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Matthew Broderick can be found under the following categories:
American film actors
,
American stage actors
,
American voice actors
,
Hollywood Walk of Fame
,
Irish-Americans
,
Jewish actors
,
American musical theatre actors
,
New York actors
,
American actor-singers
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Matthew Broderick
(born March 21, 1962) is an American film and stage actor who played the title character in
Ferris Bueller's Day Off
, Nick Tatopoulos in
Godzilla
and David Lightman in
WarGames
. He voiced the characters of the adult
Simba
in
The Lion King
and
The Lion King II: Simba's Pride
. He voiced
Tack
the Cobbler in
The Thief and the Cobbler
, Adam Flaymen in
Bee Movie
, alongside
Jerry Seinfeld
, and
Despereaux
in
The Tale of Despereaux
. He played
Leo Bloom
in the
film
and
Broadway
productions of
The Producers
, and Colonel
Robert Gould Shaw
in the
Civil War
drama
Glory
.
Early life
Broderick was born in
New York City
, the son of
Patricia
(née Biow), a
playwright
,
actress
, and
painter
; and
James Wilke Broderick
, an actor.
Broderick's mother was
Jew
ish, and his father a
Catholic
of
Irish
descent.
Broderick attended grade school at the City & Country School (a progressive K–8 school in Manhattan) and attended high school at Walden School (a defunct private school in
Manhattan
with a strong drama program). After the death of his mother, her paintings were exhibited at the
Tibor de Nagy gallery
in New York.
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. It uses material from the
Wikipedia article "Matthew Broderick"
.
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