James Eugene Carrey (/ˈkæri/; born January 17, 1962)[2] is a Canadian-American actor and comedian known for his energetic slapstick performances.[3] After spending the 1980s honing his stand-up comedy act and portraying mostly supporting roles in films, Carrey gained wide recognition in 1990 when he was cast in the American sketch comedy television series In Living Color (1990–1994). He broke out as a film star after starring in a string of box office hits with Ace Ventura: Pet Detective, The Mask, and Dumb and Dumber (all 1994), which he followed up with Ace Ventura: When Nature Calls and Batman Forever (both 1995). The success of these five films led to Carrey being the first actor to receive a $20 million salary for performing in films, beginning with The Cable Guy (1996).[4]
Carrey was born in Newmarket, Ontario, Canada,[2] to Kathleen (née Oram), a homemaker, and Percy Carrey, a musician and accountant.[5][6] He was raised Catholic and has three older siblings, John, Patricia, and Rita.[7][8] His mother was of French, Irish, and Scottish descent, and his father was of French-Canadian ancestry; the family's original surname was Carré.[9][10][11]
At age eight, he began making faces before a mirror and discovered a talent for doing impressions.[12] At age ten, Carrey wrote a letter to Carol Burnett of the Carol Burnett Show pointing out that he was already a master of impressions and should be considered for a role on the show; he was overjoyed when he received a form letter reply.[13] A fan of Monty Python, whose TV show Monty Python's Flying Circus aired in the 1970s, in 2014 Carrey appeared on Monty Python's Best Bits (Mostly) and recalled the effect on him of Ernest Scribbler (played by Michael Palin) laughing himself to death in "The Funniest Joke in the World" sketch.[14]Radio Times states, "You'll see why immediately: Palin's performance is uncannily Carreyesque."[14]
Carrey spent his early years in the borough of Scarborough, Ontario, part of Metropolitan Toronto, where he attended Blessed Trinity Catholic Elementary School in North York. His family later moved to Burlington, Ontario, where they would spend eight years; Jim attended Aldershot High School while there.[15] Some time later, his family became homeless and lived together in a Volkswagen van while teenage Jim and his brother spent months living in a tent in Charles Daley Park on the Lake Ontario shore in Lincoln, Ontario.[16][17] The family struggled financially, however, their situation started improving once his father found employment in the accounting department at the Titan Wheels tire factory in Scarborough.[17] Furthermore, in return for living in the house across the street from the factory, the family—primarily teenage sons Jim and John—would work as janitors and security guards at the tire factory, doing eight-hour shifts from 6 pm into the next morning.[17] Moving back to Scarborough, teenage Jim started attending Agincourt Collegiate Institute before dropping out of school on his sixteenth birthday. He began to perform comedy in downtown Toronto while continuing to work at the factory.
In a 2007 Hamilton Spectator interview, Carrey said, "If my career in show business hadn't panned out I would probably be working today in Hamilton, Ontario, at the Dofasco steel mill." As a young man, he could see the steel mills across the Burlington Bay and often thought that was "where the great jobs were."[18]
Career
1977–1983: Early impressionist work in Toronto
Carrey's first stand-up comedy experience took place in 1977 at the age of 15 with his father trying to help him put together a stage act, driving him to downtownToronto to debut at the recently-opened Yuk Yuk'scomedy club operating one-night-a-week out of community centre The 519's basement on Church Street.[17][19] For the performance, Carrey had his attire—a polyester leisure suit—chosen by his mother who reasoned "that's how they dress on The Dean Martin Celebrity Roast".[20][17] Pubescent Carrey's conventional impersonations bombed, proving ill-suited for a club with a raunchy comedic sensibility and giving him doubts about his potential as a professional entertainer.[17] Decades later, recalling Carrey's stand-up debut, Yuk Yuk's owner Mark Breslin described it as "bad Rich Little".[17] His family's financial struggles made it difficult for them to support Carrey's show business ambitions.
Eventually, the family's financial situation improved and they moved into a new home in Jackson's Point.[19][21] With more domestic stability, Carrey returned to the stage in 1979 with a more polished act that led to his first paid gig: a 20-minute spot at the Hay Loft club on Highway 48 in Scarborough for a reported Can$20 compensation on a bill with the Mother of Pearl performer from The Pig and Whistle.[22] He soon faced his fears and went back downtown to the site of his debacle from two years earlier—Yuk Yuk's that had in the meantime moved into a permanent location on Bay Street in the fashionable Yorkville district. In a short period of time, the seventeen-year-old went from open-mic nights at the club to regular paid shows, building his reputation in the process.
