Steven John Carell is an American actor and comedian.
52 Facts About Steve Carell
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Steve Carell played Michael Scott in The Office, NBC's adaptation of the British series created by Ricky Gervais and Stephen Merchant, where Carell worked as an occasional producer, writer and director.
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Steve Carell was recognized as "America's Funniest Man" by Life magazine.
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Steve Carell gained recognition as a cast member on The Dana Carvey Show in 1996 and as a correspondent on The Daily Show with Jon Stewart from 1999 to 2005.
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Steve Carell went on to star in several comedy films, including Anchorman: The Legend of Ron Burgundy and its 2013 sequel, as well as The 40-Year-Old Virgin, Evan Almighty, Get Smart, Date Night, Crazy, Stupid, Love, and The Way, Way Back.
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Steve Carell returned to television as the co-creator of the TBS comedy series Angie Tribeca, which he developed with his wife, Nancy Steve Carell.
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Steve Carell starred as morning anchor Mitch Kessler in the Apple TV+ drama series The Morning Show, for which he received a nomination for the Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Lead Actor in a Drama Series.
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Steve Carell was born at Emerson Hospital in Concord, Massachusetts, the youngest of four brothers, and raised in nearby Acton, Massachusetts.
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Steve Carell's father, Edwin A Carell, was an electrical engineer, and his mother, Harriet Theresa, was a psychiatric nurse.
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Steve Carell's father was of Italian and German descent and his mother was of Polish ancestry.
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Steve Carell was raised Roman Catholic and was educated at Nashoba Brooks School, The Fenn School, and Middlesex School.
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Steve Carell played ice hockey and lacrosse while in high school.
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Steve Carell played the fife, performing with other members of his family, and later joined a reenacting group portraying the 10th Regiment of Foot.
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Steve Carell attributed his interest in history to this, earning a degree in the subject from Denison University in Granville, Ohio, in 1984.
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Steve Carell spent time as a disc jockey under the name "Sapphire Steve Carell" at WDUB, the campus radio station.
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Steve Carell stated that he worked as a USPS mail carrier in Littleton, Massachusetts, but quit after seven months because his boss told him he was not very good at the job and needed to be faster.
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Early in his performing career, Steve Carell acted onstage in a touring children's theater company, later in the comedy musical Knat Scatt Private Eye, and in a television commercial for the restaurant chain Brown's Chicken in 1989.
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In 1991, Steve Carell performed with Chicago troupe The Second City where Stephen Colbert was his understudy for a time.
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Steve Carell made his film debut in a minor role in Curly Sue.
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Steve Carell starred in a few short-lived television series, including Come to Papa and Over the Top.
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In 2005, Steve Carell signed a deal with NBC to star in The Office, a remake of the British TV series of the same name.
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Steve Carell won a Golden Globe Award and Television Critics Association Award during 2006 for his role in The Office.
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Steve Carell received six Primetime Emmy Award nominations for his work in the series.
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Steve Carell earned approximately per episode of the third season of The Office, twice his salary for the previous two seasons.
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Steve Carell was allowed "flex time" during filming to work on theatrical films.
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Steve Carell worked on Evan Almighty during a production hiatus during the second season of The Office.
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However, according to interviews in The Office: The Untold Story of the Greatest Sitcom of the 2000s, Steve Carell did not actually plan to leave at the time and was only "thinking out loud" during the interview, but after his statement failed to elicit a reaction from NBC, he decided it was best to move on.
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Ultimately Steve Carell did reprise the role briefly in the series finale.
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In 2018, during the press day for Welcome to Marwen, Steve Carell was asked about participating in a revival of the series.
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Steve Carell played Uncle Arthur, imitating the camp mannerisms of Paul Lynde's original character, in Bewitched, a TV adaptation co-starring Nicole Kidman and Will Ferrell.
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Steve Carell acted as the title character of Evan Almighty, a sequel to Bruce Almighty, reprising his role as Evan Baxter, now a US Congressman.
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Steve Carell starred in the 2007 film Dan in Real Life, co-starring Dane Cook and Juliette Binoche.
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Steve Carell played Maxwell Smart in the 2008 film Get Smart, an adaptation of the TV series starring Don Adams.
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Steve Carell starred with Tina Fey in Date Night during late 2008 and the film was released on April 9,2010, in the US He voiced Gru, the main character in the Universal CGI film Despicable Me along with Russell Brand, Miranda Cosgrove, and Kristen Wiig.
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Steve Carell reprised the role in the 2013 sequel Despicable Me 2 and in the third installment of the film franchise Despicable Me 3 in 2017.
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Steve Carell has several other projects in the works, including a remake of the 1967 Peter Sellers film The Bobo.
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Steve Carell is doing voice-over work in commercials for Wrigley's Extra gum.
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Steve Carell has launched a television division of his production company, Carousel Productions, which has contracted a three-year overall deal with Universal Media Studios, the studio behind his NBC comedy series.
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In 2014, Steve Carell starred in the true crime drama film Foxcatcher alongside Mark Ruffalo and Channing Tatum in which Steve Carell played the millionaire and convicted murderer John Eleuthere du Pont.
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Steve Carell was nominated for the Golden Globe for Best Actor and the Academy Award for Best Actor.
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In 2015, Steve Carell reprised his role as Gru for a cameo appearance in the film Minions.
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Steve Carell followed this with another biographical drama, The Big Short, in which he portrayed banker Steve Eisman, whose name was changed in the film to Mark Baum.
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Steve Carell starred as Larry "Doc" Shepherd in the film Last Flag Flying.
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Steve Carell led the addiction drama Beautiful Boy as real life father David Sheff, whose son Nic struggles with drug addiction.
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In 2019, Steve Carell returned to television to star in the Apple TV+ drama series The Morning Show opposite Reese Witherspoon and Jennifer Aniston.
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Steve Carell had originally signed a one-year deal with Apple to star in the first season only but he signed on to star in the second season in October 2019.
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Since May 2020, Steve Carell starred in the Netflix workplace comedy series Space Force, based on the proposed space warfare service branch of the United States Armed Forces: the United States Space Force.
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Steve Carell created and produces Space Force with Greg Daniels, who created and produced The Office.
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Steve Carell starred in the political comedy film Irresistible, written and directed by Jon Stewart.
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In 2022, Steve Carell reprised his role as Gru in the film Minions: The Rise of Gru.
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Steve Carell starred in FX on Hulu's ten-episode original series The Patient; in that series, Carell portrays a therapist who is imprisoned by a serial killer who wants to resist the urge to kill.
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In February 2009, Steve Carell purchased the Marshfield Hills General Store in Marshfield, Massachusetts.