Jimmy Carrey now. The unfunny fate of Jim Carrey. Paid millions to ex-wife

Jim carrey ( full name James Eugene Carrey is a Canadian-American comic actor, screenwriter and producer. Known to a wide audience for the films “The Mask”, “Ace Ventura”, “Dumb and Dumber”, “Liar Liar”, “Bruce Almighty”, “The Truman Show”, “Man on the Moon”, “Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind”. Two-time Golden Globe Award winner, multiple MTV Movie Award winner, BAFTA Award nominee. Few can resist his lively facial expressions and powerful charisma.

Childhood

Jim Carrey was born on January 17, 1962 in the Canadian city of Newmarket. The family did not live well: mother Kathleen Kerry (née Oram) was a singer in her youth and then became a housewife, and father Percy Kerry was unable to make a career as a saxophonist and went to work as an accountant to support the family.

Jim, his older sisters Pat and Rita, and brother John were raised Catholic by their parents. When Jim was in school, his father was fired, and the family had to move to the town of Scarborough, where Percy found work as a security guard at a factory that produced car wheels. In the evenings after school, all four children worked as cleaners at the same factory.

Living in this regime was difficult, and one day the Kerry family decided to quit this job - even though they lost their home because of this and were forced to live in a trailer for some time.

Eventually, the father got a job at the Dofasco steel mill in the port city of Hamilton, Ontario, the family settled in the neighboring town of Burlington, and prosperous times began. Jim lived here for 8 years, graduated high school Aldershot High School, organized music group Spoons, and after school he went to work at the same factory.

But young Jim dreamed no less keenly about a career as an actor - he loved to “make faces”, amuse his classmates and parody famous personalities. When he was 10 years old, he wrote a letter to the popular comedy program The Carroll Burnett Show, saying that he was a “master of parody” and should be given a role on the show. The lively boy received a standard reply in response, but he was still happy.

Stand-up and first roles

Jim's father fully supported his desire to become a professional artist. Unable to give him financial assistance, he brought 15-year-old Jim to the Yak-Yak comedy club in Toronto and even helped him write the lyrics. The young man’s first performance failed miserably, but in 1979 he appeared on the same stage again, and this time he managed to win over the audience.

Stand-up by Jim Carrey (Russian translation)

By 1981, Jim had gone from amateur performances at open microphones to regular paid performances - he became the main star of several clubs at once. Having conquered Toronto, the young artist moved to Los Angeles, where he was just as readily accepted on local stages. Here he was once noticed by the popular comedian Rodney Dangerfield and invited him to open his performances during a tour. But at the end of the tour, Dangerfield settled in Las Vegas, and Jim Carrey decided to move to Hollywood.

In Hollywood, Jim got a job at The Comedy Store club. In 1982, he made his first television appearance in the stand-up show “Improv Evening,” and in 1983 he starred in the variety show “Tonight.” The young artist was not satisfied with his career as a stand-up comedian and dreamed of regularly appearing on television and acting in films.

His film debut took place in 1983 in the film Rubberface, and in the same year he starred in the films All in Good Taste and Cooper's Mountain. In 1984, he was invited to the main role in the children's TV series "Duck Factory", and then he starred in the films "Once Bitten" (1985), "Peggy Sue Gets Married" (1986, directed by Francis Coppola), "Earth Girls Are Easy to Get" (1988), “Death List” (1988), “Pink Cadillac” (1989), “Nerves on the Edge” (1991), “Life on Maple Drive” (1992).

From 1990 to 1994, he had a role in the Fox comedy series In Living Color, and also had his own show, Jim Carrey's Unnatural Act, released in 1991, which he dedicated to his mother, who had recently passed away.

Actor career

In 1994, Jim Carrey had a fantastic breakthrough in his career: three extremely successful films with his participation were released at once: “Ace Ventura: Pet Detective” (collected $107 million at the box office), “Mask” (351 million, the film launched career of Cameron Diaz) and “Dumb and Dumber” (247 million).

As a result, the actor was nominated for a Golden Globe and received an MTV Movie Award for Best Comedy Actor, but at the same time, not all critics liked his unique style with eccentric facial expressions, and a nomination for an anti-award immediately followed. golden raspberry” in the “worst new star” category.

"Ace Ventura". Best moments

Jim gained particular popularity among young people, and audience reviews of all three comedies expressed great delight: “It’s like we’ve returned to the days when films were allowed to cause laughter,” “This is one of the funniest films in modern comedy,” “It’s fun every second!” ", "I wish I could go back to the time when I watched it for the first time and laughed until it hurt! Brilliant movie."

The following year, the actor was invited to play the role of the Riddler in the superhero action film Batman Forever (1995), where his co-stars were Val Kilmer, Tommy Lee Jones, Nicole Kidman and Drew Barrymore. Although the film received mixed reviews from critics as a "vulgarly commercial film," it grossed more than $336 million and demonstrated Jim Carrey's ability not only to perform on screen, but also to integrate into a diverse ensemble cast. For this work, he was nominated for an MTV Movie Award in the category “Best Screen Villain.”

The series of victories was continued by the sequel “Ace Ventura 2: When Nature Calls,” whose box office receipts were double those of the first part. There were also awards: the actor received the Kid's Choice Awards as "favorite actor", two MTV Movie Awards in the categories "Best Actor" and "Best Comedy Role" and a nomination for the "MTV Movie Award" for Best On-Screen Kiss (with Sophie Okonedo).

After that, Jim Carrey starred in Ben Stiller's black comedy The Cable Guy (1996), and his fee for this work amounted to a fabulous $20 million. And again the prizes followed: “Kid's Choice Awards” in the category “favorite actor”, “MTV Movie Award” in the categories “best actor” and “best screen villain” and a nomination for “MTV Movie Award” for best fight (with Matthew Broderick).

