James Eugene Carrey was born in New Market, Ontario on January 17, 1962. His father, Percy, quit his music career and sold his sax to get a steady job as an accountant to support his family. His mother, Kathleen, was always sick with a real or an imaginary disease. Jim found out at an early age that he could make people laugh. His Teacher made a deal with him that if he was good and did his work in the class she would give him five minutes at the end to perform. Jim would finish his work fast and spend the rest of the class preparing his act. His life was going good until his father was fired from his accounting job. All of Jim’s family had to get a job at a factory as janitors and security guards. Jim dropped out of high school to try and help support his family. The Carrey family was a bitter site to see. They were all so miserable from working at the factory that one day they all quit. This meant they had to move out of the company house so they had no shelter. The family had to live in a VW van. At one point Jim’s oldest sister let them pitch a tent in her back yard. The only way the family kept there sanity was Jim’s jokes. Jim, no matter what the situation, would cheer the family up. When his grandparents came over his Grandfather would get drunk, take Jim’s father in a corner and tell him what a loser he was. His dad, being the nice person he was, would just stand there and take the insults but when the grandparents left Jim would get up and do impressions of them and make fun of them to make his dad feel better. One day Jim decided to put his talent to good use and go to a comedy club. Jim and his dad prepared his routine. Jim practiced it over and over until he was sure he had it perfect. His mother dressed him up in a yellow polyester suit. When he got onstage to do his act at Yuk Yuk’s comedy club he bombed. He bombed big time. The owner of the club was backstage with a microphone saying things like "Totally Boring " and playing excerpts from Jesus Christ Super Star were it says "Crucify him, crucify him." Jim was booed off the stage. After two years Jim returned to Yuk Yuk’s and was great. He became a regular comedian at the club. After a while of doing Ontario clubs Jim decided to move to Hollywood. When he got there he started calling all the stars he met in Canada who told him to call them if he comes to LA. When he called them they all said "Sorry, I don’t have room in my life for you." Jim then started looking for a place to stay. He found an ad for a room in a guy’s house and moved in. The guy was a songwriter named Phil Roy. Jim and Phil became close friends while living together and even wrote a few songs together. While in the clubs, Jim was discovered for some movies that all bombed. He also met a waitress named Melissa Womer who he later married and had his daughter, Jane, with. When Keenan Ivory Wayans was starting a show of sketch comedy his brother, Damon Wayans, recommended he hire Jim Carrey. Damon Wayans and Jim had done a movie together earlier called Earth Girls Are Easy. Being on this show, In Living Color, started him off and gained him fame. When people started noticing him he was offered a role in a movie called Ace Ventura: Pet Detective. All the critics expected this movie to bomb but it didn’t. It was Jim’s first big hit. Shortly after the release, Jim and his wife Melissa got a divorce. He was then offered more roles in more movies. He then did The Mask, Dumb and Dumber, and Batman Forever. He became famous after having all these big hits. On the set of Dumb and Dumber he met Lauren Holly and they started dating. He then did a sequel to his hit Ace Ventura called Ace Ventura: When Nature Calls which did just as good, if not better, as the first one. His next movie, The Cable Guy which he got paid $20 million for, ended his streak of great movies. People were disappointed because it wasn’t a comedy. "The criticism of the Cable Guy really hurt because it wasn’t coming from the right place. It wasn’t ‘Jim Carrey’s work is not good’ it was ‘how dare he try something different?’" Jim said. But Liar Liar, his next movie, made up for it. It was a great success in the box office with a final gross of $178.29 million! He also married Lauren Holly while shooting the film. The couple filed for divorce ten months later. He has finished shooting the Truman Show, his next movie, and it will be released in 1998. The Truman Show is Jim’s first big screen drama. Jim’s life story is truly an example of the saying "Rags to Riches." He went from scraping pubic hairs off toilets in a dirty old factory to one of the highest paid actors in Hollywood.

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