Ben Stiller is an American actor, comedian and filmmaker, born in New York City on 30 November 1965 and raised on the Upper West Side of Manhattan, the son of the comedians Jerry Stiller and Anne Meara. He began by writing mockumentaries and then produced and hosted The Ben Stiller Show, a sketch series that ran on MTV in 1990 and on Fox in 1992 and 1993 and earned him a Primetime Emmy Award for writing. As a director he made his feature debut with Reality Bites (1994) and went on to direct and star in The Cable Guy, Tropic Thunder, The Secret Life of Walter Mitty and Zoolander 2. Since the mid-2010s he has worked mostly as a television director and showrunner, directing the Showtime limited series Escape at Dannemora, which won him a Directors Guild of America Award, and directing and executive producing the Apple TV series Severance.
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is an American actor, comedian, and filmmaker
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born November 30, 1965
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earning him a Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Writing for a Variety Series
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Stiller won the Directors Guild of America Award for Outstanding Directorial Achievement
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is an American actor, comedian, and filmmaker
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Stiller made his feature debut with Reality Bites (1994)
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he has directed and executive produced the Apple TV series Severance
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