Parallel to his increasing local Toronto-area popularity as an impressionist stand-up comic, Carrey tried to break into sketch comedy, auditioning to be a cast member for the 1980–81 season of NBC's Saturday Night Live. Carrey ended up not being selected by the show's new executive producer Jean Doumanian who picked thirty-one-year-old Charles Rocket instead.[23] Decades later, after establishing himself as a Hollywood film star, Carrey would host the show in May 1996, January 2011, and October 2014.[24][25] After not getting Saturday Night Live, Carrey took a voice acting job performing Clutch Cargo-inspired bits on The All-Night Show, an overnight program airing locally on the CFMT-TV channel branded as Multilingual Television (MTV).[26]
Continuing to perform his stand-up act of contortionist impressions in the city of Toronto and surrounding towns, in February 1981, nineteen-year-old Carrey was booked as the opening act for the rock band Goddo at The Roxy Theatre in Barrie for two shows on consecutive nights; the rock crowd booed him offstage and he refused to return for the second night.[27] Two weeks later, however, a review of one of Carrey's spots at Yuk Yuk's—alongside a sizeable photo of him doing a stage impression of Sammy Davis Jr.—appeared in the Toronto Star on the front page of its entertainment section with the writer Bruce Blackadar raving about "a genuine star coming to life".[28][29] Save for a brief mention in the Barrie Examiner, it was the first time Carrey received significant mainstream corporate media coverage and the glowing praise in one of Canada's highest-circulation dailies created demand for his impressionist stand-up act throughout the country.[29][22] In April 1981, he appeared in an episode of the televised stand-up show An Evening at the Improv.[30] That summer, he landed one of the main roles in Introducing... Janet, a made-for-TV movie that premiered in September 1981 on the CBC drawing more than a million viewers for its first airing in Canada.[31] Playing a struggling impressionist comic Tony Maroni, it was Carrey's first acting role. The CBC promotion the movie had received as well its subsequent high nationwide viewership further solidified the youngster's comedic status in the country; by the time the movie finished its CBC run of repeats several years later, its title for the home video release on VHS was changed to Rubberface in order to take advantage of the comic's by then established prominence for doing elaborate contortionist impressions.[31] Making more comedy club appearances in the United States, Carrey was noticed by comedian Rodney Dangerfield who signed Carrey to open his tour performances. By December 1981, a well-known comic in Canada, Toronto Star reported about Carrey waiting for a United States work permit having received interest from Johnny Carson's Tonight Show, largely off his reputation from Canada.[32][33]
In the early part of 1982, Carrey reportedly performed for The Tonight Show bookers Jim McCawley and Bud Robinson as part of the program's audition process for stand-up comic spots.[34] However, rather than being booked on the show, Carrey got advised to further hone his act, so he went back home to the Toronto area where he had already built a significant following.[34] Touring venues throughout North America as the opening act for Rodney Dangerfield, Carrey made a stop at home in Toronto on 19 June 1982, performing two sold-out shows at Massey Hall.
1983–1994: Move to Hollywood
In early 1983, Carrey decided to move to Hollywood where he began regularly performing at The Comedy Store. Getting on The Tonight Show became his immediate career goal, and, by spring 1983, he appeared to have achieved it after getting booked for a stand-up set on the highly-rated late night show.[35] However, a lukewarm club set at The Improv got him unbooked.[35] Though struggling to replicate his success in Los Angeles, Carrey continued being a big hit in his hometown Toronto where he returned during late April 1983 to perform at the short-lived B.B. Magoon's theatrical venue on Bloor Street on three consecutive nights. While in town, CTV's flagship newsmagazine program W5 did a feature on Carrey that aired nationally in Canada. Back in L.A., within months, he landed the main role on The Duck Factory, a sitcom being developed for NBC, and, in late November 1983, still got to debut his impressionist act on The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson via a promotional appearance for the sitcom about to start airing nationally in the United States on the same network.[35] In the meantime, he was cast for a supporting role in the Warner Bros. comedy production Finders Keepers, shot in the Canadian province of Alberta during late summer 1983. For his Tonight Showappearance that aired on American Thanksgiving, 21-year-old Carrey went through his most popular impressions—Elvis Presley, Leonid Brezhnev, Jack Nicholson, Bruce Dern, Clint Eastwood, Charles Bronson, Michael Landon, James Dean, E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial, Charles Nelson Reilly, characters from My Three Sons, and Kermit the Frog and Miss Piggy—in rapid succession.[36] After completing his set, though getting the OK gesture from Carson, the impressionist comic was notably not waved over by the host to join him on the couch—a usual indication that while sufficiently pleased, the powerful host was probably not ecstatic about the performance.[37] The end of 1983 saw Carrey go back home to Toronto once more for a publicized New Years' Eve performance at the Royal York Hotel's Imperial Room.
Originally scheduled to start airing in January 1984, The Duck Factory sitcom debut in April, airing Thursdays at 9:30pm between Cheers and Hill Street Blues.[38][39] The same month, Carrey took a job hosting the 1984 U-Know Awards ceremony held in Toronto at the Royal York Hotel's Ballroom.[40] By the time he made his debut appearance on NBC's Late Night with David Letterman in late July 1984, the network had already cancelled The Duck Factory; Carrey went back to touring with his impressionist act, including often opening for Rodney Dangerfield.
