Benjamin Edward Stiller

Ben Stiller is a Hollywood comedian and drama actor in theater and film, as well as a director, producer and screenwriter. The artist's popularity was brought by the paintings "Everything is crazy about Mary," "Night at the Museum," "Meet the Fakers" and "The Sample Male." His directorial work , "Soldiers of Failure" and "The Incredible Life of Walter Mitty" were noted by critics.

Benjamin (Ben) Edward Stiller was born in New York City in November 1965. His father is the famous comedian Jerry Stiller, a Polish Jew by nationality. Mother - actress Ann Mira, an Irish Catholic, in his youth accepted the faith of her husband. At the time of Benjamin's appearance, a 4-year-old daughter Amy was already a child. Children grew up in a creative atmosphere and often watched their parents work on set. No wonder Ben and Amy chose the profession of actors.

After graduating from high school in 1983, Ben Stiller became a student at the University of California, choosing a department of film. But after 9 months the guy returned to his native New York, where he began to attend acting courses.

Stiller's creative biography began on the stage. Benjamin, 20, attracted the attention of theater critics after playing John Guare in a play called Blue LeafHouse.

In cinema, Stiller made his debut in a 10-minute parody of Martin Scorsese's The Color of Money. The short film was released in 1985 and is notable for the fact that the film was directed by Ben himself. This work and a number of other short films of the performer was acquired by the American channel NBC. Benjamin, who shot these tapes and played them, noticed the directors.

The actor's star debut on the big screen took place in 1987 in the film of the famous Steven Spielberg called "Empire of the Sun". The storyline of the film tells the story of the plight of a British boy who lived in a respectable area of Shanghai and got with his parents in an internment camp. The film won a number of awards, and the cast received huge popularity.

In 1989, Stiller's biography began a new period: after several appearances in the popular show "Saturday Night Live" he received an offer to become a television host of a humorous program on MTV, called "The Ben Stiller Show." The artist takes in the assistants of two comedians - American actors Janine Jarofalo and Andy Dick - and throughout the year makes the audience laugh with brilliant improvisations and entreprises.

In 1994, Ben continues to create as a director and actor at the same time. He puts on a comedy called "Reality Bites." The shooting took place in Austin and Houston and ended in just 42 days. The storyline of the film tells about four friends (one of them played by Stiller), who studied together, and after receiving diplomas faced previously unfamiliar difficulties of real life.

Ben managed to show these difficulties from a comedic angle. Although the tape did not receive awards, but the audience liked it. The star-studded line-up of the comedy provided her with considerable success, and for Stiller it was a successful debut as a director of a feature film. In 1996, Benjamin continued his directorial practice by shooting the film "The Cableman." It's a black comedy and drama at the same time, where the main character was played by Jim Carrey. The director himself appears here a little.

The next star role went to Stiller in "Something About Mary" ("Everybody Is Crazy about Mary"), which he considers one of his best works. This is a romantic comedy of the Farrelly brothers, which tells the story of the hero Ted, decided 13 years after the breakup with the girl to find her. Ted's role brought Ben to fame.

Comedy films, in which the artist plays, instantly become the highest-grossing projects that are filmed in Hollywood. Among such films are the brightest - "Meet the Fakers," "The Sample Male," "The Girl of My Nightmares" and "Here's Polly" with Jennifer Aniston in the lead female role. But despite the fact that all these projects brought the creators huge fees, Stiller for participation in them got in the category "Golden Raspberry."

In 2006, the actor played the title role in the comedy "Night at the Museum". The story of the night watchman in the museum, where thanks to a mystical plaque come to life exhibits, gained such popularity that later came out two sequels.

In 2008, a new comedy "Soldiers of Failure" appeared on the screens, directed again by Stiller. This is a parody of many popular Hollywood movies about the war. Here Ben not only starred himself, but also for the first time acted as a screenwriter. In this project, Stiller assembled a stellar line-up of artists. The comedy has been a huge success and has won numerous awards, including Oscar, BAFTA, Golden Globe and Screen Actors Guild Awards.

In 2011, Ben gets into the main ensemble of the detective comedy "How to steal a skyscraper", where his partner becomes Eddie Murphy. Stiller's character Josh works as a manager of a housing complex, where there is a major theft. Josh is not lost, and assembles a detective team to solve the crime.

