Carrey was born in Newmarket, Ontario, Canada on the 17th of January, 1962 and had a humble beginning. He attended Blessed Trinity Catholic School in New York after his family moved from Scarborough, Ontario. He then enrolled at Agincourt Collegiate Institute for a year after which he attended Northview Heights Secondary School. Carey also opened once for the 1980s new wave band Spoons while in Aldershot High School.
On “Inside the Actors Studio,” Carrey described his father as “a musician who got a ‘regular job’ to support his children.” He added that when his father lost his job, “everything fell apart.”
The future actor was forced to quit school at 15 to help support the family and took a job as a janitor.
He used to wear tap dancing shoes to bed when he was little. He has explained that this was because his parents often asked him to perform in the middle of the night:
“I had a sick mom, man. I wanted to make her feel better. Basically, I think she laid in bed and took a lot of pain pills. And I wanted to make her feel better. And I used to go in there and do impressions of praying mantises, and weird things, and whatever. I’d bounce off the walls and throw myself down the stairs to make her feel better.”
He used to take Prozac, a medication for depression. He has stated recently that he has stopped all kinds of medications and stimulants including coffee.
Cathriona White, his girlfriend was found dead on 28 September 2015 due to a prescription drug overdose.