| Fun Facts About Ben Stiller | - Stiller Is a major fan of Tom Cruise and has impersonated Tom for many years. He even portrayed Tom Cruise's fictitious crazed stunt double, Tom Crooze, on 2000 MTV Movie Awards (2000) (TV) on a segment called Mission: Improbable. (This segment is included on the Mission: Impossible II (2000) DVD.) Tom and Ben have been friends ever since 1996.
- Ben Ranked #78 in Premiere's 2003 annual Power 100 List. Had ranked #68 in 2002 and #80 in 2001.
- Stiller Attended UCLA School of Theater, Film, and Television.
- Stiller Has a Hollywood "clique" of close friends that have often appeared in his movies: Owen Wilson, Jack Black, Kyle Gass and Janeane Garofalo.
- Sweet fact:Every so often he and his father enjoy getting together and going to Alaska to fish in the summer.
- Ben Revealed in 2005 that he has bipolar disorder and that it runs in his family.
- Fun Fact:2007 - Ranked #20 on EW's The 50 Smartest People in Hollywood.
- Ben:In 2007, Forbes Magazine estimated his earnings for the year to be $38 million.
- Stiller along with Kirk Thatcher, one of the few actors to give William Shatner the middle finger (jokingly) on screen.
- According to Jews Who Rock, a book by Guy Oseary, Stiller was once a drummer in a band called Capital Punishment.
- He fractured his hand in a snowboarding accident on Sunday, December 21, 2008 and was taken to New York's Mount Sinai Hospital.
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