Biography of Jim Carrey
Jim Carrey, whose full name is James Eugene Redmond, was born on 17 January 1962 in Newmarket, in Canada, not far from Toronto, son of Kathleen and Percy. Comedian since childhood (just ten years send your CV to "The Carol Burnett Show"), it grows in economic conditions not too wealthy, forcing him and his family to relocate in the suburbs of Toronto and, for some time, to live in a van. Jim, having attended Blessed Trinity Catholic School in New York, at the age of sixteen decides to launch out into the world of club and comedy, imitating celebrities like James Stewart and Michael Landon. At seventeen she chose to move to Los Angeles, where he was noticed by Rodney Dangerfield while working in "The Comedy Store".
Launched as a comic, Jim Carrey takes part in the "Saturday Night Live" auditions, looking for fresh faces for the 1980/81 season, but is not accepted. After having debuted in the tv program "The duck factory" as Skip Tarkenton, made her film debut in 1983 with "Introducing ... Janet ", while two years later he starred in the horror comedy" If I'm going to bite ... you're mine ", which plays the role of an adolescent Virgin, Mark Kendall, chased by a vampire than four centuries played by Lauren Hutton.
During the same period gets a small role in "Peggy Sue got married", directed by Francis Ford Coppola, and wife Melissa Hei, which gives him a daughter, Jane Erin; in 1988, then, lend her face to rocker Johnny Squares in the last chapter of pentalogy of Inspector Harry Callahan, entitled "the dead pool". After having starred opposite Damon Wayans and Jeff Goldblum in the zany "Earth girls are easy," Carrey explode internationally in the 1990s. It is notably "Ace Ventura -pet detective" to consecrate him as Benjamin for the audience, despite the attacks of critics (to the point that Jim Carrey is nominated for worst actor Razzie Award to newcomer): the box office, in fact, talking about seventy million dollars cashed out only in the United States. Soon on the big screen are offered two more films that consolidate the success of Carrey "The Mask -from zero to myth" (only in the first week of programming in United States exceeds twenty million dollars of receipts), in which he can showcase his exceptional facial expressions, and "Dumb & dumber".
After the role of the Riddler in "Batman Forever", the interpreter Canadian divorces his wife and takes the form of Ace Ventura to "Ace Ventura-Missione Africa", before being directed by Ben Stiller in "the Cable Guy" and to remarry with actress Lauren Holly (the wedding, however, lasted less than a year). The success is also equivalent to a bank account always richer: in the 1997 Jim Carrey, to play in "liar liar" a lawyer forced to not being able to ever lie, gets a fee of twenty million dollars.
Not just comedy, however: in 1998 is the protagonist of the drama "The Truman Show", the film that won him a Golden Globe for best actor in a leading role and which depicts the life of an individual whose existence has always been cameras of a tv show without his knowledge. In the late 1990s, Jim gets the part of Andy Kaufman in the film dedicated to him, "Man on the moon", beating competition from Edward Norton: thanks to this role, taking yet another Golden Globe in 2000. Returned to work with the Farrelly brothers (which already had directed in "Dumb & dumber") for "me, myself & Irene," funny comedy in which she plays a schizophrenic agent in love with Renée Zellweger, appears on the big screen as star of "the grinch," fairy tale on film where Jim Carrey is an ogre who wants to sabotage the Christmas. Shortly after accepting the role of a writer in "The Majestic", directed by Frank Darabont and written by Michael Sloane: the film, set in the 1950s persecution mccarthyist crusade, depicts the story of a man (Carrey) who loses his memory and finds himself in a country that is mistaken for a war hero.
The lack of commercial feedback obtained from "The Majestic" is promptly redeemed, in 2003, with "Bruce Almighty," comedy directed by Tom Shadyac and worldwide of nearly 500 million dollars in takings. Later, Jim is the protagonist of the convoluted "when you're gone you gate" movie by the plot difficult getting a critical success rather than public, to assert Canadian interpreter a Golden Globe for best actor (while co-star Kate Winslet received an Oscar nomination for best actress). After the mega-production (invested nearly 150 million dollars), "Lemony Snicket's a series of unfortunate events", which takes the form of Count Olaf, Carrey in 2005 gets engaged with model Jenny McCarthy (their relationship will last until 2010) and acted in "fun with Dick and Jane-theft Operation," remake of "don't steal unless necessary," where he plays the role of Dick , man who loses his job following the bankruptcy of his company.
Passes, then, the thriller with "Number 23", by Joel Schumacher (who was behind the camera in "Batman Forever"), which sees also starring Danny Huston and Virginia Madsen. Become a voice actor in 2008 for the animated "Horton Hears a who," Carrey says in "Yes Man" and "I love you Phillip Morris", dedicated to the artist and con man Steven Jay Russell that nevertheless finds several difficulties in finding a Distributor. The film, which sees Ewan McGregor as co-star, is screened at the Sundance Film Festival and the Cannes Film Festival: in Italy will be distributed under the title "Colpo di fulmine-the wizard of fraud". Later, Carrey comes close to the motion capture for the film produced by Walt Disney's "A Christmas Carol", in which he plays seven characters (including Ebenezer Scrooge from old and from child and the three ghosts). In 2011 reads to Mark Waters in "Mr. Popper's penguins", and takes part in the short film "Drunk History Christmas". In 2013 offers a cameo in "Anchorman 2: the legend continues," and starred in "The incredible Burt Wonderstone", by Don Scardino.
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