James "Jim" Carrey (born January 17, 1962) is a Canadian-American actor, comedian, singer and writer. He has received two Golden Globe Awards and has also been nominated on four occasions.
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James "Jim" Carrey (born January 17, 1962) is a Canadian-American actor, comedian,
singer and writer. He has received two Golden Globe Awards and
has also been nominated on four occasions.
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Early life
Carrey was born in Newmarket, Ontario, the son
of Kathleen (née Oram), a homemaker, and Percy Carrey,
a musician and accountant. He has three older siblings, John, Patricia, and Rita. He was raised Roman Catholic. His mother was of French, Irish, and Scottish descent and his father was of French Canadian ancestry (the family's original surname was Carré). After his family moved to Scarborough, Ontario, when Carrey was 14 years old, he attended Blessed Trinity Catholic School, in North York, for two years, enrolled at Agincourt Collegiate Institute for another year, then briefly attended Northview Heights Secondary School for the remainder of his high school career (all together, he spent three years in Grade 10). Carrey lived in Burlington, Ontario, for eight years and attended Aldershot High School, where he once opened for 1980s new wave band Spoons.
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Family and Relationships Carrey has been married twice, first
to former actress and Comedy Store waitress Melissa Womer on March
28, 1987; the two were divorced in late 1995. Their only child, a daughter named Jane Erin Carrey, was born on September 6, 1987, in Los Angeles County.
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In December 2005, Carrey began dating actress and
model Jenny McCarthy. They made their relationship public in June
2006. She announced on April 2, 2008, that the two were then living together, but had no plans to marry; as they do not need a "piece of paper." In April 2010, Carrey and McCarthy ended their near five-year relationship.
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In Los Angeles on February 27, 2010, Carrey
announced in his Twitter account that he had become a
grandfather when his daughter Jane gave birth to her first child with musician husband Alex Santana. He announced that his grandson's name was Jackson Riley Santana.
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Having had little success in television movies and
several low-budget films, Carrey was cast as the title character in Ace
Ventura: Pet Detective which premiered in February, 1994, making more than $72 million domestically.
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High profile roles followed when he was cast
as Stanley Ipkiss in The Mask (1994) for which he gained a Golden Globe
Awardnomination for Best Actor in a Musical or Comedy, and as Lloyd Christmas in the comedy film Dumb and Dumber (1994).
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Liar Liar (1997), in which he was nominated for
another Golden Globe Award
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How the Grinch Stole Christmas (2000) where he played
the title character
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Bruce Almighty (2003) where he portrayed the role of