--- description: Stiller is an actor, filmmaker, and humanitarian title: TIME | Current & Breaking News | National & World Updates image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde093bcdab65f2d0/6988d9b9bc6cfc69913e2a3c/time-logo.jpg?branch=production --- ![](https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt284df009fd6824ab/6988b733a988ca16a46bac41/ben-stiller-headshot.jpg?branch=production&width=3840&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1:1) # Ben Stiller ![Ben Stiller](https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt284df009fd6824ab/6988b733a988ca16a46bac41/ben-stiller-headshot.jpg?branch=production&width=96&quality=75&auto=webp) ## Ben Stiller Update your preferences in [Account Settings](/account/preferences/) Close Stiller is an actor, filmmaker, and humanitarian ![Ben Stiller](https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt284df009fd6824ab/6988b733a988ca16a46bac41/ben-stiller-headshot.jpg?branch=production&width=96&quality=75&auto=webp) ## Ben Stiller Update your preferences in [Account Settings](/account/preferences/) Close * ![Protesters gather during an anti-government rally calling for early elections, outside the Knesset in Jerusalem, on June 18, 2024.](https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt646ed0371c26f694/698a57eadb2987372726bc36/israel-gaza-refugees-stiller.jpg?branch=production&width=3840&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1:1) Jun 20, 2024 ### [Ben Stiller on the Suffering in Israel and Gaza](https://time.com/6989720/israel-hamas-war-ben-stiller-essay/) The actor, filmmaker, and humanitarian is advocating for peace [IDEAS](/section/ideas/) * ![Ben Stiller meets Syrian refugee children in Jordan's Azraq refugee camp, where more than half of the 54,000 refugees registered there are children.](https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt825dffb42286567b/6988b728a988ca76f56bac36/ben-stiller-jordan-refugees-1.jpg?branch=production&width=3840&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1:1) Jan 25, 2017 ### [Nobody Wants to Be a Refugee](https://time.com/4648778/ben-stiller-refugees/) 'Compassion and security are not mutually exclusive' [IDEAS](/section/ideas/) Meta: null ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"Organization","@id":"https://time.com/","name":"TIME","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/","name":"Home"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/author/ben-stiller/","name":"Ben Stiller"}}]},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"Person","@id":"https://time.com/author/ben-stiller/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/author/ben-stiller/"},"name":"Ben Stiller","jobTitle":null,"description":"Stiller is an actor, filmmaker, and humanitarian","image":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt284df009fd6824ab/6988b733a988ca16a46bac41/ben-stiller-headshot.jpg?branch=production","url":"https://time.com/author/ben-stiller/","sameAs":["https://x.com/RedHourBen"],"worksFor":{"@type":"Organization","name":"TIME","url":"https://time.com/"}}] ```