Name: Christine Joan Taylor

Date of Birth: July 30th 1971

Place of Birth: Allentown, Pennsylvania, USA

Height: 5' 6½" (1.69 m)

Spouse: Ben Stiller (Married May 13th 2000)

Children: Daughter Ella Olivia Stiller, born 10 April 2002 & Quinlin Dempsey Stiller, born July 10 2005

Christine and her daughter Ella

Random Trivia about Christine

*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.

*Dated Duke University basketball player Bill McCaffrey when Duke won the NCAA championship in 1991.

*Born on the same day as actor/comedian Tom Green.

*She and her husband Ben Stiller, have both guest-starred on the TV series "Friends", though not in the same episode.

*Christine describes her childhood as "conservative, Catholic, and preppy"

*As a child, she used to pretend she was Marcia from the Brady Bunch

*Christine's first big break as a child was starring in a spaghetti sauce commercial.

*Christine was active in community theater

*Christine was engaged to Jason Bloom, a director who she met while auditioning for a part that she didn't get. She later broke the engagement because he was Jewish and she was Catholic.

*In the 1990s, Christine dated funny-man Matthew Lillard of "Scooby Doo" fame

*Christine's favorite movie is "Sixteen Candles", starring Molly Ringwald. Her favorite part is at the end, when when Molly motions to her self "me?", and he says "yeah, you".

*Nominated for Best Kiss at MTV Movie Awards for A VERY BRADY SEQUEL (1997) – shared with Christopher Daniel Barnes

Biography

By Hollywood.com

Yet Taylor's career did not begin with either role, nor has she always played roles originated by others. She was a high school senior in her hometown of Allentown, PA, when she was cast as an All-American girl in the Nickelodeon sit-com "Hey Dude" (1989). By 1991, Taylor had moved to Los Angeles and began finding regular work as a guest performer on episodes of "Dallas," "Life Goes One" and "Blossom." The following year, she was first played Marcia Brady in the stage spoof, "The Real Live Brady Bunch" (which eventually helped her earn the big-screen version). She had her first feature roles in 1993, billed as Christine Joan Taylor, in "Calendar Girl" and "Showdown" In the latter, she was the supportive high school honey of a guy who must learn to defend himself. In 1994, she was a girl inexplicably--save for the need of a plot--spending Halloween night in an abandoned building in "Night of the Demons II" and she was also featured in "The Craft" (1996), as a member of the in-crowd.

Taylor began establishing herself beyond her Marcia Brady-lookalike skills with a series of well-executed turns in high-profile comedies, such as her stint as Drew Barrymore's best friend Holly in "The Wedding Singer" (1998) and a memorable three-epidode stint on the NBC hit sitcom "Friends" as Ross' love interest whom Rachel talks into shaving her head bald. The actress also scored in leading and ensemble roles in a seroies of indie and low-budget comedy films, "Overnight Delivery" (1998), "Denial" (1998), "Kiss Toldeo Goodbye" (1999) and "Desperate But Not Serious" (1999). While shooting the television pilot "Heat Vision and Jack" (which was never picked up but went on to become a cult favorite in Hollywood circles) Taylor met and began dating the pilot's director, Ben Stiller, and the two sebsquently married in 2000. After their personal union, Taylor primarily appeared in vehicles alongside Stiller: playing his love interest of Stiller's male model/superspy in "Zoolander" (2001), also written and directed by the comedian; appearing as herself during Stiller's 2004 stint on the hit HBO comedy "Curb Your Enthusiasm"; and playing the female lead in the big screen comedy "Dodgeball" (2004), in which Stiller played the villain and Vince Vaughn played her love interest.