Personal Info

Known For

Acting

Known Credits

108

Gender

Female

Birthday

1929-09-20

Deathday

2015-05-23 (85 years old)

Place of Birth

Brooklyn, New York City, New York, USA

Also Known As

Anne Meara Stiller
Stiller & Meara

Anne Meara

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.

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Acting

2023

Attack of the Doc!

2015

Marsha Hunt's Sweet Adversity as Self

2014		Simpler Times as Gloria
2014		Planes: Fire & Rescue as Winnie (voice)

2010		Another Harvest Moon as Ella
2010		Gravity as Mrs. Talbot

2009

When the Evening Comes as Marion Corrado

2007		Fired! as Herself
2007		Head Case as Self

2006		Night at the Museum as Debbie
2006		Four Kings as Ruth

2003

Crooked Lines as Hard Boiled

2002		Good Morning, Miami as Claire's Friend
2002		Like Mike as Sister Theresa
2002		AFI's 100 Years... 100 Passions: America's Greatest Love Stories as Self

2001		Get Well Soon as Linda
2001		Zoolander as Protestor (uncredited)
2001		What Makes a Family as Evelyn Cataldi

2000		The Independent as Rita
2000		Ed as Barbara Gennacarro
2000		Chump Change as Casting Director

1999		The N.Y. Friars Club Roast of Jerry Stiller as Self
1999		Judy Berlin as Bea
1999		Law & Order: Special Victims Unit as Ida Becker
1999		Law & Order: Special Victims Unit as Irene Kerns
1999		A Fish in the Bathtub as Molly
1999		The Diary of the Hurdy-Gurdy Man

1998		The Thin Pink Line as Mrs. Langstrom
1998		The King of Queens as Veronica Olchin
1998		The King of Queens as Mary Finnegan
1998		Will & Grace as Mrs. Friedman
1998		Southie as Mrs. Quinn
1998		Sex and the City as Mary Brady

1997		The View as Self
1997		Oz as Aunt Brenda O'Reily
1997		Jitters as Louise Domino
1997		The Daytrippers as Rita Malone

1995		Kiss of Death as Bev's Mother
1995		Going, Going, Almost Gone! Animals in Danger
1995		Heavyweights as Alice Bushkin

1994		The Mother as Mrs. Geegan
1994		The Search for One-eye Jimmy as Holly Hoyt
1994		Reality Bites as Louise

1993		Good Advice as Dooley Harold
1993		Homicide: Life on the Street

1992

Through an Open Window as Madeline Jason

1991		Highway to Hell as Medea (waitress in Pluto's)
1991		The Sunset Gang as Bernice Shapiro (segment "The Detective")

1990

Awakenings as Miriam

1989

That's Adequate as Charlene Lane

1988		Murphy Brown
1988		In the Heat of the Night

1987		The Hustler of Money as Barmaid
1987		The Day They Came to Arrest the Book as Mrs. Salters

1986		ALF as Dorothy Halligan
1986		My Little Girl as Mrs. Shopper
1986		The Perils of P.K
1986		The Longshot as Madge

1984		Murder, She Wrote as Winnie Tupper Banner
1984		Murder, She Wrote as Mae Shaughnessy

1983

The Other Woman as Peg Gilford

1980

Fame as Mrs. Sherwood

1979		Archie Bunker's Place as Veronica Rooney
1979		Time Express

1978

The Boys from Brazil as Mrs. Curry

1977		'Twas the Night Before Christmas
1977		Dick Clark's Good Old Days
1977		The Love Boat as Margaret Hanrahan
1977		The Love Boat as Rose Vitelli
1977		Nasty Habits as Sister Geraldine

1976		The Sonny and Cher Show
1976		Donny & Marie as Self

1975		Saturday Night Live as Bartender (uncredited)
1975		Kate McShane as Kate McShane
1975		Kate McShane as Kate McShane

1974		Tony Orlando and Dawn as Self
1974		Rhoda

1972		Don Rickles: Alive And Kicking as Self
1972		The Paul Lynde Show as Grace Dickerson
1972		Temperatures Rising
1972		The Corner Bar
1972		The Irish Whiskey Rebellion as Goldie Fain-Follies Star

1971		Dames at Sea as Joan
1971		Great Performances

1970		The Flip Wilson Show as Self
1970		Lovers and Other Strangers as Wilma
1970		The Out-of-Towners as Purse Snatching Victim in Police Station

1969		Love, American Style as Janet Ferguson
1969		Love, American Style as Martha
1969		Medical Center as Rose Miller
1969		The Courtship of Eddie's Father as Bunny Sterling
1969		The Courtship of Eddie's Father as Annie Dempsey

1968

That's Life as Self

1967

The Carol Burnett Show as Self

1965

Hullabaloo as Self

1964

Linus the Lionhearted

1963

The Danny Kaye Show as Self

1962		The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson as Self
1962		The Merv Griffin Show as Self

1961		The Mike Douglas Show as Self
1961		The Mike Douglas Show as Self - Co-Hostess

1958		Kraft Music Hall
1958		Kraft Music Hall as Self

1956

Tony Awards as Self - Nominee

1954

The Greatest Gift

1948		The Philco Television Playhouse as Betty Blake
1948		The Ed Sullivan Show as Self

1944

Golden Globe Awards as Self - Nominee

Writing

1986

ALF as Writer

1983

The Other Woman as Writer