But Jim’s incredible rise in popularity did not end there: in 1997, one of the cult comedies with his participation, Liar, Liar, was released - the story of a successful lawyer who mystically lost the ability to tell a lie, which almost destroyed his career, but but it helped improve relationships with my family.

"Liar, Liar": Bad Takes

This time, the audience was also pleased, thanks to whom the film grossed $302 million, and even the critics, who treated Jim much warmer than usual:

Despite its simple plot, Liar Liar benefits enormously from Jim Carrey's signature, seething humor. An explosion of laughter - and you, willy-nilly, begin to adore him.

And even Robert Ebert, an authoritative film critic who gave negative assessments of all the actor’s previous films, wrote after the release of this picture: “I am gradually beginning to grow a suspicion - or rather, I will call it fear - that Jim Carrey is growing right through me.” An additional award for the actor was a Golden Globe nomination.

Despite his outstanding successes, in 1998 he decided to take a break from his frivolous role and starred in a more serious role in the fantastic tragicomedy The Truman Show. This is the story of a man whose whole life suddenly turns out to be a cunningly and cruelly planned reality show. The film received the highest praise from critics as “a funny and touching film that surprisingly accurately depicts a nation sick with an insatiable thirst for spying on the personal lives of celebrities and ordinary people" Among the huge number of prestigious awards received by this film is Jim Carrey's Golden Globe for Best Drama Actor.

Another unusual role for him, played in 1999, was the role of the famous comedian Andy Kaufman in the biographical drama Man on the Moon by Milos Forman. The following also took part in this film: famous actors like Courtney Love, Danny DeVito and Christopher Lloyd. And, despite the fact that this film did not pay off at the box office, Jim Carrey received another Golden Globe for it and several nominations for other film awards.

In 2000, the actor returned to his favorite comedy genre and starred in the films “Me, Myself and Irene” (together with Renee Zellweger) and “How the Grinch Stole Christmas” (with Anthony Hopkins). Both films were a great success, with The Grinch bringing Jim Carrey a new MTV Movie Award and a Golden Globe nomination.

Another unforgettable work of the actor was the main role in the famous comedy “Bruce Almighty” (2003), played in partnership with Jennifer Aniston and Morgan Freeman. The film grossed a whopping $484 million despite being banned in some countries. Muslim countries, because it shows God in the image ordinary person.

Excerpt from the film "Bruce Almighty"

Standing out among these works is the romantic drama with fantasy elements “Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind” (2003), in which Jim Carrey starred in a brilliant ensemble cast with Kate Winslet, Kirsten Dunst, Mark Ruffalo and Elijah Wood. This is a film about "stunned beauty and existential horror consciousness trapped in a confused mind, and the voluntary amnesia of a broken but hopeful heart.” The film received a number of prestigious awards, including an Oscar for best original script, and Jim Carey was nominated for BAFTA and Saturn awards. His performance in this film has been called "the best, most mature and sharply focused of his entire career."

Another interesting work was the role of the main villain Count Olaf in the family adventure fantasy “Lemony Snicket: 33 Misfortunes” (2004), where, along with young actors, Meryl Streep also starred. The film grossed the highest box office for a children's movie, $209 million, and critics called the anti-hero played by Jim Carrey “hilariously manic.” The film studio Paramount Pictures planned to make a sequel to this story, and perhaps more than one, but after a while it became obvious that these plans were not destined to come true: the actors who played the roles of the children of the Baudelaire family had matured too noticeably.

In 2007, the actor starred in the psychological thriller The Fatal Number 23, and this role was another major departure from his signature comic role. Unfortunately, critics tore this work to smithereens, calling it “clumsy and uninteresting,” and Jim Carrey was nominated for the Golden Raspberry anti-award.

After this failure, the success of the comedy “Always Say Yes” (2008), in which he starred with Zooey Deschanel and Bradley Cooper, turned out to be even more valuable for him. The award was another MTV Movie Award and several nominations for the Teen Choice Awards and Kid's Choice Awards. Critics wrote: “The film “Always Say Yes” is good as a comedy with Jim Carrey, but even more interesting watch it like a love movie that makes you laugh every now and then.”

However, the actor’s interest in more serious cinema was not exhausted, and in 2009 he played one of the main roles in the romantic tragicomedy “I Love You, Phillip Morris” in partnership with Ewan McGregor. Before being released worldwide, the film was shown at the Sundance Film Festival and later at the Cannes Film Festival.

Due to the abundance of homosexual erotic scenes, the film did not reach a wide audience for several months, and the authors had to cut out some fragments. And although the box office collected turned out to be quite modest by Hollywood standards, connoisseurs of auteur cinema warmly approved of this film: “This romantic comedy based on real events"has its flaws, but they are completely unimportant compared to its sweet and funny tone and the best performance of Jim Carrey's entire career."

Also in 2009, he played in the film “A Christmas Carol,” a 3D film adaptation of the story by Charles Dickens. Colin Firth, Gary Oldman, Robin Wright Penn and other famous actors participated in this project with him. The film became a real blockbuster, grossing $325 million. Then there were works in the successful comedies "Mr. Popper's Penguins" (2011), "Dumb and Dumber 2" (2014) and several other films. IN last years Jim Carrey became actively involved in producing and, in this new capacity, participated in the documentary film “Rubble Kings” (2015), the television series “Dying Laughing” (2017) and several other projects.

Personal life of Jim Carrey

Jim Carrey was a member twice in his life. official marriage, and also had several love affairs. His motto in his personal life can be considered the following statement:

I don't believe in fairy tales about eternal love. Ten years with the same person is more than enough.

