Anne Meara

…son of Jerry Stiller and Anne Meara, who for many years were a celebrated comedy team. While growing up, he occasionally appeared on television with his parents and made his own amateur Super-8 films, which often parodied blockbusters of the time. In 1983 Stiller enrolled at the University of California,…

In 1953 Stiller met Anne Meara, another struggling young actor, at a casting call in New York City. Meara was a tall, redheaded, Irish Catholic from a middle-class family with aspirations of becoming a dramatic actress. Despite their different backgrounds, they quickly became a couple and were married that…