James Wilkie Brooderick, aspiring actor like his mother Sarah Jessica Parker

First name : James Wilkie
Nom : Broderick
Age : 22 ans
Parents : Sarah Jessica Parker, actress, and Matthew Broderick, actor
Profession : Aspiring actor

He has the end of his mother and clear eyes, the charm of his father, and the same passion for cinema as his parents. James Wilkie Broderick, the eldest son of Sarah Jessica Parker and Matthew Broderick, wants to become an actor. At 22, he already took his first steps in front of the camera, with and without dad. And he can count on his mother to help him prepare his self -tapes – recorded videos that the actors send to the agents and directors of castings. A definite advantage of the hundreds of aspiring actors is that, being “nepo”. It is still necessary to transform the privileges into success. That’s what he has to do.

Actors from father to son

If Carrie Bradshaw’s sentimental life is a succession of adventures and disappointments, Sarah Jessica Parker, she has recognized the man of her life, love him, and marry him. It was in the early 1990s that the actress met Matthew Broderick and that she fell in love. “This is the funniest type that I met with all my life,” she confided in an interview with “Los Angeles Times” in 1996. “He is so brilliant, so beautiful, I think he is the most beautiful man I have seen in my life. And he inspires me. I’m crazy about him, totally. It hasn’t changed since then.

Together, Sarah Jessica Parker, 60, and Matthew Broderick, 63, had a son, James Wilkie, in 2002, before having binoculars, born by a surrogate mother, Marion Loretta Elwell and Tabitha Hodge, in 2009. A boy whose first name was not chosen at random. He owes his surname to his paternal grandfather: James Broderick, an American actor known for his role in the television series “Family”. With his grandfather and his parents’ parents, James Wilkie Brooderick could only dream of cinema.

First steps in front of the camera

James Wilkie Brooderick enrolled at the University of Brown, Rhode Island, in classic letters. Studies in parallel with which he began to do theater and shoot in short films with the Brown Motion Pictures, a university student production club. Officially graduated since May, he can now devote himself to his career, with the support of his parents. “He’s brilliant. He has a very good education, he can do a lot of different things, but, at the moment, he is trying to play comedy, “said Matthew Broderick in an interview with” people “.

He has already started the castings, which he prepares with Sarah Jessica Parker. “My wife is with him when he has auditions,” said Matthew Broderick. “These are self -tapes these days, and she replies to him,” said to him when it’s not good. He himself is ready to help his son, to give him advice, if he asks him. But James Wilkie Broderick is already doing very well. He won a first role in “Lady in the Lake”, the mini-series with Natalie Portman. A small role – De Valet -, a first line in his filmography.

James Wilkie Brooderick was then chosen to reply to his father in an episode of the police series “Elsbeth”. “What a pleasure to work alongside my father, who is also my favorite actor! “James told” people “. “Working on ‘Elsbeth’ has been a more than exciting experience and I am very grateful to the producers to have given me this opportunity! »Promising beginnings.