Matchmaker

A matchmaker, or marriage broker, is a person who engages in pairing single people for marriage, sometimes as a profession. More broadly, this may refer to other brokers to find suitable pairings in business or other fields.

Matchmaker or The Matchmaker may also refer to:

Films and television

Feature films

• The Matchmaker (1934 film), an Italian comedy film directed by Amleto Palermi
• The Matchmaker (1958 film), a 1958 film starring Shirley Booth
• The Matchmaker (1997 film), a 1997 film starring Janeane Garofalo
• The Matchmaker (2010 film), a 2010 Israeli film
• The Matchmaker (2018 film), a short drama film directed by Leonora Pitts

Television

• Matchmaker (game show), a late 1980s dating show
• Matchmaker, an English-language Canadian television series
• Svaty, a Ukrainian TV series
• "Matchmaker" (How I Met Your Mother), a 2005 episode of the situation comedy How I Met Your Mother
• "The Matchmaker" (Frasier), a 1994 episode of the situation comedy Frasier
• The Matchmakers (TV series), a 2023 South Korean television series

Songs, plays and paintings

• “Matchmaker, Matchmaker”, a 1964 song from the musical Fiddler on the Roof
• The Matchmaker, a 1955 play by Thornton Wilder
• The Matchmaker (painting), a 1625 painting by Gerard van Honthorst
• Matchmaker, a 1975 play by John B. Keane
• "Matchmaker", a song by Hailey Blais on the 2023 album Wisecrack

Other uses

• Matchmakers, an elongated confectionery snack
• Matchmakers' Union, a trade association for match factory workers

See also

• Matchmaking, the process of matching two or more people together
• Matchmaker.com, an internet dating service