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STUDENT : JAY LEECLASS : CAREER
TEACHER : BRIAN
Famous Canadian Actor
Jim Carrey
He was born on January 17, 1962 , and he was born in Newmarket , Ontario , Canada.He is a Canadian-American film actor and
comedian.He took lots of movie such as #Ace Ventura: Pet Detective, #The Mask, Dumb and Dumber, #Me, Myself & Irene, #Fun with Dick and Jane.
When he was young…
He is the son of Kathleen, a homemaker, and Percy Carrey, a musician and accountant.
He has three sibling , John, Patricia, and Rita.When he invited in a Hamilton Spectator
interview, he said “if his career in show business hadn't
panned out he would probably be working today in Hamilton, Ontario at the Dofasco steel mill”. and he already had experience working in a science testing facility in Richmond Hill, Ontario, and was somewhat resigned to that career path.
He starts comedy…
He had been working on a comedy act with his father Percy when he was just 14 years old.
In 1979, he started doing stand-up comedy at Yuk Yuk's in Toronto.
When he was at Yuk-Yuk's, he met Wayne Flemming who be- came his good friend, as he still is today.He did many singing impressions like, Elivs and Kermit The Frog.
He signed to do a made-for-TV film called Introducing Janet on Canadian TV.
Joel Schumacher had him audition for a role in D.C. Cab, though in the end, nothing ever
came of it. And His first lead role on television was
Skip Tarkenton, a young anima- tion producer on NBC's short- lived The Duck Factory, airing from April 12, 1984, to July 11, 1984.
And then…
His best film…
He is taking a lot of movies # The Mask- Carrey's mild- mannered Charlie is kind of boring, to be honest, but when he goes into a rage blackout and becomes alter-ego Hank, and it’s funny, crazy guy gets the girl. He took with supermodel Cameron Diaz.
Second…
# Ace Ventura: Pet Detective He's, uh, Ace Ventura: Pet Detective. And he contin- ually proves that nothing–not animals, kids or Courteney Cox can upstage him. And no one makes potty humor as palatable as Ace.
Third…
# Me, Myself & Irene – Carrey's mild-mannered
He took with Rhode Island state trooper with a split personality Charlie is kind of boring, to be honest, but when he goes into a rage blackout and be- comes alter-ego Hank,