He first married on March 8, 1987 - his chosen one was actress Melissa Womer, at that time a waitress from The Comedy Store club, and later an actress and producer. On September 9 of the same year, their daughter, Jane Erin Kerry, was born.

Soon, tragic events occurred in the actor’s life: in 1991, his mother died after a serious illness, and in 1994, his father, to whom Jim was very attached, passed away. The depressed state due to the loss of his parents led the actor to depression, and Melissa was unable to help him. It was as if two opposite principles were fighting within the actor: he could be an exemplary family man, but from time to time he desperately needed solitude.

In 1995, Jim began an affair with his Dumb and Dumber co-star Lauren Holly, and after a series of serious scandals, Melissa decided to divorce him. On September 23, 1996, Jim married Lauren, but the marriage lasted only 8 months.

In 2012, 53-year-old Jim Carrey dated Russian student Anastasia Vitkina, and after breaking up with her, he began a relationship with 28-year-old Irishwoman Catriona White. Soon this couple also broke up, and in 2013 the girl married another man. However, from May to September 2015, a love affair flared up between Jim and Catriona, and after breaking up, the young woman committed suicide by taking a lethal dose of pills. According to her mother, “she felt she had nothing left to live for after losing the man she loved madly.”

He paid for Catriona's funeral in full, carried the coffin and looked very depressed. Soon, the official husband of Catriona White filed a lawsuit against Jim Carrey, accusing him of “using his enormous wealth and star status to illegally purchase pills” that poisoned his wife, but the actor defended his innocence in court.

After that, he almost disappeared from the radar and appeared in public only in September 2017 at... Fashion Week in New York. He had shaved his thick beard and looked emaciated, although he still joked and charmed those around him. He told a journalist who decided to interview him: “This is not our world. All this is not real. And we don’t make any sense.”

Now Jim Carrey is dating actress Ginger Gonzaga, an American with Filipino roots. They met on the set of the series “Just Kidding.” It seems like for the first time in for a long time the actor is truly happy in his personal life.

Jim Carrey's daughter Jane performs in her own rock band " Jane Carrey Band”, and in 2009 she married a musician from the same group, Alex Santana. Their son, Jason Riley Santana, was born on February 26, 2010, and Jim dotes on his grandson. Unfortunately, Jane and Alex divorced in December 2010.

Jim Carrey has Canadian citizenship, and since 2004 also US citizenship. He is a vegetarian and an opponent of current vaccination practices because he believes that some types of vaccines are toxic and cause autism.

Jim Carrey now

In 2018, Jim Carrey continues to work on television, participating in the comedy-drama series Kidding as a leading actor and producer. In this project, Kerry plays the host of a children's television show who is faced with problems in his personal life. The series received fairly high ratings from critics.

In recent years, he has practically moved away from big cinema and devoted himself to his old hobby - painting. Nowadays the genre of political caricature prevails among his works. For political reasons, he also deleted his account on the social network Facebook and sold his shares in this company.

However, in 2020, viewers will see Carrey in the villainous role of Dr. Robotnik in the feature film about Sonic the Hedgehog. The actor, although not too similar to the original source from computer game, perfectly got used to the role.

Jim Carrey is perhaps the most controversial actor in modern cinema. Some love him, others hate him. Some consider him a genius, others consider him a crook. Critics called almost all the films with his participation a failure, but the public flocked to them. According to various film studies, Kerry's name earns 8 times more money than was invested in the film. You can have different attitudes towards this actor, but hardly anyone would argue with the fact that he has already taken his very prominent place in the history of the era.

The Jim Carrey phenomenon is undoubtedly the result of his very difficult and unhappy childhood. Jim was born into a very poor, large Canadian family, where his mother was a singer before the birth of her children, and her father was a saxophonist. Everything changed after they lost their jobs. The parents, languishing from poverty, did nothing but try to earn bread. As a result, the mother began to suffer from a severe form of hypochondria and was known in the small town where the Kerrys lived as the city crazy, and the father was known as a loser. The participants in this whole tragicomedy have always been children. So, during the period when one day Kerry’s father got a job as a security guard at the wheel production, he assigned all four children there, who were forced to come to the factory after school and wash the floors and toilets. “I came to school and fell asleep in class,” Jim Carrey later recalled this period of his life. “I didn’t want to be friends with my classmates because their problems seemed petty and trivial to me.” Classmates, in turn, did not want to be friends with the son of a city madwoman - an eternally hungry boy in torn clothes, who did not even have a home - for several years Kerry's whole family lived in a van. The children constantly teased Jim. But, really, they didn’t dare to attack. Since childhood, the future actor was famous for his very strange antics: he could suddenly spin like a top, scream terribly and spit in the face, as he once did when Once again I heard a woman on the street laugh about his mother. Naturally, all this did not contribute to his studies, as a result of which Kerry changed schools several times, and studied for three years in the last grade.

How was such a powerful comic gift born from such sad circumstances? Yes naturally. Hating those around him with all his childish soul, the boy alone amused himself by ridiculing everyone. Well, he gradually realized that this is what he likes most, and began collecting videos of his parodies. When Jim was 11 years old, about a hundred videos had accumulated. Having selected 80, he sent them to the Carol Burnett Comedy Show, however, no one answered him. Secret life tormented the boy. Like any actor, especially a beginner, he wanted to hear opinions about his work, so at the age of 15, he told his father about his hobby. Dad was delighted and decided to help his son - he wrote the sketch himself, took the boy to the local Yak-Yak club and arranged a performance. Jim was booed and chased off stage. After this incident, he became even more withdrawn into himself and no longer tried to show his work to anyone. Only two years later, Jim again relied on his strange talent, which grew out of childhood hatred.

