Matthew Broderick

Personal Info

Know For

Acting

Gender

Male

Birthday

1962-03-21 (63 years old)

Place of Birth

New York City, New York, USA

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 F...

Acting

1983

WarGames

as David Lightman

1998

Godzilla

as Dr. Niko Tatopoulos

1985

Ladyhawke

as Phillipe Gaston

1996

Infinity

as Richard Feynman

1990

The Freshman

as Clark Kellogg

2008

The Tale of Despereaux

as Despereaux (voice)

1989

Family Business

as Adam McMullen

1983

Max Dugan Returns

as Michael McPhae

1994

The Road to Wellville

as William Lightbody

2007

Bee Movie

as Adam Flayman (voice)

2003

Good Boy!

as Hubble (voice)

2004

The Lion King 1½

as Simba (voice)

2003

The Music Man

as Professor Harold Hill

1994

1988

Torch Song Trilogy

as Alan Simon

1994

The Lion King

as Simba (voice)

1999

Election

as Jim McAllister

2004

The Last Shot

as Steven Schats

2004

2007

Then She Found Me

as Ben Green

1993

The Thief and the Cobbler

as Tack the Cobbler (voice)

2006

Deck the Halls

as Steve Finch

1986

Ferris Bueller's Day Off

as Ferris Bueller

2008

Finding Amanda

as Taylor Peters

1989

Glory

as Col. Robert Gould Shaw

2004

The Stepford Wives

as Walter Kresby

1996

The Cable Guy

as Steven

2009

Wonderful World

as Ben Singer

2006

Strangers with Candy

as Roger Beekman

2005

The Producers

as Leo Bloom

2008

2000

You Can Count on Me

as Brian Everett

2011

Margaret

as John Andrew van Tassel

1987

Project X

as Jimmy Garrett

1988

Biloxi Blues

as Eugene Morris Jerome

2011

Tower Heist

as Mr. Fitzhugh

1986

1992

Out on a Limb

as Bill Campbell

2009

Waking Sleeping Beauty

as Self (archive footage)

2016

Rules Don't Apply

as Levar Mathis

2023

No Hard Feelings

as Laird Becker

1999

Inspector Gadget

as John Brown / Inspector Gadget / Robo Gadget

2023

Hot Potato: The Story of The Wiggles

as Self (archive footage) (uncredited)

2015

Dirty Weekend

as Les Moore

2016

The American Side

as Borden Chase

2019

Love Is Blind

as Murray Krafft

2015

Trainwreck

as Matthew Broderick

2019

Wonder Park

as June's Dad (voice)

2016

Manchester by the Sea

as Jeffrey Garner

1985

1918

as Brother

1985

Cinderella

as Prince Henry

2013

2017

Oh, Hello on Broadway

as Himself (uncredited)

1988

She's Having a Baby

as Ferris Bueller (uncredited)

2017

A Christmas Story Live!

as Ralphie as an Adult

2019

To Dust

as Albert

2011

New Year's Eve

as Mr. Buellerton (uncredited)

2020

Lazy Susan

as Doug

1998

Walking to the Waterline

as Michael Woods

2006

Production

1996

Infinity

as Director

1996

Infinity

as Producer

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