No laughing matter: the saddest facts from the biography of Jim Carrey

Perhaps the most famous comedian on the planet, Jim Carrey, turns 61 today. Bruce Almighty starring The Mask, Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind, he knew how to cheer anyone up since childhood, although he usually never laughed. And here is some evidence that even the happiest people on the planet are sad.

Jim Carrey was born in a poor extended family – he was the fourth child. Her mother was a singer but after the birth of her children she became a housewife and her father worked as an accountant but had to quit this job, so the family had to move around and live in a van. “When I was 16, we sank to the bottom of society. We kids had to go to work. And we became the family cleaning crew – we cleaned the toilet seats from hair. I hated the whole world – I was so offended that life treated my father this way, ”the actor later said. Meanwhile, he had to drop out of school due to family difficulties – instead of studying, he went to work and never received secondary education.

Even as a child, Jim Carrey loved to parody acquaintances or portray heroes, and his father once invited him to do his sketches at the local Yak-Yak club when he was 15. True, the future actor deserved humiliation instead of success, and later said: “It was terrible. People in the audience made fun of anyone they thought was badly dressed. They didn’t even give me a word to say: they whistled, shouted, booed, and even demanded that I undress and be crucified. Who knows, they would have done it if I hadn’t run away.” In the future, by the way, despite the initial setbacks, the comedian will again parody and even perform again in the same club where he was once teased.

One of the first groundbreaking roles in Jim Carrey’s career was Ace Ventura. But the movie had a difficult way of getting hired: they didn’t want to sponsor the script, and America’s best comedians refused to take part in filming. As a result, Jim Carrey played the main role – he also found the image of his character and his signature hairstyle. Although the comedy grossed more than a hundred million dollars at the box office and the actor’s popularity skyrocketed, critics received the project coolly and even nominated its newly minted star for Golden Raspberry. However, Jim Carrey still sees Pet Wanted as one of his career turning points.

Despite universal love and success, Jim Carrey did not find happiness in his private life. After the first divorce from Melissa Womer (they were together for eight years), the actress began to suffer from depression, after which she remarried to Lauren Holly, but this marriage lasted only ten months. And in 2012, Jim Carrey swore with Catriona White – the couple will break up in a few months, and they will try to be together again only after three years. This attempt will not be successful – five days after their last separation, Catriona White will commit suicide, and her ex-husband and mother will sue the actress. He was accused of deliberately infecting the deceased with a sexually transmitted disease, and also of taking drugs that poisoned him through him.

In an interview, Jim Carrey admitted that he dreams of an Oscar and said: “I will not be satisfied until I find myself in a beam of light in front of the camera with a thank you speech. Do you understand what I’m talking about? I don’t know how to get an Oscar and what I have to do to get it. Yes, I’m so arrogant!” Unfortunately, in his career of nearly 50 years and his 68 films, he has not even been nominated for the main film award in the world. However, he holds the record for the number of nominations (22) and awards (10) at the MTV Movie Awards.