Life wasn't easy for young Carrey. His mother suffered from chronic health issues, and his father struggled to support his family. To cope with the stress, Carrey would spend hours in his room, making funny faces in front of a mirror.
The actor gave an emotional interview during an appearance on Inside The Actor's Studio, where he explained that he was forced to work eight-hour days in a factory because his family were poor.
Throughout much of his life, he struggled with depression. There has been speculation that his difficulties in childhood increased his vulnerability to experiencing major depression. In addition to having depression, Jim Carrey was also diagnosed with ADHD.
James Eugene Carrey was born on January 17, 1962 in Newmarket, Ontario, Canada, and is the youngest of four children of Kathleen (Oram), a homemaker, and Percy Carrey, an accountant and jazz musician.
Jim Carrey on Growing Up Poor and How He Improvises in Movies (2003)
When did Jim Carrey's dad lose his job?
So, he made a conservative choice and instead he got a job as an accountant." Then Carrey reveals the moral of the story. "When I was 12 years old, he was let go from that safe job," he added.
Diagnosed with both dyslexia and ADHD as a child, Carrey recalls experiencing myriad behavioral issues while growing up in school. Treatment such as medication has helped Carrey immensely, as has focusing his energy into his very physical comedy and being a spokesman for those with ADHD.
On Wednesday's episode of the Daily Show, the actor, writer and comedian told host Trevor Noah why he decided to devote his book of real and fictional Hollywood encounters to his older sibling, who died of aplastic anemia. "I wanted to let the world know I had a very special brother," Carrey told Noah.
In a 2004 interview on 60 MINUTES, Carrey led correspondent Steve Kroft to a secluded place on his property where he goes to “hang out with Buddha and Krishna and you know, all those guys.” When Kroft asked Carrey if he was Buddhist, Carrey replied: “I'm a Buddhist, I'm a Muslim, I'm a Christian.
When Jim Carrey was in grade school a classmate jumped on him causing his front tooth to fracture off. For his role in Dumb and Dumber, he convinced his dentist to remove the filling to make the tooth chipped again for the role! After the movie ended he had the filling replaced to return to his normal smile.
In 1994, Carrey's breakthrough came when he landed the leading role in Ace Ventura: Pet Detective, in which he played a goof-ball detective specialized in crimes involving animals. The film would go on to earn over $72 million at the box office. He went on to star in the sequel Ace Ventura: When Nature Calls in 1995.
Jim Carrey has announced that he will be retiring from acting after his appearance in the upcoming film Sonic the Hedgehog 2. Jim Carrey rose to fame through a recurring role in comedy TV series In Living Color in the early 1990s.
A woman said that people are "disappointed" when they meet her as they always assume she is Hollywood legend Jim Carrey - because she is the spitting image of him. Heather Shaw, 34, is a comedian and became a viral success after pretending she was Ace Ventura's long-lost daughter.
Carrey actually has a chipped front tooth from an accident in his childhood, and he decided to have the cap removed on the original film to make his character look a little more deranged.
Jim Carrey passed along his entertainment industry chops to his first and only child, daughter Jane Erin Carrey, 36. Fittingly, the Ace Ventura: Pet Detective star met his future wife Melissa Womer at a comedy store and quickly fell in love.
The Yes Man actor has been married twice: to Melissa Womer from 1987 to 1995 and to Lauren Holly from 1996 to 1997. Carrey shares daughter Jane, who competed on American Idol in 2012, with his first wife.
In December 2005, McCarthy began dating actor Jim Carrey. They did not make their relationship public until June 2006. She announced on The Ellen DeGeneres Show on April 2, 2008, that she and Carrey were living together but had no plans to marry, as they did not need a "piece of paper".
Jim Carrey was married twice before he dated Renée Zellweger. After divorcing Lauren Holly in 1997, he started dating Zellweger while they worked together on the 2000 movie Me, Myself & Irene. Carrey and Zellweger were even briefly engaged during their year-long romance, but they never made it down the aisle.
