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. Description above from the Wikipedia article Anne Meara, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.

Filmography

• 2014Planes: Fire & Rescue — Winnie (voice)
• 2014Simpler Times — Gloria
• 2010Another Harvest Moon — Ella
• Gravity — Mrs. Talbot
• 2009When the Evening Comes — Marion Corrado
• Four Kings — Ruth
• 2006Night at the Museum — Debbie
• 2003Crooked Lines — Hard Boiled
• Good Morning, Miami — Evelyn
• 2002Like Mike — Sister Theresa
• 2001Get Well Soon — Linda
• 2001What Makes a Family — Evelyn Cataldi
• 2001Zoolander — Protestor (uncredited)
• 2000Chump Change — Casting Director
• Ed — Barbara Gennacarro
• 2000The Independent — Rita
• 1999A Fish in the Bathtub — Molly
• 1999Judy Berlin — Bea
• Law & Order: Special Victims Unit — Ida Becker, Irene Kerns
• 1999The Diary of the Hurdy-Gurdy Man
• Sex and the City — Mary Brady
• 1998Southie — Mrs. Quinn
• The King of Queens — Veronica Olchin, Mary Finnegan
• 1998The Thin Pink Line — Mrs. Langstrom
• Will & Grace — Mrs. Friedman
• 1997Jitters — Louise Domino
• Oz — Aunt Brenda O'Reily
• 1997The Daytrippers — Rita Malone
• 1995Going, Going, Almost Gone! Animals in Danger
• 1995Heavyweights — Alice Bushkin
• 1995Kiss of Death — Bev's Mother
• 1994Reality Bites — Louise
• 1994The Mother — Mrs. Geegan
• 1994The Search for One-eye Jimmy — Holly Hoyt
• Good Advice — Dooley Harold
• Homicide: Life on the Street — Donna DiGrazi
• 1992Through an Open Window — Madeline Jason
• 1991Highway to Hell — Medea (waitress in Pluto's)
• Performance — Mrs Geegan
• 1991The Sunset Gang — Bernice Shapiro (segment "The Detective")
• 1990Awakenings — Miriam
• 1989That's Adequate — Charlene Lane
• In the Heat of the Night
• Monsters — Greta
• Murphy Brown
• 1987The Day They Came to Arrest the Book — Mrs. Salters
• 1987The Hustler of Money — Barmaid
• ALF — Dorothy Halligan, Writer
• 1986My Little Girl — Mrs. Shopper
• 1986The Longshot — Madge
• 1986The Perils of P.K
• Murder, She Wrote — Winnie Tupper Banner, Mae Shaughnessy
• 1983The Other Woman — Peg Gilford, Writer
• American Playhouse — Bernice Shapiro (segment 'Yiddish', 'The Detective')
• 1980Fame — Mrs. Sherwood
• Archie Bunker's Place — Veronica Rooney
• Time Express
• 1978The Boys from Brazil — Mrs. Curry
• 1977'Twas the Night Before Christmas
• 1977Dick Clark's Good Old Days
• 1977Nasty Habits — Sister Geraldine
• The Love Boat — Margaret Hanrahan, Rose Vitelli, Minnie Dunlop
• The Sonny and Cher Show
• 1975Kate McShane — Kate McShane
• Kate McShane — Kate McShane
• Saturday Night Live — Bartender (uncredited)
• Rhoda
• Temperatures Rising
• The Corner Bar
• 1972The Irish Whiskey Rebellion — Goldie Fain-Follies Star
• The Paul Lynde Show — Grace Dickerson
• 1971Dames at Sea — Joan
• Great Performances
• 1970Lovers and Other Strangers — Wilma
• 1970The Out-of-Towners — Purse Snatching Victim in Police Station
• Love, American Style — Martha, Janet Ferguson
• Medical Center — Rose Miller
• The Courtship of Eddie's Father — Bunny Sterling, Annie Dempsey
• Linus the Lionhearted
• 1960Ninotchka — Anna
• The Greatest Gift
• The Philco Television Playhouse — Betty Blake

Appearances as themselves (22)

• 2025Stiller & Meara: Nothing Is Lost — Self (archive footage)
• 2015Marsha Hunt's Sweet Adversity — Self
• 2007Fired! — Self
• Head Case — Self
• 2002AFI's 100 Years... 100 Passions: America's Greatest Love Stories — Self
• 1999The N.Y. Friars Club Roast of Jerry Stiller — Self
• The View — Self
• Donny & Marie — Self
• Tony Orlando and Dawn — Self
• 1972Don Rickles: Alive and Kicking — Self
• The Flip Wilson Show — Self
• That's Life — Self
• The Carol Burnett Show — Self
• Hullabaloo — Self
• The Danny Kaye Show — Self
• The Merv Griffin Show — Self
• The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson — Self
• The Mike Douglas Show — Self, Self - Co-Host
• Kraft Music Hall — Self
• Tony Awards — Self - Nominee
• The Ed Sullivan Show — Self
• Golden Globe Awards — Self - Nominee