Ben Stiller Biography

Biography

but it ironically gave Ben his first honor later that year, a share of Emmy Award for Outstanding Individual Achievement in Writing in a Variety or Music Program.

Afterwards seen in mediocre movies for the next few years besides stepped behind the screen to direct “Reality Bites” (1994) and “The Cable Guy” (1996), it was not until the guy starred opposite Cameron Diaz in the Farrelly brothers' lowbrow comedy of “There's Something About Mary” (1998) that he eventually strived high to strike hard the big screen. Also teamed up with the likes of Lee Evans and Matt Dillon, he successfully helped the flick to garner total gross of over 369 million U.S dollar around the world while scored 4 MTV Movie Award nominations which he won one in the Best Fight category by 1999. The great outcome certainly propelled Ben right away to the vast prominence as a result, consequently paved his path in Hollywood to earn more propitious roles upon entering the turn of the third millennium, like those in the box-office hits of “Meet the Parents” (2000), “Zoolander” (2001), plus “The Royal Tenenbaums” (2001). The former picture even won him an MTV Movie Award in the category of ...

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Best Comedic Performance the year the two latter movies came up on theatres, bringing the actor to then face larger exposure under the spotlight for sure.

Smoothly ran his film career, Ben continued to generate commercial success through his subsequent silver screen productions which all were released in 2004 and collected more than $88 million in the domestic income, namely “Along Came Polly”, “Starsky & Hutch”, “Dodgeball: A True Underdog Story”, and “Meet the Fockers.” Followed it up with a voice acting stint in DreamWorks' mega-hit animation feature of “Madagascar” (2005) then recurring appearances in Fox's acclaimed sitcom, “Arrested Development”, by 2005 and 2006, the star satisfyingly kept moving on rather busily as a series of other film projects have already been added to his resume. These included “Night at the Museum”, “The Mirror”, plus “Seven Day Itch” slated for the 2006 releases, “Used Guys” and “The Persuaders” for that in 2007, also “Ghostbusters in Hell” and “Madagascar 2” by 2008. Concerning his love life, Ben has been known to date several actresses, notably Jeanne Tripplehorn whom he had an on/off relationship with for some years, before finally married Christine Taylor on May 13, 2000 in Kauai, Hawaii to later ...