
Anne Meara
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 movi…
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Filmography
Acting (102)
Movies (53)
Stiller & Meara: Nothing Is Lost
2025as Self (archive footage)
Marsha Hunt's Sweet Adversity
2015as Self
Planes: Fire & Rescue
2014as Winnie (voice)
Simpler Times
2014as Gloria
Another Harvest Moon
2010as Ella
When the Evening Comes
2009as Marion Corrado
Fired!
2007as Self
Night at the Museum
2006as Debbie
Crooked Lines
2003as Hard Boiled
Like Mike
2002as Sister Theresa
AFI's 100 Years... 100 Passions: America's Greatest Love Stories
2002as Self
Zoolander
2001as Protestor (uncredited)
What Makes a Family
2001as Evelyn Cataldi
Get Well Soon
2001as Linda
The Independent
2000as Rita
Chump Change
2000as Casting Director
Judy Berlin
1999as Bea
A Fish in the Bathtub
1999as Molly
The N.Y. Friars Club Roast of Jerry Stiller
1999as Self
The Diary of the Hurdy-Gurdy Man
1999
Southie
1998as Mrs. Quinn
The Thin Pink Line
1998as Mrs. Langstrom
Jitters
1997as Louise Domino
The Daytrippers
1997as Rita Malone
Heavyweights
1995as Alice Bushkin
Kiss of Death
1995as Bev's Mother
Going, Going, Almost Gone! Animals in Danger
1995
Reality Bites
1994as Louise
The Mother
1994as Mrs. Geegan
The Search for One-eye Jimmy
1994as Holly Hoyt
Through an Open Window
1992as Madeline Jason
Highway to Hell
1991as Medea (waitress in Pluto's)
The Sunset Gang
1991as Bernice Shapiro (segment "The Detective")
Awakenings
1990as Miriam
That's Adequate
1989as Charlene Lane
The Hustler of Money
1987as Barmaid
The Day They Came to Arrest the Book
1987as Mrs. Salters
The Longshot
1986as Madge
My Little Girl
1986as Mrs. Shopper
The Perils of P.K
1986
The Other Woman
1983as Peg Gilford
Fame
1980as Mrs. Sherwood
The Boys from Brazil
1978as Mrs. Curry
Nasty Habits
1977as Sister Geraldine
Dick Clark's Good Old Days
1977
'Twas the Night Before Christmas
1977
Kate McShane
1975as Kate McShane
The Irish Whiskey Rebellion
1972as Goldie Fain-Follies Star
Don Rickles: Alive And Kicking
1972as Self
Dames at Sea
1971as Joan
The Out-of-Towners
1970as Purse Snatching Victim in Police Station
Lovers and Other Strangers
1970as Wilma
Ninotchka
1960as Anna
Television (49)
Gravity
2010as Mrs. Talbot
Head Case
2007as Self
Four Kings
2006as Ruth
Good Morning, Miami
2002as Evelyn
Ed
2000as Barbara Gennacarro
Law & Order: Special Victims Unit
1999as Ida Becker
Sex and the City
1998as Mary Brady
Will & Grace
1998as Mrs. Friedman
The King of Queens
1998as Mary Finnegan
The View
1997as Self
Oz
1997as Aunt Brenda O'Reily
Homicide: Life on the Street
1993as Donna DiGrazi
Good Advice
1993as Dooley Harold
Performance
1991as Mrs Geegan
Murphy Brown
1988
In the Heat of the Night
1988
ALF
1986as Dorothy Halligan
Murder, She Wrote
1984as Winnie Tupper Banner
Archie Bunker's Place
1979as Veronica Rooney
Time Express
1979
The Love Boat
1977as Margaret Hanrahan
Donny & Marie
1976as Self
The Sonny and Cher Show
1976
Saturday Night Live
1975as Bartender (uncredited)
Kate McShane
1975as Kate McShane
Rhoda
1974
Tony Orlando and Dawn
1974as Self
Temperatures Rising
1972
The Paul Lynde Show
1972as Grace Dickerson
The Corner Bar
1972
Great Performances
1971
The Flip Wilson Show
1970as Self
Love, American Style
1969as Martha
Medical Center
1969as Rose Miller
The Courtship of Eddie's Father
1969as Bunny Sterling
That's Life
1968as Self
The Carol Burnett Show
1967as Self
Hullabaloo
1965as Self
Linus the Lionhearted
1964
The Danny Kaye Show
1963as Self
The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson
1962as Self
The Merv Griffin Show
1962as Self
The Mike Douglas Show
1961as Self - Co-Hostess
Kraft Music Hall
1958as Self
Tony Awards
1956as Self - Nominee
The Greatest Gift
1954
The Philco Television Playhouse
1948as Betty Blake
The Ed Sullivan Show
1948as Self
Golden Globe Awards
1944as Self - Nominee
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