- Born
- Birth nameBeth Alison Broderick
- Height5′ 8″ (1.73 m)
- Beth Alison Broderick was born on February 24, 1959 in Falmouth, Kentucky, USA but was raised in Huntington Beach, California. Beth was always very interested in theater as a child and she graduated from the American Academy of Dramatic Arts in Pasadena, California at age 18. After that, she moved to New York and began her professional acting career. She stopped acting for a few years to dedicate herself to dealing with the AIDS crisis in the early eighties. When she was 27, she started acting again and she made her debut in 1988 when she played the sexy neighbor who seduces a young, innocent Jonathan Silverman in Stealing Home (1988). In 1990, she appeared in The Bonfire of the Vanities (1990). She has also appeared in several theater productions like "Carnal Knowledge", "Triplets in Uniform" and "Zastrozzi, the Master of Discipline" (which she also co-produced). In New York, she has starred in "The Mousetrap", "The Lion in Winter" and many more. Beth is not only an actress, she is also a writer and she has written "A Cup of Joe", "Wonderland" and "Literatti" with Dennis Bailey. Beth is also a director and she has directed an episode of Sabrina the Teenage Witch (1996) called Making the Grade (2001). She has been active in the battle against AIDS since 1984 and she is the founding director of "Momentum", one of the first organizations in New York established to assist people with AIDS. Beth was also a founding member of the Celebrity Action Council of the City Light Women's Rehabilitation Program at the Los Angeles Mission, which provides hands-on service to homeless women, helps them to overcome substance abuse and learn job skills to help them reclaim their lives and families.- IMDb Mini Biography By: [email protected]
- SpousesScott Paetty(April 29, 2005 - present)Brian Porizek(January 26, 1998 - July 11, 2000) (divorced)
- ParentsNina BroderickThomas Joseph Broderick
- RelativesSibling(Sibling)Sibling(Sibling)Sibling(Sibling)
- Elegant, light, and breathy type of voice
- Graduated high school early at age 16, and went on to study acting at the famed American Academy of Dramatic Arts in Pasadena, CA.
- At age 18, she moved to New York and began her professional acting career.
- No relation to Matthew Broderick, despite a popular misconception.
- Cut, dyed and styled her own hair for her role of "Ida" in Timber Falls (2007).
- Alumna of the AADA (American Academy of Dramatic Arts), Class of 1977.
- [About Sabrina the Teenage Witch (1996)] The show is meaningful to kids and I think it does have a great message. I mean, I wish when I was a kid that I'd been watching a show where women were so clever and so forthright and powerful. I love the way that Sabrina deals with boys. I love the equality in their relationships. We didn't have that when I was a kid. We didn't have people like that to look at.
- [About Sabrina the Teenage Witch (1996)] We're saying women can be powerful, women can live on their own and be strong, women can be smart and pretty, women can be whatever they want to be. That's a really important message. I love the way Sabrina talks to boys. I mean, nobody told me you could tell boys you weren't interested! It was hard when I was a kid to find role models that were free and exciting and offered this type of latitude.
- I think it's very important to support the program in your area as each part of the country has its own challenges coping with AIDS. It can be very different from state to state and city to city. Wherever you live there is surely someone who could use your help.
- I was a total nerd growing up. I'd rather sit home and read a novel on New Year's Eve and say, "Wow, I read the whole thing in one night!". That was my idea of a big time.
- There's a lot more to being a woman than being 18 years old on the cover of Maxim magazine.
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