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Trivia
Birth name: Benjamin Stiller
Date of birth: 30 November 1965
Place of birth: New York, New York, USA
Height: 5' 8" (1.73 m)
Spouse: Christine Taylor (13 May 2000 - present) 2 children
 Produced
a short film parody of The Color of Money (1986) entitled "The
Hustler of Money" which got him noticed by "Saturday Night
Live" (1975) who eventually offered him employment there.
Son
of Anne Meara and Jerry Stiller.
Brother
of Amy Stiller.
Engaged
to Christine Taylor. [November 1999]
Longtime
girlfriend was Jeanne Tripplehorn.
Is
a major fan of Tom
Cruise and has impersonated Tom for many years. He even portrayed Tom
Cruise's fictitious crazed stunt double, Tom Crooze, on 2000 MTV Movie
Awards (2000) (TV) on a segment called Mission: Improbable. (This segment
is included on the Mission: Impossible II (2000) DVD.) Tom and Ben have
been friends ever since 1996.
Appeared
in "Who Wants to Be a Millionaire" (1998) on May 9, 2001 and
walked away with $32,000 for his charity. He phoned his mother, actress
Anne Meara, for help but lost on the question.
Often
casts/co-stars with Janeane Garofalo.
Ben
and his wife Christine Taylor, have both guest starred on the TV-show
"Friends" (1994), though not in the same episode.
Attended
UCLA School of Theater, Film, and Television.
Daughter,
Ella Olivia, born 10 April 2002 in Los Angeles.
Briefly
appears in the filmclip for the song "Tribute" by Tenacious D, a
band that includes fellow actors Jack
Black and Kyle Gass. He's one of the people walking past the studio
booth in the shopping centre.
Ranked
#78 in Premiere's 2003 annual Power 100 List. Had ranked #68 in 2002 and
#80 in 2001.
His
famous parents, Anne Meara and Jerry Stiller, often make cameo appearances
in his movies.
Has
a Hollywood "clique" of close friends that have often appeared
in his movies: Owen
Wilson, Jack
Black, Kyle Gass and Janeane Garofalo.
Helped
Jenifer Estess raised millions of dollars to combat A.L.S. (Lou Gehrig's
disease).
His
favorite actress of all time is Diane Keaton. He even wrote an article
about her for Premiere magazine in 1997.
Frequent
co-star of Vince
Vaughn, appearing with him in three movies in 2004 alone.
Is
a member of, what the media refers to as, "The Frat Pack," along
with Will Ferrell, Jack
Black, Vince
Vaughn, Owen
Wilson, and Luke Wilson. The "Frat Pack" name in a reference
to the film, Old School (2003), featuring Vaughn, Ferrell and Luke Wilson,
due to the wide number of films featuring the six actors. Stiller's
"Frat Pack" films include Zoolander (2001), Envy (2004), The
Royal Tenenbaums (2001) and Anchorman: The Legend of Ron Burgundy (2004)..
Is
a big fan of "Star Trek" (1966). He named his production company
"Red Hour Films" after an alien riot featured in the episode
"The Return of the Archons."
Holds
a distinct Razzie Award record - nominated for most titles in one year. He
was nominated in 2004 for Worst Actor in five of the six films in which he
appeared: Along Came Polly (2004), Anchorman: The Legend of Ron Burgundy
(2004), Dodgeball: A True Underdog Story (2004), Envy (2004)_, and Starsky
& Hutch (2004). The only film he was not nominated in for that year
was Meet the Fockers (2004).
Has
played two very similar characters in the movies Heavy Weights (1995) and
Dodgeball: A True Underdog Story (2004). In both films he plays an
obnoxious, slightly insane and formerly overweight fitness instructor
who's hell-bent on getting others into shape, and perhaps also on making
other peoples' lives miserable.
Played
the part of an arrogant director in Get Shorty (1995), but the scene was
cut.
Son
Quinlin Dempsey was born July 10, 2005 in Los Angeles
In
episode "Shrink Wrap" (episode # 4.25) of "The King of
Queens" (1998) he played his own real-life father's father.
Hosted
the MTV Movie Awards in 1996 along with Janeane Garofalo
He
and his wife, Christine Taylor, have both guest-starred on the TV-show
"Arrested Development" (2003). She played "Michael
Bluth"'s love interest "Sally Sitwell" (2 episodes) and Ben
Stiller himself played the incompetent magician "Tony Wonder" in
the episode: "The sword of destiny".
Wife
Christine gave birth to their second child, Quinlin Dempsey Stiller, born
on July 10, 2005 at 8lb. 2oz. in Los Angeles, California
One
of his first showbiz jobs was working as an intern on the Allen Thicke
show "Thicke of the Night" (1983)
Mother
is Irish.
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