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- Garden State (2004) marked Zach Braff's directorial debut: shot for $2.5 million, it grossed over $35 million worldwide, earned more than three dozen award nominations, and won Braff a Grammy for its soundtrack featuring the Shins, Coldplay and Nick Drake.
- Braff's filmography as an actor spans The Broken Hearts Club (2000), The Last Kiss (2006), The Ex (2006) and the 2016 John Steinbeck adaptation In Dubious Battle, directed by James Franco.
- Going in Style (2017) saw Braff directing Morgan Freeman, Michael Caine and Alan Arkin in a heist comedy, and he later wrote and directed 2023 drama A Good Person starring Florence Pugh and Freeman.
- Braff earned an Emmy nomination for directing an episode of Ted Lasso.
- Scrubs returned this year after a 16-year hiatus with Braff back as JD, now a senior doctor rather than a nervous newbie; season two premieres in the US on 30 September.
- Clean Hands, Braff's next project, is a crime drama based on a true story in which he plays a narcotics officer whose teenage daughter becomes addicted to heroin.
- The Guardian is accepting reader questions for Braff until 6pm on Monday 5 October, with selected answers to be published as part of its reader interview series.
Why it matters: The Q&A comes at a career inflection point for Braff: the Scrubs revival puts him back in his signature role after 16 years, while Clean Hands marks his most dramatic turn since Garden State — a narcotics-officer character whose personal stakes mirror his character's arc. Reader submissions close 5 October, giving fans a direct line into a wide-ranging career retrospective.
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