After being noticed doing stand-up by producer Samuel Goldwyn Jr. and contacted to audition for a teen horror sex comedy being developed by The Samuel Goldwyn Company, Carrey landed a starring role in Once Bitten shot in early 1985.[41] Carrey would continue getting film roles; throughout late summer and early fall 1985, he shot a supporting part in Francis Ford Coppola's Peggy Sue Got Married which went into a long post-production process.[41] In parallel, he decided to try out for Saturday Night Live again, this time ahead of the show's 1985–86 season being prepared by returning executive producer Lorne Michaels who was looking to hire an all-new cast. Five years removed from his previous SNL audition, twenty-three-year-old Carrey was rejected again, reportedly never even getting the chance to audition his material—'post-nuclear Elvis' hybrid impression and impersonation of Henry Fonda from On Golden Pond—in front of executive producer Michaels due to the show's producers and senior writers Al Franken, Tom Davis, and Jim Downey deciding that Michaels would not like it.[42] Unlike his previous SNL rejection, Carrey now had a bit of a film career to fall back on in addition to his impressionist stand-up act; Once Bitten was released in mid November 1985 and turned out to be a modest box-office hit despite drawing poor reviews.
Back on the comedy club circuit with impressions, in fall 1986, Carrey auditioned for SNL's upcoming season, his third attempt at getting on the ensemble sketch comedy show. Finally managing to perform for the show's executive producer Lorne Michaels at a Burbank studio, with returning cast members Dennis Miller, Jon Lovitz, and Nora Dunn also watching the audition, Carrey was rejected again.[42] Among the group of hopefuls auditioning alongside Carrey on this occasion were Dana Carvey and Phil Hartman, both of whom were hired.[42]
Sensing that doing only impressions was turning into a career dead-end, Carrey set out to develop a new live comedy act.[43] Much to the dismay of comedy club owners booking him, he began abandoning trademark celebrity impressions, opting instead to try adding observational and character humour to his comedic repertoire, a process that often involved forcing himself to improvise and scramble in front of dissatisfied live audiences that came to see him do impressions.[43]
From 1990 to 1994, Carrey was a regular cast member of the ensemble comedy television series In Living Color.[44] While the series was short-lived, its popularity helped him to land his first few major film roles.
1994–1998: Rise to fame
Carrey played the lead role in Ace Ventura: Pet Detective which was released in February 1994 and went on to gross $72 million in the United States and Canada.[45] Following its success and before the release of his next film, The Mask, which was anticipated to be another hit, Morgan Creek Productions paid him $5 million to reprise his role as Ace Ventura and New Line Cinema offered him $7 million to make a sequel to The Mask and paid him $7 million to appear in Dumb and Dumber, a nearly tenfold increase on his salary for Ace Ventura.[46][47]The Mask, released in July 1994, grossed $351 million worldwide,[48][49] and Dumb and Dumber, released in December 1994, was another commercial success, grossing over $270 million worldwide.[50] Carrey received his first Golden Globe Award nomination for Best Actor for his work in The Mask and was voted second on Quigley's Top Ten Money Making Stars Poll, behind Tom Hanks.[51]
Carrey portrayed the Batman villain the Riddler in the Joel Schumacher-directed superhero filmBatman Forever (1995). The film received mixed reviews, but was a box office success. He reprised his role as Ace Ventura in Ace Ventura: When Nature Calls which was also released in 1995. Like the original film, it was well received by the public, but poorly received by critics. It was a huge box-office success, earning $212 million worldwide in addition to breaking records, with a $40 million opening weekend.[52]
Carrey became the first actor to be paid $20 million for his next film, The Cable Guy (1996).[53] Directed by Ben Stiller, the film was a satiricalblack comedy, in which Carrey played a lonely, menacing cable TV installer who infiltrates the life of one of his customers (played by Matthew Broderick). The role was a departure from the "hapless, hyper, overconfident" characters he had been known for. However, it did not fare well with most critics, many reacting to Carrey's change of tone from previous films.[54] Carrey also starred in the music video of the film's closing song, "Leave Me Alone" by Jerry Cantrell.[55] Despite the reviews, The Cable Guy grossed $102 million worldwide.[56]
He soon bounced back with the critically acclaimed comedy Liar Liar (1997), playing Fletcher Reede, an unethical lawyer rendered unable to lie by his young son's birthday wish. Carrey was praised for his performance, earning a second Golden Globe Award nomination for Best Actor. Janet Maslin of The New York Times said: "Well into his tumultuous career, Mr. Carrey finally turns up in a straightforward comic vehicle, and the results are much wilder and funnier than this mundane material should have allowed."[57]
1998–2007: Critical acclaim
