Carrey would again appear with Eastwood in the poorly received comedy Pink Cadillac ( 1989 ) alongside Bernadette Peters.

Carrey ( Best Actor ), Harris ( Best Supporting Actor ) and Weir ( Direction ) also received nominations.

Jim Carrey, based on the box office success of the first Ace Ventura film, received a salary of $ 15 million for this sequel.

A 2000 live-action feature film based on the story, directed by Ron Howard and starring Jim Carrey in the title role, was a major financial success, though it received many mixed reviews and holds a 53 % rating on Rotten Tomatoes.

Other roles include: starring opposite Jim Carrey in the Andy Kaufman biopic Man on the Moon ( 1999 ); as Joan Vollmer in Beat ( 2000 ) alongside Kiefer Sutherland ; and a leading role in Julie Johnson ( 2001 ) as Lili Taylor's lesbian lover, for which she won an Outstanding Actress award at L. A .' s Outfest.

In addition, he released a song called "( I Could Only ) Whisper Your Name " for the soundtrack of The Mask, starring Jim Carrey, which is his most successful single in the United States to date.

Early in the development of Batman Forever, Dolenz was a contender for the role of The Riddler, which ultimately went to Jim Carrey.

* The Truman Show ( 1998 ) is a film about a man ( Jim Carrey ) who discovers that his entire life is being staged and filmed for a 24-hour-a-day reality TV show.

She was preparing to work again with The Mask co-star Jim Carrey for the film Fun with Dick and Jane, but resigned to feature in In Her Shoes.

* In Dumb and Dumber ( 1994 ), Lloyd ( Jim Carrey ) described meeting Mary ' Swimmy, Swimey ' Swanson ( Lauren Holly ) for the first time being like a " tractor beam-sucked me right in.

Jim Carrey has been praised for his satire of the character in a 1992 episode of In Living Color.

They also have twin sons, Jim and Andy ( born 1999, named for comics Jim Carrey and Andy Kaufman ), and reside in Connecticut, USA.

The biography of famous actor and avant-garde comic Andy Kaufman ( Jim Carrey, who won a Golden Globe for his performance ) premiered on December 22, 1999.

However, it did win a Golden Globe for Carrey's performance, as well as a nomination for Best Musical or Comedy, along with several other acting nominations for Carrey.

Hootie covered the 1968 Orpheus hit " Can't Find the Time " in 2001 for the soundtrack of the Jim Carrey movie, Me, Myself and Irene.

In the film Me, Myself & Irene, Jim Carrey is seen singing along to Dwarves " Motherfucker ", which Dahlia later said he got " tens of thousands of dollars " for.

* In the film Liar Liar, the lawyer Fletcher Reede ( Jim Carrey ) cannot lie for 24 hours, due to a wish of his son that magically came true.

Truman Burbank ( Jim Carrey ) lived his entire life, since before birth, in front of cameras for The Truman Show, although he is unaware of this fact.

Robin Williams was considered for the role, but Weir cast Carrey after seeing him in Ace Ventura: Pet Detective because Carrey's performance reminded him of Charlie Chaplin.

Carrey, who is normally paid $ 20 million per film, agreed to do The Truman Show for $ 12 million.

Later on in 1995, Jim Carrey signed to star, but because of commitments with The Cable Guy and Liar Liar, he would not be ready to start filming for at least another year.

Weir felt Carrey was perfect for the role and opted to wait for another year rather than recast the role.

Many believed Carrey would be nominated for Best Actor, but he was not.

Jim Carrey and Ed Harris both won Golden Globes as Best Actor-Drama and Best Supporting Actor, respectively, as did Burkhard Dallwitz and Philip Glass for Best Original Score.

The Avery Wolf was referenced in the film The Mask ( 1994 ), when Stanley / The Mask ( performed by Jim Carrey ) briefly transforms into him while watching Tina Carlyle perform in a Red Hot Riding Hood-like performance, howling and whistling at her and then banging his head with a mallet.

