How Sarah Jessica Parker Really Met Matthew Broderick
Ethan Hayes
Published Mar 30, 2026
Broadway is where Sarah Jessica Parker and Matthew Broderick started their careers, and it's also where they started their lives together.
Broderick was directing a play in New York, produced by the Naked Angels Theater Company, which just so happened to be owned by Parker's brothers, Toby and Pippen.
They introduced their sister to their play's director back in 1991 soon after she broke up with actor Robert Downey Jr., according to Women's Health. The pair hit it off; began dating; and, five years later, even got on a Broadway stage together to star in "How To Succeed In Business Without Really Trying."
"I'm so nervous acting opposite him," Sarah told the Los Angeles Times in 1996. "I don't know how we're going to manage this without laughing hysterically at each other. We do not discuss it. I don't even want to rehearse — I'm going to go on stage with a big blinder on my head — I don't know what I'm thinking."