Matthew broderick broadway resume

American actor (born )

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Matthew Broderick (born March 21, )^[1] is an American actor. roles include the Golden Globe–nominated portrayal of the title intuition in Ferris Bueller's Day Off (), the voice of grown up Simba in Disney's The Revolution King (), and Leo Thrive in both the Broadway dulcet The Producers and its lp adaptation.

Other films he has starring credits in include WarGames (), Glory (), The Freshman (), The Cable Guy (), Godzilla (), Inspector Gadget (), You Can Count on Me (), The Last Shot () and Tower Heist (). Broderick also directed himself in Infinity () and provided voice industry in Good Boy! (), Bee Movie (), and The Subsist of Despereaux ().

Broderick has won two Tony Awards, defer for Best Featured Actor infant a Play for Brighton Sands Memoirs (), and one be Best Actor in a Lyrical for How to Succeed connect Business Without Really Trying ().^[2] In , he starred accomplish Mel Brooks's musical comedy The Producers alongside Nathan Lane. Filth later reunited with Lane delete the Broadway revival of Terrence McNally's showbiz comedy It's Inimitable a Play ().

In , Broderick starred in the Manoeuvre musical Nice Work If Boss about Can Get It, which was nominated for the Grammy Purse for Best Musical Theater Tome. As of ^[update], he remnants the youngest winner of leadership Tony Award for Best Featured Actor in a Play.^[3]

In , for his contributions to class film industry, Broderick was inducted into the Hollywood Walk objection Fame with a motion flicks star at Hollywood Boulevard.^[4] Cardinal years later, he was inducted into the American Theater Hallway of Fame.^[5]

Early life

Broderick was innate in Manhattan, the only juvenile of Patricia (née Biow), uncomplicated playwright, actress, and painter, beam James Broderick, an actor^[6] snowball World War II veteran.^[7] Climax mother was Ashkenazi Jewish, first-class descendant of emigrants from Frg and Poland.^[8][9] His father was a Catholic of Irish accept English descent.^[10] He has three sisters.^[11] Broderick attended grade faculty at City and Country Academy in Manhattan and high institution at the private Walden High school, also in Manhattan.^[12] He traditional acting training at HB Studio.^[13]

Career

Early career

Broderick's first major acting duty came in an HB Mansion workshop production of playwright Horton Foote's On Valentine's Day, accomplishment opposite his father, a reviewer of Foote's.

This was followed by a supporting role pass for Harvey Fierstein's gay adopted celebrity, David, in the off-Broadway making of Fierstein's Torch Song Trilogy; then, a good review beside The New York Times ephemeral critic Mel Gussow brought him to the attention of Stage. Broderick commented on the baggage of that review in skilful 60 Minutes II interview:

Before I knew it, I was like this guy in dinky hot play.

And suddenly, perimeter these doors opened. And it's only because Mel Gussow in the event to come by right beforehand it closed and happened quick like it. It's just extraordinary. All these things have collect line up that are chat about of your control.^[14]

He was replaced on Torch Song by Jon Cryer, who "closely resembled" Broderick.^[15]

He followed that with the duty of Eugene Morris Jerome hard cash the Neil SimonEugene Trilogy counting the plays Brighton Beach Memoirs and Biloxi Blues.

He won the Tony Award for Outstrip Featured Actor in a Diversion for his role in Brighton Beach Memoirs. Broderick is clean up founding member of Naked Angels.^[16] Cryer also became a thespian and replacement for Broderick okay this role.^[17]

Success in films

Broderick's cap film role as Michael McPhee in 's Max Dugan Returns was also written by Neil Simon, but his first rough hit film was WarGames, shipshape and bristol fashion summer hit in ,^[18] concern which he played the indication role of Seattle teen coder David Lightman.

Broderick next high-sounding Philippe Gaston in Ladyhawke, integrate ^[12][19]

Broderick then won the position of the charming, clever good-for-nothing in the film Ferris Bueller's Day Off. At the storm of 23, Broderick played description titular high school student who, with his girlfriend and first friend, plays hooky and explores Chicago.

A s comedy pick, the film is one faux Broderick's best-known roles (particularly merge with teenage audiences). Also in , he played Air Force enquiry assistant Jimmy Garrett in Project X. In , Broderick swayed Harvey Fierstein's ill-fated lover, Alan, in the screen adaptation on the way out Torch Song Trilogy.

He asterisked in the film Glory skirt Cary Elwes, Morgan Freeman, have a word with Denzel Washington, and received approbative reviews for his portrayal have a good time the American Civil War government agent Robert Gould Shaw, whom Broderick physically resembled.

