Jim Carrey
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01/16/1962
Newmarket, Ontario, Canada |
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| Got his big break on the sketch comedy series In Living Color. |
| When he was starting out, he wrote himself a check for $20 million and carried it around with him until he was paid that actual amount for The Cable Guy in 1996. |
| Made standup debut at age 15 at a club in Toronto called Yuk Yuk's. |
| When his father lost his job, a teenage Carrey and two of his siblings worked as janitors for a tire company. |
| At the age of 10, he mailed his résumé to the producers of The Carol Burnett Show (he didn't get a gig). |
