone on the down curve of disillusion, getting puffy and over- weight and generally being shafted.
He had earlier stage successes: for Neil Simon in Brighton Beach Memoirs and Biloxi Blues, and later in How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying. He made his movie debut in Max Dugan Returns (83, Herbert Ross), but it was WarGames (83. John Badham) that made him, where he was a school kid hacking into Pentagon computers.
Then he did Ladyhawke (85, Richard Donner); On Valentine’s Day (86. Ken Harrison); a big hit in Ferns Buellers Day Off (86, John Hughes), still playing teenage at twenty-four; Project X (87, Jonathan Kaplan); Biloxi Blues (88, Mike Nichols); Torch Song Trilogy (88, Paul Bogart); Family Business (89, Sidney Lumet); as the commanding officer in Glory (89, EcKvard Zwiek); The Freshman (90, Andreyv Bergman); Out on a Limb (92, Francis Veber); The Night We Never Met (93, Warren Light); with Jack Lemmon in A Life in the Theater (93, Gregory’ Mosher); as Charles MacArtlnir in Mrs. Parker and the Vicious Circle (94, Alan Rudolph); a y'oice on The Lion King (94, Roger Allers and Rob Minkoff).
He was in The Road to Wellville (94, Alan Parker); a voice on Arabian Knight (95, Richard Williams); rather good with Jim Carrey in The Cable Guy (96, Ben Stiller).
In 1996, with his mother as cowriter, he wrote and directed Infinity, a pleasant film about the life of physicist Richard Feynman (WarGames indeed!). He was a little out of his element in Addicted to Love (97, Griffin Dunne); stranded in Godzilla (98, Roland Emmerich); and belittled as Inspector Gadget (99, David Kellogg); Walking to the Waterline (99, Matt Mulhern); You Can Count on Me (00. Kenneth Lonergan); as Professor Harold Hill in a TV The Music Man (01).
On May 19, 1997 Matthew Broderick married actress Sarah Jessica Parker. They have three children: a son, James, and twin daughters, Marion and Tabitha.