'Me, Myself and Irene,' 'How the Grinch Stole Christmas,' 'Eternal Sunshine' Still, he became one of the highest-paid actors in Hollywood, with an reported asking price of $20 million. Despite his Golden Globe success, he didn't earn a nomination for an Academy Award.
For his dead-on portrayal of Kaufman, Carrey took home his second Golden Globe. He then teamed up with legendary director Milos Forman for the Andy Kaufman biopic Man on the Moon (1999), co-starring Courtney Love. 'The Truman Show,' 'Man on the Moon'Ĭarrey took a successful dramatic turn as Truman Burbank in Peter Weir's The Truman Show (1998), for which he won a Golden Globe award for Best Actor. He followed with The Mask (1994), Dumb and Dumber (1994), Ace Ventura: When Nature Calls (1995), Batman Forever (1995), The Cable Guy (1996) and Liar Liar (1997). From there, Carrey's expressive face, expert mimicry skills and physical brand of comedy kept the hits coming. Movies 'Ace Ventura: Pet Detective,' 'The Mask'Ĭarrey's big screen debut came with 1984's Finders Keepers, but he didn't find success until he played the title role in the 1994 comedy Ace Ventura: Pet Detective. 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. In 1983 Carrey headed west to Hollywood where he starred in a made-for-television movie called Introducing.Janet. 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.
Carrey got his start with a spot doing stand-up at a Toronto comedy club when he was just 15 years old. Actor and comedian James Eugene Carrey was born on January 17, 1962, in Newmarket, Ontario, Canada.
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