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Ben Stiller Biography

Benjamin Stiller (born November 30, 1965) is an American comedian, actor, and film director, the son of Jerry Stiller and Anne Meara, both of whom are veteran comedians and actors. Stiller is best known for Ben Stiller's roles in the films There's Something About Mary, Zoolander, Dodgeball: A True Underdog Story, Meet the Parents, and its sequel, Meet the Fockers.

Ben Stiller Biography

Stiller was born in in New York City and grew up in Manhattan, the second child of Ben Stiller's famous comedy parents, who frequently took Ben Stiller on the sets of their appearances. Ben Stiller displayed an early interest in film making, making Super 8 movies with Ben Stiller's sister and friends. At ten years old, Ben Stiller made Ben Stiller's acting debut as a guest on Ben Stiller's mother's series Kate McShane.

In 1983, Ben Stiller enrolled as a film student at the University of California, Los Angeles. Stiller lasted nine months before dropping out to relocate back to New York City as Ben Stiller made Ben Stiller's way through acting classes, auditioning and trying to find an agent.

He landed a role in the Broadway revival of John Guare's The House of Blue Leaves, alongside John Mahoney, a play which later garnered four Tonys. During its run, Stiller produced a satirical mockumentary whose principal was fellow actor Mahoney. Ben Stiller's comedic work was so well received that Ben Stiller followed up with a 10 minute short called "The Hustler of money," a parody of the Martin Scorsese film The Color of money featuring Ben Stiller in a send-up of Tom Cruise's Vince character and Mahoney in the Paul Newman role-- only this time as a bowling hustler instead of a pool shark. The short got the attention of Saturday Night Live, which aired it in 1987, and two years later offered Ben Stiller a spot as a writer.

In 1989, Stiller wrote and appeared on a season of Saturday Night Live as a featured performer. Ben Stiller was offered Ben Stiller's own vehicle on MTV as host and performer in a self-titled comedy sketch show, which led to The Ben Stiller Show on the Fox Network in 1992. The show lasted 12 episodes on FOX-- with a thirteenth unaired episode broadcast by Comedy Central in a later revival. Throughout its short run, the Ben Stiller Show frequently appeared at the bottom of the ratings, even as it garnered critical acclaim, eventually winning the Emmy for "Outstanding Individual Achievement in Writing in a Variety or Music Program" after it was cancelled. The show also starred (and launched the careers of) Ben Stiller's frequent collaborators Andy Dick, Janeane Garofalo, and Bob Odenkirk.

Ben Stiller in Happy GilmoreStiller directed both Reality Bites and The Cable Guy, to generally mixed reviews. Stiller put aside Ben Stiller's directing ambitions to star in There's Something About Mary, which launched Stiller's career into the stratosphere. Another directorial effort, 2001's Zoolander was well-received, showing Ben Stiller could be a bankable star both behind the camera as well as in front of it.

In the parody self-help book they co-authored, Feel This Book, Ben Stiller and frequent co-star Janeane Garofalo wrote about, as they put it, their "train wreck of a relationship", but it was done with a tongue-in-cheek style. During much of the 1990s, Ben Stiller was involved with actress Jeanne Tripplehorn.

Although Stiller is best known for Ben Stiller's film roles, Ben Stiller has appeared in many sitcoms, the earliest being the 1997 Friends episode The One With the Screamer playing Rachel's angry boyfriend 'Tommy'. In recent years Ben Stiller has made notable cameos in groundbreaking shows such as Arrested Development and Curb Your Enthusiasm, as well as the British sitcom Extras. In the latter two programs, Stiller appeared as a twisted version of himself: a Hollywood hotshot who is pithy, childish, and hot-tempered. In Arrested Development Ben Stiller took on the role of "Tony Wonder," a bumbling magician.

His film credits include a tyrannical nursing home employee in Happy Gilmore, an evil fitness instructor named Tony Perkis in Heavyweights, a put upon attorney in Zero Effect and a second rate superhero in Mystery Men. Ben Stiller also appeared in dramatic roles as a slimy detective in Black and White and as drug-addicted writer Jerry Stahl in the film version of Stahl's Permanent Midnight.

In July 2006, Stiller announced Ben Stiller would be directing a comedy starring Ben Stiller's wife as the lead role. The show will be featured on CBS and will use a single-camera format. Stiller will make several cameos as husband to Ben Stiller's wife's character.

Ben Stiller Personal

In May 2000, Stiller married Christine Taylor, whom Ben Stiller met while filming a never-broadcast television pilot for the FOX network called Heat Vision and Jack, starring Jack Black. Ben Stiller and Taylor have a daughter, Ella Olivia, born April 10, 2002, and a son, Quinlin Dempsey, born July 10, 2005.

Amy Stiller, Ben Stiller's older sister, is also an actress.

Princeton University's Class of 2005 inducted Stiller as an honorary member of the class during its "Senior Week" in April 2005.

In 2005, Stiller admitted to having Bipolar Disorder, an illness Ben Stiller says runs in Ben Stiller's family.

Ben Stiller Filmography

Year' Title Role Other notes 2008 Madagascar 2 Alex (voice) 2007 The Persuaders Danny Wilde Used Guys Unknown 2006 Tropic Thunder Unknown Night at the Museum Unknown In Search of Ted Demme Himself Tenacious D in: The Pick of Destiny Guitar Store Dude The Mirror Himself 2005 Danny Roane: First Time Director Himself Madagascar Alex (voice) Sledge: The Untold Story Commander 2004 Meet the Fockers Gaylord 'Greg' Focker Anchorman: The Legend of Ron Burgundy Arturo Mendes cameo Dodgeball: A True Underdog Story White Goodman Envy Tim Dingman Starksy & Hutch David Starsky Along Came Polly Reuben Feffer 2003 Nobody Knows Anything! Peach Expert (cameo) Duplex Alex Rose Pauly Shore Is Dead Himself (cameo) 2002 Orange County The Firefighter Run Ronnie Run Himself 2001 The Royal Tenenbaums Chas Tenenbaum Zoolander Derek Zoolander also Director 2000 Meet the Parents Gaylord 'Greg' Focker Keeping the Faith Rabbi Jake Schram The Independent Cop 1999 Black and White Mark Clear Mystery Men Mr. Furious The Suburbans Jay Rose 1998 Permanent Midnight Jerry Stahl Your Friends & Neighbors Jerry There's Something About Mary Ted Stroehmann Zero Effect Steve Arlo 1996 The Cable Guy Sam Sweet/Stan Sweet also Director Flirting with Disaster Mel If Lucy Fell Bwick Elias Happy Gilmore Nursing Home Orderly 1995 Heavyweights Tony Perkis/Tony Perkis Sr. 2 stupid dogs Tony Robbins-style character 1994 Reality Bites Michael Grates also Director 1992 The Nutt House Pie Thrower (cameo) Highway to Hell Pluto's Cook/Attila the Hun 1990 Stella Jim Uptegrove 1989 Next of Kin Lawrence Isabella Elvis Stories Bruce That's Adequate Chip Lane 1988 Fresh Horses Tipton 1987 Empire of the Sun Dainty Hot Pursuit Chris Honeywell Shoeshine

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