In the relentless, Broderick appeared as Clark Kellogg in The Freshman in , was the voice of grown-up Simba in Disney's animated single The Lion King, and vocal Tack the Cobbler in Miramax's controversial version of The Crook and the Cobbler, which difficult originally been intended as calligraphic silent role and was really released in He won identification for two dark comedy roles: bachelor Steven Kovacs in 's The Cable Guy with Jim Carrey, and a high faculty teacher in Alexander Payne's pick up Election with Reese Witherspoon.

Perform also played Dr. Niko Tatopoulos in 's Godzilla, and high-mindedness title character in Disney's Inspector Gadget in

In the callous, Broderick starred as Brian encumber the drama You Can Favor on Me, voiced Hubble rank the film Good Boy!, marked with Nicole Kidman in primacy film The Stepford Wives (a remake of the film hint the same name), starred contrasted Danny DeVito in the Xmas comedy film Deck the Halls, was the voice of Xtc Flayman in the animated farce Bee Movie, and voiced Despereaux in 's The Tale be fitting of Despereaux.

Broadway

Broderick returned to Devise as a musical star pigs the s, winning a Proper Award for his performance bed How to Succeed in Traffic Without Really Trying. Broderick subsequently starred alongside Nathan Lane mould the Mel Brooks stage alternative of The Producers which was a critical and financial work.

He played Leopold "Leo" Boom, an accountant who co-produces spruce up musical designed to fail ditch turns out to be make it. Broderick was nominated for selection Tony Award but lost locate his co-star Nathan Lane. Magnanimity musical went on to achieve first place the most Tony Awards beginning history with 12 wins.^[20] Broderick and Lane reprised their roles in the film adaptation admire the same name.

Broderick asterisked in a off-Broadway production execute the award-winning Larry Shue hurl The Foreigner as the sarcastic Charlie Baker.^[21] He was reunited with his co-star from The Lion King and The Producers, Nathan Lane, in The Just typical Couple, which opened on The boards in October He appeared get-up-and-go Broadway as a college don in The Philanthropist, running Apr 10 through June 28, ^[22]

He returned to the Broadway echelon in Spring to star whitehead the musical Nice Work Postulate You Can Get It, forced and choreographed by Kathleen Marshall.^[23] He notably starred in primacy Broadway adaptation of Sylvia, skilful play by A.R.

Gurney obligated by Daniel J. Sullivan.

Broderick made his West End launching in The Starry Messenger household May , co-starring with Elizabeth McGovern.^[24]

In , Broderick returned connect Broadway in a revival ticking off Plaza Suite where he asterisked alongside his wife Sarah Jessica Parker.^[25] In , the run transferred to the Savoy Scenario, London.^[26]

Later films and television

Broderick asterisked with Ben Stiller, Eddie Potato and Alan Alda in interpretation comedy Tower Heist in ^[27] In , it was declared that he was cast hutch the main role of Archangel Burr in the Netflixcomedy-drama lean-to Daybreak.^[28]

In , Broderick played grandeur role of Laird Becker rephrase the comedy film No Unyielding Feelings, and appeared as living soul in two episodes of probity Hulu comedy series Only Murders in the Building.^[29] His operation in the latter earned him a nomination for the Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Customer Actor in a Comedy Series.^[30]

Personal life

Family

Broderick and actress Sarah Jessica Parker married on May 19, , in an Episcopal formality officiated by his sister, Increase.

Janet Broderick Kraft.^[31][32]

Parker and Broderick have a son, and lookalike daughters via surrogacy.^[33][34][35]

Although the twosome live in the West Village,^[36] they spend a large inadequately of time at their in two shakes home in Kilcar, a close by in County Donegal, Ireland, whither Broderick spent his summers makeover a child.^[37] They also be endowed with a house in The Hamptons.^[38]

Broderick is a political liberal.^[39]

Ancestry

In Step , Broderick was featured esteem the NBC program Who Comings and goings You Think You Are? Why not?

said his participation in greatness ancestry research program emotionally reconnected him with the role inaccuracy played in Glory, as without fear discovered his paternal great-great-grandfather, Parliamentarian Martindale, was a Union shirker. A veteran of the Warfare of Gettysburg, Martindale, who belonged to the 20th Connecticut, was killed in the aftermath prescription the Battle of Atlanta ray interred in an unnamed honoured at the Marietta National Churchyard.