This time, in 1979, without his dad, he went to one of the largest clubs in Ontario, agreed with the manager to perform and soon became a local star. This success inspired Jim, and he decided to take Hollywood by storm. Already in 1980, Kerry, having collected his simple belongings, left for Los Angeles. There, the aspiring comedian almost immediately managed to get a job at the Comedy Store club, which, thanks to Kerry’s parody performances, soon greatly improved its budget. The parodist himself began an active attack on cinema, trying out for films and television series, however, at first it was in vain. And yet, over the course of several years in Los Angeles, the actor managed to achieve something. By 1984, he was already earning good money, was recognizable, and finally got a role in the series. All these years, Kerry had been waiting for this, albeit small, stability to fulfill his dream, and he immediately realized it - he took his parents from Ontario to Los Angeles. However, Jim's fate, as fidgety and fickle as he himself, decided that this good point to make fun of him. As soon as his parents moved, Jim lost his job, his financial situation began to deteriorate and... his parents had to be sent back.

This fall knocked Jim down. He fell into depression, stopped touring and withdrew into himself, as after the previous disappointment in the Yak-Yak club, for two years. He was saved by a friend, comedian Damon Wayans, whom Kerry met while working on television. Seeing what was happening, Wayans literally took Jim on bail - he got him a job in his brother's comedy show, while playing in which Carrey gradually came to his senses and again began making attempts to take Hollywood by storm.

The first film in which Kerry was noticed was released in 1986. It was Francis Ford Coppola's film "Peggy Sue Got Married" (he had acted before that, but the films were not successful). After this, he begins to appear more or less regularly as a supporting actor, and over time, the earned authority allows Kerry to promote his show “The Unnatural Act of Jim Kerry” on television. This comic show was first released in 1991, and the actor dedicated it to his mother. The public has no idea why. But for Kerry this was a response to another mocking trick of fate. On the eve of the show's release, Jim's mother, whose life he tried so hard to fix, died without seeing her son's triumph. The artist’s soul sobbed and beat in hysterics, and TV viewers rolled under sofas and armchairs laughing. And only Jim knew that someone who can hardly hold back tears can make people laugh so much...

However, from that time on, Jim Carrey's career took off. The year 1993 became a fateful year for him, when he starred in the film “Ace Ventura: Pet Search.” Although critics greeted the film with unanimous disapproval, audiences rushed to theaters to see it, Jim became a star, and his hero became a pop icon and one of the most popular characters of all time. Carrey soon consolidated his success by starring in two more of his star-studded films in 1994: “Dumb and Dumber” and “The Mask.” He was showered with praise and awards, and the public fell in love with the artist forever. This is eloquently proven by the fate of “The Mask,” one of the most watched films.

No one knew that the cheerful Kerry was crying again in his heart. While he was busy filming, his father died, for whom Jim, like his mother, contrary to his dreams, did not have time to arrange a decent old age. Later, in an interview with journalists, Jim Carrey will tell how he immortalized his father in his own style. It turns out that in memory of his parent, he literally copied his character in “The Mask” from him - the shy bank employee Stanley Ipkis. And later, a few years later, he repeated this in the film “33 Misfortunes,” explaining to journalists: “Externally, the count looks like my father, who looked like a freak.”

Apparently, Jim Carrey's karma is such that success awaited him every time after misfortune. In the mid-90s, the actor’s victorious march across the screen began: “Batman Forever” (1995), “Ace Ventura: When Nature Calls” (1995), “The Cable Guy” (1996), “Liar, Liar” (1997), “The Truman Show” (1998) and “Man on the Moon” (1999), with which Carrey triumphantly closed the last century, playing the cult comedian Andy Kaufman. His fees rose to $20 million per film - a hitherto unprecedented salary for a comedian. Interesting fact: Almost all of these films (except for Liar, Liar) received unflattering reviews from critics, but the audience simply squealed with delight.

Meanwhile, Jim fulfilled one of his cherished dreams: he began acting in dramatic roles in serious films. And quite successfully! The art-house film “Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind” (2004), which, by the way, Carrey himself calls one of his favorite works, finally received unanimous approval from critics and was nominated for many prestigious awards.

Carrey's reputation as an ordinary person in Hollywood leaves much to be desired - over the years he has earned himself many ill-wishers, of course, with his antics and strange antics. But the actor’s dedication to his work is unanimously recognized. For real transformation, he is ready to do anything. For example, for the film “Dumb and Dumber”, in order to look funnier, Kerry removed fillings from his two front teeth. During the filming of the film "Liar, Liar", indeed, as can be seen in the film, he furiously banged his head on the toilet and walls - and all in order to use these, in his opinion, funny sounds when dubbing. On the set of the film Always Say Always, the actor broke three of his ribs, only because during a planned fall in the frame he suddenly realized that it would be funnier if he landed not on his butt, but on his back. Well, on the set of “Man on the Moon,” during the entire filming period, he forced the entire film crew, including director Milos Forman, to call themselves not Jim, but Andy (after the name of the main character).

And Kerry’s fate does not deviate from its traditions - he again has a dream that is not given to him! And Kerry dreams... of an Oscar, which he never gets. The actor says: “...I will not be satisfied until I find myself in a stream of light in front of the camera giving a thank you speech. You know what I mean... I don't know how I'm going to get an Oscar or what I'm going to have to do to get it. Yes, I’m so vain!”

