Ben Stiller and Christine Taylor's Daughter Was In Last Week's 'And Just Like That'

I’m mostly done with the nepo baby discourse because: 1) the tabloids ruined the phrase by using it disparagingly against basically anyone who’s ever met a celebrity, and 2) I hope that one day, my children will split essentially a teacher’s salary three ways to take over the Pajiba empire and fill these web pages with TikToks, Dickety-Dics, and AI-generated Winky Tods—and I don’t want your kids canceling them for nepotism.

Also, it’s just kind of a fact of life in the industry now. Honestly, when a new actor breaks out, I’m surprised if they’re not the child of another celebrity. If they’re good at their jobs, I’m willing to cut them all the slack—as long as they acknowledge that the odds of them landing the same role would’ve been slim if they were a rando from Louisiana. They’re all gonna be replaced by AI-generated Winky Tods someday anyway. Everyone knows that you don’t have to be related to a celebrity to get your foot in the door anyway; you just have to be friends with Adam Sandler.

That brings me to Ben Stiller’s daughter. She was in last week’s episode of And Just Like That…, which might have gotten more attention had showrunner Michael Patrick King not announced the morning after it aired that the show was ending, for good, in two weeks.

Ella Stiller, the daughter of Ben Stiller and Christine Taylor, played Mia, the woman with whom Miranda’s son had a casual hookup and got pregnant. And here’s why you clicked:

It’s not a particularly big role, and I have no idea if her parents pulled any strings to help her land it. But also, they probably didn’t need to: the name likely got her foot in the door so she could snap up a role with less than five minutes of screentime, thereby depriving a rando from Louisiana of getting her SAG card.

via Vanity Fair