Matthew Broderick

Matthew Broderick 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.

Movie		Character	Year
	WarGames	David Lightman	1983
	Ladyhawke	Phillipe Gaston	1985
	Ferris Bueller's Day Off	Ferris Bueller	1986
	Biloxi Blues	Eugene Morris Jerome	1988
	The Lion King	Adult Simba	1994
	The Thief and the Cobbler: The Recobbled Cut	Tack the Cobbler (Miramax version) (voice)	1995
	The Cable Guy	Steven M. Kovacs	1996
	Godzilla	Dr. Niko Tatopoulos	1998
	The Lion King II: Simba's Pride	Simba (voice)	1998
	Election	Jim McAllister	1999
	Inspector Gadget	Inspector Gadget / Robo Gadget / John Brown	1999
	Good Boy!	Hubble (voice)	2003
	The Lion King 1½	Simba	2004
	The Producers	Leo Bloom	2005
	Deck The Halls	Steve Finch	2006
	Bee Movie	Adam Flayman	2007
	The Tale of Despereaux	Despereaux	2008
	Wonderful World	Ben Singer	2009
	Tower Heist	Mr. Fitzhugh	2011