Anne Meara Stiller was an American actress and comedian.
FactSnippet No. 2,143,215 |
Anne Meara Stiller was an American actress and comedian.
FactSnippet No. 2,143,215 |
Anne Meara was featured on stage, on television, and in numerous films and later became a playwright.
FactSnippet No. 2,143,216 |
When she was 18, Anne Meara spent a year studying acting at the Dramatic Workshop at The New School and at HB Studio under Uta Hagen in Manhattan.
FactSnippet No. 2,143,218 |
Anne Meara met actor-comedian Jerry Stiller in 1953, and they married in 1954.
FactSnippet No. 2,143,219 |
Anne Meara had a recurring role on the sitcom Rhoda as airline stewardess Sally Gallagher, one of the title character's best friends.
FactSnippet No. 2,143,220 |
Also, in the 1970s, Anne Meara provided narration for segments of the educational television series Sesame Street consisting of scenes from silent films.
FactSnippet No. 2,143,222 |
Anne Meara costarred with Carroll O'Connor and Martin Balsam in the early 1980s hit sitcom Archie Bunker's Place, which was a continuation of the influential 1970s sitcom All in the Family.
FactSnippet No. 2,143,223 |
Anne Meara played the role of Veronica Rooney, the bar's cook, for the show's first three seasons.
FactSnippet No. 2,143,224 |
Anne Meara appeared as the grandmother in the TV series ALF in the late 1980s.
FactSnippet No. 2,143,225 |
The Stiller and Anne Meara Show, her own 1986 TV sitcom, in which Stiller played the deputy mayor of New York City and Anne Meara portrayed his wife, a television commercial actress, was unsuccessful.
FactSnippet No. 2,143,226 |
From 1999 to 2007, Anne Meara guest starred in The King of Queens, first as Mary Finnegan, then as Veronica Olchin.
FactSnippet No. 2,143,227 |
Anne Meara accepted a role in the off-Broadway play Love, Loss, and What I Wore with Conchata Ferrell, AnnaLynne McCord, Minka Kelly, and B Smith.
FactSnippet No. 2,143,228 |
Anne Meara taught a technique and scene study class at HB Studio until her death.
FactSnippet No. 2,143,229 |
In 1995, Anne Meara wrote the comedy After-Play, which became an off-Broadway production.
FactSnippet No. 2,143,230 |
Anne Meara insisted that she did not convert at Stiller's request, explaining, "Catholicism was dead to me".
FactSnippet No. 2,143,232 |
Anne Meara took her conversion seriously and studied the Jewish faith in such depth that her Jewish-born husband quipped, "Being married to Anne has made me more Jewish".
FactSnippet No. 2,143,233 |