Christine Joan Taylor Stiller\u00a0(born July 30, 1971) is an American actress. She is known for playing\u00a0Marcia Brady\u00a0in\u00a0The Brady Bunch Movie\u00a0and\u00a0A Very Brady Sequel, as well as roles in films like\u00a0The Craft,\u00a0The Wedding Singer,\u00a0Zoolander,\u00a0Dodgeball: A True Underdog Story, and her television roles in\u00a0Hey Dude,\u00a0Arrested Development, and\u00a0Search Party.<\/p>\n
Taylor began her acting career in 1989 on the\u00a0Nickelodeon\u00a0children’s television series\u00a0Hey Dude\u00a0where she played the\u00a0lifeguard\u00a0Melody Hanson. She continued in that role through 1991 while making various guest appearances on other programs. In 1995, Taylor was cast as Marcia Brady in\u00a0The Brady Bunch Movie\u00a0and later in\u00a0A Very Brady Sequel.<\/p>\n
Following\u00a0The Brady Bunch Movie, Taylor made several comedic guest appearances on the TV series\u00a0Ellen, landing the lead role in the television series\u00a0Party Girl, based on the\u00a01995 film of the same name, and more guest appearances on\u00a0Seinfeld and Friends.<\/p>\n
She played the racist school bully Laura Lizzie in the 1996 horror film\u00a0The Craft, and also played\u00a0Drew Barrymore’s cousin, Holly Sullivan, in the 1998 comedy\u00a0The Wedding Singer. In 2001, she starred alongside her husband Ben Stiller in Zoolander and again, in 2016, she reprised her role in Zoolander 2.<\/p>\n
In 2005, she made television appearances as a guest star in two episodes of Arrested Development\u00a0as Sally Sitwell and, in 2006, in an episode of\u00a0NBC’s\u00a0My Name Is Earl. In July 2006, her husband,\u00a0Ben Stiller\u00a0announced plans to direct a CBS sitcom starring Taylor, but the series never aired. In 2008, she was in the film, Tropic Thunder, along with her husband, Ben Stiller.<\/p>\n
She has appeared with\u00a0Mandy Moore\u00a0in both\u00a0Dedication\u00a0and\u00a0License to Wed.\u00a0In 2010, she guest starred in\u00a0Hannah Montana Forever and she starred in the Hallmark Channel\u00a0Christmas movie\u00a0Farewell Mr. Kringle.\u00a0In 2013, she reprised her role as Sally Sitwell in two episodes of the revived\u00a0Arrested Development. She also guest starred on\u00a0Elementary\u00a0in 2017, playing villainess Gail Lundquist.<\/p>\n
Beginning in 2016, Taylor had a recurring role as Gail on\u00a0Search Party. In 2021, Taylor joined the cast of\u00a0High Desert, an\u00a0Apple TV+\u00a0series.<\/p>\n
Christine and her husband, Ben Stiller, separated in 2017, after 17 years of marriage, but have since rekindled their marriage.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Christine Joan Taylor Stiller\u00a0(born July 30, 1971) is an American actress. She is known for playing\u00a0Marcia Brady\u00a0in\u00a0The Brady Bunch Movie\u00a0and\u00a0A Very Brady Sequel, as well as roles in films like\u00a0The Craft,\u00a0The Wedding Singer,\u00a0Zoolander,\u00a0Dodgeball: A True Underdog Story, and her television roles in\u00a0Hey Dude,\u00a0Arrested Development, and\u00a0Search Party. Taylor began her acting career in 1989 on the\u00a0Nickelodeon\u00a0children’s […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":0,"template":"","class_list":["post-35146","movie_engine_person","type-movie_engine_person","status-publish","hentry"],"yoast_head":"\n