Matthew Broderick

64, from New York City, New York, USA

Artwork for The Lion KingImage of Matthew Broderick

Biography

Matthew Broderick (born March 21, 1962) is an American actor whose career has spanned both the silver screen and the stage. Broderick got his start off broadway but quickly wound up as the lead in Neil Simon's Brighton Beach Memoirs. His first screen role was Max Dugan Returns, also penned by Neil Simon. His breakout role came the same year for his role as a young hacker in Wargames. Later he stared as the eponymous Ferris Bueller in 1985's Ferris Bueller's Day Off, a film which has achieved cult status and had made Broderick a household name. In 1985 while on Vacation in Ireland with his then fiancee Jennifer Grey, who played his sister in Ferris Bueller's Day Off, Broderick was involved in a head on collision that killed two locals. Broderick was deemed at fault and faced five years in prison but his punishment was lessened to just a fine. In 1997 he married Sarah Jessica Parker and the pair have had 3 children together.

Timeline

2025Aged 63

  • Poster for SNL50: The Homecoming Concert

    Self

  • Poster for Raoul's, a New York Story

    Self

  • Poster for The Gettysburg Address

    Reader

2023Aged 61

  • Poster for No Hard Feelings

    Laird Becker

  • Poster for Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Mutant Mayhem

    Ferris Bueller (archive footage) (uncredited)

  • Poster for Hot Potato: The Story of The Wiggles

    Self (archive footage) (uncredited)

2022Aged 60

  • Poster for Denzel Washington: A Model American

    Self

2021Aged 59

  • Poster for Too Soon: Comedy After 9/11

    Self

2020Aged 58

  • Poster for Lazy Susan

    Doug

2019Aged 57

  • Poster for To Dust

    Albert

  • Poster for Wonder Park

    June's Dad (voice)

  • Poster for Love Is Blind

    Murray Krafft

2017Aged 55

  • Poster for Oh, Hello on Broadway

    Self (uncredited)

  • Poster for A Christmas Story Live!

    Ralphie as an Adult

2016Aged 54

  • Poster for The American Side

    Borden Chase

  • Poster for Against the Odds: The Mike Piazza Story

    Narrator

  • Poster for Mike Nichols: An American Master

    Self

  • Poster for Manchester by the Sea

    Jeffrey Garner

  • Poster for Rules Don't Apply

    Levar Mathis

2015Aged 53

  • Poster for Trainwreck

    Matthew Broderick

  • Poster for Dirty Weekend

    Les Moore

2013Aged 51

  • Poster for Mel Brooks: Make a Noise

    Self

  • Poster for Skum Rocks!

    Self

2012Aged 50

  • Poster for John Hughes: Life Moves Pretty Fast

    Self

2011Aged 49

  • Poster for Margaret

    John

  • Poster for Pride of The Lion King

    Self

  • Poster for Tower Heist

    Mr. Fitzhugh

  • Poster for Inside Story: Ferris Bueller's Day Off

    Self

  • Poster for New Year's Eve

    Mr. Buellerton (uncredited)

2009Aged 47

  • Poster for Wonderful World

    Ben Singer

  • Poster for Waking Sleeping Beauty

    Self (archive footage)

2008Aged 46

  • Poster for Shea Goodbye: 45 Years of Amazin' Mets

    Narrator

  • Poster for Finding Amanda

    Taylor Peters

  • Poster for Diminished Capacity

    Cooper

  • Poster for Valentino: The Last Emperor

    Self

  • Poster for The Tale of Despereaux

    Despereaux (voice)

2007Aged 45

  • Poster for Then She Found Me

    Ben Green

  • Poster for Bee Movie

    Adam Flayman (voice)

2006Aged 44

  • Poster for Vintage Ferris Bueller: The Lost Tapes

    Self (archive footage)

  • Poster for The Making of Ferris Bueller's Day Off: Production Stories

    Self

  • Poster for Who Is Ferris Bueller?

    Self

  • Poster for Strangers with Candy

    Roger Beekman

  • Poster for Deck the Halls

    Steve Finch

2005Aged 43

  • Poster for The Producers

    Leo Bloom

2004Aged 42

  • Poster for Marie and Bruce

    Bruce

  • Poster for The Stepford Wives

    Walter Kresby

  • Poster for The Last Shot

    Steven Schats

  • Poster for The Lion King 1½

    Simba (voice)

2003Aged 41

  • Poster for The Music Man

    Professor Harold Hill

  • Poster for Good Boy!

    Hubble (voice)

2001Aged 39

  • Poster for Recording the Producers: A Musical Romp with Mel Brooks

    Self

2000Aged 38

  • Poster for You Can Count on Me

    Brian

1999Aged 37

  • Poster for Election

    Jim McAllister

  • Poster for Inspector Gadget

    Inspector Gadget / Robogadget / John Brown

1998Aged 36

  • Poster for Godzilla

    Dr. Niko Tatopoulos

  • Poster for Walking to the Waterline

    Michael Woods

  • Poster for The Lion King II: Simba's Pride

    Simba (voice)

1997Aged 35

  • Poster for Addicted to Love

    Sam

1996Aged 34

  • Poster for The Cable Guy

    Steven

  • Poster for Infinity

    Richard Feynman

1994Aged 32

1993Aged 31

  • Poster for The Night We Never Met

    Sam

  • Poster for The Thief and the Cobbler

    Tack the Cobbler (voice)

  • Poster for A Life in the Theatre

    John

1992Aged 30

  • Poster for Out on a Limb

    Bill Campbell

1990Aged 28

  • Poster for The Freshman

    Clark Kellogg

1989Aged 27

  • Poster for Family Business

    Adam McMullen

  • Poster for Glory

    Col. Robert Gould Shaw

1988Aged 26

  • Poster for She's Having a Baby

    Ferris Bueller (uncredited)

  • Poster for Biloxi Blues

    Eugene Morris Jerome

  • Poster for Torch Song Trilogy

    Alan Simon

1987Aged 25

  • Poster for Project X

    Jimmy

1986Aged 24

  • Poster for On Valentine's Day

    Brother

  • Poster for Ferris Bueller's Day Off

    Ferris Bueller

1985Aged 23

  • Poster for 'Master Harold'... and the Boys

    Hally

  • Poster for Ladyhawke

    Phillipe Gaston

  • Poster for 1918

    Brother

  • Poster for Cinderella

    Prince Henry

1983Aged 21

  • Poster for Max Dugan Returns

    Michael McPhae

  • Poster for WarGames

    David Lightman

Year unknown

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