The following year he decided to take a pay cut to play the seriocomic role of Truman Burbank in the satirical comedy-drama film The Truman Show (1998).[58] The film was highly praised and brought Carrey further international acclaim, leading many to believe he would be nominated for an Academy Award.[59] He won the Golden Globe Award for Best Actor in a Motion Picture Drama but did not receive an Academy Award nomination. The Truman Show was a commercial success, grossing $264 million worldwide against a budget of $60 million.[60][61] A Film4 critic stated that the film "allows Carrey to edge away from broad comedy," adding that it was "a hilarious and breathtakingly conceived satire."[62]
In 2000, Carrey reteamed with the Farrelly brothers, who had previously directed him in Dumb and Dumber, for the black comedy film Me, Myself & Irene, a film that received mixed reviews[65] but enjoyed box office success. Carrey played the role of state trooper Charlie Baileygates, who has multiple personalities and romances a woman portrayed by Renée Zellweger. That same year, Carrey starred in the second highest-grossing Christmas film of all time, How the Grinch Stole Christmas, playing the title character, for which he received both praise and criticism from critics alongside a Golden Globe nomination.[66]
For his next feature film, Carrey starred opposite Jennifer Aniston and Morgan Freeman in Tom Shadyac's international hit comedy Bruce Almighty (2003). Carrey played a television newsman who unexpectedly receives God's omnipotent abilities when the deity decides to take a vacation. The film received mixed reviews upon release[67] but still became a financial success, earning over $484 million worldwide, and going on to become the seventeenth highest-grossing live action comedy of all time.[68][69]
In 2004, Carrey starred in Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind. The film received critical acclaim upon release. Critics highly praised Carrey's portrayal of Joel Barish, in addition to the performance of his co-star Kate Winslet, who was nominated for an Oscar. According to CNN's reviewer Paul Clinton, Carrey's performance was the actor's "best, most mature and sharply focused performance ever."[70] Carrey received another Golden Globe nomination and his first BAFTA Award nomination for Best Actor.
Olaf is a humorless villain in the book. He's not amusing like Carrey at all. To which I would counter: If you can't let Carrey be Carrey, put someone boring and less expensive in the role. In his various disguises he's rubbery, inventive and improvisationally inspired. I particularly liked his passing imitation of a dinosaur.[71][72]
Carrey reunited with Joel Schumacher, director of Batman Forever, for The Number 23 (2007), a psychological thriller co-starring Virginia Madsen and Danny Huston. In the film, Carrey plays a man who becomes obsessed with the number 23, after finding a book about a man with the same obsession. The film was panned by critics. The following year Carrey provided his voice for Dr. Seuss' Horton Hears a Who! (2008). Carrey voiced Horton the Elephant for the CGI-animated feature, which was a box office success, grossing over $290 million worldwide.[75]
Carrey returned to live-action comedy, starring opposite Zooey Deschanel and Bradley Cooper in Yes Man (also 2008). Carrey played a man who signs up for a self-help program that teaches him to say yes to everything. Despite reviews being mixed, Rene Rodriquez of The Miami Herald stated, "Yes Man is fine as far as Jim Carrey comedies go, but it's even better as a love story that just happens to make you laugh."[76] The film earned $225 million at the box office worldwide.[77]
Since 2009, Carrey's work has included a leading role in Glenn Ficarra and John Requa's I Love You Phillip Morris, premiering in January 2009 at the Sundance Film Festival before receiving a wide release in February 2010. Carrey portrayed Steven Jay Russell, a con artist, imposter, and multiple prison escapee who falls in love with his fellow inmate, Phillip Morris (played by Ewan McGregor). The film received largely positive reviews, with Damon Wise of The Times giving the film four stars out of five, stating, "I Love You Phillip Morris is an extraordinary film that serves as a reminder of just how good Carrey can be when he's not tied into a generic Hollywood crowd-pleaser. His comic timing remains as exquisite as ever."[78]
He starred alongside former co-star Steve Carell in the Don Scardino-directed comedy film The Incredible Burt Wonderstone (2013). Carrey played Steve Gray, a dangerous street magician who overshadows the formerly successful magician Burt Wonderstone (played by Carell). The film was released in March 2013 to mixed reviews and underperformed significantly at the box office, grossing just over $27 million on a $30 million budget.[80]
Around the same time, he appeared in Kick-Ass 2 (also 2013) as Colonel Stars and Stripes. He retracted support for the film two months prior to its release. He issued a statement via his Twitter account that, in light of the Sandy Hook Elementary School shooting, "Now in all good conscience I cannot support that level of violence."[81]
Peter Farrelly said in April 2012 that Carrey and Jeff Daniels would return for a Dumb and Dumber sequel, Dumb and Dumber To, with the Farrelly brothers writing and directing and a planned September 2012 production start.[82] In June, however, Carrey's representative said Carrey had left the project because the comedian felt New Line and Warner Bros. were unenthusiastic toward it.[83] However, on 1 October 2012, Yahoo!'s The Yo Show carried the news item that the script was complete and that the original actors, Carrey and Daniels, would be reprising their roles. The plot involved one of the characters having sired a child and needing to find them to obtain a kidney.[84][85]Dumb and Dumber To was released in November 2014.
