Anne Meara, Emmy and Tony nominated actor long paired personally and professionally with Jerry Stiller and the mother of actor and Director Ben Stiller, died Saturday, Associated Press said her husband and her son. She was 85. Anne Meara Dead: Mother Of Ben Stiller
No other details were shown. A statement released to the AP said it Jerry Stiller Meara "Husband and partner in life."
"The two were married and worked together almost as long 61 years", said the statement.
Stiller and Meara a top comedy act in the 1960s, about 36 times were on "The Ed Sullivan Show" appear. Meara and Stiller were members of the Improv group the compass players, the later second city.
Although Meara was be converted to Judaism, as the pair got married, Stiller & Meara material focused it on the differences in ethnic origin, the epitome of their signature "Hershey Horowitz/Mary Elizabeth Doyle" routines. Anne Meara Dead
In 2010, that had produced few own Yahoo-comedy series "Stiller & Meara," partly by son Ben.
O'Meara was but also a serious dramatic actress nominated a 1993 Tony for best actress is featured for her work in a production of Eugene "Anna Christie" the Liam Neeson and played for descent into hell and Natasha Richardson - she wrote a few pieces, which made it to off-Broadway.
Anne Meara Dead: Mother Of Ben Stiller
She was also known for recurring on the daytime soap "All My Children" from 1993-98 as Peggy Moody; for her role in "Archie bunker it place," for which she received two of its four Emmy nominations; and for their bravura performance as a tireless suburban mother in Greg Mottolas 1997 indie film "the daytrippers," in the Hope Davis a woman who can get playing in Manhattan, on the phone, her husband and her mother, played by Meara, sets the suburban family in the station wagon to an antique start looking after him in the city.
Roger Ebert said: Meara is "almost by definition excellent at their job here, to create an unbearable mother. The film-problem is that she does it so well."
Also he was 1997 O'Meara a memorable performance on the Smallscreen, on a two-part episode of "homicide: life on the street," she played a teacher in a very tense hostage situation draw her fourth Emmy nomination.
In 1984 together Meara the Writers Guild Award for the Telepic "The other woman," in which HAL Linden widower the toys with the notion of romance with his daughter but ultimately finds sexy roommate, played the love with a woman, played by Meara penning.
O'Meara returned as Mary Finnegan (the mother of Doug's nerdy friend Spence, played by Patton Oswalt) on "the King of Queens," where Stiller a series regular from 1998 to 2007 than badly married Arthur Spooner, father of Leah re Minis Carrie Heffernan was; the two characters married in the final season of the series. Anne Meara Dead: Mother Of Ben Stiller
The actress on "Sex and the city" as the mother of the bartender Steve Brady returned and guested on "Will & Grace" in 2001.
"Law & order: special victims unit" offered O'Meara give the chance, two powerful performances. In 2004, she played the mother of the serial killer, with anxiety, helps the police to take her son before he can kill again in an episode of 2012, she played the mother of a prostitute (played by Patricia Arquette), who committed armed with a man and dangerous and then disappears.
HBO "Oz" Meara played the religious aunt the O'Reily imprisoned brothers in episodes in 1999 and 2002.
O'Meara also had a long career in films, both without and with her family.
Stiller and Meara played Joan Micklin Silver 1999 feature "A fish in the bathtub," about a couple that has been since decades bickering finally the woman called contraction Mark Ruffalo with her son played.
She appeared in 'Time of awakening,' starring Robin Williams, as a patient of the 1990s.
The hit 2001 father comedy "Zoolander", directed by and starring Ben Stiller, such as that conducted by air model of the title, Manager, it was a real family affair with Jerry Zoolander Maury Ballstein to play. Ben's wife Christine Taylor played a time magazine reporter. While Anne Meara and Ben's sister Amy appeared in cameos.
In Ben's first feature as Director endeavor, 1994 "Reality Bites", Meara and sister Amy inexplicable was absent both roles, but Jerry except in the credits, where he was thanked.
The Stiller family appeared often in the same movies even if Ben was directed by not.
O'Meara had a small role in the directed by Shawn Levy hit "Night at the Museum", starring Ben.
Jerry was the star of the 2000 mockumentary "the independent," in which he Morty Fineman, di
