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| Birth Name(s) : James Eugene Carrey |
Date of Birth: January 17, 1962 |
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Dropping out of high school at 16, working as a janitor and living out of a car/trailer with his family, being turned down for "Saturday Night Live" and countless shows in the comedy club circuit have made Jim Carrey's rise to the top a long and arduous road. Now infamous as the "body comic", Jim deserves every bit of the praise, fame and millions he's worked so hard to earn.
"In Living Color" (1990) was perhaps the turning point in his career. Now as a regular TV series cast member and the only white boy on the team, Jim had an outlet for wacky characters like Fire Marshall Bill. It only took one year to see Jim transform from TV goofball to marquis headliner. 1994 saw him star in "Ace Ventura: Pet Detective", "The Mask" and "Dumb & Dumber". Two divorces, a daughter and nearly 40 feature films later, Jim shows no sign of slowing down. |
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James Eugene Carrey (born January 17, 1962) is a Canadian actor and comedian. He is known for his manic, slapstick performances in comedy films such as Ace Ventura: Pet Detective, Ace Ventura: When Nature Calls, The Mask, Dumb and Dumber, Me, Myself & Irene, The Cable Guy, Liar Liar and Bruce Almighty. Carrey has also achieved Golden Globes for his dramatic roles in The Truman Show and Man on the Moon. But despite the fact he has put on many performances which were praised by both critics and fans alike, he has never been nominated for an Academy Award.
Jim Carrey was born in Newmarket, Ontario to Kathleen Oram, and Percy Carrey, a mortician. He has three older siblings, John, Patricia and Rita. The family was Catholic and has some French Canadian ancestry (as the original surname was Carré).
Carrey lived in Burlington, Ontario for eight years and attended Aldershot High School. In a Hamilton Spectator interview (February 2007), Carrey remarks that "if his career in show business hadn't panned out he would probably be working today in the Circus industry or dealing crack in the streets of Ontario." When looking across the Burlington Bay towards Hamilton he could see the mills and thought "those were where the great jobs were." He already had experience working in a science testing facility Richmond Hill, Ontario and was somewhat resigned to that career path.
In 1990, Carrey's breakthrough came when he landed a starring comedic role on the hit television show In Living Color.
Carrey then turned his attention to the film and television industries, auditioning to be a castmember for 1980–1981 season of NBC's Saturday Night Live. Carrey was not selected for the position (although he did host the show in May 1996). His first lead role on television was Skip Tarkenton, a young animation producer on NBC's short-lived The Duck Factory, airing from April 12, 1984 to July 11, 1984, and offering a behind-the-scenes look at the crew that produced a children's cartoon.
Carrey continued working in smaller film and television roles, which led to a friendship with fellow comedian Damon Wayans, who co-starred with Carrey as a fellow extraterrestrial in 1989's Earth Girls are Easy. When Wayans' brother Keenen began developing a sketch comedy show for Fox called In Living Color, Carrey was hired as a castmember, whose unusual characters included masochistic safety inspector Fire Marshall Bill (whose dangerous "safety tips" were the target of censors and watchdog groups who saw the character as a dangerous example for naive younger viewers ), and masculine female bodybuilder Vera de Milo. His onscreen antics caught the eye of Hollywood in a big way.
Carrey made headlines when it was revealed that he earned twenty million dollars for his next film, The Cable Guy (directed by Ben Stiller), a record sum for a comedy actor. The attention drawn to the paycheck, coupled with some negative reviews, and the film's dark sensibility, all contributed to the film's mediocre earnings, although the film is regarded as sadly underrated by a significant number of people . Carrey quickly rebounded with the successful (and lighter) Liar Liar, a return to his trademark comedy style.
In 2003, Carrey reteamed with Tom Shadyac for the financially successful comedy Bruce Almighty. Earning over $242 million in the U.S. and over $484 million worldwide, this film became the second highest grossing live-action comedy of all time.
In 2004, he played the villainous character Count Olaf in Lemony Snicket's A Series of Unfortunate Events, which was based on the popular children's novels of the same name. In 2005, Carrey starred in a remake of Fun with Dick and Jane, playing Dick, a husband who loses his job after his company goes bankrupt.
Carrey has stated that he finds the prospect of reprising a character to be considerably less enticing than taking on a new role.
Carrey supports the West London football club Brentford FC after visiting a Hollywood cafe owned by a Brentford supporter.
Golden Globe Awards
- 1995 - Best Performance by an Actor in a Motion Picture - Musical or Comedy, The Mask (Nominated)
- 1998 - Best Performance by an Actor in a Motion Picture - Musical or Comedy, Liar Liar (Nominated)
- 1999 - Best Performance by an Actor in a Motion Picture - Drama, The Truman Show (Won)
- 2000 - Best Performance by an Actor in a Motion Picture - Musical or Comedy, Man on the Moon (Won)
- 2001 - Best Performance by an Actor in a Motion Picture - Musical or Comedy, How the Grinch Stole Christmas (Nominated)
- 2005 - Best Performance by an Actor in a Motion Picture - Musical or Comedy, Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind (Nominated)
Screen Actors Guild Awards
- 2000 - Best Performance by an Actor in a Leading Role, Man on the Moon (Nominated) |
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