In March 2013, Carrey announced that he had written a children's book titled How Roland Rolls, about a scared wave named Roland. He described it as "kind of a metaphysical children's story, which deals with a lot of heavy stuff in a really childish way." Carrey self-published the book, which was released in September 2013.[86][87]
Carrey delivered the commencement address at Maharishi University of Management in Fairfield, Iowa, in May 2014 and received an honorary doctorate for his achievements as a comedian, artist, author, and philanthropist.[89]
On 29 August 2014, Carrey was honoured by Canada Post with a limited-edition postage stamp with his portrait on it.[91]
In June 2017, Showtime began airing the dramedy I'm Dying Up Here, for which Carrey served as the executive producer. The show, which chronicles a group of stand-up comics in 1970s Los Angeles, incorporates aspects of Carrey's own experience.[92] In September of that year, that same network announced that he would be starring in a comedy series titled Kidding, which will reunite Carrey and director Michel Gondry.[93] By the end of 2017, it was announced that Catherine Keener would star opposite Carrey in Kidding.[94]
In June 2018, Carrey was cast as Dr. Robotnik, the main antagonist of the Sonic the Hedgehog video game series, in a film adaptation of the franchise. The film was released in February 2020 to positive reviews.[99] Carrey's portrayal of Robotnik was praised, with some considering it one of his best performances in years.[100][101] Carrey returned for Sonic the Hedgehog 2, released in April 2022,[102] which grossed $72 million at the US box office in its opening weekend to give Carrey the best opening of his career to date.[103]
Carrey appeared as the narrator of the Weeknd's album Dawn FM, released on January 7, 2022.[115]
In April 2022, Carrey announced that he was considering retirement from the film industry, explaining, "I have enough. I've done enough. I am enough." When asked if he would ever come back, his response was, "It depends. If the angels bring some sort of script that's written in gold ink that says to me that it's going to be really important for people to see, I might continue down the road, but I'm taking a break".[116] In February 2024, Carrey was announced to reprise his role as Dr. Robotnik in Sonic the Hedgehog 3.[117]
Personal life
Carrey suffers from depression[118] and had taken Prozac to combat the symptoms for years. He later stated that he no longer takes medications or stimulants of any kind, including coffee.[118]
In 1983, Jim Carrey dated singer Linda Ronstadt for eight months.[122] Carrey has been married twice. His first marriage was to former actress and Comedy Store waitress Melissa Womer, whom he married on 28 March 1987. Their daughter, Jane Erin Carrey, was born 6 September 1987.[123] Carrey and Womer divorced in 1995.[124]
On 23 September 1996, Carrey married his Dumb and Dumber co-star Lauren Holly; the marriage lasted less than a year.[125] From 1999 to 2000, Carrey was engaged to his Me, Myself and Irene co-star Renée Zellweger.[126]January Jones was in a relationship with Carrey in 2002.[127] Carrey met model and actress Jenny McCarthy in 2005 and made their relationship public in June 2006. In April 2010, the two ended their relationship.[128] In October 2010, McCarthy said they remained good friends.[129]
Carrey met Cathriona White in 2012,[130] a makeup artist from County Tipperary, Ireland. They dated between 2012 and 2015. On 28 September 2015, White was found dead from a prescription drug overdose; the death was ruled a suicide by the Los Angeles County Medical Examiner.[131] Carrey was a pallbearer at her funeral in Cappawhite, County Tipperary, Ireland.[132]
Carrey's girlfriend Cathriona White married Mark Burton in 2013, in Las Vegas. She had been dating Carrey on and off since 2012, and was still married but dating Carrey when she died in 2015.[136] On 19 September 2016, Burton filed a wrongful death lawsuit against Carrey, claiming that he had used his "immense wealth and celebrity status" to illegally obtain and distribute prescription drugs involved in White's death. Carrey released a statement the following day:
What a terrible shame. It would be easy for me to get in a back room with this man's lawyer and make this go away, but there are some moments in life when you have to stand up and defend your honor against the evil in this world. I will not tolerate this heartless attempt to exploit me or the woman I loved. Cat's troubles were born long before I met her and sadly her tragic end was beyond anyone's control. I really hope that some day soon people will stop trying to profit from this and let her rest in peace.[137][138]
