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Christine Taylor was born on July 30, 1971 in Allentown, Pennsylvania, USA as Christine Joan Taylor. She is an actress, known for Dodgeball: A True Underdog Story (2004), The Wedding Singer (1998) and Zoolander (2001). She has been married to Ben Stiller since May 13, 2000. They have two children.



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Ben Stiller (13 May 2000 - present) ( filed for divorce) ( 2 children)

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Her roles as Melodie Hanson in _Hey Dude_ and as Marcia Brady in _The Brady Bunch Movie_ and _A Very Brady Sequel_.



Soft, high-pitched voice



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While growing up in Allentown, Pennsylvania, Taylor acted in many community productions.



Attended Allentown Central Catholic High School (Allentown, PA, USA) and graduated in 1989.





She and her estranged husband Ben Stiller , have both guest-starred on the TV series Friends (1994) and Arrested Development (2003), although not in the same episode.



Gave birth to her second child with estranged husband Ben Stiller , Quinlin Dempsey Stiller, on July 10, 2005, 8 lb. 2 oz. in Los Angeles, California.

She is of English, Polish, Swedish, German, Irish, and Scottish descent.





(May 26, 2017) Has separated from her husband of 17 years Ben Stiller



Has 2 children with her estranged husband Ben Stiller - a daughter Ella Olivia Stiller (b. April 10, 2002 in Los Angeles) and a son Quinlin Dempsey Stiller (b. July 10, 2005, 8 lb. 2 oz. in Los Angeles, California).

Quinlin Dempsey Stiller was born July 10 in Los Angeles. The baby weighed 8 pounds, 2 ounces.



Christine is an avid fan of tennis.



Christine filmed a total of six episodes of her Fox series Party Girl, yet only four episodes were aired before the shows cancellation.



Christine's show Party Girl taped at Sunset Gower Studios in Hollywood, which was also home to such shows as Saved By The Bell, The College Years and The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air.



Christine got her start in the Civic Theatre in Allentown, Pennsylvania. Christine continues to support the theatre through various gala events.



Christine considers her work on the series Hey Dude one of the building blocks for her acting career.



Christine's pronunciation of the word school as "skule" in the Brady Bunch Movie and A Very Brady Sequel was her own spin on the Marcia Brady character. Maureen McCormick, who played Marcia Brady in the original series never pronounced school that way.



While Christine is best known for her comedic roles, she is an avid horror movie fan and enjoyed filming the horror flick Room 6.



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All through school, people told me I looked like Marcia Brady.



I like that I have kids still willing to hold my hand.



I like circle time and school drop-off. And I like that I have kids still willing to hold my hand.



We have a new puppy and that's enough! Two babies and three dogs is enough.



I have no projects on the horizon. I don't feel frustrated. It's a great life lesson for me.



If I had made it in cheerleading, I would have never been an actress.



I looked like an alien, and in front of the most beautiful people on TV.



I like things bright.



I just go with my gut.



I can't stand the club scene. It's all about impressing people.



Someday I'd love to do Shakespeare.



My family's always been really funny. I feel like comedy's hard. I feel like it's so important.



It's always just a great thing to see your kids connecting and you see the different stages.



It's all about impressing people.



It was so inspiring for me to watch tennis growing up. I thought I was really good playing, until my brother told me I wasn't!



It's not like I had big dreams to go to California and become an actor. I loved doing my shows at school and community theater, and I probably would have settled in New York because it was closer. I was going to go to NYU.



'Hey Dude' was shot in Arizona, and that took me to the West Coast. We did 65 episodes. It was not a show that a ton of people saw, so it was like doing acting classes and getting paid for it. At that point I had the acting bug. So I went to L.A. to give it a try and never left.



When Ben and I first got married and we first had kids, I felt I needed to prove we could still do it and I could still work separately from Ben and I could still work with him. I just let go of all of that now. I said to him, 'For me, a little bit goes a long way.'



We want to encourage the young ones to learn and get some confidence in sports. It's fun and keeps you active and moving.



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