One of the best works in Stiller's filmography is The Incredible Life of Walter Mitty. Here the Hollywood comedian acted not only as a director, but also as a performer of the main role. Ben's hero - an average clerk who leads such a quiet and boring life that even with the help of a consultant can not think of what to write on a dating site.

The adventures of the hero working in the photo archive of the popular magazine, begin with the loss of a picture intended for the cover of the issue. Walter Mitty goes in search of a photographer-traveler, in which reveals forgotten talents, and visits exotic places. At the same time, Stiller played a dramatic role rather than a comedic role. The film was shown in late 2013 and was in the top ten of the year's best films according to the National Board of Film Critics of the United States.

After that, Ben did not give up the comedy roles. In 2013, the actor appeared in the comedy "Oscar nominations?!". In 2014, he starred as Josh in the comedy "While We're Young." The plot is tied around a married couple whose relationship is in crisis.

In 2016, Stiller returned to the role of male model Derek Soolander in the comedy "Sample Male 2." The artist again appeared on the screen in the role of a mannequin, although his parameters are far to model (Stiller's height is 170 cm at a weight of 68 kg). Solander has already lost popularity, so agrees to help a special fashion detective (Penelope Cruz) investigate a series of murders of celebrities in the hope of making a triumphant return to the podium.

In 2017, the actor starred in the comedy "Brad's Status". Stiller's character - Brad Sloan - considers himself a successful man: he has a home, a family, a job, and his son is even going to go to Harvard. Everything changes when Sloan learns that former classmates have bypassed him in all life successes.

Also in 2017, the Cannes Film Festival hosted a screening of the tragicomedy "The Stories of the Mayrowitz Family", in which the comedian played. In the film for the first time together on the screen appeared two famous Hollywood comedians Ben Stiller and Adam Sandler, which was not one year waiting for their fans.

A year later, the artist pleased the audience with the director's project "Escape from Dandemore Prison". Dramatic mini-series, created in the genre of thriller, was presented on the TV channel Showtime. The TV movie used the real story that took place in 2015 in the state of New York.

Ben Stiller's personal life is several novels, each of which was covered in detail by journalists. At various times the comedian's lovers were Jeanne Tripplehorn, Janine Garofalo, Calista Flockhart and Amanda Peet.

Benjamin married in the spring of 2000. His wife was actress Christine Taylor, with whom Ben played in the films "The Sample Male" and "The Bouncers." The couple lived in the Hollywood Hills and raised two children: daughter Olivia, who was born in April 2002, and son kwinley, who was born in the summer of 2005. The man's best friend is actor Owen Wilson, with whom Benjamin starred in 8 films.

In 2014, Stiller suffered a complex illness. Medics found signs of prostate cancer in the star. It took serious treatment. At this point, Ben received strong support from his wife, so he defeated the disease.

In 2017, it became known that the marriage of the two artists fell apart, and after the divorce the ex-wife maintained a friendship. The couple rarely appears on the streets of New York Together, mostly communication takes place over the phone. But sometimes the paparazzi manage to take photos of the former spouses on a joint walk or capture the whole family during a trip to the theater.

Ben Stiller is a well-known philanthropist. His last donation was to help the victims of the terrorist attack in New York in March 2019, which shocked the world. Among the American stars were also Ashton Kutcher, Judd Apatow, Chris Rock, Madonna. As a UN Goodwill Ambassador, the executor often flies to the world's hot spots. Now it is Lebanon and Syria.

Stiller's new production project was the neo-noir thriller Dark Cargo, which has been broadcast on YouTube From The Originals since the end of 2019. In the future, Benjamin plans to release films "Les Grossman," "Help Me Spread Goodness," "Standing Men," in the latter two, he will star.

1996 - "Don't Wake up a Sleeping Dog"

1998 - "Everybody's Crazy About Mary"

1998 - "The zero effect"

2001 - "Exemplary Male"

2004 - Meet the Fakers

2004 - "The Killing Couple: Starsky and Hutch"

2004 - "Here's Polly"

2006 - "Night at the Museum"

2008 - "Soldiers of Failure"

2011 - "How to Steal a Skyscraper"

2013 - "The Incredible Life of Walter Mitty"

2016 - "Exemplary Male No. 2"

2017 - "The Mayrowitz Family Stories"

2017 - "Brad's Status"

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