Matthew Broderick (b. 1962) is a comic actor whose movies include WarGames, Ferris Bueller's Day Off, Torch Song Trilogy (with Harvey Fierstein), Election and The Producers. His wife is Sarah Jessica Parker.
In 2003, he performed the voice of Hubble, the lead dog in the Jim Henson Pictures film Good Boy!
Broderick's other films credits include the 1998 remake of Godzilla, and The Stepford Wives. Television credits include guest spots on Frasier, 30 Rock, the ABC TV version of The Music Man, and hosting Saturday Night Live two times. As a voice actor, he played the adult Simba in Disney's The Lion King and has also been heard in Bee Movie and The Tale of Despereaux.
On Broadway, Broderick has appeared in The Producers, as well as The Odd Couple (with friend and frequent co-star Nathan Lane), Biloxi Blues and Frank Loesser's How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying.
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- In the sixth season Muppet Babies episode "Not Necessarily the Babies," Baby Piggy overhears and then sees Matthew Broderick in a restaurant (in clips from Ferris Bueller's Day Off.) Piggy says "He's so cute" and hopes to get his autograph.