Broderick in Ferris Bueller's Day Off'' Broderick's number 1 break come around role within an HB Studio workshop production of Horton Foote's ''On Valentine's Day'', playing opposite his father James Broderick, who was a friend of Foote's. This was followed by the lead role in the off-Broadway production of Harvey Fierstein's Torch Song Trilogy; a good review by New York Times theater critic Mel Gussow brought him to the attention of Broadway. Broderick commented on the results of that read around the 2004 60 Minutes II interview:

"Before I knew it, I was like this guy in a hot play. And suddenly all these doors opened. And it’s only because Mel Gussow happened to come by right before it closed and happened to like it. It’s just amazing. All these things have to line up that are out of your control."

He followed that by having a role of Eugene Morris Jerome around both Neil Simon plays: Brighton Beach Memoirs and Biloxi Blues. Around between victims plays he starred within WarGames, the summertime hit of 1983.

He returned to Broadway as a musical star in the 1990s, most notably around How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying and Mel Brooks' stage version of The Producers in 2001, and continues to produce films.

He has won 2 Tony Awards, in 1983 for his featured role in the play Brighton Beach Memoirs, & inside 1995 for his leading role in the musical Training Succeed inside Business Forgoing Really Trying. He was too nominated for The Producers, by owning a award attend co-star Nathan Lane.

He is scheduled to perform using Nathan Lane in "The Odd Couple", opening on Broadway around October, 2005.

Personal life
He was innate inside New York City, the son of the late Irish Catholic actor James Broderick and his Jewish wife, the late Patricia Biow. Broderick attended the Walden School, a buck private school within Manhattan with a hard drama program.

Broderick met Jennifer Grey on the set of ''Ferris Bueller's Day Off. Within August 1987, she wwhen using him as he drove in the rain-slicked road on the fringe of Enniskillen in Northern Ireland. Broderick, even in the incorrectly side of the road, drove his BMW 316 head-on into an additional car carrying 63-season-old Margaret Doherty & her 30-season-old girl Anna Gallagher: each women were flushed. Broderick experienced to become cut away from a car; he suffered facial lacerations and the broken thigh. Grey escaped by having minor injuries. Broderick experienced there are no memory of a event & Grey was distracted at the moment of the accident changing audio tapes and saw nothing. A want of witnesses, skid marks, or even more grounds to believe led Broderick to plead shamefaced within absentia'' in February 15, 1988 to the lesser charge of careless driving. He was fined £100.

He met actress Sarah Jessica Parker in 1992 and has been married to her since 1997. A few has a single tike, James Wilke Broderick (natural October 28, 2002), named when Broderick's late actor father.

Selected filmography
Max Dugan Returns (1983) WarGames (1983) Ladyhawke (1985) ''Ferris Bueller's Day Off (1986) Project X (1987) Biloxi Blues (1988) Torch Song Trilogy (1988) Glory (1989) with Denzel Washington The Freshman (1990) The Lion King (1994) The Road to Wellville (1994) The Cable Guy (1996) with Jim Carrey Infinity (1996) Addicted to Love (1997) Godzilla (1998) The Lion King II: Simba's Pride (1998) Election (1999) Inspector Gadget (1999) You Can Count on Me (2000) The Music Man (2003, TV) Good Boy! (2003) (voice) The Stepford Wives (2004) The Last Shot (2004) The Lion King 1 1/2'' (2004)