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Christine Joan Taylor StillerΒ (born July 30, 1971) is an American actress. She is known for playingΒ Marcia BradyΒ inΒ The Brady Bunch MovieΒ andΒ A Very Brady Sequel, as well as roles in films likeΒ The Craft,Β The Wedding Singer,Β Zoolander,Β Dodgeball: A True Underdog Story, and her television roles inΒ Hey Dude,Β Arrested Development, andΒ Search Party.
Taylor began her acting career in 1989 on theΒ NickelodeonΒ children's television seriesΒ Hey DudeΒ where she played theΒ lifeguardΒ Melody Hanson. She continued in that role through 1991 while making various guest appearances on other programs. In 1995, Taylor was cast as Marcia Brady inΒ The Brady Bunch MovieΒ and later inΒ A Very Brady Sequel.
FollowingΒ The Brady Bunch Movie, Taylor made several comedic guest appearances on the TV seriesΒ Ellen, landing the lead role in the television seriesΒ Party Girl, based on theΒ 1995 film of the same name, and more guest appearances onΒ Seinfeld and Friends.
She played the racist school bully Laura Lizzie in the 1996 horror filmΒ The Craft, and also playedΒ Drew Barrymore's cousin, Holly Sullivan, in the 1998 comedyΒ The Wedding Singer. In 2001, she starred alongside her husband Ben Stiller in Zoolander and again, in 2016, she reprised her role in Zoolander 2.
In 2005, she made television appearances as a guest star in two episodes of Arrested DevelopmentΒ as Sally Sitwell and, in 2006, in an episode ofΒ NBC'sΒ My Name Is Earl. In July 2006, her husband,Β Ben StillerΒ announced 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.
She has appeared withΒ Mandy MooreΒ in bothΒ DedicationΒ andΒ License to Wed.Β In 2010, she guest starred inΒ Hannah Montana Forever and she starred in the Hallmark ChannelΒ Christmas movieΒ Farewell Mr. Kringle.Β In 2013, she reprised her role as Sally Sitwell in two episodes of the revivedΒ Arrested Development. She also guest starred onΒ ElementaryΒ in 2017, playing villainess Gail Lundquist.
Beginning in 2016, Taylor had a recurring role as Gail onΒ Search Party. In 2021, Taylor joined the cast ofΒ High Desert, anΒ Apple TV+Β series.
Christine and her husband, Ben Stiller, separated in 2017, after 17 years of marriage, but have since rekindled their marriage.
