Beth
Broderick
Surprisingly, to me, there are like 3 or 4 sites on Beth Broderick on the internet.
I never heard of her until I saw the hilarious Psycho Beach Party last year. Beth played Lauren Ambrose's sex-crazed (in a way), alcoholic (in a way) mother. She was great, very funny and very cool and very sexy. She has this throaty voice which drives me up the wall. Sultry, she is.
But, turns out she's been on Sabrina the Teenage Witch all these years. She's one of two aunts that Sabrina lives with (also witches), the other is Caroline Rhea. And Clarissa is a witch too. And the three of them live with a talking male black cat witch. And I've now seen three episodes of this show, and Dom DeLuise played Melissa Joan Hart's uncle who was a witch and bad magician. You know what else I noticed is that Beth always looks great, she's dressed in exciting, sexy outfits, usually.
Anyway she's apparently 5' 8", hair blonde, eyes green. She was married to a "Brian Porizek" from 1998 - 2000. Personally, I like when attractive women get divorced. More room for me, baby. She is an accomplished screenwriter, director, entrepreneur and humanitarian.
She was born on February 24, 1959 in Falmouth, Kentucky (but was raised in Huntington Beach, CA). February 24 reputedly means her sign is Pisces (my sign is Scorpio). This makes her 42 now. She 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.
Her favorite writers are Reynolds Price, Tim McLaurin, Jim Harrison and Truman Capote, and she has lately optioned the novel "The Last Great Snake Show," written by Tim McLaurin. Her writing parter is a "Dennis Bailey". I wonder if there's any romance brewing between those two... hmmm. But, maybe he's gay?
Broderick made her major motion picture debut as the sexy neighbor who seduces a young, innocent Jonathan Silverman in "Stealing Home," which starred Jodie Foster and Mark Harmon. She has also appeared on the big screen in "Bonfire of the Vanities," "Fools Rush In," starring Matthew Perry and Salma Hayek; American Playhouse's "1000 Pieces of Gold," "Shadowhunter," "French Exit" and "Man of the Year."
"Sabrina, the Teenage Witch" marks Broderick's fourth television series (She directed the episode "Making the Grade"). She starred with Judith Ivey in "The Five Mrs. Buchanans" as well as "Hearts Afire" with Markie Post, John Ritter and Billy Bob Thornton. She also starred opposite Brad Pitt, playing a straight-shooting newspaper editor, in "Glory Days."
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Beth with Charles Busch, director of Psycho
Beach Party.
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Broderick has guest-starred on such series as "Northern Exposure," "Murphy Brown" and "Married... with Children," and is a recurring voice in the animated version of "Men in Black" on Kids' WB! She has also appeared in the television movies "Don't Die My Love," "Are You Lonesome Tonight?" (where she starred with Jane Seymour and Parker Stevenson), "Into the Deep Woods," "Justice in a Small Town" and "Maternal Instincts."
As a matter of fact, amidst her ongoing film and television work, Broderick continues to return to her first love, the theater, appearing in numerous productions in New York, Los Angeles, and across the country. Her works as a writer include "A Cup of Joe" as well as "Wonderland" and "Literatti," which she wrote with Bailey. The team has also presented a staged reading of their screenplay, "Three for the Money," a comedy starring Broderick, Judith Ivey and Jean Smart, which Beth is currently preparing to produce. More recently, Broderick is set to co-produce "Woodrow's Trumpet," a feature film she co-wrote, with Allan Jacobs.
Her interests are gourmet cooking, flower arranging, reading and writing. I like to eat gourmet cooking and look at arrangements of flowers. But I do love to read and write.
About the show Sabrina The Teenage Witch: "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."
"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."
About
Psycho Beach Party: "I've played June Cleaver and I've played a killer,
so it was fun for me to spoof myself."
A tireless humanitarian, Broderick has been active in the battle against AIDS since 1984. She is a founding director of Momentum, one of the first organizations in New York established to assist people with AIDS. Broderick 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 to help them reclaim their lives and families: "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."
Lots of entire sentences and even paragraphs above have been stolen, verbatim, from other sites. But I kind of like the way I put it all together, don't you?
I have to addresses to contact her at, but I don't know for sure if they are both up to date:
Sabrina: The Teenage Witch
Viacom Productions
100 Universal City Plaza
Bldg. 506, Suite E
Universal City, CA 91608
BRODERICK Beth
9300 Wilshire Blvd. #555,
Beverly Hills, CA 90212
Article (with picture) on Beth from April 2001 issue of Strive Magazine.
BETH PIX!!
