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.
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RevenueActing
Primarily2025 The Gettysburg Address as Reader
2025 Pretend I'm Not Here
2023 Hot Potato: The Story of The Wiggles as Self (archive footage) (uncredited)
2023 No Hard Feelings as Laird Becker
2022 Denzel Washington: A Model American as Self
2021 Too Soon: Comedy After 9/11 as Self
2020 Lazy Susan as Doug
2019 Love Is Blind as Murray Krafft
2019 Wonder Park as June's Dad (voice)
2019 To Dust as Albert
2017 A Christmas Story Live! as Ralphie as an Adult
2017 Broadway: The Next Generation as Self
2017 Oh, Hello on Broadway as Himself (uncredited)
2016 Rules Don't Apply as Levar Mathis
2016 Manchester by the Sea as Jeffrey Garner
2016 Against the Odds: The Mike Piazza Story as Narrator
2016 The American Side as Borden Chase
2016 Mike Nichols: An American Master as Self
2015 Dirty Weekend as Les Moore
2015 Trainwreck as Matthew Broderick
2013 Skum Rocks! as Self
2013 Mel Brooks: Make a Noise as Self
2012 John Hughes: Life Moves Pretty Fast as Self
2011 New Year's Eve as Mr. Buellerton (uncredited)
2011 Inside Story: Ferris Bueller's Day Off as Self
2011 Tower Heist as Mr. Fitzhugh
2011 Pride of The Lion King as Himself
2011 Margaret as John Andrew van Tassel
2009 Waking Sleeping Beauty as Self (archive footage)
2009 Wonderful World as Ben Singer
2008 The Tale of Despereaux as Despereaux (voice)
2008 Valentino: The Last Emperor as Self
2008 Diminished Capacity as Cooper
2008 Finding Amanda as Taylor Peters
2008 Shea Goodbye: 45 Years of Amazin' Mets as Narrator
2007 Bee Movie as Adam Flayman (voice)
2007 Then She Found Me as Ben Green
2006 Deck the Halls as Steve Finch
2006 Strangers with Candy as Roger Beekman
2006 Vintage Ferris Bueller: The Lost Tapes as Self (archive footage)
2006 The Making of Ferris Bueller's Day Off: Production Stories as Self
2006 Who Is Ferris Bueller? as Self
2005 The Producers as Leo Bloom
2004 The Lion King 1½ as Simba (voice)
2004 The Last Shot as Steven Schats
2004 The Stepford Wives as Walter Kresby
2004 Marie and Bruce as Bruce
2003 Good Boy! as Hubble (voice)
2003 The Music Man as Professor Harold Hill
2001 Recording the Producers: A Musical Romp with Mel Brooks as Self
2000 You Can Count on Me as Brian Everett
1999 Inspector Gadget as John Brown / Inspector Gadget / Robo Gadget
1999 Election as Jim McAllister
1998 The Lion King II: Simba's Pride as Simba (voice)
1998 Walking to the Waterline as Michael Woods
1998 Godzilla as Dr. Niko Tatopoulos
1997 Addicted to Love as Sam
1996 Infinity as Richard Feynman Director, Producer
1996 The Cable Guy as Steven
1994 Would You Kindly Direct Me to Hell?: The Infamous Dorothy Parker as Self - Commentator
1994 The Road to Wellville as William Lightbody
1994 Mrs. Parker and the Vicious Circle as Charles MacArthur
1994 The Making of the Lion King as Self
1994 The Lion King as Simba (voice)
1993 A Life in the Theatre as John
1993 The Thief and the Cobbler as Tack the Cobbler (voice)
1993 The Night We Never Met as Sam
1992 Out on a Limb as Bill Campbell
1990 The Freshman as Clark Kellogg
1989 Glory as Col. Robert Gould Shaw
1989 Family Business as Adam McMullen
1988 Torch Song Trilogy as Alan Simon
1988 Biloxi Blues as Eugene Morris Jerome
1988 She's Having a Baby as Ferris Bueller (uncredited)
1987 Project X as Jimmy Garrett
1986 Ferris Bueller's Day Off as Ferris Bueller
1986 On Valentine's Day as Brother
1985 Cinderella as Prince Henry
1985 Faerie Tale Theatre: Cinderella as Prince Henry
1985 1918 as Brother
1985 Ladyhawke as Phillipe Gaston
1985 'Master Harold'... and the Boys as Hally
1983 WarGames as David Lightman
1983 Max Dugan Returns as Michael McPhae