Hollywood friends.
Ben Stiller appeared on Saturday Night Live as a featured performer in 1990. He went on to host and perform in a self-titled comedy sketch show on MTV and then The Ben Stiller Show on the Fox Network in 1992. The show lasted 12 episodes, but is considered by many to be one of the finest (if briefest) sketch comedy vehicles on television. The show also starred (and launched the careers of) his later frequent collaborators Andy Dick, Janeane Garofalo, and Bob Odenkirk.
Stiller directed both Reality Bites and The Cable Guy, to generally mixed reviews. However, his most recent directoral effort, 2001's Zoolander was well-receieved, showing he could be as bankable behind the camera as in front of it.
In the parody self-help book they co-authored, Feel This Book, he and frequent co-star Janeane Garofalo claimed they briefly dated. This is generally considered to be artistic license.
During much of the 1990s, he was involved with actress Jeanne Tripplehorn. He married actress Christine Taylor in May 2000, whom he met while filming a never-broadcast comedy pilot for Fox called Heat Vision and Jack, starring Jack Black. Ben and Christine have one daughter, Ella Olivia, born April 10, 2002
Amy Stiller, Ben's older sister, is also an actor.
External link: Ben Stiller Show Web Memorial
Filmography (Actor)
- Madagascar (2005, voice)
- Dodgeball: The Movie (2004)
- Anchorman (2004)
- Starsky & Hutch (2004)
- Envy (2004)
- Along Came Polly (2004)
- Nobody Knows Anything (2003)
- Duplex (2003)
- Legend of the Lost Tribe, TV (2002, voice)
- Liberty's Kids, TV Series (2002, voice)
- Orange County (2002, uncredited)
- The Royal Tenenbaums (2001)
- Zoolander (2001)
- Meet the Parents (2000)
- Keeping the Faith (2000)
- The Independent (2000)
- Black and White (1999)
- Mystery Men (1999)
- The Suburbans (1999)
- Nobody Knows Anything (1998)
- Permanent Midnight (1998)
- Your Friends & Neighbors (1998)
- There's Something About Mary (1998)
- Zero Effect (1998)
- The Cable Guy (1996)
- Flirting with Disaster (1996)
- If Lucy Fell (1996)
- Happy Gilmore (1996)
- Heavyweights (1995)
- Reality Bites (1994)
- The Nutt House (1992, uncredited)
- Highway to Hell (1992)
- Stella (1990)
- That's Adequate (1990)
- Elvis Stories (1989)
- Next of Kin (1989)
- Fresh Horses (1988)
- Empire of the Sun (1987)
- Hot Pursuit (1987)
