The Guardian: ‘We didn’t want him to be punchable!’: Matthew Broderick and Alan Ruck on Ferris Bueller’s Day Off
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Matthew Broderick
Matthew Broderick is an American actor. Known for his roles on stage and screen he has received two Tony Awards as well nominations for two Primetime Emmy Awards, a Grammy Award, a Golden Globe Award, and a Screen Actors Guild Award. Broderick was inducted into the Hollywood Walk of Fame with a motion pictures star in 2006 and the American Theater Hall of Fame in 2017.
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Born 21 March 1962 · Q28755
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2026· 1 entry
2025· 1 entry
It was announced that Broderick would star as Tartuffe in a new production of Tartuffe alongside Bianca Del Rio, Francis Jue, and Amber Gray at the New York Theatre Workshop
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2024· 1 entry
The production transferred to the Savoy Theatre, London
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2023· 1 entry
Broderick played the role of Laird Becker in the comedy film No Hard Feelings, and appeared as himself in two episodes of the Hulu comedy series Only Murders in the Building
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2022· 1 entry
Broderick returned to Broadway in a revival of Plaza Suite where he starred alongside his wife Sarah Jessica Parker
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2018· 1 entry
It was announced that he was cast in the main role of Michael Burr in the Netflix comedy-drama series Daybreak
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2012· 1 entry
Released album “d’Aulaires’ Book of Greek Myths”.
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2006· 1 entry
And the American Theater Hall of Fame in 2017
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2005· 1 entry
Awarded Hollywood Film Awards for The Producers (2005).
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1997· 1 entry
In an Episcopal ceremony officiated by his sister, Rev
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1995· 1 entry
Awarded Tony Award for Best Actor in a Musical (1995).
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1990· 1 entry
Was the voice of adult Simba in Disney's 1994 animated film The Lion King, and voiced Tack the Cobbler in 1995's Arabian Knight, Miramax's version of The Thief and the Cobbler in which the lead character was originally i
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1988· 1 entry
Broderick played Harvey Fierstein's ill-fated lover, Alan, in the screen adaptation of Torch Song Trilogy
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1987· 2 entries
While driving a rented car at Garvary, a townland between Enniskillen and Tempo in County Fermanagh, Northern Ireland, Broderick crossed into the wrong lane and collided head-on with another car
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Played Air Force research assistant Jimmy Garrett in Project X
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1986· 1 entry
About Ferris Bueller's Day Off from the Texas Archive of the Moving Image
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1983· 3 entries
Awarded Theatre World Award (1983).
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Awarded Tony Award for Best Featured Actor in a Play (1983).
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In which he played the main role of Seattle teen hacker David Lightman
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1962· 2 entries
Born 1962-03-21.
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In Manhattan, the only son of Patricia (née Biow), a playwright, actress, and painter, and James Broderick, an actor and World War II veteran
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