Jim Carrey Biography

Biography

particularly a nomination in Best Performance by an Actor in a Motion Picture - Comedy/Musical category at the 1995 Golden Globe Awards for his role in the former one, he gloriously took home four MTV Movie Awards out of nine nominations from 1994 until 1996 through his enactments in these films. Already became a celebrated figure, it was not really shocking then when the media revealed that he got the payment of 20 million U.S. dollars to portray the title character in "The Cable Guy" (1996), a record payday for a comedic actor at that time.

Unfortunately, "The Cable Guy" apparently was not able to follow the trails of its predecessor as this flick failed to exceed the amount of $100 million while also was negatively reviewed by the critics. However, Jim hastily bounced back with an enjoyable performance of a chronically dishonest attorney named Fletcher Reede in "Liar Liar" (1997) for it wonderfully collected more than 181 million U.S. dollars during its run in the domestic theaters to be one of the top grossing films in that year, plus directed him to gain his second Golden Globe nomination in the same category with the previous one by 1998. Looking ...

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on this attainment, many surmised that the funnyman would keep sticking to comedy genre in his next projects, but he instead took the risk to star in Peter Weir's drama, "The Truman Show" (1998), a crossing he had not done since his appearance in a TV-movie entitled "Doing Time on Maple Drive" (1992).

His decision to join this feature proved to be the right one indeed as Hollywood Foreign Press Association ultimately gave him a Golden Globe Award in 1999 for the category of Best Performance by an Actor in a Motion Picture - Drama. Portrayed American substantial entertainer Andy Kaufman in Milos Forman's biopic, "Man on the Moon" (1999), Jim once again received another honor at the same event in 2000, this time in Best Performance by an Actor in a Motion Picture - Comedy/Musical category. Successfully proved that he could gain accolades from performing serious roles, this talented actor marked the beginning of 21th century with his return to comedy through "Me, Myself & Irene" and the Grinch Stole before involved himself in Frank Darabont's romantic drama, "The Majestic" (2001) alongside Martin Landau, Ron Rifkin, also Laurie Holden.

Once more exhibited his amazing comedic skills in ...