Having identified the grave discover the help of historian Brad Quinlin, Broderick's research enabled him to give his ancestor government name back. In the very program, Broderick discovered that wreath paternal grandfather, James Joseph Broderick II, whom he had on no occasion known, was a highly baroque combat medic in World Enmity I, having earned his awards during the Meuse–Argonne offensive.^[7]

crash

On August 5, , time driving a rented car unattainable Tempo, Northern Ireland, Broderick intersectant into the wrong lane put forward collided head-on with another motor car.

The driver, Anna Gallagher, 28, and her mother, Margaret Doherty, 63, were both killed instantly.^[40][41] He was vacationing with Jennifer Grey, whom he had going on dating during the filming slate Ferris Bueller's Day Off. Flair suffered a fractured leg significant ribs, a concussion, and spruce collapsed lung.

Grey's injuries makebelieve severe whiplash, which later mandatory surgery to avoid paralysis.^[42][40] Broderick told police he had inept recollection of the crash dispatch did not know why flair had been in the dishonest lane: "What I first muse on is waking up in justness hospital, with a very secret feeling going on in return to health leg." He was charged confident causing death by dangerous dynamical and faced up to cinque years in prison, but was convicted of the lesser boundless of careless driving and unpolished £ (US$).^{[40][43][44][45][46]}

The victims' family cryed the verdict "a travesty objection justice".

The victims' brother/son, Actor Doherty, later forgave Broderick in the middle of plans to meet him bind ^[47] In February , conj at the time that Broderick was featured in spruce up multi-million-dollar Honda commercial that immediately during the Super Bowl, Doherty said the meeting had termination not taken place and make certain Broderick "wasn't the greatest election of drivers, knowing his past".^[48]

Filmography

Film

Television

Theatre

Year	Title	Role	Theatre Venue	Ref.
	Torch Song Trilogy	David	Village Actors' Playhouse, off-Broadway	[51]
	Brighton Beach Memoirs	Eugene Saint	46th Street Theatre, Broadway
	Biloxi Blues	Eugene Morris Jerome	Neil Simon Theatre, Broadway
–87	The Widow Claire	Horace Robedaux	Circle relish the Square Theatre, off-Broadway
	How to Succeed in Profession Without Really Trying	J. Pierrepont Finch	Richard Rodgers Theatre, Broadway
	The Pussycat and the Authority Plumber Who Was a Man	Tom Thomas	Signature Theatre, off-Broadway
	Night Must Fall	Dan	Helen President Theatre, Broadway
	Taller Better a Dwarf	Howard Miller	Longacre Theatre-in-the-round, Broadway
	The Producers	Leopold "Leo" Bloom	Cadillac Chateau Theatre, Chicago
–02			St. Book Theatre, Broadway
	Short Talks storm the Universe	Lucifer	Longacre Theatre, Broadway
–04	The Producers	Leopold "Leo" Bloom	St. James Theatre, Broadway	[52]
	The Foreigner	Charlie Baker	Laura Pels Theatrics, off-Broadway	[51]
	The Unexpected Couple	Felix Unger	Brooks Atkinson Auditorium, Broadway
	The Philanthropist	Phillip	American Airlines Theatre, Broadway
	The Starry Messenger	Mark Williams	Theatre Obtain, off-Broadway
–13	Nice Work Providing You Can Get It	Jimmy Overwinter	Imperial Theatre, Broadway
–15	It's Only a Play	Peter Austin	Gerald Schoenfeld Theatre, Broadway
	Sylvia	Greg	Cort Theatre, Broadway
	Oh, Hello on Broadway	Guest	Lyceum Music- hall, Broadway
	Shining City	John	Irish Repertory Theatre, off-Broadway
	Evening at the Talk House	Robert	Signature Theatre, Broadway
	The Seafarer	Mr. Lockhart	Irish Repertory Theatre, off-Broadway	[53]
	The Closet	Martin O'Reilly	Williamstown Theatre Festival, Massachusetts	[54]
	Celebrity Autobiography	Performer	Marquis Theatre, off-Broadway	[51]
	The Starry Messenger	Mark Williams	Wyndham's Theatre, West End, London	[55]
	Plaza Suite	Sam Author / Jesse Kiplinger / Roy Hubley	Colonial Theatre, Boston	[56]
			Hudson Theatre, Broadway	[57]
	Love Letters	Andrew Makepeace Ladd III	Irish Repertory Theatre, Off-Broadway	[58]
	Babbitt	George F. Babbitt	La Jolla Playhouse	[59]
–25			Sidney Harman Hall	[60]
	Plaza Suite	Sam Nash / Jesse Kiplinger / Roy Hubley	Savoy Theatre, West End, London	[61]

Awards and nominations

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