Biography
Ben Stiller - Hollywood comedy and dramatic actor and movie actor, as well as director, producer and screenwriter. Populator's popularity brought pictures "Everything's crazy about Mary", "Night in the Museum", "Acquaintance with Factors" and "Exemplary Male". His directing work - paintings "Soldiers of failure" and "the incredible life of Walter Mitty" were marked with critics.Childhood and youth
Benjamin (Ben) Edward Stiller was born in New York in November 1965. His father is the famous comic Jerry Stiller, by nationality, Polish Jew. Mother - Actress Ann Mira, Irish Catholic, still in his youth adopted her husband's faith. At the time of the appearance of Benjamin in the family, a 4-year-old daughter Amy has already grown up. Children grew in a creative atmosphere and often watched the work of their parents on the set. It is not surprising that Ben and Amy have chosen the profession of actors.
At the end of the school in 1983, Ben Stiller becomes a university student by California by choosing a cinema department. But after 9 months, the guy returned to his native New York, where he began to attend acting courses.
Films
The creative biography of Stillar began on theatrical scene. 20-year-old Benjamin attracted the attention of theatrical critics after played by John Guarea called "House of Blue Leaf".
In the cinema, Stiller debuted in a 10-minute parody of Martin Scorsese "color of money". The short film was released in 1985 and is remarkable by the fact that Ben himself became the director of the tape. This work and a number of other short filler filler films acquired the American NBC channel. Benjamin, who shot these tapes and played in them, noticed directors.
Star debut of the actor on the big screen took place in 1987 in the film of the famous Stephen Spielberg called the "Sun Empire". The plot line of the film tells about the severe fate of the British boy who lived in the Shanghai's respectable area and having fallen together with his parents to the camp for the interned. The picture was awarded a number of awards, and the acting was greatly popular.
In 1989, a new period began in the Biographies of Stiller: after several appearances in the popular show "Saturday evening live", he received an offer to become a TV presenter of a humor program on MTV, which is called "Ben Stillar show." The artist takes to the assistants of the two comedians - American actors Janin Jarofalo and Andy Dick - and throughout the year she laughs the audience with brilliant improvisations and entrepreneurs.
In 1994, Ben continues to create as director and actor at the same time. He puts a comedy called "Reality bite." The shooting took place in Austin and Houston and ended in just 42 days. In the storyline of the film tells about four friends (a styllar played one of them), who studied together, and after receiving diplomas, they were faced with previously unfamiliar difficulties of real life.
Ben managed to show these difficulties at a comedy angle. Tape Although I did not receive awards, but I liked the audience. The stellar composition of the comedy provided it with a considerable success, and for the styllar it was a good debut as director of the full-length movie. In 1996, Benjamin continued the director's practice by removing the picture "Cabler". This is a black comedy and drama at the same time, where Jim Kerry played the main character. The director himself appears here a little.
The next star role got a styllar in the picture "Something about Mary" ("Everything is crazy about Mary"), which he himself considers one of his best works. This is the romantic comedy of the Farrelli brothers, which tells about the hero of Ted, who decided to find her in 13 years after parting with the girl. The role of Ted made Ben on the ridge of fame.
Comedy tapes in which the artist plays, the VMIG becomes the most cash projects that they are filmed in Hollywood. Among these films are the brightest - "familiarity with the faubers", "exemplary male", "the girl of my nightmares" and "but also polli" with Jennifer Aniston in the main women's role. But despite the fact that all these projects brought huge fees to the creators, the styller for participating in them came to the nomination "Golden Raspberry".
In 2006, the artist played a major role in the comedy "Night in the Museum". The plot of the night is worse in the museum, where the exhibits come to life thanks to the mystical tablet, received such popularity that they subsequently came out two continuations.
In 2008, a new comedy "Soldiers of Failures" appeared on the screens, the director of whom Stiller spoke again. This is a parody of many popular Hollywood films about the war. Here Ben not only starred himself, but first made a screenwriter. In this project, the Stiller collected the star composition of artists. The comedy had a huge success and received many awards, among which the nominations for Oscar, Bafta, Golden Globe and the US File Actors Prize.
In 2011, Ben enters the main acting ensemble of a detective comedy "How to steal a skyscraper," where Eddie Murphy becomes his partner. The hero of Stillar Josh works by the Housing Complex where big theft occurs. Josh is not lost, but collects a detective team to disclose a crime.
