the canadian Jim Carrey (61) is one of the great celebrities that the Hollywood industry has produced. He was an actor who marked an era and who entered the hearts of fans of all ages with the different films in which he starred. He owns a personality and a unique style, an actor in movies like “The mask”“Liar, Liar” and “The Truman Show” made it very clear that he is an all-terrain actor, one of those who is not only pigeonholed in a single genre.
And although the unforgettable actor Jim Carrey, born in Ontario (Canada) became a true icon and benchmark, some years ago he decided to abandon acting and move away from public exposure. It was a decision that he adopted after going through a hard and difficult personal moment, which also earned him countless criticisms from which he decided to detach himself with important clarifications.
What happened to Jim Carrey, why he moved away from acting and what the actor of “The Mask” does today
List the different movies Jim Carrey it would become tedious and endless. But we can synthesize everything in the concept that, although Carrey rose to fame thanks to comedies and his histrionic and hilarious interpretations (like the ones we saw in “The mask”, “Ace Ventura”, “Liar, Liar” and “Irene, me and my other self”, for example), later he showed that he is an actor gifted for existential dramas. “The Truman Show” and “Eternal Sunshine of a Spotless Mind” are clear examples of this.
However, there was a tragic episode that marked a before and after in the life of Jim Carrey, and that led to the decision to move away from acting. In September 2015, the young make-up artist Cathriona White – who had just ended a love affair with Carrey – took her life. The news devastated Jim Carreywho had to go out to deny those rumors that began to emanate that the actor had infected his partner with sexually transmitted diseases.
After the death of his ex-girlfriend and those rumors, the name of Jim Carrey seemed to get “canceled” in the film industry. To this was added a strong picture of depression in which the actor entered. But, years later, it was he who distanced himself from the fact that he had decided to move away from the world of Hollywood. Since then, Jim Carrey He dedicated himself to another of his passions: painting. On his social networks, Carrey shared at one point some of his creations, the result of a passion that he had abandoned in a timely manner, but which he later resumed.
In 2022, Jim Carrey He returned to the big screen for his last film role: the archvillain of “Sonic 2” -he had also played him in the first film-. And it was also in that year that the actor left Twitter, one of the social networks where he was most active. It was in step with the mass exodus of celebrities that occurred when Elon Musk acquired the social network.