On November 6, 2009, ImageMovers Digital released A Christmas Carol, a performance capture film starring Jim Carrey, Gary Oldman, Colin Firth, and Cary Elwes, each in multiple roles.

Carrey was nominated for a Golden Globe Award ( 1997 ) for Best Performance by an Actor in a Motion Picture-Comedy / Musical.

His subjects have been Star Wars movies The Phantom Menace, Attack of the Clones and Revenge of the Sith, Andrew Weil, Michael Moore, Ronald Reagan, Russell Crowe, Johnny Cash, The Matrix Reloaded, vegetarianism, yoga, The Blair Witch Project, Oprah Winfrey, Jim Carrey, Steven Spielberg twice, Dreamworks, talk radio, the 1994 – 95 Major League Baseball strike, the campaign against smoking, Candice Bergen, the divorce of Mia Farrow and Woody Allen, David Lynch, Pornography, Tom Cruise, Kevin Costner, Mississippi Burning, Disney, Fatal Attraction, Steve Martin, Platoon, The Hidden Treasure Trove, Sigourney Weaver, Molly Ringwald, NBC, Nastassja Kinski, the new idea of beauty, On Golden Pond, Nicholas Nickleby, and TV's Dallas.

The three aliens — red Wiploc ( Carrey ), yellow Zeebo ( Wayans ) and blue Mac ( Goldblum )— absorb human ( American ) culture through ten minutes of television, and Valerie takes them on a tour of human culture.

A ' stunned ' Lawler reacted by grabbing Carrey by the hair and locked him in a sleeper hold and jerking his neck — supposedly sending Carrey to the hospital.

The Coliseum's Hall of Fame — famous entertainers who have performed there — include comedians such as Bob Hope, Bill Cosby, Jay Leno and Whoopi Goldberg and musical stars or shows such as The 5th Dimension, Tony Orlando and Dawn, Stevie Wonder, Bob Dylan, Elton John, Def Leppard, Metallica, Metal Church, Van Halen, Dana Carvey, Drew Carrey, Montgomery Gentry, Bill Engvall, Howie Mandel, Grease & Cats.

The film is the second of three collaborations between Carrey and Shadyac, the first being Ace Ventura: Pet Detective and the third being Bruce Almighty.

The film is the second of three Carrey / Shadyac collaborations, all of which did extremely well at the box office: the opening weekend made $ 31, 423, 025 in 2, 845 theaters.

This marks the second time that a sequel has been made into a film for which Carrey declined to reprise his role ; the first was Dumb and Dumberer: When Harry Met Lloyd and is followed by Evan Almighty.

The fame of co-stars like Nicolas Cage, Jim Carrey, Helen Hunt, Joan Allen, Catherine Hicks and Sofia Coppola rose considerably in the years after this film.

Roach cast Stiller only after it became clear that Carrey would not be taking on the role.

The name was written into the script after Jim Carrey came up with the idea for the Focker surname during a creative session held before he abandoned the project.

Johnny Depp, Jim Carrey, and Jamie Foxx all gained respect as dramatic actors after starring in biopics: Depp as Edward D. Wood, Jr. in Ed Wood ( 1994 ), Carrey as Andy Kaufman in Man on the Moon ( 1999 ), and Foxx as Ray Charles in Ray ( 2004 ).

* Me, Myself & Irene ( 2000 ) starring Jim Carrey as Charlie Baileygates and Hank Evans, is a slapstick farce about a man who becomes a " split personality " after suppressing angers and frustrations for years, his new personality ' Hank ' actively seeking confrontation where Charlie avoided it, their relationship culminating in the two literally struggling for control over parts of their shared body.

Not long after the release of The Mask, it was announced in Nintendo Power that Jim Carrey would be returning in a sequel called The Mask II.

There is also an early scene where The Mask's wimpy alter ego, Stanley Ipkiss ( played by Jim Carrey ) pops in a cartoon video, which shows this cartoon ( on the part where the Wolf is lustfully reacting to Red singing " Daddy ") and is yelled at by his landlady, Mrs. Peenman, after laughing at it.