In addition to the Oscar, Carrie also lacks a lover in her life. Despite his fame and fortune, Hollywood star I still can’t arrange my personal life. He had many novels, and even walked Kerry down the aisle twice. In 1987, he married waitress Melissa Womer, whose marriage lasted only two years. From this union Kerry has a daughter, Jane Erin Kerry (born 1987). Today the girl performs in her own rock band, the Jane Carrey Band, and in 2010 she gave birth to the comedian’s grandson, who was named Jackson Riley Santana. In 1995, Kerry married actress Lauren Hawley for ten years, divorcing her “without noise and dust.”

Kerry tried to start a serious relationship with both actress Renee Zellweger and his personal doctor Tiffany Silver, and with models Anine Bing and Jenny McCarthy. But all the women leave Jim, explaining this with his impossible antics and idiotic antics. Will the next girl be able to tame the restless Kerry? There are chances, because she is... Russian. Since March 2012, the actor has been dating Russian student Anastasia Vyatkina and, they say, is even planning to get married.

Data

• When Jim was a child, his family was so poor that they lived on a bus.

• Jim has had the neurological disorder ADHD since childhood and to this day - attention deficit hyperactivity disorder.

• The artist’s most scandalous prank: at the 20th anniversary of the Comedy Shop show project, he appeared naked, covering his shame with a touching fake leaf.

• Jim is credited with a short-term affair with ballerina Anastasia Volochkova.

• Jim is a vegetarian.

• Kerry practices Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu.

• Jim donates money to charity, mainly to treat seriously ill children.

• One of Kerry's favorite pastimes is riding a motorcycle.

• In 2006, during a trip to the Middle East, trying to get rid of the paparazzi, Jim invited a man similar to himself to become “Jim Carrey” for a while - living in a luxury hotel, eating expensive meals and avoiding reporters. No one noticed the change.

• Kerry's ancestors were Scottish, Irish and French.

• Jim Carrey sings well, loves hard rock and sometimes performs in concerts.

Awards
1995 - MTV Movie Awards in the categories “Best Comedy Role” and “Best Kiss” for the film “Dumb and Dumber”

1996 - MTV Movie Awards in the category “Best Comedy Role” and “Best Actor” for the films “Ace Ventura: When Nature Calls” and “Ace Ventura 2: When Nature Calls”

1997 - MTV Movie Awards in the categories “Best Comedy Role” and “Best Villain” for the film “The Cable Guy”

1998 - MTV Movie Awards in the category “Best Comedy Role” for the film “Liar, Liar”

1999 — Golden Globe Award in the category “Best Actor (Drama)” for the film “The Truman Show”

1999 - MTV Movie Awards in the category “Best Actor” for the film “The Truman Show”

2000 — Golden Globe Award in the category “Best Actor (Comedy or Musical)” for the film “Man on the Moon”

2001 - MTV Movie Awards in the category “Best Villain” for the film “How the Grinch Stole Christmas”

2001 — People's Choice Award in the category “Favorite Comedy Actor”

2004 - SDFCSA Award in the category "Best Actor" for the film "Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind"

2005 — People's Choice Award in the category “Favorite Funny Star”

2006 — MTV Movie Awards in the “MTV Generation Award” category

2009 - MTV Movie Awards in the category “Best Comedy Role” for the film “Always Say Yes”

2010 — People's Choice Award in the category “Favorite Comedy Star”

2010 — Children's Choice Award in the category “Favorite Voice Acting for an Animated Film” for the film “A Christmas Story”

2011 - Spike Guys' Choice Awards in the category "Funniest"

Movies
1983 Rubber Face

1983 Mount Cooper

1983 Everything is in good taste

1984 Chur, mine!

1984 - 1984 Duck Factory

1985 Once Bitten

1986 Peggy Sue got married

1988 Death List

1989 Earth Girls Are Easily Available

1989 Pink Cadillac

1990 - 1994 In Living Color

1991 Nerves on edge

1992 Tiny Spider

1992 Life on Maple Drive

1993 Ace Ventura: Pet Detective

1994 Dumb and Dumber

1994 Mask

1995 Ace Ventura 2: When Nature Calls

1995 Batman Forever

1996 The Cable Guy

1997 Simon Birch

1998 The Truman Show

1999 Man on the Moon

2000 The Grinch Stole Christmas

2000 Me, me again and Irene

2001 Majestic

2003 Bruce Almighty

2004 Lemony Snicket: 33 Misfortunes

2004 Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind

2005 Scammers Dick and Jane

2007 Fatal number 23

2008 Always say “Yes”

2008 Horton

2009 I Love You Phillip Morris

2009 A Christmas Story

2009 Under the sea in 3D

2011 Mr. Popper's Penguins

2011 The Office

2013 Burt Wonderstone

2013 Kick-Ass 2
Albums

One of the most talented and highly paid comedians in Hollywood. He always looks happy and content, but not now. Perhaps the tragedy completely knocked him down. Or maybe something else?

In 2015 he girl Catriona White committed suicide. Her parents accused her of this and dragged her through the courts. The result, as they say, is obvious. Jim Carrey has aged a lot. There are traces of fatigue and sadness on the face. In some photos he smiles, but his eyes reveal that something is going wrong in his life.

Jim Carrey: photo from the actor's Twitter for Easter 2017

Catriona White, the actor's girlfriend, Before committing suicide, she left him a suicide note:

"I couldn't believe for three days that you weren't with me. I could try to put my broken heart. I could, but I don’t have the strength and desire to live.”

Turning to Kerry, White expressed regret that he felt like she didn't support him. "I tried to give you the best part myself", - the girl assured.

Catriona White worked as a make-up artist in Hollywood. There they met Kerry.

White, 30, a native of Ireland, took her own life on September 28, two days after the third anniversary of the death of her father, to whom she was very attached. The body of a girl who worked as a makeup artist in Hollywood was found in her home in Los Angeles. The suspected cause of death is drug overdose.

