Ben Stiller
- Born: 30 Nov, 1965
Trying to cast the lead role of Mel Coplin, an adoptee searching for his biological parents in the wake of his own son's birth in the comedy "Flirting With Disaster" (1996), writer-director David O. Russell knew what he wanted: "a young Dustin Hoffman type, who was kind of urban, kind of smart and ethnic." Ben Stiller, the only son of the venerable husband-and-wife comedy team of Jerry Stiller and Anne Meara, convinced Russell that he could fill the bill. Increasingly busy before and behind the camera, the curly-haired, quirkily handsome actor-writer-director seemed well poised to become the poster boy for Generation X era comedy--regardless of his stated discomfort with such a designation. With decisive roles played by nepotism, "Saturday Night Live" and MTV,...
FAMILY & COMPANIONS
- father Jerry Stiller: born in 1927; married Anne Meara on September 14, 1954; half of comedy team of Stiller and Meara; recalled for playing recurring role of Frank Constanza on "Seinfeld"
- mother Anne Meara: born in 1929; married Jerry Stiller on September 14, 1954; half of husband-wife comedy team Stiller and Meara; directed by son in "Reality Bites"
- sister Amy Stiller: born c. 1963
- daughter Ella Olivia: born 04/2002
- Janeane Garofalo: had brief relationship in the early 1990s
- Jeanne Tripplehorn: had on-again, off-again relationship for several years; reportedly engaged at one time; no longer together
- Amanda Peet: dated briefly in 1998
- Claire Forlani: dated c. 1998-99
- wife Christine Taylor: began dating as of June 1999; became engaged in fall 1999; married in Kauai, Hawaii on May 13, 2000
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