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






