Jim Carrey

NAME: Jim Carrey
BORN: 17/01/1962
BIRTH PLACE: Ontario, Canada

BIOGRAPHY
Canadian Jim was born James Eugene Carrey. Jim’s father lost his job when Jim was 13 years old, so he, his parents and his siblings went to work as caretakers and security guards in the Titan Wheels factory near his hometown.

Encouraged by his father, he began performing comedy routines at stand-up clubs in Toronto, aged 15.

While not exactly winning over the crowds then, Jim returned to it two years later and caught the attention of booking agents, who hired him to open for Rodney Dangerfield in Las Vegas.

During this period Jim met and married waitress Melissa Womer, with whom he had a daughter, Jane, but the couple later went through a very messy divorce.

In 1981, he acted in the TV-movie ‘Rubberface’, and after appearing on ‘The Tonight Show’, Jim got his first feature role in the quirky comedy, ‘Finders Keepers’.

He began to alternate between working comedy clubs and supporting roles in movies and, towards the late 80s, he landed parts in two Clint Eastwood films, ‘The Dead Pool’ and ‘Pink Cadillac’, after Eastwood had seen Jim do an impression of him.