Broderick was born in Falmouth in Pendleton County in northern Kentucky, but was reared in Huntington Beach, California. Even as a child, Beth was interested in theater. She graduated from high school at sixteen and then from the American Academy of Arts in Pasadena, California, at the age of eighteen. Afterwards, she moved to New York to pursue an acting career. Her mother's name is Nina Broderick. Read more...

When she was twenty-seven, Broderick 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. In 1990, she appeared in The Bonfire of the Vanities. This same year, she made a TV appearance on an episode of Married With Children, entitled Baby Makes Money. She has also appeared in several theater productions Read more...

She was married to Brian Porizek from 1998–2000 and married Scott Paetty in 2005. She had an affair with director Brian De Palma during production of Bonfire of the Vanities

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 Read more...