What is the best Ben Stiller acting performance of all time?

Ben Stiller has built one of Hollywood's strangest and richest filmographies — from hysterically dim male models to bleak, introspective loners. He's also a fearless director who has staged his own performances in bold, unexpected ways. Which Stiller role is his greatest?

1. 1
   Derek Zoolander

   A hilariously dim male model incapable of turning left in a fashion world satire Stiller also directed, Zoolander (2001).
2. 2
   Tugg Speedman

   A fading action star who goes dangerously method in a film-within-a-film in Tropic Thunder (2008), directed by Stiller.
3. 3
   Greg Focker

   A male nurse hopelessly trying to win over his girlfriend's suspicious ex-CIA father in Meet the Parents (2000).
4. 4
   Walter Mitty

   A daydreaming magazine worker who embarks on a real-world adventure in The Secret Life of Walter Mitty (2013), directed by Stiller.
5. 5
   White Goodman

   A pompous, mustached gym mogul trying to bulldoze the neighborhood underdog fitness center in Dodgeball (2004).
6. 6
   Chas Tenenbaum

   An obsessive, tracksuit-wearing overachiever returning to his eccentric family after personal tragedy in The Royal Tenenbaums (2001).
7. 7
   Ted Stroehmann

   A lovesick man who hires a private eye to locate his high school crush with increasingly disastrous results in There's Something About Mary (1998).
8. 8
   Tony Perkis

   A deranged fitness guru who takes over a summer camp for overweight kids with cult-leader intensity in Heavyweights (1995).
9. 9
   Mel Coplin

   A neurotic new father searching chaotically across America for his biological parents in Flirting with Disaster (1996).
10. 10
    Roger Greenberg

    A tightly wound, socially awkward carpenter reconnecting with his brother's personal assistant in Greenberg (2010).
11. 11
    Mr. Furious

    A wannabe superhero whose only power is that he becomes very, very angry in Mystery Men (1999).
12. 12
    Jerry Stahl

    A Hollywood TV writer's devastating spiral into heroin addiction in Permanent Midnight (1998).
13. 13
    Richard Matt

    A convicted murderer orchestrating an elaborate prison escape in Escape at Dannemora (2018), a TV miniseries Stiller directed.