No laughing matter: top sad facts from the biography of Jim Carrey

Perhaps the most famous comedian on the planet - Jim Carrey - turns 61 today. The star of Bruce Almighty, The Mask, and Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind, he knew how to cheer anyone from childhood, although he himself was often not at all laughing. And here's some evidence that even the happiest people on the planet get sad too.

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2. Even as a child, Jim Carrey liked to parody acquaintances or portray heroes, and his father once invited him, at the age of 15, to perform his skits at the local Yak-Yak club. True, instead of success, the future actor earned humiliation, and later he said: “It was terrible. The people in the audience taunted everyone who they thought was poorly dressed. They did not even give me a word to say: they whistled, shouted, hooted, and even demanded to undress and crucify me. Who knows, they might have been able to do it if I hadn't run away." In the future, by the way, despite the first failures, the comedian will again return to parody and even perform again in the same club where he was once laughed at.

3. Jim Carrey was born into a poor and large family - he was the fourth child. His mother was a singer, but after the birth of the children she became a housewife, and her father worked as an accountant, but he was forced to leave this job, so the family had to wander and live in a van. “We sank to the very bottom of society when I was 16 years old. We, the children, had to go to work. And we became a family cleaning team - we cleaned the toilet seats of hair. I hated the whole world - I was terribly offended that life had treated my father this way, ”the actor later said. Due to family difficulties, by the way, he had to leave school - instead of lessons, he went to work and never received a secondary education.

4. Uno de los primeros papeles decisivos en la carrera de Jim Carrey fue Ace Ventura. Pero la película tuvo un camino difícil hacia el alquiler: no querían patrocinar el guión y los mejores comediantes de Estados Unidos se negaron a participar en la filmación. Como resultado, Jim Carrey desempeñó el papel principal: también se le ocurrió la imagen de su personaje y su peinado característico. Y aunque la taquilla de la comedia ascendió a más de cien millones de dólares, y la popularidad del actor se disparó, la crítica tomó el proyecto con frialdad e incluso nominó a la recién estrenada estrella para el Golden Raspberry. Sin embargo, Jim Carrey todavía considera Pet Wanted como una de las películas históricas de su carrera.

5. Despite universal love and success, Jim Carrey did not win happiness in his personal life. After the first divorce from Melissa Womer (they were together for eight years), the actor began to experience depression, then he remarried Lauren Holly, but this marriage lasted only ten months. And in 2012, Jim Carrey exchanged vows with Catriona White - the couple will break up in a few months, and only after three years they will try to be together again. This attempt will not succeed - to the extent that five days after their last breakup, Catriona White will commit suicide, and her ex-husband and mother will sue the actor. He was accused of deliberately transmitting an STD to the deceased, and also of the fact that it was through him that she received the medicines that poisoned her.

6. Jim Carrey and Catriona White (Photo: @legionmedia)

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 stream 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 I'm going to get an Oscar and what I'll have to do to get it. Yes, I'm so vain!" Alas, in his almost 50-year career and 68 films, he did not even receive a nomination for the world's main film award. But in terms of the number of nominations (22) and awards (10) at the MTV Movie Awards, he holds the record.