Jim Carrey Biography

Biography

both routine activities to look for an opportunity in Toronto's comedy clubs. An initial performance at Yuk Yuk's sadly did not result well, but the 15-years-old kid was not discouraged for he thus kept reworking and refining his material to satisfyingly become the club's headliner when he made his comeback two years later.

Aiming to find larger chance in U.S., Jim headed for Los Angeles in 1979 and managed to impress American people through his shows at The Comedy Store, including Rodney Dangerfield who shortly thereafter signed him to be the opening act of his tour. With this early success, he began to venture into screen production which first conducted through an appearance in a 48-minutes Canadian TV-movie entitled "Introducing... Janet" a.k.a. "Rubberface" (1983), followed by the release of two other film features, "Copper Mountain" a.k.a. "Club Med" and "All In Good Taste" in the same year. A hope to encounter his breakthrough in his next two roles quickly vanished when the airing of his comedy series "The Duck Factory" (1984) was cancelled by NBC after 13 episodes while his 1985 movie project, "Once Bitten", in which he acquired a major role, did not result as expected.

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devastated, Jim then took part in Julien Temple's sci-fi comedy, "Earth Girls Are Easy" (1989), to star alongside Geena Davis, Jeff Goldblum, and Damon Wayans who not only became his good friend afterwards, but also suggested his brother Keenen Ivory Wayans to include him in their sketch comedy show, "In Living Color" (1990-1994). Portraying various characters, most notable the psychotic Fire Marshall Bill, Jim successfully garnered attention from TV audience through his wacky comical expressions along with outrageous acts, subsequently led him to have his own show time comedy special, "Jim Carrey's Unnatural Act" in 1991 and the lead role in Tom Shadyac's "Ace Ventura: Pet Detective" (1994). Much to his delight, the picture turned out to be a box-office hit with a great domestic income of over 72 million U.S. dollar, therefore propelled him to wide exposure besides brought him to receive more propitious film offers in Hollywood.

Throughout the rest 1994 up to the year 1995, Jim, with his manic antics, fantastically led his movies to commercial success as seen in "The Mask" (1994), "Dumb & Dumber" (1994), "Batman Forever" (1995), and "Ace Ventura: When Nature Calls" (1995) which all scored above $108 million. Granted various prestigious honors, ...