Zach Braff

At 49 years old, Zach Braff has this physical status:

Zachary Israel Braff (born April 6, 1975) is an American actor, producer, and producer.

He is best known for his role as J. D. on the television show Scrubs (2001-2010), for which he was nominated for the Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Lead Actor in a Comedy Series from 2005 to 2007.

He appeared in The Broken Hearts Club: A Romantic Comedy (2000), The Ex (2006), and In Dubious Battle (2016), and In Dubious Battle (2016), and has done voice-work for Chicken Little (2005) and Oz the Great and Powerful (2013). Braff made his directorial debut with Garden State in 2004, which he also wrote, appeared in, and compiled the soundtrack album for.

The film was shot in his home state of New Jersey for $2.5 million.

The film earned more than $35 million at the box office and was lauded by critics, triggering the film's cult following.

He has received numerous accolades for his directorial work, as well as the Grammy Award for Best Soundtrack Album in 2005.

Braff wrote and starred in his second film, Wish I Was Here (2014), which he partially funded with a Kickstarter campaign. It premiered in New York City in 2011 before appearing in London's West End.

In 2014, he appeared in a musical version of Woody Allen's Bullets Over Broadway.

Early life, family and education

Braff was born in South Orange, New Jersey, and grew up there and in neighboring Maplewood. Harold Irwin "Hal" Braff (1934-2017), a trial lawyer, researcher, and alumnus at Rutgers Law School, was a member of the American Inns of Court (AIC) and an elected trustee of the National Inns of Court Foundation. Anne Brodzinsky (born Anne Hutchinson Maynard) served as a clinical psychologist. During Braff's youth, his parents divorced and remarried others. Braff's father was born into a Jewish family, and Braff's mother, a Protestant, converted to Judaism before marrying his father. Braff said he had a "very solid conservative/orthodox [Jewish] upbringing." At Oheb Shalom Congregation, he had his bar mitzvah service. "I wasn't a big religious guy," he said in 2005, and in 2013, he said, "the faith (Judaism) doesn't necessarily work for me." Despite identifying as Jewish, he continues to be Jewish. Joshua Braff, Joshua Braff's older brother, is a writer. Adam Braff, Adam Braff's older brother, is a writer and producer. Jessica Kirson, his stepsister, is a stand-up comedian.

Braff had aspired to be a filmmaker from the start; he has described it as his "lifedream." At the age of ten, Braff was diagnosed with obsessive-compulsive disorder. Braff was a mentor at Columbia High School in Maplewood during his youth.

Braff attended Stagedoor Manor, a performing arts "training center" for youth actors aged 10 to 18. Braff met and befriended actor Josh Charles on Stagedoor, where he befriended him. Natalie Portman, Mandy Moore, and Joshua Radin are all alumnates of Stagedoor, and Braff knows them well. Braff went back to Northwestern University's School of Communication and became a brother of the Phi Kappa Psi fraternity; he graduated in 1997.

Personal life

In 2004, Braff began dating singer and actress Mandy Moore. After two and a half years of dating, they decided to break up in 2006. He was in a partnership with model Taylor Bagley from 2009 to 2014. He began a relationship with British actress Florence Pugh in April 2019. In his 2019 short film In the Time It Takes to Get There, she was directed by Richard Burton. In 2022, the couple married.

Braff obtained his pilot's licence by flying a Cirrus SR20 in November 2008.

Braff supported President Barack Obama's re-election bid in 2012.

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Career

One of Braff's first appearances was in High, a proposed 1989 CBS television series with a cast that also included Gwyneth Paltrow and Craig Ferguson; the television pilot never made it on air. In the episode "Dawn Saves the Trees," Braff appeared in the 1990s series The Babysitters Club. In Woody Allen's 1993 film Manhattan Murder Mysteries, he appeared in Woody Allen's The Manhattan Murder Mystery. Braff appeared in George C. Wolfe's Macbeth production for New York City's Public Theatre in 1998.

Braff appeared on "J.D." (short for the character's full name, John Dorian) on the medical comedy television show Scrubs, which premiered in 2001. Braff's first big role in a television show was his first big role. Braff was nominated for three Golden Globes and an Emmy for his efforts on the program. Several episodes of Scrubs, including the one-hundredth episode, "My Way Home," was directed by Braff. Braff appeared as a cast member for six episodes and also served as one of the executive producers during the show's ninth season.

Several episodes of Scrubs were directed by Braff. Braff appeared in Garden State, as well as directing and producing it. The film was shot in his home state of New Jersey. Producers were initially reluctant to finance the film; Braff wrote it in six months. His "mixtape" received a Grammy for Best Compilation Soundtrack Album for a Motion Picture, Television, or Some Other Visual Media for the Garden State soundtrack at the 2005 Grammy Awards.

Braff launched a Kickstarter campaign on April 24, 2013 to fund Wish I Was Here, based on a script he wrote with his brother Adam Braff. In three days, the $250,000 target was met. In the film, which was released in 2014, he directed and appeared.

Braff was the executive producer of the documentary Video Games: The Movie. He was also one of the Executive Producers of The Internet's Own Boy: Aaron Swartz's Story, which appeared in 2014. Gavin DeGraw's "Chariot," Joshua Radin's "I'd Rather Be With You," Radin's "I'd Rather Be With You," and Lazlo Bane's "Superman" (which is Scrubs' theme tune). His music recording brought back to newfound popularity for several of the artists on his film soundtracks, including The Shins, who were prominently on the Garden State soundtrack and the Scrubs soundtrack, which culminated in the term "the Zach Braff effect."