Actress Filmography:
In Love (1983) (as Beth Alison Broderick)
If Looks Could Kill (1986) .... Newswoman
Sex Appeal (1986) (as Norris O'Neill) .... Fran
Young Nurses in Love (1986) .... Putnam VHS
Student Affairs/High School (1987) .... Alexis VHS
Slammer Girls/The Big Slammer (1987) .... Abigail VHS
Stealing Home (1988) .... Sexy Neighbor DVD
VHS
The Bonfire of the Vanities (1990) .... Caroline Heftshank DVD
VHS
Thousand Pieces of Gold (1990) .... Berthe VHS
French Exit (1995) VHS
Man of the Year (1995) .... Kelly Bound DVD
VHS
Maternal Instincts (1996) .... Dr. Eva Warden VHS
Women Without Implants (1997)
Psycho Beach Party (2000) .... Mrs. Forrest DVD
Of note: her first six films were directed by a Chuck Vincent, an "adult" filmmaker turned feature director. Beth sex/nudity factor in these films, currently, unknown... Also of note, since designing this page in April I have re-viewed Bonfire of the Vanities and watched Stealing Home. Beth is wonderfully sexy as the "Sexy Neighbor" in Stealing Home. They went for the PG-13, but it pushed the envelope in a near sex scene between Jonathan Silverman (!) and Beth. She's topless, but it doesn't count as "nudity" because his hands are covering her breasts the whole time. Silverman takes away a few points for erotic, but Beth is great. But, Stealing Home sucks. Jodie Foster's never been worse.
Bonfire of the Vanities was a truly great book turned into a disaster area as a film. I remember thinking when I read it that Willis would be great in the part that eventually went to Saul Rubinek, and that Peter O'Toole would have been great in the role that went to Willis, and that Melanie Griffith was bad and Tom Hanks had no part being in that film and that Morgan Freeman (a great actor) should not have played the judge; it was important that the judge be Jewish, or at least not African American for the points to be made. The brutally serious, cynical book was whitewashed into a dull, pointless film. Awful. However, Beth had two scenes, her second being rather sexy and marvelous.
TV Movies:
Are You Lonesome Tonight? (1992) (TV) .... Laura VHS
In the Deep Woods (1992) (TV) .... Myra
Shadowhunter (1993) (TV) .... Bobby Cain VHS
Justice in a Small Town (1994) (TV) .... Melissa Brewer
Breast Men (1997) (TV) .... Terri
A Champion's Fight/Don't Die My Love/Shattered Hearts (1998) (TV) ....
Patricia Ellis
Sabrina, the Teenage Witch: Spellbound (1998) (VG) (voice) .... Aunt
Zelda
TV Series:
"Glory Days" (1990) TV Series .... Sheila Jackson
"Hearts Afire" (1992 - 1993) TV Series .... Dee Dee Starr (1992-1993)
"The Five Mrs. Buchanans" (1994 - 1995) TV Series .... Delilah Buchanan
"Sabrina, the Teenage Witch" (1996 - ) TV Series .... Zelda Spellman
VHS
TV guest appearances:
"Tales from the Darkside" (voice) in episode: "The Enormous Radio" (episode
# 3.22) 5/17/1987
"Matlock" playing "Jane Barnes" in episode: "The Hucksters" (episode
# 2.18) 2/16/1988
"Mancuso, FBI" (1989) (episode # 1.1)
"Murphy Brown" playing "Rita" in episode: "Bad Girls" (episode # 2.19)
2/19/1990
"Married... with Children" playing "Miss Penza" in episode: "And Baby
Makes Money" (episode # 5.11) 12/16/1990
"Get a Life" playing "Jackie" in episode: "Chris and Larry Switch Lives"
(episode # 1.21) 5/12/1991
"Doctor Doctor" playing "Roxanne Abrams" in episode: "Two Angry Men"
(episode # 3.18) 7/6/1991
"Drexell's Class" playing "Maria" in episode: "Bully for Otis" (episode
# 1.11) 12/5/1991
"Northern Exposure" playing "Linda Angelo" in episode: "It Happened
In Juneau" (episode # 3.21) 5/4/1992
"Teen Angel" playing "Zelda Spellman" in episode: "One Dog Night" (episode
# 1.7) 11/7/1997
"Men in Black: The Series" playing "Aileen"(voice) in episode: "The
Farewell My Lovely Syndrome" 12/6/1997
"Men in Black: The Series" playing "Aileen"(voice) in episode: "The
Sonic Boom Syndrome" 11/7/1998
Director Filmography:
"Sabrina, the Teenage Witch" (1996-) TV Series
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