Biography
Anne Meara (September 20, 1929 – May 23, 2015) was an American actress and comedian. Along with her husband Jerry Stiller, she was one-half of the prominent 1960s comedy team Stiller and Meara. Their son is actor, director, and producer Ben Stiller. She was also featured on stage, on television, and in numerous films and later became a playwright. During her career, Meara was nominated for four Emmy Awards and a Tony Award, and she won a Writers Guild Award as a co-writer for the television movie The Other Woman. Description above from the Wikipedia article Anne Meara, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
Awards & recognition
- Outer Critics Circle Award · 1996
- Writers Guild of America Award — Best Original Screenplay · 1983
- star on Hollywood Walk of Fame
- Tony Award — Best Featured Actress in a Play · 1993 · nominated
Filmography44 titles
Oz
Homicide: Life on the Street
Law & Order: Special Victims Unit
Awakenings
The Carol Burnett Show
In the Heat of the Night
ALF
Murder, She Wrote
The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson
Sex and the City
The King of Queens
Monsters
Will & Grace
Saturday Night Live
A Fish in the Bathtub
The Out of Towners
The Ed Sullivan Show
The Boys from Brazil
Night at the Museum
The Daytrippers
Stiller & Meara: Nothing Is Lost
Reality Bites
Archie Bunker's Place
Murphy Brown
Fame
Head Case
What Makes a Family
The Love Boat
Planes: Fire & Rescue
Zoolander
Heavyweights
The Courtship of Eddie's Father
Like Mike
Great Performances
Fired!
Highway to Hell
The Longshot
Gravity
Flip
The View
Get Well Soon
Marsha Hunt's Sweet Adversity
Simpler Times
Don Rickles: Alive And Kicking