Braff produced In The Time It Takes To Get There, starring Alicia Silverstone and Florence Pugh, which was released in 2020. The film was based on a poster made by Sam West, the winner of an Adobe movie poster competition in 2018. Braff was nominated for a Directors Guild of America Award in 2021 for his work on Apple TV+ comedy show Ted Lasso. For the Ted Lasso episode "Biscuits" (British Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Directing for a Comedy Series, he also received a nomination.

Braff is currently writing, directing, and producing A Good Person, starring Morgan Freeman and Florence Pugh. It is scheduled to be published on March 24, 2023.

Braff appears in It's a Very Merry Muppet Christmas Film alongside other Scrubs cast members.

He also appeared in the Disney animated film Chicken Little in 2005, and has appeared in numerous Disney video games such as Chicken Little, Kingdom Hearts II, Chicken Little, and Kingdom Hearts 2.5 HD ReMIX. Braff has also done voiceovers for companies, including a PUR water campaign, Wendy's in 2007 and 2008, and as the puppy's voice in Cottonelle. Finley appeared in the Disney film Oz The Great and Powerful (2013). Braff appeared on Punk'd in 2005 as he was tricked into chasing and then defeating a reputed vandal who seemed to be spray-painting his brand new Porsche.

Braff was in talks to appear in the film Fletch Won and had agreed to appear in the role played by Dane Cook in Mr. Brooks but he then departed from both roles to work on Open Hearts, which he adapted from a Danish film and will direct. With his brother, Andrew Henry's Meadow, a children's book, was also planned to direct one of the segments for the film New York, I Love You.

In July 2009, he signed on as an executive producer of the documentary Heart of Stone to "help spread the word about it."

Braff appeared in the romantic drama The Last Kiss, which premiered on September 15, 2006. As he wanted the script to be as "real as possible" and "very brave" regarding the film's subject matter, Braff modified several aspects of Paul Haggis' script for the film. Braff was involved with the film's soundtrack as executive producer of Garden State. Tony Goldwyn, the film's director, likened Braff to a younger Tim Allen, who characterized it as "very approachable to an audience... a real guy, an everyman."

Braff appeared in the film The Ex (2007), which was released in 2007. In 2010, he appeared in the Canadian indie film The High Cost of Living with Québécois actress Isabelle Blais. Deborah Chow's film was shot in Montreal and principal photography was suspended on March 9, 2010. Braff expressed delight in a world in which The Last Kiss was shot also. The film premiered at the Toronto International Film Festival and was later shown at the Tribeca Film Festival.

In Alex, Inc., a television comedy based on a family man who quit his radio career to start a podcasting company, Braff played Alex. Inc., a television comedy based on a family man's experiance of a radio man. After one season, ABC cancelled the program.

In 2002, Braff appeared in Twelfth Night, which was staged in Central Park. Braff was the lead actor in Trust, a contemporary Off-Broadway theater company, in mid-2010. The play spanned from July 23 to September 12, extending the run by one week. On Facebook, Braff said he was having so much fun doing Trust. Sutton Foster, Ari Graynor, and Bobby Cannavale appeared in the play, which was written by Paul Weitz and directed by Peter DuBois. "Looks to find something real in the most unlikely of places," Braff played Henry, a wealthy married man who "looks to find something true in the most unlikely of places."

Braff revealed in early 2011 that he had written a play to be performed at the Second Stage Theatre in mid-2011. All New People is a stage on Long Beach Island, and it centers on Charlie, a 35-year-old boy from Braff's home state New Jersey. Peter DuBois, who had directed Braff in Trust the previous year, was involved in the production. Braff wrote on Facebook that "one of my hopes comes true." Braff travelled from Manchester, Scotland, to the United Kingdom, from February 8-11, Glasgow at the King's Theatre from February 8-18, and then in London for ten weeks from February 22.

Braff appeared in the musical Bullets Over Broadway The Musical, an adaptation of Woody Allen's 1994 film directed and choreographed by Susan Stroman, opened on Broadway on April 10, 2014.

Braff is supposed to direct Open Hearts, a remake of the Danish film Elsker dig for evigt (Love You Forever), a sequel to the 2002 Danish film Elsker dig for evigt (Love You Forever). The film is about a woman who has an affair with her husband's doctor, whose wife caused the accident that resulted in her husband's Braff first revealed that he was directing Open Hearts in 2006, but the film was cancelled. "It fell apart at the last second due to a lack of time and resources," Braff said. Braff's film The Last Kiss was also released at the same time.

Braff was coding for Swingles, a film based on a Duncan Birmingham spec script; he will direct and star alongside Cameron Diaz. There have been no further public announcements regarding the film's development status as of 2021.

Braff, a chef and high school acquaintance Laurence Edelman, as well as Danny Abrams, opened the restaurant Mermaid Oyster Bar in New York City in 2009.

Braff, the Rio Theater in Monte Rio, California's developers, praised the charity for raising the money to buy a digital projector over its $60,000 target in May 2013.

Donald Faison, a Braff and Scrubs co-star, and Fake Doctors, Real Friends, launched a Scrubs rewatch podcast in March 2020. The pair also shares news and observations of their time on camera, which is also posted on iHeartRadio. Sarah Chalke, Judy Reyes, Neil Flynn, John C. McGinley, Christa Miller, and Ken Jenkins appear on the show, as well as Bill Lawrence and director Michael Spiller.

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