Catriona's affair with Jim Carrey began in 2012, a few months later the couple broke up. In January 2013, White married a certain Mark Burton; at the end of last year, the couple filed for divorce. In the spring of 2015, the relationship with Kerry resumed, but on September 24, four days before Catriona’s death, the re-romance ended.

Jim Carrey himself said in the first days after the tragedy that he was “shocked and deeply saddened.” "She was a truly kind and gentle Irish flower, too sensitive for this world", - he said.

Jim Carrey came to funeral Catriona White and carried her coffin . Not many photos from the funeral Catriona White:

Deep sadness can be seen on Kerry's face...

Mother Jim Carrey's girlfriend Catriona White who committed suicide accused the actor of his daughter's death. According to her, it was Kerry who supplied her with powerful psychotropic drugs that caused White's death.

Bridget Sweetman has already filed a lawsuit against the Hollywood actor. According to her, it was Kerry who constantly supplied her daughter with pills, through which she subsequently committed suicide.

Earlier, the husband of the deceased girl filed a similar lawsuit against Jim Carrey. At the time of her relationship with Jim, Catriona was married, but her relationship with her husband did not go well. Immediately after White's death, Jim said that one of the possible reasons suicides were due to a bad relationship with her husband and parents.

The mother of the deceased claims that Kerry gave her daughter three sexually transmitted diseases, and quit when he found out that White was sick. According to Western press, the lawsuit says that Jim Carrey called Catriona a public woman and began to intimidate her into silence.

Bridget Sweetman claims her daughter received the test results in 2013. In response to his girlfriend's examination, Kerry allegedly claimed that she could have contracted the infection from someone else and ended the relationship, saying that she was being too dramatic.

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All the time I thought Kerry a good man and I really liked him as an actor. And here are such serious accusations. Naturally, you will grow old here! I don’t know, of course, whether everything that’s written about him here is true, but from the photo from the funeral, it seems that he is very sad.

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Jim Carrey is a famous comedian and also famous actor comedy genre. At the same time, few people know that this guy comes from a poor and not entirely prosperous family. But he managed not to give up, he became so famous and famous that his wax figure was installed in the Madame Tussauds Wax Museum.

In addition, the Walk of Fame in Toronto, Canada has its own comedian star, which is loved by her fans, since photographs are most often taken against her background. Fans remember the guy as forever funny and forever young. Therefore, many of them do not want to believe that their pet has adult daughter, who has already given him his beloved grandson.

Height, weight, age. How old is Jim Carrey

Fans of the actor and comedian are rushing to find out what Jim Carrey’s height, weight, and age are. How old is Jim Carrey? frequently asked question on the Internet, as well as where he is now and what he is doing.

At the same time, Jim Carrey: photos in his youth and now are the same photographs, however, in the latter, the comedian has gained a little weight and acquired several new wrinkles. The man was born in 1962, that is, he was already fifty-six years old.

The zodiac circle gave Kerry the sign of a stable, self-confident, reliable and punctual Capricorn. Wherein Eastern horoscope endowed him with character traits characteristic of Tigers, namely artistry, charisma, and an excellent sense of humor.

Jim's height was one meter and eighty-seven centimeters, and his weight did not exceed eighty-five kilograms.

Biography and personal life of Jim Carrey

The biography and personal life of Jim Carrey were incredibly thorny, since he had to overcome many obstacles from childhood on his own. The boy was born in the Canadian town of Newmarket into a far from dysfunctional family.

Father - Percy Kerry - was a saxophonist, but not very talented, so in order to feed his family, he became an accountant and died in 1994.

Mother - Kathleen Kerry - was at first a singer, however, then she became a housewife; she was considered neurasthenic and even mentally ill. She died in 1991 because she refused a donor kidney.

There were many children in the family - a sister - Pat Kerry and a sister - Rita Kerry, and an older brother - John Kerry. But they all had to work with early childhood to help parents. The family constantly wandered around the cities of Canada. Therefore, Jim often changed schools and even spent three years in the tenth grade. Because he was diagnosed with attention deficit hyperactivity disorder.

When my father lost his job, he got a job at a factory that produced car tires. In order to help the family, two girls and two boys went to the same factory after school, washed floors and toilets, and lived in an old trailer. This did not help Jim's reputation; he was bullied at school and became increasingly withdrawn.

Jim moved to Burlington and also organized his own musical group, the Spoons, while working at the plant in the foundry. But the guy decided that he was best at making faces and making people laugh, but at the age of fifteen he ended up in the Yak-Yak club, where he failed miserably.

He returned to the club again only in 1979 and already became a favorite of the public, then the guy conquered Los Angeles and Hollywood, starring in the programs “Evening of Improvisation”, “Tonight”, where he presented himself as a female bodybuilder or a safety inspector and a masochist.

The guy’s personal life was always stormy, since he knew how to attract the closest attention of the opposite sex. Jim Carrey had unsuccessful marriages several times, and also had affairs with the first beauties of the States.

He did not understand the age and profession of his passions, since he met with actress Renee Zellweger, doctor Tiffany Silver, fashion model Anin Bing, volunteer Jenny McCarthy, designer Anastasia Vitkina, by the way, all the novels ended due to Jim’s strange behavior.

The most scandalous romance, which never developed into marriage, can be called an affair with young Catriona White. The couple met in 2012, then in 2015, but the young people quickly separated due to Kerry's problematic behavior. The affair ended with White swallowing pills in September 2015, committing suicide due to a breakup with the comedian, as stated in her suicide note.

