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Matthew Broderick
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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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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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Saturday Night Live
Late Night with Conan O'Brien
LIVE with Kelly and Mark
The Tonight Show with Jay Leno
The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon
The Graham Norton Show
Late Night with Seth Meyers
Frasier
Today
BoJack Horseman
Elsbeth
Modern Family
30 Rock
MADtv
Rick and Morty
Only Murders in the Building
Late Night with Jimmy Fallon
Lou Grant
Louie
Comedians in Cars Getting Coffee
The Daily Show
Adventure Time
Better Things
The Marriage Ref
Who Do You Think You Are?
Crash Canyon
The Conners
Waking Sleeping Beauty
The Lego Ninjago Movie
Tony Awards
She's Having a Baby
Trainwreck
Hot Potato: The Story of The Wiggles
Strangers with Candy
Wonder Park
Daybreak
Manchester by the Sea
The Lion King 1½
Tower Heist
A Christmas Story Live!
No Hard Feelings
Then She Found Me
Bee Movie
You Can Count on Me
Faerie Tale Theatre
Painkiller
Deck the Halls
The Stepford Wives
Glory
The Lion King II: Simba's Pride
Project X
Who Is Ferris Bueller?
WarGames
Godzilla
The Lion King
Ferris Bueller's Day Off
Inspector Gadget
The Tale of Despereaux
John Hughes: Life Moves Pretty Fast
Election
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