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The Truth About Sarah Jessica Parker & Matthew Broderick

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Sarah Jessica Parker and Matthew Broderick have quietly outlasted almost every marriage in Hollywood.

They met in November 1991, married in a surprise ceremony six years later, and have spent the better part of three decades fielding tabloid rumors while raising three kids largely out of the spotlight. Nicki Swift’s profile traces how a Naked Angels theater introduction turned into one of the industry’s most durable partnerships, and why Parker and Broderick have made a habit of shutting down speculation rather than feeding it.

• Parker’s brothers Pippin and Toby Parker, founding members of the Naked Angels theater company, introduced her to Broderick in November 1991 while he was directing one of the company’s productions.
• The couple married on May 19, 1997, in a surprise ceremony at Manhattan’s Angel Orensanz Center, where Parker wore a black Morgane Le Fay dress she later admitted she regretted.
• Maxim named Parker the “Unsexiest Woman Alive” in 2007, a designation Broderick publicly denounced as cruel, and tabloids ran infidelity rumors about the couple in 2008.

Theater Introduction Leads To Marriage

Parker and Broderick’s relationship didn’t start with a red carpet meet-cute. It started backstage, courtesy of her brothers Pippin and Toby, who co-founded the Naked Angels theater company in New York. Broderick was directing a production there when the introduction happened in November 1991, and the two dated for several years before marrying.

When they finally did marry, they did it their way. The ceremony took place on May 19, 1997, at the Angel Orensanz Center on the Lower East Side, and it caught even close friends off guard. Parker broke with bridal tradition entirely by wearing a black dress from designer Morgane Le Fay — a decision she later said she came to regret, admitting the color made her feel self-conscious about pulling focus on her own wedding day.

Building A Family Away From The Cameras

The couple has three children: son James Wilkie, born in 2002, and twin daughters Marion Loretta Elwell and Tabitha Hodge, born via surrogate in 2009. Both Parker and Broderick have been deliberate about keeping their kids out of the tabloid machinery that surrounds their own careers, drawing a hard line between what’s public and what stays home.

That instinct to protect their private life runs through nearly every public comment either of them has made about the marriage. Parker has described being married as a rotation of “good days, decent days, and bad days” rather than a fairy tale, and she’s credited time apart — driven by conflicting film and theater schedules — with actually helping the relationship rather than straining it.

Surviving The Tabloid Years

The marriage’s toughest public stretch came in 2007 and 2008. Maxim named Parker the “Unsexiest Woman Alive” in 2007, a headline-grabbing insult that Broderick called out directly as hurtful and unnecessary. A year later, tabloids ran infidelity rumors about Broderick that threatened to dominate coverage of the couple, but neither Parker nor Broderick engaged with the speculation in the way the press clearly hoped they would.

Broderick publicly condemned Maxim’s “Unsexiest Woman Alive” ranking as cruel and hurtful to Parker.

Instead of feeding the story, the pair simply kept working and stayed visibly together, which is largely how they’ve handled every round of speculation since. It’s a pattern that’s held up better than most of the tabloid-fueled marriages Nicki Swift has profiled elsewhere, including pieces on Megan Fox’s relationship history and Sandra Bullock’s relationship with Bryan Randall.

Back On Broadway Together

Before theaters shut down in 2020, Parker and Broderick had lined up their first joint Broadway run since 1996’s “How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying” — a revival of Neil Simon’s “Plaza Suite.” It would have marked nearly a quarter-century between the two sharing a Broadway stage as a married couple, a gap that says as much about their separate, demanding careers as anything either of them has said in an interview.

That’s the detail that makes the marriage stand out from the usual Hollywood churn covered in profiles like the untold truth of Danielle Jonas — two people busy enough to go a quarter of a century between shared stage credits, and still choosing to close that gap together once Broadway reopens.