Anne Meara
Born: 1929-09-20 in Brooklyn, New York City, New York, USA
Died: 2015-05-23
Known For: Acting
Biography
Anne Meara (September 20, 1929 – May 23, 2015) was an American actress and comedian. Along with her husband Jerry Stiller, she was one-half of the prominent 1960s comedy team Stiller and Meara. Their son is actor, director, and producer Ben Stiller. She was also featured on stage, on television, and in numerous films and later became a playwright. During her career, Meara was nominated for four Emmy Awards and a Tony Award, and she won a Writers Guild Award as a co-writer for the television movie The Other Woman. Description above from the Wikipedia article Anne Meara, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
Filmography
2025
- Stiller & Meara: Nothing Is Lost as Self (archive footage)
2015
- Marsha Hunt's Sweet Adversity as Self
2014
- Planes: Fire & Rescue as Winnie (voice)
- Simpler Times as Gloria
2010
- Gravity as Mrs. Talbot
- Another Harvest Moon as Ella
2009
- When the Evening Comes as Marion Corrado
2006
- Night at the Museum as Debbie
- Four Kings as Ruth
2003
- Crooked Lines as Hard Boiled
2002
- Good Morning, Miami as Evelyn
- Like Mike as Sister Theresa
- AFI's 100 Years... 100 Passions: America's Greatest Love Stories as Self
2001
- Zoolander as Protestor (uncredited)
- What Makes a Family as Evelyn Cataldi
- Get Well Soon as Linda
2000
- Ed as Barbara Gennacarro
- The Independent as Rita
- Chump Change as Casting Director
1999
- Law & Order: Special Victims Unit as Ida Becker
- A Fish in the Bathtub as Molly
- The N.Y. Friars Club Roast of Jerry Stiller as Self
- Judy Berlin as Bea
- The Diary of the Hurdy-Gurdy Man
1998
- Sex and the City as Mary Brady
- Will & Grace as Mrs. Friedman
- The King of Queens as Veronica Olchin
- The Thin Pink Line as Mrs. Langstrom
- Southie as Mrs. Quinn
1997
- The View as Self
- Oz as Aunt Brenda O'Reily
- The Daytrippers as Rita Malone
- Jitters as Louise Domino
1995
- Heavyweights as Alice Bushkin
- Kiss of Death as Bev's Mother
- Going, Going, Almost Gone! Animals in Danger
1994
- Reality Bites as Louise
- The Search for One-eye Jimmy as Holly Hoyt
- The Mother as Mrs. Geegan
1993
- Homicide: Life on the Street as Donna DiGrazi
- Good Advice as Dooley Harold
1992
- Through an Open Window as Madeline Jason
1991
- Performance as Mrs Geegan
- Highway to Hell as Medea (waitress in Pluto's)
- The Sunset Gang as Bernice Shapiro (segment "The Detective")
1990
- Awakenings as Miriam
1989
- That's Adequate as Charlene Lane
1988
- Murphy Brown
- In the Heat of the Night
- Monsters as Greta
1987
- The Day They Came to Arrest the Book as Mrs. Salters
- The Hustler of Money as Barmaid
1986
- ALF as Dorothy Halligan
- My Little Girl as Mrs. Shopper
- The Longshot as Madge
- The Perils of P.K
1984
- Murder, She Wrote as Winnie Tupper Banner
1983
- The Other Woman as Peg Gilford
1980
- Fame as Mrs. Sherwood
1979
- Archie Bunker's Place as Veronica Rooney
- Time Express
1978
- The Boys from Brazil as Mrs. Curry
1977
- The Love Boat as Margaret Hanrahan
- Nasty Habits as Sister Geraldine
- 'Twas the Night Before Christmas
- Dick Clark's Good Old Days
1976
- Donny & Marie as Self
- The Sonny and Cher Show
1975
- Saturday Night Live as Bartender (uncredited)
- Kate McShane as Kate McShane
- Kate McShane as Kate McShane
1974
- Rhoda
- Tony Orlando and Dawn as Self
1972
- Temperatures Rising
- The Paul Lynde Show as Grace Dickerson
- The Corner Bar
- Don Rickles: Alive And Kicking as Self
- The Irish Whiskey Rebellion as Goldie Fain-Follies Star
1971
- Great Performances
- Dames at Sea as Joan
1970
- The Flip Wilson Show as Self
- The Out-of-Towners as Purse Snatching Victim in Police Station
- Lovers and Other Strangers as Wilma
1969
- Love, American Style as Martha
- Medical Center as Rose Miller
- The Courtship of Eddie's Father as Bunny Sterling
1968
- That's Life as Self
1967
- The Carol Burnett Show as Self
1965
- Hullabaloo as Self
1963
- The Danny Kaye Show as Self
1962
- The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson as Self
- The Merv Griffin Show as Self
1961
- The Mike Douglas Show as Self
1960
- Ninotchka as Anna
1958
1956
- Tony Awards as Self - Nominee
1954
1948
- The Philco Television Playhouse as Betty Blake
- The Ed Sullivan Show as Self
1944
- Golden Globe Awards as Self - Nominee