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Starting in October 2010, Meara and Jerry Stiller began starring in a Yahoo! web series called Stiller & Meara produced by Red Hour Digital, a production company owned by their son Ben Stiller. [11] [12] In 2011, she accepted a role in the off-Broadway play Love, Loss, and What I Wore with Conchata Ferrell, AnnaLynne McCord, Minka Kelly, and B ...
Benjamin Edward Meara Stiller [10] [11] was born on November 30, 1965, in New York City [12] and raised on the Upper West Side. [13] His father, comedian and actor Jerry Stiller, was from a Jewish family that emigrated from Poland and Galicia in Central Europe.
Late in his career, Stiller earned the part of the short-tempered Frank Costanza, father of George Costanza, on the sitcom Seinfeld. He played the role from 1993 until 1998. [18] Stiller's character as initially envisioned was a "meek" and "Thurberesque" character that required him to wear a bald cap.
Ben Stiller is reflecting on his time with his father, the late Jerry Stiller, and the comedian's storied career. "My sister and I were able to be with him," Ben says of him and his sister, Amy ...
Ben Stiller, 54, shared memories on "TODAY" Thursday of the parenting style of his father, comedy legend Jerry Stiller, who died at 92 earlier this month of natural causes. "First of all he never ...
Ben Stiller tells "The New Yorker" about his dad's personality and legacy.
Ben Stiller’s film debut was way back in 1987 in the drama Empire of the Sun. ... Stiller, turning 59 on Nov. 30, is dad to daughter Ella, ... My mom [actress Anne Meara] converted to Judaism ...
Meet the Parents is a 2000 American comedy film written by Jim Herzfeld and John Hamburg and directed by Jay Roach.It chronicles a series of unfortunate events that befall a good-hearted but hapless nurse (Ben Stiller as Greg Focker) while visiting his girlfriend's parents (Robert De Niro and Blythe Danner as Jack and Dina Byrnes).