In October 2016, White's mother, Brigid Sweetman, also filed a wrongful death lawsuit against Carrey.[139] In this suit, Sweetman's attorney states that Carrey underwent a test for sexually transmitted infections, tested positive for hepatitis A, HSV (Herpes) I and II, and chlamydia, and hid the results from White and had unprotected sex with her.[140] Sweetman later issued a statement: "These documents show that Jim Carrey has lied to the media, the public and the court. Carrey has now been shown for what he is—a dishonest Hollywood celebrity who thinks he can say anything and fool people just because he is famous."[140]
Both lawsuits were dismissed on January 25, 2018, and attorneys for both sides confirmed there would be no further legal proceedings.[141][142]
Vaccine skepticism
In 2009, Carrey wrote an article questioning the merits of vaccination for The Huffington Post.[143] With former partner Jenny McCarthy, Carrey led a "Green Our Vaccines" march in Washington, D.C., to advocate for the removal of "toxic substances" from children's vaccines, out of a belief that children had received "too many vaccines, too soon, many of which are toxic".[144] The rally was criticized by David Gorski, an American surgical oncologist on Science-Based Medicine blog, for being anti-vaccine and not "pro-safe vaccine",[145] and by Steven Parker on the WebMD website for being "irresponsible".[146]
On July 1, 2015, after the signing of a new vaccination law, Carrey called California GovernorJerry Brown a "corporate fascist" who was "poisoning" children by enacting the vaccination requirements.[147] The law disallowed religious and philosophical reasons for exemption from vaccination. Carrey was criticized for being "ignorant when it comes to vaccines" by Arthur Caplan, head of the Division of Medical Ethics, at New York University,[148] and by Jeffrey Kluger, senior writer at Time, who described his anti-vaccination statements as "angry, dense and immune to reason".[149]
Political and spiritual views
Carrey is an outspoken advocate of the "law of attraction". In an interview with Oprah Winfrey on February 17, 1997,[150] he revealed that as a struggling actor he would use visualization techniques to get work. He also stated that he visualized a $10 million check given to him for "acting services rendered", placed the check in his pocket, and seven years later received a $10 million check for his role in Dumb and Dumber.[151]
Carrey has defended socialism and has urged the Democratic Party to embrace the movement, saying "We have to say yes to socialism, to the word and everything. We have to stop apologizing".[154]
Carrey has shared his own political cartoon drawings since August 2017, including controversial renderings of then-White House Press Secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders and then-President Donald Trump.[155] He sparked an international event on March 31, 2019, posting a drawing criticizing fascism by depicting Benito Mussolini's infamous death with Clara Petacci; this irked Mussolini's granddaughter Alessandra, who chided him on Twitter, calling him "a bastard" and his artworks "dirty paper".[156][157][158][159][160][161] His drawing repertoire culminated in an exhibition titled IndigNation, which opened on October 23, 2018 at the Maccarone Gallery in Los Angeles and featured 108 pen-and-ink drawings from Carrey's Twitter feed from 2016 to 2018.[162]
Artwork and NFTs
In 2017, Carrey revealed that he had been painting for the past six years. In 2011, he exhibited the painting Nothing to See Here in an art show in Palm Springs at the Heather James Fine Art Gallery.[163] In 2017, Carrey released a six-minute documentary entitled, I Needed Color, which showed him working in his studio.[163] In April 2022, Carrey announced that he had minted his first art NFT via the NFT platform SuperRare. The NFT is based on a painting entitled Sunshower, and is accompanied by original voiceover.[164]
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^Clinton, Paul (March 19, 2004). "Review: Let the 'Eternal Sunshine' in". CNN. Archived from the original on November 9, 2012. ...the best, most mature and sharply focused performance ever from Jim Carrey.
^Nocera, Joe (January 28, 2006). "A Revenge Fantasy, Except It's Reality". The New York Times. Archived from the original on May 28, 2020. the movie is an Enron revenge fantasy. Which helps explain, I think, why this decidedly mediocre film has made more than $100 million at the box office so far.
^Hasty, Katie (February 28, 2014). "Carrey on Dumb and Dumber sequel". Hitfix. Archived from the original on March 17, 2014. Retrieved April 23, 2014. The DLF raises awareness and furthers education on transcendental meditation, of which Carrey is a practicioner [sic] and admirer.