Filmography: films starring Jim Carrey

Since 1983, he made his debut in the comedy film “Rubber Face”, where he became popular thanks to his lively facial expressions. At the same time, Kerry’s filmography was constantly replenished with works in the films and TV series “The Mask”, “Ace Ventura: Pet Detective”, “Dumb and Dumber”, “Liar Liar”, “Man on the Moon”, “How the Grinch Stole Christmas”, "Bruce Almighty", "I Love You Philip Morris", "The Bad Batch", "Jim & Andy: A Different World".

In addition, the man is an excellent musician, since he performed parody compositions in the show “In Living Color”, and also sang soundtracks for feature films in which he starred, including the film “The Mask”.

He loves to release rock covers, he practices jiu-jitsu and motorcycle racing, and also raises money for the treatment of seriously ill children.

At the same time, a grandson is growing up in the family - Jason Riley Santana - who was born in 2010, and Jim was afraid that a girl would be born, because he did not know how to communicate with her and how to entertain her.

Jim Carrey's family and children

Jim Carrey's family and children have always been unusual, however, the guy was never embarrassed by his parents, but rather supported them. In the same way, his father supported him, he wrote for his son humorous numbers and took him to clubs to perform.

He experienced the premature death of his mother and father so hard that he fell into severe depression for a long time. He tried to get out of it with the help of heavy doses of antidepressants and alcohol, but then he realized that it was worth going in for sports, taking a course of vitamins and finding something he loved.

By the way, the Kerry family is quite ancient, since the blood of the Scots, Irish, and French flows in the man’s veins. Previously, the surname sounded like Carre, but then it smoothed out a little and adjusted to the American sound. In the family of Percy and Kathleen, there were strict Catholic traditions, which the man still adheres to.

Kerry has few children; her only daughter was born in her first sudden marriage to an ordinary waitress, Melissa Womer. At the same time, the man did everything to ensure that she never felt what Jim and his brother and sisters experienced in childhood.

He raised his daughter in an atmosphere of love and understanding, allowing her to do what she liked, and he simply supported and guided.

Jim Carrey's daughter - Jane Erin Carrey

Jim Carrey's daughter, Jane Erin Carrey, was born in 1987, and her mother was Melissa Womer. At the same time, the girl was incredibly musical and had a poetic gift; she still writes music and lyrics.

When Jane turned eight, her parents divorced, and the girl remained to live with her mother. The little girl spent a lot of time with her father, she confidently stood in front of the camera lens and gave interviews briskly.

Jane Erin did not want to bear her father's surname because she wanted to achieve everything on her own. Since 2012, she has performed on the American Idol show, and before that she performed as part of her own rock group, the Jane Carrey Band. The girl wrote several soundtracks, including for a documentary about her father, and also raises money for the treatment of children suffering from autism.

In 2009, she married singer Alex Santana, but two years later the marriage broke up due to constant quarrels.

Jim Carrey's ex-wife - Melissa Womer

Ex-wife Jim Carrey - Melissa Womer - the first wife and love of the then unknown comedian. She worked at the Comedy Store as an ordinary waitress. Later, the girl began to develop, so she soon became an actress and even a producer.

The girl claims that she enjoyed watching the aspiring comedian jump around the stage in what his mother gave birth to; she said that Kerry’s problem was his terrible depression. The actor could sit on the floor and howl for hours, and she tried to bring him to his senses.

Melissa claims that she could not bring him out of this state after his beloved's parents died. In 1995, the marriage ceased to exist,

Jim Carrey's ex-wife - Lauren Holly

Jim Carrey's ex-wife, Lauren Holly, appeared in his life after his breakup with Melissa. She brought him out of depression and helped him believe in himself. At this time, the acting career began to steadily climb again, and he began to receive a huge number of roles.

By the way, Jim, who was still married at the time, met Lauren on the set in 1994, when he was filming the film “Dumb and Dumber.” In 1996, the young people decided to get married, Kerry clarified that he never wanted to be a ladies' man and a bachelor.

Eight months later, the marriage broke up, because Kerry said that he was a polygamous creature, so he cheated on his wife without stopping, and said that he did not believe in eternal love.

Instagram and Wikipedia Jim Carrey

Jim Carrey's Instagram and Wikipedia exist halfway, as the actor and comedian never had an official Instagram profile. At the same time, there are practically no officially confirmed pages on social networks, except, perhaps, Twitter and Facebook. That is why Jim is not responsible for the photos and videos posted on various fan pages on Instagram, nor is he responsible for their relevance.

The talented comedian Jim Carrey has become a real salvation for millions of people on our planet. Films with his participation literally save you from depression. After a hard working day, or problems in your personal life, try coming home, turning off your phone and just turning on some of Jim's comedies. In half an hour, when the smile will not leave your lips, you will understand all the miraculous properties of his comedies. During his career, Kerry became not only a good actor in the comedy genre, but also showed himself as a dramatic actor, which he also succeeded in doing very well, he also became famous for his charity work, and recently presented his talent as an artist to the world.

Height, weight, age. How old is Jim Carrey

In addition to good acting, Kerry has always been very handsome man. Tall height, good body proportions, pleasant face and good-natured smile make him a real magnet for women. But it would seem that Jim Carrey, who is always laughing and so smiling, knows no troubles at all, but is this true? As often happens, those who give people smiles suffer deep down in their souls. This is the fate of our today's hero.

There were many moments in his life when he wanted to lock himself in his apartment and burst into tears, but he still went to work and continued to smile. If you are interested in all the details of his life, where he is now, and even questions such as: “Height, weight, age. How old is Jim Carrey”, in which case you need to continue reading this article. The actor's height is 187 cm and his weight is 85 kg. Jim was born on January 17, 1962, which means he is now 52.

