Zach Braff was born in South Orange, New Jersey, USA. Zach's father, Hal Braff, is an attorney, and his mother Anne Brodzinsky, a clinical psychologist, they are now divorced and have both remarried. At age ten, Zach was diagnosed with obsessive-compulsive disorder. He graduated from Columbia High School and holds a degree in film from Northwestern University.
Zach's acting careers started with theater, he was in a production of Twelfth Night and MacBeth at New York City's Public Theater and was for a short while on the Disney program The Baby-sitters Club and he also made an appearance in a Woody Allen film by the name of Manhattan Murder Mystery. In 2001 Zach got the lead role in the sitcom Scrubs and is the role he is most know from and in 2004 he wrote, directed and starred in the movie Garden State, which did very well and received several.