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Monumen pipa air di Mytishchi (Rusia). Pipa air adalah pipa atau selang yang kebanyakan terbuat dari karet sintesis yang membawa air bersih dari satu tempat ke tempat lain. Sejarah pipa air di Indonesia Pada 1963, seorang bernama Pandji Wisaksana mendirikan PT Prakasa Pralon yang memproduksi pipa PVC dengan kualitas standar Jepang. Pralon merupakan pionir pipa air hingga sampai sekarang orang-orang indonesia lebih mengenal pipa paralon ketimbang pipa PVC. Tipe-tipe pipa air Berikut adalah bebera…
هذه المقالة يتيمة إذ تصل إليها مقالات أخرى قليلة جدًا. فضلًا، ساعد بإضافة وصلة إليها في مقالات متعلقة بها. (مارس 2023) ممارسة طب الأسنان في كندا يشرف عليها مجلس طب الأسنان الوطني في كندا بالاشتراك مع وكالات أخرى، مثل لجنة اعتماد طب الأسنان في كندا ولجنة اعتماد طب الأسنان في كندا…
провінція Провінція Гемімонт ἐπαρχία Αἱμίμοντος Загальна інформація Входила до складу Римської імперії Сучасна локація Розташування на карті Держави на території Гемімонта Гемімонт (лат. Haemimontus) — пізня римська і рання візантійська провінція. Провінція Гемімонт бул…
Multinational professional services and accounting company firm KPMG International LimitedTypeUnited Kingdom Limited CompanyIndustryProfessional servicesFounded1987; 36 years ago (1987)(merger of Peat Marwick International and Klynveld Main Goerdeler)1979 (1979) (KMG)1925 (1925) (Peat Marwick)1897 (1897) (Marwick, Mitchell & Company)FoundersWilliam Barclay PeatJames MarwickRoger MitchellPiet KlijnveldJaap KraayenhofReinhard GoerdlerThompson McLintockFrank Wil…
Палета Палета у Вікісховищі Палета — комплекс аргхеологічних артефактів Давнього Египту, що датуються межею VI/V - кінцем IV тис. до н.е, т.б., вони хронологічно охоплюють періоди від Бадарійської та Тасійської культур до Раннього царства. Палети являють собою тонкі кам'…
American soccer player Jonny Campbell Campbell in pre-season with Seattle Sounders in 2015Personal informationFull name Jonathan CampbellDate of birth (1991-09-24) September 24, 1991 (age 32)Place of birth Johnson City, United StatesHeight 6 ft 1 in (1.85 m)Position(s) Center-backTeam informationCurrent team Persela LamonganNumber 91Youth career1999–2006 East Tennessee Soccer Federation2006–2009 FC AllianceCollege careerYears Team Apps (Gls)2009–2013 East Tennessee Stat…
Form of argument and informal fallacy For other uses, see Straw man (disambiguation). U.S. President William McKinley has shot a cannon (labeled McKinley's Letter) that has involved a straw man and its constructors (Carl Schurz, Oswald Garrison Villard, Richard Olney) in a great explosion. Caption: SMASHED!, Harper's Weekly, 22 September 1900 A straw man fallacy (sometimes written as strawman) is the informal fallacy of refuting an argument different from the one actually under discussion, while…
War memorial in Southwark, London St Saviour's War Memorial St Saviour's War Memorial is a war memorial on Borough High Street, in the former parish of Southwark St Saviour, to south of the River Thames in London. It became a Grade II listed building in 1998 and was upgraded to Grade II* in 2018. The memorial includes a bronze sculpture by Philip Lindsey Clark. He had enlisted as a private in the Artists' Rifles in 1914, and was commissioned in the 11th (Service) (1st South Down) Battalion of th…
1988 studio album by Nuclear AssaultSurviveStudio album by Nuclear AssaultReleasedJune 13, 1988 (1988-06-13)RecordedJanuary–February, 1988StudioThe Music Grinder and Track Record Studios, Los Angeles, CaliforniaGenre Thrash metal crossover thrash Length30:15LabelI.R.S. MetalProducerRandy BurnsNuclear Assault chronology The Plague(1987) Survive(1988) Handle with Care(1989) Survive is the second studio album by American thrash metal band Nuclear Assault, released in 1988 o…
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Politics of Cuba Constitution Law Communist Party 8th term Congress Rules Central Committee (8th) First Secretary Miguel Díaz-Canel Second Secretary José Ramón Machado Ventura Politburo (8th) Secretariat (8th) National Assembly 9th term President Esteban Lazo Hernández Vice President Ana María Marí Machado Secretary Homero Acosta Álvarez Council of State (9th) President Esteban Lazo Hernández Vice President Ana María Marí Machado Secretary Homero Acosta Álvarez Presidency (9th) Presid…
У этого термина существуют и другие значения, см. Богданово. ДеревняБогданово 56°25′50″ с. ш. 37°05′25″ в. д.HGЯO Страна Россия Субъект Федерации Московская область Муниципальный район Дмитровский Сельское поселение Большерогачёвское История и география Первое у…
