16 Facts About Anne Meara

Anne Meara was featured on stage, on television, and in numerous films and later became a playwright.

Anne Meara was born on September 20,1929, in Brooklyn, New York City, to Mary and Edward Joseph Anne Meara, a corporate lawyer for American Standard.

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.

Anne Meara met actor-comedian Jerry Stiller in 1953, and they married soon after.

Anne Meara debuted off-Broadway in 1958 in Ulysses in Nighttown, based on the work by James Joyce.

Anne Meara was nominated for an Emmy Award for Outstanding Lead Actress in a Drama Series in 1976; however, the show was canceled after ten episodes.

Anne Meara had a recurring role on the sitcom Rhoda as airline stewardess Sally Gallagher, one of the title character's best friends.

Anne Meara had roles as Mrs Curry in The Boys from Brazil and as Mrs Sherwood in Fame.

Anne Meara co-starred 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.

Anne Meara played Veronica Rooney, the bar's cook, for the show's first three seasons.

Anne Meara appeared as Dorothy Halligan Deaver, the grandmother, in the TV series ALF in the late 1980s.

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.

From 1999 to 2007, Anne Meara guest starred in The King of Queens, first as Mary Finnegan, then as Veronica Olchin.

In 1995, Anne Meara wrote the comedy After-Play, which became an off-Broadway production.

Anne Meara converted to Judaism six years after marrying Stiller.

Anne Meara had been living in the Hebrew Home for the Aged following several strokes and reportedly died of natural causes.