Jim Carrey

Jim Carrey, born James Eugene Carrey on January 17, 1962, is a Canadian and American actor, comedian and visual artist, regarded as one of the most prominent comedic actors of his generation and known above all for energetic slapstick performance. After a decade of stand-up and supporting film roles in the 1980s he gained wide recognition on the Fox sketch comedy series In Living Color, and then became a film star through a run of hits in 1994 and 1995 that included Ace Ventura: Pet Detective, The Mask, Dumb and Dumber and Batman Forever. That success made him the first comic actor to be paid an upfront fee of twenty million dollars, beginning with The Cable Guy in 1996. He later led comedies such as Liar Liar, Bruce Almighty and Yes Man, and won Golden Globe Awards for dramatic work in The Truman Show and Man on the Moon, before appearing in fewer films from the 2010s, including the Sonic the Hedgehog series.