Matthew Broderick
Acting
🎂 1962-03-21
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.
Cast credits(135)
Self
2010
Self
1996
2014
Self
2014
Self - Guest
2009
Self
2007
Talking Cat (voice)
2013
Self
2009
Self
1997
Self - Guest
1988
Dream Warrior
2010
Self - Guest
1993
Self
1993
Self
1971
Mark (voice)
1993
Joseph Sugarman (voice)
2014
Matthew Broderick
2021
1992
Self - Guest
2005
Dave
2009
Self - Guest
2006
Self
2003
Cooter Burger
2006
Peter
2018
1977
Prince Henry
1982
Self - Host
1975
Self - Cameo (uncredited)
1975
Self - Presenter
1956
Self - Host
1956
Self
2010
Max
2002
Lawrence Grey
2024
Self
2012
Matthew Broderick
2010
Jack Binns (voice)
1988
Dr. David Miller
2016
Self
1952
Self - William Swain
1996
Himself - Narrator (voice)
1983
Simba (voice)
1994
Richard Sackler
2023
Michael Burr
2019
Self - Panelist
2010
Self
2020
Laird Becker
2023
Himself
1996
Self - Guest
1996
Adam Flayman (voice)
2007
John Ordway (voice)
1997
Simba (voice)
1998
Ferris Bueller
1986
Dr. Niko Tatopoulos
1998
David Lightman
1983
Matthew Broderick
2015
Simba (voice)
2004
Jeffrey Garner
2016
Self
1995
Self
1994
Col. Robert Gould Shaw
1989
Mr. Fitzhugh
2011
Steve Finch
2006
Phillipe Gaston
1985
Mr. Buellerton (uncredited)
2011
Walter Kresby
2004
June's Dad (voice)
2019
Steven
1996
Despereaux (voice)
2008
John Brown / Inspector Gadget / Robo Gadget
1999
Jim McAllister
1999
Leo Bloom
2005
Levar Mathis
2016
Tack the Cobbler (voice)
1993
Ferris Bueller (uncredited)
1988
John Andrew van Tassel
2011
Jimmy Garrett
1987
Self (archive footage)
2009
Brian Everett
2000
Adam McMullen
1989
William Lightbody
1994
Sam
1997
Clark Kellogg
1990
Albert
2019
Ben Green
2007
Steven Schats
2004
Eugene Morris Jerome
1988
Sam
1993
Reader
2025
Hubble (voice)
2003
Richard Feynman
1996
Ralphie as an Adult
2017
Roger Beekman
2006
Charles MacArthur
1994
Brother
1985
Michael McPhae
1983
Bill Campbell
1992
Self
1994
Doug
2020
Alan Simon
1988
Self
2022
Les Moore
2015
Brother
1986
Self
2008
Self
2017
Borden Chase
2016
Murray Krafft
2019
Self
2013
Himself (uncredited)
2017
Self (archive footage) (uncredited)
2023
Taylor Peters
2008
Michael Woods
1998
Self
2016
Self
2013
Bruce
2004
Prince Henry
1985
Cooper
2008
Professor Harold Hill
2003
Ben Singer
2009
Self
2021
Himself
2011
Self
2012
Prince Henry
1985
John
1993
Narrator
2008
Self
2006
Hally
1985
Self - Commentator
1994
Self
2011
Narrator
2016
Self
2001
Self
2025
Self
2006
Self (archive footage)
2006