Anne Meara Biography

Anne Meara was an American actress best known as one half of the industry’s most renowned comedy duo ‘Stiller and Meara’, the other half being her real-life husband, Jerry Stiller. Both of them were part of Compass Players, an improvisational company which later was renamed The Second City Theater. The couple also appeared on the show ‘The Ed Sullivan Show’. Talking about Meara’s solo acting career, she did numerous projects on television, stage and the big screen. She was featured on the series ‘Rhoda’, ‘ALF’, ‘Sex and the City’ and ‘The King of Queens’. She also appeared on her own series titled ‘Kate McShane’. The American actress was one of the main protagonists of the show ‘The Stiller and Meara Show’. Coming to her big screen performances, Meara had acted in a handful of movies. She appeared in ‘Fame’, ‘The Boys From Brazil’, ‘Crooked Lines’, ‘Awakenings’, ‘Sex and the City: The Movie’ and ‘Zoolander’. Very few people know that Meara was also a playwright. She wrote the hit off-Broadway play titled ‘After-Play’. Besides this, she co-wrote the television movie ‘The Other Woman’. She was also writer of the online blog ‘Mr. Beller's Neighborhood- New York City Stories’. During her career, Meara was honored with many awards and accolades. She was nominated for Emmy Awards four times. She won the Obie Award for her Broadway production titled ‘Mädchen in Uniform’. She also won a Writers Guild Award for her contribution to ‘The Other Woman.’