Jim Carrey is a Canadian-American actor and comedian known for his roles in comedic films like Ace Ventura: Pet Detective and The Mask as well as acclaimed dramatic performances in The Truman Show and Man on the Moon. He got his start doing stand-up comedy in Toronto at age 15 and landed a role on the sketch comedy show In Living Color after moving to Hollywood. While his comedic roles brought him great box office success in the 1990s, he won Golden Globes for his dramatic work in The Truman Show and Man on the Moon. Carrey has become one of the highest paid actors in Hollywood.

1. Jim Carrey is a comedian and actor best known for comedic and
dramatic film roles in movies including Ace Ventura: Pet Detective
and The Truman Show.

2.  Comedian and actor Jim
Carrey was born in
Newmarket, Ontario,
Canada, on January 17,
1962. Carrey relocated to
Los Angeles to pursue
comedy, eventually landing
a spot on the sketch
comedy show In Living
Color. He went on to huge
box office success in
comedies, including Ace
Ventura: Pet
Detective and The
Mask, and delivered
acclaimed dramatic
performances inThe
Truman Show and Man on
the Moon.

3.  Actor and comedian James
Eugene Carrey was born on
January 17, 1962, in Newmarket,
Ontario, Canada. Carrey got his
start with a spot doing stand-up
at a Toronto comedy club when
he was just 15 years old. By 1979,
he had left the factory job as a
janitor he had taken in 1978 to
help support his family and was
making his living as the opening
act for successful comics Buddy
Hackett and Rodney
Dangerfield. In 1983, Carrey
headed west to Hollywood
where he starred in a made-for-
television movie
called Introducing...Janet.
Carrey's appearances on TV in
programs such as The Duck
Factory and Jim Carrey's
Unnatural Act (1991) led to a
regular role on the hit comedy In
Living Color.

4.  Carrey's big screen debut
came with 1984's Finders
Keepers, but he didn't find
success until he played the
titular role in the 1994
comedy Ace Ventura: Pet
Detective. From there,
Carrey's expressive face,
expert mimicry skills and
physical brand of comedy
kept the hits coming. He
followed with The
Mask(1994), Dumb
andDumber (1994), Ace
Ventura: When Nature
Calls (1995),Batman
Forever (1995), The Cable
Guy (1996) and Liar
Liar (1997).

5.  Carrey took a successful
dramatic turn as Truman
Burbank in Peter Weir'sThe
Truman Show (1998), for which
he won a Golden Globe award
for Best Actor. He teamed up
with legendary director Milos
Forman for the Andy Kaufman
biopic Man on the Moon (1999),
co-starring Courtney Love. For
his dead-on portrayal of
Kaufman, Carrey took home his
second Golden Globe. Despite
his Golden Globe success, Carrey
has never been nominated for an
Academy Award, perhaps due to
the Academy's traditional lack of
recognition for comedic actors.
Carrey has become one of the
highest-paid actors in
Hollywood, with an reported
asking price of $20 million.

6.  In the summer of 2000, Carrey
portrayed a character with two
dueling personalities (both in love
with the same woman) in the
comedy Me, Myself and Irene. That
fall, wearing pounds of green fur and
makeup, he starred as the titular
curmudgeon in the long-awaited big
budget film version of Dr. Seuss'
holiday classic, How the Grinch Stole
Christmas, directed by Ron Howard.
In 2003, the actor starred as a man
endowed with God-like powers
in Bruce Almighty with Jennifer
Aniston. The following year, Carrey
starred opposite Kate Winslet in
Charlie Kaufman's Eternal Sunshine
of the Spotless Mind. His other
projects include two remakes:
Steven Spielberg's version of the
1947 comedy The Secret Life of
Walter Mitty and the 1977 flick Fun
with Dick and Jane.

7.  Carrey has a daughter,
Jane, from his marriage
to Melissa Womer (from
1987 to 1995). He was
married briefly to Dumb
& Dumber co-star Lauren
Holly before entering a
yearlong romance with
his Me, Myself and
Irene leading lady, Renee
Zellweger. His most
recent relationship with
actress/model Jenny
McCarthy, ended in April
2010.

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