Ben Stiller's Kids Detail Their Difficult Relationship With Him
There's something about Christine.
Ben Stiller and Christine Taylor stepped out for a rare date night at the 2026 TIME100 Gala. The longtime couple—who share children Ella Stiller, 24, and Quinlin Stiller, 20—put their love on display on the red carpet at the star-studded event at New York City's Jazz at Lincoln Center April 23.
Christine, 54, stunned in a strapless blue column gown that she paired with a sparkling blue necklace and matching drop earrings. The Brady Bunch Movie actress opted to wear her hair down for the occasion. Meanwhile, Ben looked dapper in a navy blue suit.
The glamorous night in the city is just the latest in red carpet date nights for the duo in the years since their reconciliation while quarantining as a family during the Ben, 60, explained that their ability to find resolution was born out of their mutual desire to find a path together following their three-year separation.
“You just have to want to be together and want to make it work,” he told E! News in October. "I think that's the biggest thing."
"It's just about a commitment to the relationship,” the Dodgeball actor added, “and valuing the relationship. I feel really lucky that we got to a place where we could—on both sides—value what we had, and want to make it work."
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"When we separated, it was just having space to see what our relationship was, what my life felt like when we weren’t in that relationship, how much I loved our family unit," Ben explained to The New York Times in January 2025. "It was like three or four years that we weren’t together but we always were connected."
Plus, a separation wasn't something that he was even really ready for.
"In my mind, I never didn’t want us to be together," he shared. "I don’t know where Christine was, you’d have to ask her, but COVID put us all together in the same house."
After a year of living together again with their kids, the couple decided to give it another go.
"There’s nothing like that, when you come back,” Ben gushed, “you have so much more appreciation for what you have, because we know we could not have it."
Keep reading for more about Ben and Christine's life together...
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Reunited
Married since 2000, Ben Stiller and wife Christine Taylor broke up in 2017. However, they never filed for divorce and, after to quarantining together with their kids Ella and Quinlin during the pandemic, they reconciled for good.
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Ella has often accompanied her father Ben to events over the years, like when she joined dad at the June 2023 Tribeca Film Festival debut of the short film Let Liv, which her mom Christine stars in. For the outing, the trio coordinated in different black outfits.
Previously, Ella served as her dad's plus-one at the 2022 Emmys, the 2018 premiere of Free Solo, the 2017 premiere of The Meyerowitz Stories and the opening night of the Broadway musical Groundhog Day.
In 2019, the duo went to the 2019 Golden Globes together to support Escape to Dannemora, the Showtime miniseries that earned Ben a nomination for Outstanding Directing.
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Ben opened up about his experience working with Ella on the set of Escape to Dannemora, telling E! he was "very proud" of his daughter.
"I was very happy it went well," the Zoolander actor said. "She showed me a lot of respect, which I appreciated because with a teenage daughter you want to be like, 'Don't be like how we are at home! Let's pretend we're actually nice to each other!' No, it was really a super positive experience for both of us."
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In addition to her small role in Escape to Dannemora, Ella has also made appearances in Hubie Halloween and Night at the Museum: Secret of the Tomb.As Ben told E! in 2019, Ella "seems to have a desire to explore" an acting career.
Christine also spoke about Ella's decision, telling Us Weekly in 2018 that she never "discouraged" her from following in her parents' footsteps.
"She came out of the womb with a mission, and I was never going to get in her way," The Brady Bunch Movie alum explained. "She is a very strong-minded, strong-willed young lady, and she loves it. Obviously she was born into the world, but I think living in New York City, she has been exposed to so many incredible things and shows and so … she has the bug. There's nothing you can do about it, but I did not encourage it."
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Ben previously revealed that Ella had a conversation with him about "not being there" during her childhood due to his career.
"She's pretty articulate about it, and sometimes it's stuff that I don't want to hear. It's hard to hear," he explained to Esquire. "Because it's me not being there in the ways that I saw my parents [actors Jerry Stiller and Anne Meara] not being there. I had always thought, 'Well, I won't do that.'"
While Ben noted that it "didn't feel great" to hear Ella say that, he said it was "important to acknowledge" her feelings: "But then it's that thing that, like, I was trying to navigate my own desire to fulfill the hopes and dreams I had, too."
The Severance director went on to say that Ella and her brother Quinlin were never keeping notes on his absences due to work, they just wanted to spend quality time with their dad.
"What I've learned is that your kids are not keeping score on your career," he explained. "It would be solipsistic to think that my kids actually care about that. They just want a parent who's emotionally present and supportive of them. That's probably what they want more than for me to be going off and pushing the bounds of my creativity."
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During an appearance on The Late Show With Stephen Colbert, Ben revealed Ella had turned him into a major Taylor Swift fan after she made him listen to the singer while he was teaching her how to drive.
"What really helped her was if we just played her favorite artist on the iPhone, and we just played Taylor Swift," he explained. "I was a fan, but I think now I'm a total Swiftie."
Taylor's music "would calm her, and it would calm me," Ben shared before going on to prove just how big of a fan he's become. "We got into the later stuff—Folklore, Evermore. 'Cardigan,' 'Betty' and 'August' all being about the same love triangle but from different points of view. And the characters are named after Ryan Reynolds' and Blake Lively's kids. And then the 'All Too Well' 10-minute Taylor's version from the vault."
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After filming Tropic Thunder with Ben in 2007, Christine chose to take a break from acting to focus on raising their kids.
"It never felt like a big decision for me," Christine said during an appearance on The Morning Call in 2010. "When I had Ella, my whole world changed. I couldn't believe how much love I had for this little creature. I wanted to be a part of it all. I didn't want to miss anything, and with Ben working as much as he does, I felt it was important for one of us to be the stability in the family."
Ben told Parade in 2016 that he felt "very fortunate" that Christine made that decision.
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Ben and Christine decided to adopt a plant-based lifestyle more than a decade ago and inspire their kids to do the same.
"Ben and I make these green drinks in the morning and they look at us like it's from another planet," she told People in 2012. "I joke, 'Just join the party! Don't complain so much, just join us.'"
The Search Party actress went on to detail Ella and Quinlin's differing tastes, saying, "My daughter loves veggies but doesn't love fruit. My son loves fruit and doesn't love veggies."
Still, Christine wasn't giving up hope. "It's that thing where your parents aren't cool for a while and then suddenly they are," she explained. "We just kind of plant the seeds."
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While Ella often attends events with her parents, Quinlin rarely makes public appearances, though he did attend the Project A.L.S. Benefit in 2018 with his family.
"This is his first event. I think he's just having fun with it," Christine told Us Weekly at the time. "Last year, our daughter came to the event for the first time and she encouraged him to come this year, and being able to make it fun and again the extended family that we've built and I think we've seen each other for 20 years and we've all watched our kids grow up."
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Supporting Causes Together
Quinlin also attended the Project ALS 25th Anniversary Gala in 2023, and Ben and Christine have shared the causes they are passionate about with their kids.
"For them to come out on a school night," Christine, who sits on the board of directors for the organization, added to Us Weekly in 2018, "have a little fun, dress up, take some pictures, but then learn about an incredible organization, that's huge."
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