Ben's feature film directorial debut came with 1994's Reality Bites, in which he costarred with Winona Ryder, Ethan Hawke and Janeane Garofalo. Two years later, he helmed the darkly funny (but largely unsuccessful) Jim Carrey feature The Cable Guy, which he once described as "a satiric Cape Fear," and over the next few years acted in such diverse films as There's Something About Mary, Your Friends and Neighbors (1998), Mystery Men (1999) and the highly successful Meet the Parents (2000). Meanwhile, he was continuing to work with longtime friend Janeane Garofalo, with whom he wrote the parody self-help guide "Feel This Book", and developing the self-obsessed fashion model character Derek Zoolander, who would himself become the subject of a movie in 2001. What's next for Ben? Apart from new parenthood with wife Christine Tayor (better known as Marcia in 1995's The Brady Bunch Movie), he's currently putting together a sequel to Meet the Parents, called Meet the Fockers. If the previous projects of this driven, dedicated all-round talent are anything to go by, it will be yet another success.