As he celebrates a milestone birthday today (November 30), fans of acclaimed US actor Ben Stiller are shocked to learn how long he has actually been acting.
Fans of acclaimed actor Ben Stiller are only just realising how long he’s been acting as he celebrates a milestone birthday today (November 30). The US star, who has more recently turned his hand to directing rather than acting , rose to fame thanks to The Ben Stiller Show and movies like Meet the Parents.
And people have only just realised that Stiller, who turns 60 today, has been acting for a whopping five decades. Talking about the amazing feat on Reddit one woman shared: “Ben Stiller has been acting for five decades, longer than Benedict Cumberbatch has been alive.
“Ben Stiller, born 1965, first acted in 1975 in a television program called ‘Kate McShane. Benedict Cumberbatch was born in 1976″.
She also shared a screenshot from Wikipedia that reads, “At age 9, Stiller made his acting debut as a guest on his mother’s waning television series “Kate McShane.”
He appeared in several roles in “Clever Jack and the Magic Beanstalk” with the NYC’s First All Children’s Theatre in the late 1970s, including the title role.
Someone else wrote in the comments, “Being a nepo baby with talent pushed Ben Stiller’s career forward.”
A nepo baby is a person who has gained notoriety because their parents have, or have other reasons, been famous. So Ben does have talent, according to the Redditor.
Jerry Stiller and Anne Meara are Ben’s parents. A husband-and-wife comedy duo starring Jerry Stiller and Anne Meara that was primarily well-known in the 1960s and 1970s.
Jerry passed away five years later, and Anne Meara sadly passed away in 2015.
They were well-known for their funny, funny humor about marriage and daily life, which made them very well-known in their heyday.
Jerry Stiller later gained acclaim for his television roles, most notably as Arthur Spooner on The King of Queens and Frank Costanza on Seinfeld.
Anne Meara appeared in films like Fame and Awakenings and Archie Bunker’s Place as well as a successful career in television, film, and theater.
Stiller and Meara were well-known for their comedic timing, chemistry, and contributions to American entertainment both together and separately. They are also known for bringing up Ben Stiller, a genius in comedy, and of course, they are.
It wasn’t difficult to get Ben into the family business because his parents were Jerry Stiller and Anne Meara, both of whom were actors in movies, as one person wrote on Reddit. Anne and Jerry both appeared in 1970’s “The Out of Towners” and Jerry was in the original “Taking of Pelham 123.”
Stiller began his acting career at the age of nine by writing mockumentaries, and he was then given the opportunity to work on a variety-sketch series, The Ben Stiller Show, which he produced and hosted for its 13-episode run. He received a Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Writing for a Variety Programme after airing the series on MTV in 1990 and on Fox in 1992 and 1993.
Stiller was a member of the Frat Pack, a group of comedic actors who were unofficially known as the Frat Pack.
He made his directorial debut with Reality Bites (1994), and he later made his acting debut with The Cable Guy (1996), and Walter Mitty’s Secret Life (2013). Along cameo (2004), Dodgeball: A True Underdog Story (2004), Starsky &, Hutch (2004), and Tower Heist (2011) were also a few of his big studio comedies.
Stiller has appeared in comedies like Zoolander (2001) and Tropic Thunder (2008) in addition to Meet the Parents. His other film credits include the Madagascar franchise (1995–2012) and the Night at the Museum (1906–2014), both of which earned him more than $2.6 billion (£2 million) in Canada and the US on average, or $79 million (£60 million) per film.
Source: Mirror
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