Steve Carell
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Steven Carell (born August 16, 1963 in Acton, Massachusetts) is an American actor.
He was educated at the The Fenn School and Middlesex School in Concord and Denison University in Granville, Ohio.
He is married to Nancy Walls, a former Daily Show correspondent, whom he originally met when she was a student in an improv class he was teaching at The Second City.Interview: Steve Carell (January 11, 2006). The Tonight Show with Jay Leno, NBC. They have one daughter (Elizabeth) and one son (John).
Early career
Prior to deciding on a career as a performer, he was a mail carrier. He later explained he quit after a few months because he was "very, very bad at it."Interview: Steve Carell (March 20, 2006). InFANity: The Office, TV Guide Channel. He also planned on going to law school, but when he was asked on his entry form why he wanted to become a lawyer, he was unable to write a response.Internet Movie Database, The. [Biography for Steve Carell], IMDb.com.He performed with the Chicago troupe of The Second City in 1991. This same year, he landed his first role (albeit minor) in a major motion picture as Tesio in Curly Sue.
In 1996, he was a cast member of the briefly aired The Dana Carvey Show. Carell has also done some voice acting, including several voices in "The Ambiguously Gay Duo" for Saturday Night Live.
Other screen credits include a role in the short-lived Julia Louis-Dreyfus sitcom Watching Ellie (2002 – 2003) and Woody Allen's Melinda and Melinda.
The Daily Show
In 1999, he became a correspondent on The Daily Show, appearing in recurring sketches like "Even Stephven" (with Stephen Colbert) and "Produce Pete with Steve Carell". He remained a regular on the show until 2004.
Carell returned to The Daily Show on March 23, 2005, for a piece on the second anniversary of the 2003 invasion of Iraq.
While there he also recorded two guest appearances as Produce Pete which aired on April 4, 2005, and May 3, 2005 (and was credited as a contributor until that time).
He has since been on the show as the guest on August 15, 2005, and declared on that day's program (much to Jon Stewart's faux tearful dismay) that he is officially no longer with the show, ending a bit of speculation as to if he would one day return or not.
Mainstream success
Two supporting roles in films helped get the attention of audiences: In Bruce Almighty, Carell played Evan Baxter, an arrogant rival to Jim Carrey who gets the ultimate comeuppance at a news desk. In , he played yet another news personality, this time as the dimwitted weatherman Brick Tamland, whose non-sequiturs (including "I love lamp" and "LOUD NOISES!") helped make the comedy a success at the box-office.In spring of 2005, Carell began playing the lead role of Michael Scott on NBC's remake of the British sitcom The Office, for which he subsequently won a Golden Globe in 2006 ("Best Performance by an Actor In A Television Series - Musical Or Comedy"). He also received a 2006 Emmy nomination for his work in the series. The show had a rocky start due to poor ratings, but its following grew during its second season thanks to word-of-mouth, critical acceptance, episode distribution for the Video iPod via Apple's iTunes, and its being paired with the hit show My Name is Earl on Thursday nights. Carell wrote the second season's finale entitled "Casino Night".
He played the lead role in the 2005 film The 40-Year-Old Virgin, which he developed and co-wrote. With Carell's surprise success with the film, he revealed in an interview with Entertainment Weekly that he has no plans to leave The Office, citing that early on in an actor's career that they can only dream to work full time one day, that they shouldn't be whining when they're working all the time when they wanted to in the first place.
Carell also appeared in a short cameo alongside Nicole Kidman and Will Ferrell in the 2005 remake of Bewitched, and voiced one of the starring roles as Hammy the Squirrel in the 2006 computer-animated film Over the Hedge.
His work in films such as , The 40-Year-Old Virgin, and Bewitched established Carell as a member of Hollywood's Frat Pack group. This network of actors, headlined by Ben Stiller, Will Ferrell, Vince Vaughn, Luke Wilson, and Owen Wilson, has become one of the most profitable forces in modern comedy. Carell acknowledged his membership in this group during the opening monologue of his October 1, 2005 hosting stint of Saturday Night Live[link].
Partial Filmography
| Year | Title | Role | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2007 | Evan Almighty | Evan Baxter | Lead role |
| Dan in Real Life | Dan Ashburn | ||
| 2006 | Over the Hedge | Hammy | (voice) |
| Little Miss Sunshine | Frank | ||
| 2005 | Melinda and Melinda | Walt | |
| Bewitched | Uncle Arthur | ||
| The 40-Year Old Virgin | Andy Stitzer | Lead role | |
| 2004 | Brick Tamland | ||
| 2003 | Bruce Almighty | Evan Baxter | Supporting role |
Future plans
He is currently scheduled to play Maxwell Smart in a movie remake of Get Smart.He stars in the film, Little Miss Sunshine, to be released in July of 2006.
Also, he is slated to appear as the lead in Evan Almighty, a sequel to Bruce Almighty. He will reprise his role as Evan Baxter, now a congressman, whom God tasks with building a new ark.
In October 2006, Carell will begin shooting the upcoming film Dan in Real Life, co-starring Dane Cook and Juliette Binoche.
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