page_title: Matthew Broderick
section_title: Family
hierarchical_section_title: Matthew Broderick / Personal life / Family
caption_attribution_description: English: Matthew Broderick and Sarah Jessica Parker at the 2009 Tribeca Film Festival for the premiere of Wonderful World. Photographer's blog post about these photos.
context_page_description: Matthew John Broderick is an American actor and singer. His roles include the Golden Globe-nominated portrayal of the title character in Ferris Bueller's Day Off, the voice of the adult Simba in Disney's The Lion King, and Leo Bloom in both the Broadway musical The Producers and its 2005 film adaptation. Other films he had starring credits in include WarGames, Glory, The Freshman, The Cable Guy, Godzilla, Election, Inspector Gadget and You Can Count on Me. Broderick also directed himself in Infinity and provided voice work in Good Boy!, Bee Movie, and The Tale of Despereaux.
  Broderick has won two Tony Awards, one for Best Featured Actor in a Play for Brighton Beach Memoirs, and one for Best Actor in a Musical for How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying. As of 2020, Broderick remains the youngest winner of the Tony Award for Best Featured Actor in a Play.
  In 2006, for his contributions to the film industry, Matthew Broderick was inducted into the Hollywood Walk of Fame with a motion pictures star located at 6801 Hollywood Boulevard. Eleven years later, Broderick earned induction into the American Theater Hall of Fame.
context_section_description: Broderick and actress Sarah Jessica Parker married on May 19, 1997, at Angel Orensanz Synagogue in Manhattan's Lower East Side, in a ceremony officiated by his sister, Janet Broderick Kraft, an Episcopal priest.
  Parker and Broderick have a son, James, born October 28, 2002. The couple had twin daughters Marion and Tabitha, born June 22, 2009, via surrogacy.
  Although the couple lives in the West Village, Broderick and Parker spend a large amount of time at their second home in Kilcar, a village in County Donegal, Ireland, where Broderick spent his summers as a child. They also have a house in The Hamptons.
  Broderick is a political liberal.
caption: Broderick with wife Sarah Jessica Parker in 2009
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