Anne Meara
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New York, New York, USA
Anne Meara started out and ended up a distinguished dramatic actress--and in between, scored high marks as a comedienne, playwright and screenwriter. Launching her career in summer stock in 1950, Meara won an Obie Award for her intensely dramatic performance in the 1955 off-Broadway production Maedchen in Uniform; during this period, she was also a semi-regular on the NBC TV daytime soaper The Greatest Gift. Auditioning for an opera in 1954, she met another struggling actor, Jerry Stiller; they were married the following year. Forming the comedy team of Stiller & Meara, The team skyrocketed to stardom via their many appearances on such 1960s variety series as The Ed Sullivan Show and The Steve Allen Show. One of their richest sources of material was the difference in their ethnic backgrounds, especially in their famous "Hershey Horowitz/Mary Elizabeth Doyle" routines (an Irish Catholic, Meara converted to Judaism upon her marriage to Stiller). They also appeared together on Broadway, in the supporting cast of the 1971 sitcom The Paul Lynde Show, and in an obscure 1975 syndicated TV comedy "filler" series Take Five With Stiller and Meara. On her own, Meara has provided comic and noncomic support to several films, including Lovers and Other Strangers (1970), The Out-of-Towners (1970) and Fame (1980). She starred in the 1975 TV lawyer series Kate McShane, and co-starred as tavern owner Mae on The Corner Bar (1973), divorced airline stewardess Sally Gallagher on the 1976-77 season of Rhoda, acid-tongued cook Veronica Rooney on Archie Bunker's Place (1979-83), and mother-in-law Dorothy Halligan on Alf (1987). In 1983, Meara won the Writers Guild "outstanding achievement" award for her script for the made-for-TV feature Another Woman, and ten years later was nominated for a Tony Award for her portrayal of Marthy in the Broadway revival of Eugene O'Neill's Anna Christie. Anne Meara is the mother of comic actor Ben Stiller and worked with her son in his directorial feature debut, Reality Bites (1994), Zoolander (2001) and Night at the Museum (2006). She recurred on Sex and the City, playing Miranda's mother-in-law, Mary, and later reprised the role in the feature film. Meara died in 2015, at age 85.
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Highest Rated Movies
Filmography
MOVIES
RATING | TITLE | CREDIT | BOX OFFICE | YEAR |
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No Score Yet | Marsha Hunt's Sweet Adversity |
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— | 2018 |
44% | Planes: Fire And Rescue |
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$42.7M | 2014 |
No Score Yet | Another Harvest Moon |
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— | 2011 |
43% | Night at the Museum |
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$249.3M | 2006 |
44% | Fired! |
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— | 2006 |
40% | F**k the Disabled |
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— | 2002 |
57% | Like Mike |
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$51.4M | 2002 |
60% | The Independent |
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— | 2001 |
63% | Zoolander |
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$44.8M | 2001 |
No Score Yet | What Makes a Family |
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— | 2001 |
No Score Yet | Chump Change |
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— | 2000 |
77% | Judy Berlin |
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— | 1999 |
No Score Yet | A Fish in the Bathtub |
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— | 1999 |
38% | Southie |
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— | 1998 |
73% | The Daytrippers |
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— | 1997 |
No Score Yet | Crooked Lines |
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— | 1997 |
No Score Yet | The Search for One-Eye Jimmy |
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— | 1996 |
68% | Kiss of Death |
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— | 1995 |
29% | Heavyweights |
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— | 1995 |
64% | Reality Bites |
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— | 1993 |
No Score Yet | Highway to Hell |
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— | 1991 |
88% | Awakenings |
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— | 1990 |
No Score Yet | That's Adequate |
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— | 1989 |
No Score Yet | My Little Girl |
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— | 1987 |
No Score Yet | The Longshot |
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— | 1986 |
No Score Yet | In Our Hands |
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— | 1984 |
84% | Fame |
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— | 1980 |
69% | The Boys from Brazil |
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— | 1978 |
No Score Yet | Nasty Habits |
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— | 1977 |
100% | Lovers and Other Strangers |
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— | 1971 |
63% | The Out-of-Towners |
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— | 1970 |
33% | For Love of Ivy |
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— | 1968 |
No Score Yet | When The Evening Comes |
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TV
RATING | TITLE | CREDIT | YEAR |
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Match Game
2016-2020
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78% |
Law & Order: Special Victims Unit
1999
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45% |
Gravity
2010
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25% |
Mercy
2009-2010
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The King of Queens
1998-2007
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70% |
Sex and the City
1998-2004
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93% |
Futurama
1999-2013
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92% |
Oz
1997-2003
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48 Hours
1988
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No Score Yet |
Ed
2000-2004
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No Score Yet |
Will & Grace
1998-2006
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91% |
Homicide: Life on the Street
1993-1999
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No Score Yet |
Murphy Brown
1988-2019
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No Score Yet |
Murder, She Wrote
1984-1996
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No Score Yet |
ALF
1986-1990
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No Score Yet |
Rhoda
1978
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American Playhouse
1982-1996
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The Corner Bar
1972-1973
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