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Zach Braff
Zachary Israel Braff is an American actor and filmmaker. He is best known for his role as Dr. John "J.D." Dorian on the NBC/ABC television series Scrubs, for which he was nominated for the Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Lead Actor in a Comedy Series in 2005 as well as for three Golden Globe Awards from 2005 to 2007. He starred in The Broken Hearts Club: A Romantic Comedy (2000), The Last Kis…
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Born 6 April 1975 · Q139330
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2026· 6 entries
“very strong conservative/orthodox [Jewish] upbringing”
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Yahoo: Zach Braff Tribeca Drama ‘Clean Hands’ Launches For International Sales Ahead Of TIFF Market
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Yahoo: Zach Braff Opens Up About His Mental Health: 'I Definitely Have Depression'
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Deadline.com: Zach Braff On Why His Return To ‘Scrubs’ Is Not A Reboot, Plus Directing Harrison Ford In ‘Shrinking’ And Steve Carell in ‘Rooster’ – The Actor’s Side
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AOL: Zach Braff Shuts Down Rumor He’s Dating an AI Chatbot: ‘I Can't Believe I Have to Type These Words’
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2025· 1 entry
Multiple entertainment trade publications confirmed that Braff had been officially attached to a reboot of Scrubs produced by ABC and 20th Television
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2023· 2 entries
The Guardian: A Good Person review – Zach Braff’s tale of self-healing is excruciatingly ersatz
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The Guardian: Zach Braff: ‘I used to think everyone must be this anxious’
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2021· 1 entry
Braff was nominated for a Directors Guild of America Award and a Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Directing for a Comedy Series for directing an episode of the Apple TV+ comedy show Ted Lasso, which was co-created by
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2020· 1 entry
Braff directed the short film In The Time It Takes To Get There, starring Alicia Silverstone and Florence Pugh
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2014· 6 entries
The Guardian: Wish I Was Here review – bittersweet breeziness from Zach Braff
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The Guardian: Wish I Was Here review – Zach Braff’s annoying Manic Pixie Dream life
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The Guardian: Zach Braff Q&A – as it happened
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The Daily Beast: Zach Braff’s Irritating Sense of Entitlement
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Braff opened on Broadway in the musical Bullets Over Broadway The Musical, an adaptation of Woody Allen's 1994 film, directed and choreographed by Susan Stroman
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Braff directed his second film, Wish I Was Here, which he partially funded with a Kickstarter campaign
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2013· 1 entry
Braff started a Kickstarter campaign to finance the film Wish I Was Here, based on a script he wrote with his brother Adam
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2012· 2 entries
Braff endorsed the re-election campaign of President Barack Obama
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Braff moved the play on tour to the UK, playing in Manchester at the Manchester Opera House between February 8–11, Glasgow at the King's Theatre between February 14–18, and finally in London for 10 weeks at the Duke of Y
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2009· 2 entries
Braff was working on the script for Swingles, a film based on a spec script by Duncan Birmingham; he was to direct and star in the film alongside Cameron Diaz
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Braff opened the Mermaid Oyster Bar in New York City with chef and high school friend Laurence Edelman, as well as Danny Abrams
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2007· 2 entries
Braff starred in the film The Ex (2007)
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And 2008, and in Cottonelle as the voice of the puppy
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2006· 2 entries
However, the film was eventually canceled
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“It fell apart at the last second due to scheduling and budget, as so many movies do.”
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2005· 4 entries
Awarded Grammy Award for Best Compilation Soundtrack for Visual Media for Garden State – Music From the Motion Picture (2005).
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Braff was featured on Punk'd when he was tricked into chasing and then beating a supposed vandal who appeared to be spray-painting his brand new Porsche
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As well as for three Golden Globe Awards from 2005 to 2007
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Said that he was "not a huge organized-religion guy", and, in 2013, that "the religion [Judaism] doesn't necessarily work for me"
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2004· 1 entry
Braff made his directorial debut with Garden State in which he also starred
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2002· 1 entry
In a part in Twelfth Night, staged in Central Park
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1998· 1 entry
Braff had a part in a George C
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1975· 2 entries
In South Orange, New Jersey, and grew up there and in neighboring Maplewood
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Born 1975-04-06.
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