Starting in comedy
Carrey dropped away from senior high & began to function within comedy clubs with an work that involved impersonations of celebrities like Michael Landon and Jimmy Stewart. Inside 1979, he moved to Los Angeles and started working in The Comedy Store, where he was found by comedian Rodney Dangerfield. Dangerfield liked Carrey's work such that he signed Carrey as much as open Dangerfield's tour performances.

Carrey began to act now & then withinside television and around microscopic arethe in motion picture, which one of these days led to a friendly relationship by using Damon Wayans. Whenever Wayans' brother Keenen was putting together the sketch comedy indicate for Fox called In Living Color, Carrey was hired as a cast member. Carrey's unusual characters & in-screen behavior caught Usa's attention.

Film career
Carrey processed the forgettable film debut around Rubberface (1981). 4 years late, he got the leading role in the dark comedy Once Bitten as Mark Kendall, the teenaged virgin world health organization is pursued by the 400-month old vampire (Lauren Hutton). Carrey, notwithstanding, did non personal experience pack professional profits until virtually the decade in the future after he had the leading role in the comedy Ace Ventura, Pet Detective, which premiered only months prior to In Living Color ended. the film was panned per critics, & helped earn him a 1994 Golden Raspberry Award nomination as Worst New Star. But, the film wwhen a commercial profits, as were 2 more releases that equivalent season, The Mask and Dumb and Dumber.

A ensuing month Jim Carrey appeared when The Riddler in Batman Forever and reprised his role as Ace Ventura inside Ace Ventura: When Nature Calls. Each films were successful at a pack professional & earned Carrey multi-million dollar payroll check.

Carrey manufactured newspaper headline once it was revealed that for his next film, The Cable Guy, he was paid twenty million dollars, the record payday for a comedic actor. A attention drawn to his wage, coupled sustaining blackball reviews & a character's dark mood around direct contrast to his more performances, totally contributed to the film's pack professional failure. Jim Carrey quickly rebounded by using a successful Liar Liar, a link to to his trademark style.

Despite the regular comedy successes, Jim Carrey adventure & a cold-shoulder paycut to star in The Truman Show (1998), a vary of pace that led to prognosis of an Academy Award nomination which did not happen, leading Jim Carrey to pop up on the indicate & joke "it's an honor just to be nominated...oh no." A equivalent month, Carrey had to flex other of his acting muscles using an appearance when a fictionalized versiin of himself on Garry Shandling's The Larry Sanders Show, making an unforgettable impression by ripping deliberately into Shandling's character and exposing a non and so funny human behind the mask.

Inside 1999 Carrey fought stiff & won a role of comedian Andy Kaufman in Man on the Moon. Many actors including Edward Norton were interested in the role, but Carrey's audition, including an work by having a bongo drums Kaufman used around his performances, helped him win a role. Coincidentally, Carrey was innate Baker's dozen years to the day after Kaufman.

Jim Carrey continues to pop up within successful comedies also when additional spectacular roles. His performance inside Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind (2004) earned high praise from critics, world health organization again incorrectly predicted that Carrey would receive his 1st Oscar nomination.

Personal life
Carrey was born & grew higher in the Toronto suburb of Newmarket, Ontario. The comedian from either an early age, Carrey mailed his résumé to The Carol Burnett Show when he was 10 years old. A teachers inside Carrey's high gave him two or three minutes at the prevent of both school day to launder a stand-up comedy routine for his classmates.

A Carrey personal fell in difficult days & were forced to move to the Toronto suburbia of Scarborough, where they took security & janitorial jobs in the Titan Wheels factory. Carrey began working eight-hour shifts every day after school. In time, the Carrey personal adjusted by hold out a relative's lawn away from a personal Volkswagen van until they may draw back into town.

Carrey has been married twice, number 1 to Melissthe Womer using whom he experienced a girl, Jane, so to actress Lauren Holly in a marriage that lasted to a lesser degree a year.

Extrthe recently, Carrey became a (dual) U.S. citizen in October 7, 2004. He went public all about his bouts by having depression in a November 2004 60 Minutes interview, where he too spoke of growing higher in the period of his personal's hard days.

Selected filmography

Trivia
George Martin included Carrey's cover version of "I Am the Walrus" when he produced a 1998 Beatles tribute called In My Life. He's the fan of the death metal band Cannibal Corpse.