50 facts about actor Matthew Broderick

50 facts you missed about actor Matthew Broderick, husband of actress Sarah Jessica Parker.

1. Broderick's first major acting role came in an HB Studio workshop production of playwright Horton Foote's On Valentine's Day, playing opposite his father, who was a friend of Foote's.

2. In film Broderick debuted in Max Dugan Returns.

3. His first big hit film was WarGames, a summer hit in 1983, in which he played the main role of David Lightman, a Seattle teen hacker.

4. Broderick then got the role as the charming, clever slacker in the 1986 movie Ferris Bueller's Day Off.

5. At age 23, Broderick played a high-school student who, with his girlfriend and best friend, plays hooky and explores Chicago. The film remains a 1980s comedy favorite today and is one of Broderick's best-known roles.

6. Also in 1987, he played Air Force research assistant Jimmy Garrett in Project X.

7. In the 1989 film Glory, he received good reviews for his portrayal of the American Civil War officer Robert Gould Shaw, whom Broderick incidentally physically resembled at the time.

8. In the 1990s, Broderick voice of the adult Simba, in Disney's successful animated film The Lion King, and also voiced Tack the Cobbler in Miramax's controversial version of The Thief and the Cobbler, which had originally been intended as a silent role.

9. He won recognition for two dark-comedy roles. The first was that of a bachelor in The Cable Guy with Jim Carrey. The second was that of a high-school teacher in Alexander Payne's Election with Reese Witherspoon.

10. Broderick returned to Broadway as a musical star in the 1990s, most notably with his Tony Award-winning performance in How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying and his Tony Award-nominated role in the Mel Brooks' 2001 stage version of The Producers.

11. Broderick reunited with his co-star from The Lion King and The Producers, Nathan Lane, in The Odd Couple, which opened on Broadway in October 2005.

12. He appeared on Broadway as a college professor in The Philanthropist, running April 10 through June 28, 2009.

13. He returned to the Broadway stage in Spring 2012 to star in the musical Nice Work If You Can Get It, directed and choreographed by Kathleen Marshall.

14. Broderick has won two Tony Awards, one in 1983 for his featured role in the play Brighton Beach Memoirs and one in 1995 for his leading role in the musical How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying.

15. He was also nominated for the Tony Award, Best Actor in a Musical, for The Producers but lost to his co-star Nathan Lane.

16. As of 2015, Broderick is the youngest winner of the Tony Award for Best Featured Actor in a Play.

17. Broderick was born in Manhattan, New York.

18. His mother Patricia, was a playwright, actress, and painter.

19. His father James Joseph Broderick III, was an actor and World War II veteran.

20. His mother was Jewish.

21. His father was a Catholic of Irish, and some English, descent.

22. Broderick met actress Sarah Jessica Parker through her brother.

23. The couple married on May 19, 1997.

24. The couple wed in a civil ceremony in a historic deconsecrated synagogue on the Lower East Side.

25. Broderick considers himself culturally Jewish.

26. The wedding ceremony was performed by his sister, Janet Broderick Kraft.

27. His sister Janet is an Episcopal priest.

28. Parker and Broderick have a son, James Wilkie Broderick, born in 2002.

29. In April 2009, it was confirmed that Broderick and Parker were expecting twin girls through surrogacy.

30. Broderick and Parker's surrogate delivered their twin daughters, Marion Loretta Elwell and Tabitha Hodge, in 2009.

31. Although they live in Manhattan, they spend a considerable amount of time at their holiday home near Kilcar, a village in County Donegal, Ireland.

32. Broderick spent his summers as a child in County Donegal, Ireland.

33. In March 2010, Broderick was featured in the NBC program Who Do You Think You Are?. Broderick stated that his participation in the ancestry research program emotionally reconnected him with the role he played in Glory twenty-two years earlier, as he discovered a paternal great-great-grandfather, Robert Martindale (incidentally sharing the same prenom as his Glory character), who actually was a Union soldier.

34. In the same program Broderick discovered that his paternal grandfather, James Joseph Broderick II, whom he had never known, had been a highly decorated combat medic in World War I, having earned his distinctions during the Meuse-Argonne Offensive.

35. Has two older sisters.

36. He likes to play table tennis.

37. His childhood best friend is Kenneth Lonergan.

38. On January 9, 2006 received a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame at 6801 Hollywood Boulevard in Hollywood, California.

39. On December 16, 2015 both, Matthew and his wife Sarah had movies opening on the same day in the USA.

40. Sang 'I can only give you love' for Parker at her 40th birthday.

41. Suffered a broken collarbone after falling off a horse during vacation in Ireland.

42. Matthew Broderick studied drama at HB Studio in Greenwich Village in New York City.

43. He is left handed.

44. His wife Sarah Jessica Parker is also left handed.

45. Enjoys watching sports.

46. Likes to play bowling.

47. He is a fan of New York Mets.

48. Earned $100 000 a week for his performance in the stage production of The Producers.

49. In 2000, his wife Parker hosted the MTV Movie Awards, appearing in fourteen different outfits during the show.

50. Sarah Jessica Parker work black wedding dress when they wed.