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The Wonderful Jim Carrey Everyday we come across a person on TV, commercial, or maybe even the news, however, we figure out who a person is in a movie more often and quicker. There’s just about millions of actors or actress that we see or haven’t even heard but we think about our favorite one from a show we’ve seen like Eminem, Ice Cube, Miley Cyrus, Chris Tucker, etc. We then think about who’s our favorite of all time and who we might look up to or even see who we want to be. I have a couple of favorite actors than I know that I have truly enjoyed watching on film all the time. A couple of my favorite actors would be Vin Diesel, Jenifer Lopez, Ludacris, Jennifer Lawrence, Liam Hemsworth, and Charlton Heston, However my by far most favorite …show more content…

He was born on January 17, 1962 in New market, Ontario in Canada. Jim was the youngest of four children by his mother Kathleen and Percy Carrey. When Jim was growing up he began performing constantly every chance that he could possibly get. While Carrey was going to school they granted him a few minutes before the end of the day to do his stand-up performance each day. However, his life took a terrible turn with his family when they were forced to leave their cozy homes in New Market. They lived in there Volkswagen camper van in Toronto until they were able to get on their feet. Before that, Jim ended up getting an 8 hour shift after school which interfered in his school work and grades. He dropped out of high school after he made his stand-up debut at a local club called “Yuk Yuk’s” and decided to focus on his celebrity impersonations. In 1979, he moved to Los Angeles and received a performance at comedy store that’s where he was recognized by a comic veteran named Rodney Dangerfield and he was very impressed of him and offered him an opening act for an entire season. Jim later met and married Melissa Womer and had a daughter named Jane. They soon got a divorce and then he married his second wife, an actress, Lauren Holly and then split a year

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