Of work, although he did have the satisfaction of picking up an Emmy for the show after its cancellation. Unfortunately, the show was a ratings miss. MTV ended up passing on it, but it was picked up by Fox. He recruited fellow offbeat comedians Janeane Garofalo and Andy Dick and created a bitingly The network was impressed and gave Stiller his own show, The Ben Stiller Show (1992).
Demonstrating early on the multifaceted tone his career would take, he soon stepped behind the camera to direct Back to Brooklyn for MTV. Stiller made his big screen debut in Steven Spielberg's Empire of the Sun (1987) in 1987. This led to his spending a year on the show in 1989. The short film was so funny that Lorne Michaels purchased it and aired it on Saturday Night Live (1975). While working on the play, Stiller shot a short spoof of The Color of Money (1986) starring him (in the Tom Cruise role) and his The House of Blue Leaves (1987) costar John Mahoney (in the Paul Newman role). After dropping out of UCLA, he performed in the Tony Award winner, "The House of Blue Leaves". Before he got to Hollywood, he put in several consistently solid years in the theater. He both directed and performed in the film, which co-starred Winona Ryder and Ethan Hawke. Reality Bites (1994) later in his career. This desire for revenge on the popular, good-looking people may have motivated his teen-angst opus The plots were always simple: someone would pick on the shy, awkward Stiller. Ben also picked up an interest in being on the other side of the camera and, at age 10, began shooting films on his Super 8 camera. At a young age, he and his sister Amy Stiller would perform plays at home, wearing Amy's tights to perform Shakespeare.
His parents made no real effort to keep their son away from the Hollywood lifestyle and he grew up among the stars, wondering His father was of Austrian Jewish and Polish Jewish descent, and his mother was of Irish Catholic descent (sheĬonverted to Judaism). Benjamin Edward Meara Stiller was born on November 30, 1965, in New York City, New York, to legendary comedians Jerry Stiller and Anne Meara.
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