South Korean American mathematician Hee OhCitizenshipSouth KoreaAlma mater Yale University Seoul National University Gwangju Girls' High School Known fordynamical systemsAwards Satter Prize (2015) Guggenheim Fellowship (2017) Ho-Am Prize (2018) Scientific careerInstitutionsYale UniversityThesisDiscrete subgroups generated by lattices in opposite horospherical subgroups (1997)Doctoral advisorGregory Margulis Websitegauss.math.yale.edu/~ho2/ Hee Oh (Korean: 오희, born 1969) is a S…
Narrow-gauge heritage railway in Melbourne, Australia For other uses, see Puffing Billy (disambiguation). This article needs additional citations for verification. Please help improve this article by adding citations to reliable sources. Unsourced material may be challenged and removed.Find sources: Puffing Billy Railway – news · newspapers · books · scholar · JSTOR (September 2007) (Learn how and when to remove this template message) Puffing Billy Railwa…
The End of a Family Story First editionAuthorPéter NádasOriginal titleEgy családregény végeTranslatorImre GoldsteinCountryHungaryLanguageHungarianPublisherSzépirodalmi KönyvkiadóPublication date1977Published in English1998Pages230ISBN978-963-15-0784-3 The End of a Family Story (Hungarian: Egy családregény vége) is a 1977 novel by the Hungarian writer Péter Nádas. The narrative follows a boy who grows up in Hungary in the 1950s, and whose grandfather tells him stories about…
American politician (1797–1857) Senator Turney redirects here. For other uses, see Senator Turney (disambiguation). Hopkins Lacy TurneyUnited States Senatorfrom TennesseeIn officeMarch 4, 1845 – March 3, 1851Preceded byEphraim H. FosterSucceeded byJames C. JonesMember of the U.S. House of Representativesfrom Tennessee's 5th districtIn officeMarch 4, 1837 – March 3, 1843Preceded byJohn B. ForesterSucceeded byGeorge W. JonesMember of the Tennessee House of Repre…
غفارديسكويي الإحداثيات 43°40′18″N 44°57′37″E / 43.671729°N 44.960213°E / 43.671729; 44.960213 تاريخ التأسيس القرن 18 تقسيم إداري البلد روسيا[2][1] خصائص جغرافية ارتفاع 108 متر عدد السكان عدد السكان 8446 (2020)[3] معلومات أخرى منطقة زمنية ت ع م+03:00 اللغة ا…
Hệ thống chữ viếttiếng Nhật Thành phần Kanji Thứ tự nét bút Bộ thủ Kyōiku kanji Jōyō kanji Jinmeiyō kanji Hyōgai kanji Danh sách kanji theo số nét bút Danh sách kanji theo khái niệm Kana Hiragana Katakana Hentaigana Man'yōgana Sogana Gojūon Biểu tượng đánh máy Dấu câu trong tiếng Nhật Dấu lặp chữ Sử dụng Âm tiết Furigana Okurigana Braille Latin hoá Rōmaji Hepburn (thông dụng) Kunrei (ISO) Nihon (chuyển tự ISO) JSL (chu…
Italian tennis player Gabriele VulpittaVulpitta at the 2023 French OpenCountry (sports) ItalyPlaysRight-handedSinglesCareer record0–0 (at ATP Tour level, Grand Slam level, and in Davis Cup)Grand Slam singles resultsFrench Open Junior1R (2023)Wimbledon Junior1R (2023)US Open Junior1R (2023)DoublesCareer record0–0 (at ATP Tour level, Grand Slam level, and in Davis Cup)Grand Slam doubles resultsFrench Open JuniorF (2023)Wimbledon JuniorW (2023)US Ope…
Bernard NedellLahirBernard Jay Nedell(1898-10-14)14 Oktober 1898New York, New York, Amerika SerikatMeninggal23 November 1972(1972-11-23) (umur 74)Hollywood, California, Amerika SerikatPekerjaanAktorTahun aktif1916-1972Suami/istriOlive Blakeney(m. 19??; wafat 1959)Anak1 Bernard Jay Nedell (14 Oktober 1898 – 23 November 1972) adalah seorang pemeran film asal Amerika Serikat. Ia tampil dalam 50 film antara 1916 dan 1972. Ia lahir di New York, New York dan meninggal di Holl…
هذه المقالة يتيمة إذ تصل إليها مقالات أخرى قليلة جدًا. فضلًا، ساعد بإضافة وصلة إليها في مقالات متعلقة بها. (فبراير 2021) فهد بن حسن آل عقران معلومات شخصية الميلاد 1963 (العمر 61 سنة) السعودية الجنسية السعودية الديانة مسلم منصب رئيس وكالة الأنباء السعودية بداية فبراير 2021 الحي…
American mathematician This article is about the mathematician. For other people with the same name, see Charles Pugh (disambiguation). Charles C. PughCharles Pugh, Berkeley, 1993Born1940 (age 83–84)United StatesNationalityAmericanCitizenshipUnited StatesAlma materJohns Hopkins University (PhD)Known forWork in dynamical systemsScientific careerFieldsMathematicsInstitutionsUniversity of California, BerkeleyThesis The Closing Lemma for Dimensions Two and Three (1965)Doct…
County in Hamadan province, Iran Not to be confused with Baharestan County.For the city, see Bahar. For other places with a similar name, see Bahar. You can help expand this article with text translated from the corresponding article in Persian. (August 2022) Click [show] for important translation instructions. View a machine-translated version of the Persian article. Machine translation, like DeepL or Google Translate, is a useful starting point for translations, but translators must revis…