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Name	:	Jim Carrey
Real Name	:	James Eugene Carrey
Height	:	6' 2" (188 cm)
Date of Birth	:	17 January 1962
Place of Birth	:	Newmarket, Ontario, Canada

Biography:

Jim Carrey was born on 17 January 1962 as the youngest of four children to Percy (an accountant and aspiring jazz saxophonist) and Kathleen. Carrey excelled in academics while keeping his classmates laughing with his wild improvisations and elastic facial expressions. By age 22, he was making a good living as a standup comic, and was starring on the short-lived sitcom The Duck Factory.

Throughout the 1980s, Carrey appeared in supporting roles in such films as Peggy Sue Got Married (1986) and Earth Girls are Easy (1990). Full television stardom came his way in 1990 as the resident "white guy" on TV comedy In Living Color.

1994 proved to be "The Year of Carrey", with the release of three top-grossing comedy films to his credit: Ace Ventura: Pet Detective, The Mask, and Dumb and Dumber. By the end of the year, Carrey was commanding seven to ten million dollars per picture. In 1995, he starred as The Riddler in the blockbuster film Batman Forever.

Carrey made a return to all-out comedy in Liar, Liar (1997) as a chronically dishonest attorney. He next explored new territory with his lead role in the highly acclaimed The Truman Show (1998), an eerie comedy drama about the perils of all-consuming media manipulation. Critical respect in hand, Carrey returned to comedy of a different sort with the lead role in Man on the Moon (1999) which boasted Carrey’s powerhouse performance.

In 2000, Carrey starred in the straight comedy Me, Myself Irene, as a cop with a split personality, both of whom are in love with the same woman (Renée Zellweger). That same year, he assumed the lead role in Dr. Seuss's How the Grinch Stole Christmas, raking in the money at the box-office and receiving a Golden Globe nomination.

Carrey returned again to both comedy and box-office success with 2003's Bruce Almighty. After proving that his power as a big-screen star was very much intact, he embarked on his most ambitious project to date, the 2004 mind-bending romantic-drama comedy Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind. The film garnered rave reviews and featured Carrey's most subtly complex and subdued performance to date.

Filmography:

2006	The Number 23
2005	Fun with Dick and Jane
2004	Lemony Snicket's A Series of Unfortunate Events
2004	Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind
2003	Bruce Almighty
2001	The Majestic
2001	America: A Tribute to Heroes
2000	Dr. Seuss's How the Grinch Stole Christmas
2000	The Directors: Milos Forman
2000	Me, Myself & Irene
1999	Man on the Moon
1998	Simon Birch
1998	In My Life
1998	The Truman Show
1997	Liar Liar
1996	The Cable Guy
1995	Ace Ventura: When Nature Calls
1995	Batman Forever
1994	The Mask
1994	Dumb and Dumber
1994	Ace Ventura: Pet Detective
1994	High Strung
1992	Doing Time on Maple Drive
1990	In Living Color [TV Series]
1989	Pink Cadillac
1989	Earth Girls Are Easy
1988	The Dead Pool
1986	Peggy Sue Got Married
1985	Once Bitten
1984	Finders Keepers
1983	Copper Mountain
1983	The Sex and Violence Family Hour
1982	All in Good Taste
1981	Rubberface

Awards:

British Academy Awards

•	2004 Best Actor (Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind)

Golden Globe

•	2004 Best Actor - Comedy or Musical (Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind)
•	2000 Best Actor - Comedy or Musical (Dr. Seuss' How the Grinch Stole Christmas)
•	1999 Best Actor - Comedy or Musical (Man on the Moon)
•	1998 Best Actor in Drama (Truman Show)
•	1997 Best Actor in Musical or Comedy Picture (Liar Liar)
•	1994 Best Actor in Musical or Comedy (Mask)