Christine's Bio

Christine Taylor was born on July 30, 1971, in Allentown, Pennsylvania. She caught the acting bug early on and was already appearing in local stage productions by the age of 3.

She attended Allentown Central Catholic High School and was molded into a very conservative teenager as a result -- but it was the '80s after all, when it was hip to be square. Christine graduated in 1989.

That same year, she was cast in the Nickelodeon series Hey Dude , where she played Melody Hanson, a sweet employee on a dude ranch. She stayed on until the show ended in 1991. By then, she was dating NCAA basketball player Bill McCaffrey and had moved to Los Angeles.

She managed to land guest-starring roles on popular TV shows such as Dallas, Life Goes On, Saved by the Bell , and Blossom . In 1992, she got the role of Marcia Brady in the Westwood Playhouse production of The Real Live Brady Bunch .

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Next, Christine appeared alongside Jason Priestley and Joe Pantoliano in the comedy Calendar Girl (1993), and that same year, she could be seen as the damsel in distress in Showdown , a low-budget version of The Karate Kid .

In 1994, Christine Taylor was looking for work and accepted a role in the B-grade horror movie (a genre she loves), Night of the Demons 2 . She was offered the lead role, but her strict refusal to do nudity led her to a smaller part. As well, she had recently been carjacked at gunpoint, and she saw this movie as a therapeutic opportunity since she was expected to scream a lot.

The following year, she appeared in the FOX television movie Here Come the Munsters and Breaking Free , a teen movie that was so little seen that instead of going straight to video, it went directly to the airlines.

Still in 1995, she managed to break into the mainstream by snatching the coveted role of Marcia Brady in The Brady Bunch Movie . It helped that she had mastered the role on stage before, but what really counted was her incredible resemblance to Maureen McCormick, who played the part on the popular television series. The movie raked in a praiseworthy $46 million in the United States.

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During that period, she used her newfound popularity to guest-star on TV shows like Caroline in the City and Ellen . In 1996, she appeared in the television film To the Ends of Time and the film The Craft , sharing the screen with Fairuza Balk and Neve Campbell .

Next, Taylor was seen in the weirdly feminist Cat Swallows Parakeet and Speaks! before she was offered a lead role in the FOX series, Party Girl . The show, which was a spinoff of the Parker Posey film of the same name, was only on the air for four episodes.

Before the year was over, she had also reprised her Marcia Brady role in A Very Brady Sequel . The movie was a box-office disappointment but Christine was nominated for an MTV Movie Award for the kiss she shared with her onscreen stepbrother Greg Brady, played by Christopher Daniel Barnes.

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In 1997, Christine appeared in the horror movie Campfire Tales , as well as episodes of Murphy Brown, Seinfeld and Friends . The next year, she appeared as a severely uptight wife in Denial , Reese Witherspoon 's rival in Overnight Delivery , and Drew Barrymore 's best friend in the Adam Sandler comedy, The Wedding Singer .

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She continued working her way through forgettable movies in 1999, with Kiss Toledo Goodbye and Desperate But Not Serious , with Claudia Schiffer . Episodes of Cupid and Spin City followed.

That year she met Ben Stiller when he directed her in a TV pilot that never aired, called Heat Vision and Jack . They quickly fell in love and got married in May 2000. In April 2002, she gave birth to their daughter, Ella Olivia.

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The wife of one of the most successful comedic actors in Hollywood, Christine's career took a backseat to raising her new family. She returned to the screen in her husband's Zoolander (2001), where she played a magazine reporter out to prove that male models are dimwits, only to fall in love with one.

A three-year hiatus followed, giving her the opportunity to enjoy motherhood. In 2004, she felt ready to work again by appearing as herself in multiple episodes of HBO's Curb Your Enthusiasm . In June of that year, she teamed up with Ben Stiller once again in the wacky comedy, Dodgeball: A True Underdog Story .

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