Jerry Stiller and Anne Meara were married from 1954 until her death in 2015
Get push notifications with news, features and more.The pair — who shared son Ben and daughter Amy — met in 1953, one year before their wedding. At the time, Stiller had graduated from Syracuse University with a degree in speech and drama, while Meara was working in summer stock .in 1977. "People would say to Anne, ‘Heh, you’re married to him?’ I thought we could use it.”
Soon enough, the pair teamed up professionally as the comedy duo Stiller & Meara on sketch shows throughout the 1960s, most notably,But after also starring together in the Blue Nun commercials, the couple decided in the '70s that they did not want their respective careers to be determined by their marriage, and so they began pursuing independent acting gigs.
"I love Anne, but if I had depended on her in my professional life, I would have lost her as a wife," Stiller told PEOPLE. "We felt like two guys.”
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