Editing Jim Carrey (section)

== Early life ==
Carrey was born in [[Newmarket, Ontario]], Canada,<ref name=cbcbirth /> to Kathleen (née Oram), a homemaker, and Percy Carrey, a musician and accountant.<ref>{{cite news |url=https://filmylabs.blogspot.com/2019/02/badla-movie-2019-badla-trailer-badla.html |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190324054756/https://filmylabs.blogspot.com/2019/02/badla-movie-2019-badla-trailer-badla.html |url-status=dead |archive-date=March 24, 2019 |title=USA Weekend Magazine |work=USA Weekend |date=May 25, 2003 |access-date=November 21, 2009}}</ref> He was raised [[Catholic Church|Catholic]] and has three older siblings, John, Patricia, and Rita.<ref>{{cite news |last=Puig |first=Claudia |url=https://www.usatoday.com/life/2003-05-20-carrey_x.htm |title=Spiritual Carrey still mighty funny |work=USA Today |date=May 27, 2003 |access-date=November 21, 2009 |archive-date=November 17, 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201117001225/https://usatoday30.usatoday.com/life/2003-05-20-carrey_x.htm |url-status=live }}</ref><ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.movieline.com/1994/07/carreyd-away.php?page=3 |archive-url=https://archive.today/20120908072700/http://www.movieline.com/1994/07/carreyd-away.php?page=3 |url-status=dead |archive-date=September 8, 2012 |title=Jim Carrey: Carrey'd Away |publisher=[[Movieline]] |date=January 7, 1994 |access-date=October 8, 2010}}</ref> His mother was of Irish and Scottish descent, and his father was of French-Canadian ancestry; the family's original surname was Carré''.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.jimcarreyonline.com/forum/viewtopic.php?p=75657&sid=c288b4a04f1da0728280242f21ef58de |title=Jim Carrey Online • View topic&nbsp;– Scottish Interview & Clip |publisher=Jimcarreyonline.com |access-date=February 7, 2011}}</ref><ref name="Stated">{{YouTube|cpEfiRUu64Q|Stated}}{{dead link|date=August 2014}} on ''[[Inside the Actors Studio]]''.</ref><ref name="book">{{cite book |author=Knelman, Martin. |title=Jim Carrey: The Joker Is Wild  |year=2000 |publisher=U.S.: Firefly Books Ltd. |page=[https://archive.org/details/jimcarreyjokeris00mart/page/8 8] |isbn=1-55209-535-5 |url-access=registration |url=https://archive.org/details/jimcarreyjokeris00mart/page/8 }}</ref>

At age eight, he began making faces before a mirror and discovered a talent for doing impressions.<ref>{{Cite web|title=Jim Carrey {{!}} Biography, Movies, TV Shows, Books, & Facts|url=https://www.britannica.com/biography/Jim-Carrey|access-date=December 21, 2020|website=Encyclopedia Britannica}}</ref> At age ten, Carrey wrote a letter to [[Carol Burnett]] of the ''[[Carol Burnett Show]]'' pointing out that he was already a master of [[Impressionist (entertainment)|impressions]] and should be considered for a role on the show; he was overjoyed when he received a [[form letter]] reply.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://comediansincarsgettingcoffee.com/jim-carrey-we-love-breathing-what-youre-burning-baby |publisher=Comedians in Cars Getting Coffee |first=Jerry |last=Seinfeld |year=2016 |title=Jim Carry: We Love Breathing What You're Burning Baby |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160512035503/http://comediansincarsgettingcoffee.com/jim-carrey-we-love-breathing-what-youre-burning-baby |archive-date=May 12, 2016}}</ref> A fan of [[Monty Python]], whose TV show ''[[Monty Python's Flying Circus]]'' aired in the 1970s, in 2014 Carrey appeared on ''Monty Python's Best Bits (Mostly)'' and recalled the effect on him of Ernest Scribbler (played by [[Michael Palin]]) laughing himself to death in "[[The Funniest Joke in the World]]" sketch.<ref name="Python">{{cite news |title=Monty Python's Best Bits (Mostly) |url=https://www.radiotimes.com/tv-programme/e/c7jvrt/monty-pythons-best-bits-mostly--series-1-episode-1/ |access-date=September 5, 2019 |work=Radio Times |archive-date=November 17, 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201117001205/https://www.radiotimes.com/tv-programme/e/c7jvrt/monty-pythons-best-bits-mostly--series-1-episode-1/ |url-status=live }}</ref> ''Radio Times'' states, "You'll see why immediately: Palin's performance is uncannily Carreyesque."<ref name="Python"/>

