American film and stage actor who is best known for his roles as Ferris Bueller in Ferris Bueller's Day Off and as Leo Bloom in recent productions of The Producers. He is the youngest winner of a Tony for Best Featured Actor in a Play, for his role in the 1983 production of Brighton Beach Memoirs. He has another Tony for his leading role in 1995's How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying.

Broderick was born in Manhattan in 1962 to Patricia and James Broderick, also an actor. Broderick began his acting career opposite his father in an off-Broadway production of On Valentine's Day. He was featured in a number of off-Broadway plays before making his film debut in 1983 in Max Dugan Returns. His first hit movie was WarGames, a 1983 Sci-Fi thriller that featured Broderick as a young computer hacker. Then, in 1986, Broderick landed the title role in cult-favorite Ferris Bueller's Day Off, solidifying his status as a teen idol for decades to come. The 90s saw Broderick in a variety of roles: he voiced adult Simba in the Disney classic The Lion King and acted opposite Jim Carrey in The Cable Guy and Reese Witherspoon in Election. After moderate film success, Broderick returned to Broadway, taking on lead roles in How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying and, in 2001, The Producers. The Producers was wildly popular and ran for 2,502 performances - in 2005 it was turned into a film starring Broderick, and fellow producer, Nathan Lane. After landing roles in sure-fire classics of the 2000s, including The Lion King 1½, Deck the Halls, Tower Heist, Broderick will make his return to Broadway in 2012 in Nice Work If You Can Get It.

Broderick was briefly engaged Ferris Bueller co-star and perpetual punchline of nose job jokes, Jennifer Grey. The two broke up in 1988. In 1997 Broderick married Sarah Jessica Parker; together they have one son, born in 2002, and twin girls, born in 2009 through a surrogate. [Image via Getty]