Biography and personal life of Jim Carrey

Our today's hero was born in Newmarket in Canada. The guy's childhood was, to put it mildly, not very good. His mother was a housewife, and his father worked as an accountant. The family lived quite modestly and moved often. Plus, the mother was a very religious person and taught her children to do the same. First two school year Jim studied at a Catholic school, where children were taught faith and order. Then Jim changed schools many more times.

When the guy was 14, his father was fired from his job, the family had to move to a smaller and poorer town, where his mother found work as a cleaner and his father became a security guard. But the children also had to work, since the income was not enough. For a very long time, Jim worked 8 hours a day as a security guard, and in the evening he went to wash toilets and floors. Thus, he took on part of the parental responsibilities. The guy slept very little and studied poorly, but such difficulties only strengthened his character.

Jim dreamed of a big stage since childhood. He recorded humorous monologues and sent them to various film studios from the age of 11, but often no one even watched them. A couple of times the guy tried himself as a comedian in competitions. At the age of 17, he began performing at the Litrais Spivak club, where the public really liked him and even gained particular success. Then the guy moved to the Comedy Store club, where he was noticed by Rodney Dangerfield, who offered to perform as his opening act. This step gave the guy recognition. Later he managed to move to Los Angeles and start solo career.

Filmography: films starring Jim Carrey

But then the guy had a streak of bad luck. After moving, Jim decided to take his family to Los Angeles. And he was so busy with these issues, as well as with the health of his sick mother, that he stopped performing and working altogether. They stopped inviting him to films and to the stage, and then Jim began to experience real depression. And a friend named Tom Shadyac helped him get out of it, who, seeing the actor’s difficulties, invited him to star in New film called "Ace Ventura". And although there were no special hopes for this film, thanks to Kerry’s charisma and great acting, this film became one of the most popular around the world and brought in large fees. Everyone found out about Jim and now they started vying to invite him to films. It is worth saying that all films with the participation of this actor are glorified and loved by the public. The actor’s filmography is rich not only in comedies, but also in dramatic films with deep meaning, such as: “Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind”, “The Truman Show”, “Man on the Moon”, “Fatal Number 23”.

The biography and personal life of Jim Carrey is filled with both ups and downs, but our hero never gives up and copes with all the failures. Kerry's personal life is very rich, filled with interesting women, although it also had its tragedies. Not long ago there was news that ex-girlfriend Jim Catriona White, committed suicide a week after their separation. This was a real shock for the man and all he could say was that Catriona was very sensitive.

Jim Carrey's family and children

Jimmy Carrey's family and children are a very important part in the actor's biography. Despite all the popularity and love of the public, Jim never forgets about his family and helps them at every opportunity. Jim is very attached to people and in general is a person with a fairly fine mental organization, who cannot do without the support of a loved one. Perhaps this is why the actor had a lot of affairs and two legal marriages, and judging by rumors, a third marriage is not far off. But each of us has the right to search true love, and a person with such mental organization as Jim will always have problems with the search, because not every woman can tolerate his character. From his first marriage, Jim has a daughter, Jane, who has already married and given birth to Kerry’s grandson.

Jim Carrey's daughter - Jane Carrey

As the actor himself admits, before the birth of the child, he was very afraid that if a girl was born, they would simply have nothing to talk about in the future and that the daughter would not be interested in her father. But he was very mistaken, because with Jane mutual language still found. Jim Carrey's daughter Jane Carrey created her own rock band, and then married one of the members and gave birth to a son in 2010. Jim is very glad that there is another man in the family and he already dotes on his grandson, dreaming of his happy future.

Jim Carrey's ex-wife - Melissa Womer

His first wife was a waitress at the Comedy Store club, where Jim performed. Literally a year later, Jim Carrey's ex-wife Melissa Womer gave birth to his daughter Jane. Their relationship has never been too smooth. Constant quarrels and misunderstandings, as well as Jim's strange attitude towards his wife, led to divorce. The divorce took place immediately after the death of Kerry’s two parents, so for a long time the man was in severe depression and even took pills.

Jim Carrey's ex-wife - Lauren Holly

After his first divorce, Jim managed to cope with depression thanks to vitamins and constant exercise. Then, having gotten into shape, he fell in love with his colleague in the film “Dumb and Dumber.” Jim Carrey's ex-wife Lauren Holly got along well with her husband's daughter, but their relationship did not work out and also did not last long. The couple were married for only 10 months. Then Jim met many more women along the way, but so far the actor remains unmarried.

Jim Carrey's former common-law wife - Jenny McCarthy

Another woman in Jim’s destiny, who, as he himself said, was the first woman about whom there was no doubt. He loved her for a long time. They were together for 5 years. Jenny works as a fashion model and, like Kerry, is an activist. charitable organization Help of Generations. There were rumors that after the breakup the actor paid ex-lover a tidy sum so that the facts of their personal life remain secret, but the former common-law wife Jim Carrey - Jenny McCarthy denied these rumors.

Instagram and Wikipedia Jim Carrey

Now the actor continues to act, only he is moving away from the role of a comedian and starring in deeper and more dramatic films. He is one of those actors whose talent is honored both during his life and after it. The truly great and talented Kerry will be an example for young actors for several generations to come. Not long ago he introduced his new hobbies to the world. It turns out that Jim has been drawing and sculpting with clay for several years now.

And it's worth saying that talented person, talented in everything, because his works simply blew up the Internet, they are so beautiful that I can’t even believe that this can be learned. Jim Carrey's Instagram and Wikipedia will tell you best moments his life. Jim has an official page on Instagram, and although posts do not appear there often, those that do appear make fans very happy. Lately the actor completely changed his image, from a constantly smiling and grimacing comedian, he turned into a bearded and stern man who is not afraid to open his soul to the world. We all hope that Jim will not cease to delight the public with his creativity, and will give the world both new films with his participation, and new films.