JIM
CARREY

Jim Carrey is a Canadian-American actor and comedian born in Newmarket, Ontario, on 17 January 1962. Known for expressive physical comedy, he has also taken on dramatic roles built around doubt, longing and vulnerability.

Carrey developed his comedy on Canadian stand-up stages before joining the sketch show In Living Color in 1990. The programme introduced his characters and physical style to a broad television audience.

In 1994, Ace Ventura: Pet Detective, The Mask and Dumb and Dumber established him as a film comedy star. Each film uses a different character and comic situation, while drawing on his highly flexible physical performance.

In The Truman Show (1998), Carrey played Truman Burbank, a man whose apparently ordinary life is broadcast without his knowledge. The performance won him a Golden Globe; he received another for playing entertainer Andy Kaufman in Man on the Moon (1999).

Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind (2004) cast him as Joel in a story about memory and a fractured relationship. Beside his broader comic roles, the quieter performance shows how restraint can carry the same emotional force as an exaggerated expression.