Famous actor and comedian found dead at age 61 in home due to suicide by hanging, His autopsy found that his system was filled with drugs and alcohol, During the autopsy officials also found that he had 5 different mental illnesses , one of them being Lewis bodies disease, the same one robin williams had. He began working in the late 1970s as a stand-up comedian at Toronto’s Yuk Yuk’s club. After gaining some prestige, in 1981 he began working at the Comedy Store in Los Angeles, where he was seen by comedian Rodney Dangerfield, who immediately signed him to open his performance tours. Interested in film and television, he developed a friendship with Damon Wayans, which landed him a role on the comedy show In Living Color, in which he played various characters during the 1990s.
After finding success in television series and several low-budget films, he starred in the comedy Ace Ventura, which was released in February 1994. The film had a sequel in 1995, Ace Ventura: When Nature Calls, in which he reprized the role. pet detective. Roles such as Stanley Ipkiss in The Mask, which earned him a Golden Globe nomination for Best Actor in a Musical or Comedy, Lloyd Christmas in Dumb and Dumber, both from 1994, and Fleetcher Reed in 1997’s Liar Liar followed. In 1999 and 2000, he won Golden Globes for The Truman Show and Man on the Moon.
He went on to star in comedies, including How the Grinch Stole Christmas (2000), Bruce Almighty (2003), Lemony Snicket’s A Series of Unfortunate Events (2004), Fun with Dick and Jane (2005), Yes Man (2008), A Christmas Carol (2009) and Mr. Popper’s Penguins (2011). He also played dramatic roles, including Joel Barish in Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind (2004), opposite Kate Winslet and Kirsten Dunst, which earned him another Golden Globe nomination, and Steven Jay Russell in I Love You Phillip Morris. (2009). In 2014, he starred in the sequel to Dumb & Dumber, Dumb and Dumber To, which was a box office success.[3][4]
He was married twice, first to Melissa Womer, whom he married in 1987, and then to Lauren Holly, with whom he only lived for a year. Later Carrey was related to the actress Renée Zellweger, whom he met during the filming of the movie Me, Myself & Irene, the director Laurie Holden and the model Jenny McCarthy. In 2012, he began a relationship with Cathriona White, who died of a drug overdose in 2015.[5]