James Eugene Carrey (born January 17, 1962) is a Canadian-American A-list film 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 critical success in dramatic roles in films such as The Truman Show, Man on the Moon, and Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind. But despite the fact that he has done many performances which were praised by both critics and fans alike, and has won more MTV awards than any other celebrity in MTV history for his work, 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).
After the family moved to Scarborough when Carrey was 14, he attended Blessed Trinity Catholic School in North York for two years, before enrolling at Agincourt Collegiate Institute, Scarborough's oldest high school.
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 has been married twice, first to former actress and Comedy Store waitress Melissa Womer, with whom he has a daughter, Jane Erin Carrey (b. September 1987). They were married on March 28, 1987 and were officially divorced in late 1995. After his separation from Womer in 1994, Carrey began dating his Dumb and Dumber co-star Lauren Holly. They were married on September 23, 1996; the marriage lasted less than a year. Carrey dated actress Renée Zellweger, whom he met on the set of Me, Myself & Irene, but their relationship ended in a broken engagement in December 2000. During 2004, Jim dated his massage therapist Tiffany O. Silver. In December 2005, Carrey began dating actress/model Jenny McCarthy. The pair have since denied engagement rumors. In the May 2006 issue of Playboy Magazine (pg 48), it was mentioned that he has dated model Anine Bing.
Carrey supports the West London football club Brentford FC after visiting a Hollywood cafe owned by a Brentford supporter.
He attended a Presbyterian Church with his family in the early 1990s. Carrey really does have a chipped tooth; for his role in Dumb and Dumber, he simply removed the tooth cap. He owns a Gulfstream Aerospace Gulfstream V and also drives a Saleen S7 (the car his Bruce Almighty character received using godlike powers). Carrey is a big fan of the death metal band Cannibal Corpse, who did a cameo in Ace Ventura. He is a huge fan of professional wrestling and the cartoons Johnny Bravo, Spongebob Squarepants and Dave the Barbarian
Carrey received U.S. citizenship on October 7, 2004 and now maintains dual citizenship between the U.S. and his native Canada, where he has 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.
