Jerry Stiller and Ben Stiller
Ben’s celebrity parents can be credited for the actor’s chiseled looks. He was born to comedians Jerry Stiller and Anne Meara, who worked for years as the comedy duo Stiller and Meara. The two first met in an agent’s office. Anne was upset with an interaction she just had with the agent, so Jerry took her out for coffee.
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The two hit it off and were married for over 60 years until Anne’s death in 2015. Jerry and Anne regularly took Ben and his older sister Amy to work, which inspired Ben to become an actor. “In some ways, it was a show-business upbringing—a lot of traveling, a lot of late nights—not what you’d call traditional,” Ben later said of his childhood.