One of the best works in Stillar filmography - Painting "Incredible Life Walter Mitty". Here, the Hollywood comedian spoke not only by the director, but also by the leading role. The hero of Ben is an average clerk that leads so quiet and boring life that even with the help of a consultant cannot come up with something on a dating site.
The adventures of the hero working in the photo archive of the popular magazine begin with a snapshot loss intended for the release cover. Walter Mitty goes to search for a traveler photographer, in which reveals forgotten talents, and visits exotic places. At the same time, the styller played a dramatic role rather than comedy. The film was shown at the end of 2013 and came to the top ten pictures of the year according to the US National Council of Film Crims.
After that, Ben did not throw comedy roles. In the same 2013, the actor appeared in the comedy "Nomination for Oscar"?! ". In 2014, he performed the main role of Josh in comedies with the elements of the drama "While we are young." The plot is tied around a couple, whose relationship is in the crisis.
In 2016, the Stiller returned to the role of the Male model of the Zulder model in the comedy "Exemplary Male - 2". The artist again appeared on the screen as a mannequin, although its parameters are far to model (the growth of the styllar is 170 cm with weight 68 kg). Zulder has already lost popularity, therefore agrees to help a special fashion detective (Penelope Cruz) to investigate a number of celebrity murders in the hope of a triumphantly return to the podium.
In 2017, the actor played a major role in the Comedy "Brad Status". Hero Stiller - Brad Sloan - considers himself a successful person: he has a house, family, work, and the Son is even going to enter Harvard. Everything changes when Sloan finds out that former classmates bypassed him in all vitality.
Also in 2017, the tragicomedy of the "History of the Mairrow family", in which the comedy actor played a comedian actor was shown at the Cannes Film Festival. In the film for the first time, two famous Hollywood comic books Bin Stiller and Adam Sandler appeared on the screen, which for more than one year their fans were waiting.
A year later, the artist was pleased with the spectators by the director's project "Escape from the jail of the Daniagor". The dramatic mini-series created in the thriller genre was presented on the ShowTime TV channel. The television film was used by a real story that occurred in 2015 in New York.
Personal life
Personal life of Ben Stillar is a few novels, each of which covered in detail the journalists. At different times, the lover comedians were Jeanne Tripplehorn, Janin Garofalo, Kalista Flockhart and Amanda Pete.Embed from getty imagesIn the spring of 2000, Benjamin married. His wife became the actress Christine Taylor, with which Ben played in the pictures of the "exemplary male" and "bouncer". The couple lived on Hollywood hills and brought up two children: Daughter Olivia, born in April 2002, and Son Quinley, who appeared in the summer of 2005. Men's best friend - Actor Owen Wilson, with whom Benjamin starred in 8 paintings.
Embed from getty imagesIn 2014, the styller suffered a complex disease. Doctors discovered from the star signs of prostate cancer. It took serious treatment. At this point, Ben received powerful support from his wife, thanks to which she won the disease.
In 2017, it became known that the marriage of two artists collapsed, while after divorce the ex-spouses retained a friendly relationship. The couple rarely appears on the streets of New York together, mostly communication occurs by phone. But sometimes paparazzi manages to make a photo of former spouses on a joint walk or capture the whole family during the campaign to the theater.
Ben Stiller now
Ben Stiller is a famous patron. His last donation was the help of victims from the terrorist attack in New Zealand in March 2019, which shook the whole world. Among the American stars were also distinguished by Ashton Cutcher, Judd Apatou, Chris Rock, Madonna. As an ambassador of good will, the UN, the performer often flies into the hotspots of the world. Now it is Lebanon and Syria.
The new production project of Stillar was the neonaya Thriller "Dark Cargo" (Dark Cargo), which since the end of 2019 is broadcast on the YouTube Originals channel. In the future, Benjamin plans to release films "Forest Grossman", "help me to distribute good", "persistent men", in the last two he will play the main roles.
Filmography
- 1996 - "Do not wake a sleeping dog"
- 1998 - "Everything's crazy about Mary"
- 1998 - "Zero Effect"
- 2001 - "Exemplary Male"
- 2004 - "Familiarity with Factors"
- 2004 - "Demole couple: Starsky and Hutch"
- 2004 - "And here and polli"
- 2006 - "Night in the Museum"
- 2008 - "Soldiers failure"
- 2011 - "How to steal the skyscraper"
- 2013 - "Incredible Life Walter Mitty"
- 2016 - "Exemplary Male No. 2"
- 2017 - "Mairrow family history"
- 2017 - Brad Status