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Jim Carrey

Born 17 January 1962, in Ontario, Canada – rubber-faced comedian who rose to the top of the box office tree via a huge breakthrough year in 1994, which saw comic-book anarchy in The Mask, gross-out comedy in Dumb And Dumber, and slapstick buffoonery in Ace Ventura - Pet Detective.

An overnight success Carrey most definitely wasn’t, however. A born performer, he was doing stand-up at high school, and spent much of the 80s trying to get a mis-firing film career off the ground and taking miscellaneous comedy gigs.

A combination of the two put him in cahoots with the Wayans brothers and TV sketch show In Living Color for four years from 1990, after which the big time beckoned. Carrey followed up his 94 hat-trick with The Riddler in Batman Forever, was the first actor to hit a $20m pay-day for The Cable Guy, and drove on into more serious, actorly fare like The Truman Show and Man On The Moon.

He has sustained similar variety (and salary) into the 2000s: gross-out-ings (Me, Myself And Irene) and crowd-pleasers (Bruce Almighty), balanced by critically-rated drama (Eternal Sunshine Of The Spotless Mind). And now a thriller – The Number 23.

Wise words: "I tend to stay up late, not because I'm partying but because it's the only time of day when I'm alone and I don't have to be on, performing."


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Jim Carrey - news / articles


  • Jim Carrey says "yes" to Yes Man - 25 July 2007
    Following his recent role in psychological thriller The Number 23, Jim Carrey has agreed to star in an adaptation of the novel Yes Man, which is the memoir of a writer who decides to spend six months of his life saying "yes" where he would usually say &quo


  • Carrey signs on for prison film - 4 June 2007
    The Mask funnyman Jim Carrey has signed up to play the part of a prison inmate who falls in love with the man he shares his cell with.-Reports have placed Carrey as the lead character in the film I Love You Philip Morris, a movie based on a book based on true events


  • Carrey and Diaz reunion plans nixed - 4 October 2006
    Cameron Diaz and Jim Carrey have abandoned plans to reunite onscreen, according to reports.-The Hollywood Reporter stated that the two stars, who both achieved fame twelve years ago in The Mask, quit the project due to script problems.-A Little Game Without Conseque

Jim Carrey - what members say


  • Liar, Liar
  • Liar, Liar review by Crez from Worcestershire
    Rated - 3 stars Jim Carrey rocks 2 October 2004
    ...Jim Carrey is always good value. A film that does not need too much thought, you can sit back and enjoy, if you miss 10 mins, you can catchup. A good film to watch wit...  
  • The Mask
  • The Mask review by Gordon Walker from Northern Ireland
    Rated - 4 stars A real cartoon 4 March 2004
    ...echanism for getting the characters from set piece to set piece. And it works. Jim Carrey was born to be a cartoon and in The Mask he comes closer than anyone else has t...  
  • Ace Ventura - Pet Detective
  • Ace Ventura - Pet Detective review by A customer from NEWCASTLE
    Rated - 5 stars VERY FUNNY! 4 July 2004
    ... Great movie and one of Jim Carrey's finest roles to date. Ace Ventura{ Carrey} is a pet detective who must recover a kidnapped dolphin named Snowflake and pin the culpr...  

Jim Carrey - filmography


  • Yes Man
  • Yes Man (2008)
    Starring: Jim Carrey,  Zooey Deschanel,  Bradley Cooper
    Director: Peyton Reed
    Certificate: TBC
    Carl Allen's life is going nowhere--the operative word being "no"--until he signs up for a self-help program based on one simple covenant: say yes to everything--and anything. Unleashing the power of "YES" begins to transform Carl's life in amazing and unexpected ways, getting him promoted at work ..read more »
    Rate this: 3.5 70% from 2 members
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  • Ripley's Believe It or Not!
  • Ripley's Believe It or Not! (2007)
    Starring: Jim Carrey,  Li Gong
    Director: Spike Jonze
    Certificate: TBC
    The film follows Ripley as he’s becoming world famous for his newspaper column, which charts his adventures discovering the world’s weirdest creatures, objects and people. But he learns that his subjects – particularly the people - are more than just curios for his collection.
    Rate this: 4.0 75% from 4 members
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  • The Majestic
  • The Majestic on DVD (2001)
    Starring: Jim Carrey,  Bob Balaban,  Jeffrey DeMunn
    Director: Frank Darabont
    Certificate: PG
    In THE MAJESTIC, Jim Carrey stretches his talents and proves that he can be a credible serious actor with his portrayal of Peter Appleton, a Hollywood B-movie screenwriter who is black listed during the McCarthy era. A car accident costs him his memory, and in the small coastal town where he ends ..read more »
    Rate this: 3.0 65% from 507 members
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  • The Grinch
  • The Grinch on DVD (2000)
    Starring: Jim Carrey,  Jeffrey Tambor,  Catherine Baranov
    Director: Ron Howard
    Certificate: PG
    Director Ron Howard casts comedian Jim Carrey in the title role in this live-action adaptation of the famous Christmas tale by Dr. Seuss, giving this rendition of HOW THE GRINCH STOLE CHRISTMAS a delightfully manic spin. Carrey is virtually unrecognizable in his elaborate green makeup, but his ..read more »
    Rate this: 3.0 62% from 1,765 members
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  • Man On The Moon
  • Man On The Moon on DVD (1999)
    Starring: Jim Carrey,  Danny De Vito,  Courtney Love
    Director: Milos Forman
    Certificate: 15
    In a remarkable and touching performance, Jim Carrey tones down his usual idiosyncrasies to play late avant garde comedian Andy Kaufman in MAN ON THE MOON. In life, Kaufman was a complex, controversial, and, at times, insane performer, and Carrey captures this, as well as the subtle nuances of his ..read more »
    Rate this: 3.5 71% from 1,975 members
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  • The Truman Show
  • The Truman Show on DVD (1998)
    Starring: Jim Carrey,  Ed Harris,  Laura Linney
    Director: Peter Weir
    Certificate: PG
    The life of Truman Burbank has been broadcast around the world with tremendous success since the day he was born. A star for the mere fact that he exists, Truman has no idea that there are cameras in every corner of his world.
    Rate this: 3.5 73% from 5,619 members
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  • The Cable Guy
  • The Cable Guy on DVD (1996)
    Starring: Jim Carrey,  Matthew Broderick,  George Segal
    Director: Ben Stiller
    Certificate: 12
    When a young urbanite calls to order cable TV for his apartment he gets much more than he bargained for, as the demented title character arrives and proceeds to insinuate his way into the beleaguered customer's life. Raised by television as a child and starved for human contact, the "cable guy" is ..read more »
    Rate this: 3.0 58% from 2,823 members
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  • The Mask
  • The Mask on DVD (1994)
    Starring: Jim Carrey,  Cameron Diaz,  Richard Jeni
    Director: Charles Russell
    Certificate: PG
    When a no-account bank clerk discovers a curious wooden mask he finds it has some interesting properties; to wit, the mask magnifies the wearer's personality to superhuman proportions--oddly, others seem to find this attractive. The no-longer-nebbischy clerk enjoys his new life considerably, but ..read more »
    Rate this: 3.5 66% from 4,414 members
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