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.
Filmography The Gettysburg Address
2025
Reader
Details Hot Potato: The Story of The Wiggles
2023
Self (archive footage) (uncredited)
Details No Hard Feelings
2023
Laird Becker
Details Denzel Washington : Un modèle américain
2022
Self
Details Too Soon: Comedy After 9/11
2021
Self
Details Love Is Blind
2019
Murray Krafft
Details Wonder Park
2019
June's Dad (voice)
Details A Christmas Story Live!
2017
Ralphie as an Adult
Details Broadway: The Next Generation
2017
Self
Details Oh, Hello on Broadway
2017
Himself (uncredited)
Details Rules Don't Apply
2016
Levar Mathis
Details Manchester by the Sea
2016
Jeffrey Garner
Details Against the Odds: The Mike Piazza Story
2016
Narrator
Details The American Side
2016
Borden Chase
Details Mike Nichols: An American Master
2016
Self
Details Trainwreck
2015
Matthew Broderick
Details Mel Brooks: Make a Noise
2013
Self
Details John Hughes: Life Moves Pretty Fast
2012
Self
Details New Year's Eve
2011
Mr. Buellerton (uncredited)
Details Inside Story: Ferris Bueller's Day Off
2011
Self
Details Tower Heist
2011
Mr. Fitzhugh
Details Pride of The Lion King
2011
Himself
Details Margaret
2011
John Andrew van Tassel
Details Waking Sleeping Beauty
2009
Self (archive footage)
Details Wonderful World
2009
Ben Singer
Details The Tale of Despereaux
2008
Despereaux (voice)
Details Valentino: The Last Emperor
2008
Self
Details Diminished Capacity
2008
Cooper
Details Finding Amanda
2008
Taylor Peters
Details Shea Goodbye: 45 Years of Amazin' Mets
2008
Narrator
Details Bee Movie
2007
Adam Flayman (voice)
Details Then She Found Me
2007
Ben Green
Details Deck the Halls
2006
Steve Finch
Details Strangers with Candy
2006
Roger Beekman
Details Who Is Ferris Bueller?
2006
Self
Details The Making of Ferris Bueller's Day Off: Production Stories
2006
Self
Details Vintage Ferris Bueller: The Lost Tapes
2006
Self (archive footage)
Details The Last Shot
2004
Steven Schats
Details The Stepford Wives
2004
Walter Kresby
Details The Lion King 1½
2004
Simba (voice)
Details Good Boy!
2003
Hubble (voice)
Details The Music Man
2003
Professor Harold Hill
Details Recording the Producers: A Musical Romp with Mel Brooks
2001
Self
Details You Can Count on Me
2000
Brian Everett
Details Inspector Gadget
1999
John Brown / Inspector Gadget / Robo Gadget
Details The Lion King II: Simba's Pride
1998
Simba (voice)
Details Walking to the Waterline
1998
Michael Woods
Details Godzilla
1998
Dr. Niko Tatopoulos
Details Infinity
1996
Richard Feynman
Details The Cable Guy
1996
Steven M. Kovacs
Details Would You Kindly Direct Me to Hell?: The Infamous Dorothy Parker
1994
Self - Commentator
Details The Road to Wellville
1994
William Lightbody
Details Mrs. Parker and the Vicious Circle
1994
Charles MacArthur
Details The Making of the Lion King
1994
Self
Details The Lion King
1994
Simba (voice)
Details A Life in the Theatre
1993
John
Details The Thief and the Cobbler
1993
Tack the Cobbler (voice)
Details The Night We Never Met
1993
Sam
Details Out on a Limb
1992
Bill Campbell
Details The Freshman
1990
Clark Kellogg
Details Glory
1989
Col. Robert Gould Shaw
Details Family Business
1989
Adam McMullen
Details Torch Song Trilogy
1988
Alan Simon
Details Biloxi Blues
1988
Eugene Morris Jerome
Details She's Having a Baby
1988
Ferris Bueller (uncredited)
Details Ferris Bueller's Day Off
1986
Ferris Bueller
Details On Valentine's Day
1986
Brother
Details Faerie Tale Theatre: Cinderella
1985
Prince Henry
Details Ladyhawke
1985
Phillipe Gaston
Details 'Master Harold'... and the Boys
1985
Hally
Details Max Dugan Returns
1983
Michael McPhae
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