Beth Broderick
- Actress
- Director
- Soundtrack
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.