Meet James Wilkie Broderick, son of Sarah Jessica Parker and Matthew Broderick – from his SATC fashion icon mum’s down-to-earth parenting style to his possible future music career

Jun 25 , 2022

James Wilkie Broderick and his famous mum Sarah Jessica Parker clearly get on well. Photo: GC Images

Last snapped at the premiere of Sex and the City reboot And Just Like That, the 19-year-old just made a rare public appearance with mum and dad in New York

The low profile Brown student already has thousands of Instagram followers despite only 25 posts, and grew up with religious influences ranging from Jewish to Catholic

It’s not every day that Hollywood parents are able to keep their children out of the limelight and give them relatively “normal” childhoods. But long-time married couple and proud parents, Matthew Broderick and Sarah Jessica Parker, are proving that it can indeed be done.

Matthew Broderick, Sarah Jessica Parker and their son James Wilkie Broderick attending the And Just Like That premiere in New York last December. Photo: WireImage

In fact, their three children are rarely photographed out and about in public, save for a few film screenings that turn their parents’ work events into a family affair. Just a few days ago, 19-year-old James Wilkie Broderick, the pair’s eldest child, was spotted accompanying his father to an event in honour of Broderick’s recent Haute Living magazine cover.

James Wilkie’s rare appearance – and striking resemblance to his parents – left us curious to know more about him. So here’s what we know so far.

He spent his early years wearing hand-me-downs

A young James Wilkie Broderick enjoying himself. Photo: @sarahjessicaparker/Instagram

Despite her bona fide Hollywood status thanks to Sex and the City, Parker’s upbringing wasn’t a glamorous one. In 2008, she told Parade: “I think that if I had been raised a child of privilege, I wouldn’t be the working person I am today. I have a great appreciation for work.”

She said she therefore refrained from raising her children in a life of excess and luxury, adding: “I think it’s incumbent on my husband and me to really stress and to show James Wilkie by example what it means to owe your community something and that he is not entitled to the benefits of our hard work.”

James Wilkie Broderick wasn’t dressed in brand new designer threads as a child, despite what you might expect – quite the opposite, in fact. Photo: @sarahjessicaparker/Instagram

Parker also shared that she was dressing her son (who was five years old at the time) in hand-me-downs from her older nephews and in her brothers’ clothes that her mother had saved. “I don’t think I’ve ever bought him any clothes,” the actress disclosed. “I do buy him shoes, because everybody’s feet are different.”