Anna Meara, a veteran actress of more than six decades and the mother of star Ben Stiller, died on Saturday of undisclosed causes.
She as 85 years old.
Also the wife of Jerry Stiller, Meara comprised one half of the Stiller & Meara comedy team, appearing on such variety programs as The Ed Sullivan Show.
She and her husband were among the first graduates of the Second City comedy troupe and also teamed up for appearances on Rhoda, The Stiller and Meara Show and King of Queens.
Meara earned a Writers Guild Award for co-writing the 1983 TV-movie The Other Woman.
“Anne’s memory lives on,” reads a statement issued by her family, “in the hearts of daughter Amy, son Ben, her grandchildren, her extended family and friends, and the millions she entertained as an actress, writer and comedienne.”
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