| James Eugene Carrey January 17, 1962 Newmarket, Ontario, Canada | |||||||||
| Actor, comedian | |||||||||
| 1979–present | |||||||||
| Melissa Womer (m. 1987–1995) (divorced) Lauren Holly (m. 1996–1997) (divorced) | |||||||||
| Jenny McCarthy (2005–2010) | |||||||||
Jim Carrey's rags-to-riches story began in Newmarket, Ontario, where he started off as a strong student and a class clown. Using impersonations of acting legends like Jack Nicholson and John Wayne, which he would practice in front of his bedroom mirror, Jim Carrey was so eager to entertain that his school teachers would give him special time before the end of each school day to perform for his classmates. The economic realities of the Carrey family's increasingly-difficult living situation quickly outweighed Jim Carrey's comedic ambitions. He was forced to drop out of high school, after it became too difficult to both maintain solid grades and work at a nighttime factory job to support the family.
James Eugene "Jim" Carrey (born January 17, 1962) is a Canadian-American actor and comedian. He has received two Golden Globe Awards and has also been nominated on four occasions. Carrey began stand-up comedy in 1979, performing at Yuk Yuk's in Toronto, Ontario. After gaining prominence in 1981, he began working at The Comedy Store in Los Angeles where he was soon noticed by comedian Rodney Dangerfield, who immediately signed him to open his tour performances. Carrey, long interested in film and television, developed a close friendship with comedian Damon Wayans, which landed him a role in the sketch comedy hit In Living Color, in which he portrayed various characters during the show's 1990 season.
Personal life
Between 1996 and 1999, Carrey continued his success after earning lead roles in several highly popular films including The Cable Guy (1996), Liar Liar (1997), in which he was nominated for another Golden Globe Award and in the critically acclaimed films The Truman Show and Man on the Moon, in 1998 and 1999, respectively. Both films earned Carrey Golden Globe awards. Since earning both awards — the only two in his three-decade career— Carrey continued to star in comedy films, including How the Grinch Stole Christmas (2000) where he played the title character, Bruce Almighty (2003) where he portrayed the role of unlucky TV reporter Bruce Nolan, Lemony Snicket's A Series of Unfortunate Events (2004), Fun with Dick and Jane (2005), and Yes Man (2008). Carrey has also taken on more serious roles including Joel Barish in Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind (2004) alongside Kate Winslet and Kirsten Dunst, which earned him another Golden Globe nomination, and Steven Jay Russell in I Love You Phillip Morris (2010) alongside Ewan McGregor.He attended a Presbyterian Church with his family in the early 1990s. He is a fan of death metal band Cannibal Corpse, who made a cameo appearance in Ace Ventura, at his request for the band to be featured in the film. Carrey received U.S. citizenship on October 7, 2004, and now maintains dual citizenship of both the U.S. and his native Canada, where he has had a star on Canada's Walk of Fame in Toronto since 1998.
He went public about his bouts with depression in a November 2004 interview on 60 Minutes.Carrey has also launched public awareness campaigns, by way of internet videos which shed light on the political repression in Burma; especially that of Nobel Prize winner Aung San Suu Kyi, whom he describes as a personal hero. Carrey is a great admirer and friend of Eckhart Tolle, and in June 2009, Carrey gave an introduction for Tolle when together they headlined the first conference of the Global Alliance for Transformational Entertainment.
In Los Angeles on February 27, 2010, Carrey announced via his Twitter account that he had become a grandfather when his daughter Jane gave birth to her first child with musician husband Alex Santana, who performs in the band Blood Money under the stage name Nitro. He announced that his grandson's name was Jackson Riley Santana.
He went public about his bouts with depression in a November 2004 interview on 60 Minutes.Carrey has also launched public awareness campaigns, by way of internet videos which shed light on the political repression in Burma; especially that of Nobel Prize winner Aung San Suu Kyi, whom he describes as a personal hero. Carrey is a great admirer and friend of Eckhart Tolle, and in June 2009, Carrey gave an introduction for Tolle when together they headlined the first conference of the Global Alliance for Transformational Entertainment.
In Los Angeles on February 27, 2010, Carrey announced via his Twitter account that he had become a grandfather when his daughter Jane gave birth to her first child with musician husband Alex Santana, who performs in the band Blood Money under the stage name Nitro. He announced that his grandson's name was Jackson Riley Santana.
Having had little success in television movies and several low-budget films, Carrey was cast as the title character in Ace Ventura: Pet Detective which premiered in February, 1994 making more than $72 million domestically.[1] The film spawned a sequel, Ace Ventura: When Nature Calls (1995), in which he reprised the role of Ventura. These higher-profile roles eventually led to his being cast as Stanley Ipkiss in The Mask (1994) for which he gained a Golden Globe Award nomination for Best Actor in a Musical or Comedy, and as Lloyd Christmas in the comedy film Dumb and Dumber (1994).
Jim Carrey is human rubber fused with liquid Prozac. As the guy who gave life to talking asses (in the Ace Ventura films), skirt-chasing crazies in green masks (in The Mask) and made sayings like "Alrighty then" and "Smokin'" part of our every day movie-quoting culture lingo, Jim Carrey has been the de facto comedy king since the early '90s. While his onscreen hooliganism has been toned down in recent years, Jim Carrey is still important and he's still funny. When laughs are on the menu, Jim Carrey can still deliver the goods. We can't say the same for you, Eddie Murphy.
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