Carrey spent his early years in the borough of [[Scarborough, Toronto|Scarborough]], Ontario, part of Metropolitan Toronto, where he attended Blessed Trinity Catholic Elementary School in [[North York]]. His family later moved to [[Burlington, Ontario|Burlington]], Ontario, where they would spend eight years; Jim attended [[Aldershot School|Aldershot High School]] while there.<ref>{{cite news |title=Dropout Boogie: 14 Celebs Who Never Got Their Degree |url=https://www.rollingstone.com/culture/culture-lists/dropout-boogie-14-celebs-who-never-got-their-degree-14864/jim-carrey-6-208069/ |access-date=July 8, 2020 |magazine=Rolling Stone |archive-date=November 17, 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201117001212/https://www.rollingstone.com/culture/culture-lists/dropout-boogie-14-celebs-who-never-got-their-degree-14864/jim-carrey-6-208069/ |url-status=live }}</ref> Some time later, his family became homeless and lived together in a Volkswagen van while teenage Jim and his brother spent months living in a tent in Charles Daley Park on the [[Lake Ontario]] shore in [[Lincoln, Ontario]].<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/features/jim-carreys-reluctant-return-hollywood-1134623|title=Jim Carrey's (Reluctant) Return to Hollywood: At Home With an Actor, Artist and Trump-Era Agitator|website=The Hollywood Reporter|date=August 15, 2018|access-date=February 18, 2020|archive-date=November 17, 2020|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201117001022/https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/features/jim-carreys-reluctant-return-hollywood-1134623|url-status=live}}</ref><ref name="Carrey-npost">{{cite news |first=Ben |last=Kaplan |title=Dumb and Dumber Weak (sic): Jim Carrey's rocky road from Scarborough to Hollywood – 'He was born to do it' |url=https://nationalpost.com/entertainment/movies/dumb-and-dumber-weak-sic-jim-carreys-rocky-road-from-scarborough-to-hollywood-he-was-born-to-do-it |work=[[National Post]] |access-date=December 15, 2020 |date=November 13, 2014 }}</ref> The family struggled financially, however, their situation started improving once his father found employment in the accounting department at the Titan Wheels tire factory in Scarborough.<ref name="Carrey-npost"/>

Furthermore, in return for living in the house across the street from the factory, the family—primarily teenage sons Jim and John—would work as janitors and security guards at the tire factory, doing eight-hour shifts from 6 pm into the next morning.<ref name="Carrey-npost"/> Moving back to Scarborough, teenage Jim started attending [[Agincourt Collegiate Institute]] before dropping out of school on his sixteenth birthday. He began to perform comedy in downtown Toronto while continuing to work at the factory. In a 2007 ''[[Hamilton Spectator]]'' interview, Carrey said, "If my career in show business hadn't panned out I would probably be working today in [[Hamilton, Ontario|Hamilton]], Ontario, at the [[Dofasco]] steel mill." As a young man, he could see the steel mills across the Burlington Bay and often thought that was "where the great jobs were."<ref name="JIMSTEEL">{{Cite news |last=Holt |first=Jim |title=Its all in the numbers: Jim Carrey could be at Dofasco if Hollywood hadn't worked out |newspaper=The Hamilton Spectator |pages=Go14 |date=February 26, 2007 }}</ref>