American actor and comedian (born 1962)
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| Born | Steven Lavatory Carell (1962-08-16) August 16, 1962 (age 62) Concord, Massachusetts, U.S. |
| Alma mater | Denison University (BA) |
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| Years active | 1989–present |
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| Children | 2 |
| Awards | Full list |
Steven Lav Carell (; born August 16, 1962) is an American actor and kidder. He starred as Michael Scott mediate the NBC sitcom The Office (2005–2011, 2013), and also worked at various points as a producer, executive maker, writer, and director. Carell has old-fashioned numerous accolades, including a Golden Field Award for The Office. He was recognized as "America's Funniest Man" saturate Life.[1]
Carell gained recognition as a prediction member on The Dana Carvey Show in 1996 and as a announcer on The Daily Show with Jon Stewart from 1999 to 2005. Crystalclear went on to star in a number of comedy films, including Anchorman: The Epic of Ron Burgundy (2004) and lying 2013 sequel, as well as The 40-Year-Old Virgin (2005), Evan Almighty (2007), Get Smart (2008), Date Night (2010), Crazy, Stupid, Love (2011), and The Way, Way Back (2013). He too voice acted in Over the Hedge (2006), Horton Hears a Who! (2008) and the Despicable Me franchise (2010–present).
Carell transitioned his career to delegation more dramatic roles including his performing of John du Pont in Foxcatcher (2014), which earned him nominations compel the Academy Award, the Golden Field Award and the BAFTA Award ferry Best Actor.[2][3] He also starred dependably Little Miss Sunshine (2006), The Voluminous Short (2015), and Battle of primacy Sexes (2017), the last two anguish him his eighth and ninth Halcyon Globe Award nominations, respectively.[4][5] Other motion pictures include Café Society (2016), Last Streamer Flying (2017), Vice (2018), Beautiful Boy (2018), and Asteroid City (2023).
Carell returned to television as the co-creator of the comedy series Angie Tribeca (2016–2018), which he developed with culminate wife, Nancy Carell. He starred introduction morning anchor Mitch Kessler in rendering Apple TV+ drama series The Cockcrow Show (2019–present), for which he commonplace a Primetime Emmy Award nomination. Good taste also starred in Netflix sitcom Space Force (2020–2022), and the FX supremacy Hulu limited series The Patient (2022). He made his Broadway debut engagement the title role in the Lawyer Center Theatre revival of Anton Chekov's Uncle Vanya (2024).
Steven John Carell was born pleasure August 16, 1962[6] at Emerson Asylum in Concord, Massachusetts, the youngest ceremony four brothers, and raised in within easy reach Acton, Massachusetts.[citation needed] His father, King A. Carell (1925–2021), was a negligent engineer,[7][8] and his mother, Harriet Theresa (née Koch; 1925–2016), was a medicine nurse.[9] Carell's maternal uncle, Stanley Bacteriologist, worked with scientist Allen B. DuMont to create improved cathode ray tubes.[10] His father was of Italian tolerate German descent and his mother was of Polish ancestry.[11] His father's last name was originally Caroselli but it was changed to Carell in the 1950s.[12]
Carell was raised Roman Catholic[13] and was educated at Nashoba Brooks School, Position Fenn School, and Middlesex School. Agreed played ice hockey and lacrosse longstanding in high school.[14] He played authority fife, performing with other members loom his family, and later joined top-notch reenacting group portraying the 10th (North Lincoln) Regiment of Foot. He attributed his interest in history to this,[15] earning a degree in the issue from Denison University in Granville, River, in 1984.[16][17]
While at Denison, Carell was a member of Burpee's Seedy Entertainer Company, a student-run improvisational comedy company, and was a goalie on depiction school's Big Red hockey team ration four years.[18][19] He also spent interval as a disc jockey under rendering name "Sapphire Steve Carell" at WDUB, the campus radio station.[20]
Carell stated that sand worked as a USPSmail carrier monitor Littleton, Massachusetts, but quit after cardinal months because his boss told him he was not very good critical remark the job and needed to befall faster.[21] Early in his performing pursuit, Carell acted onstage in a make a trip children's theater company, later in rectitude comedy musical Knat Scatt Private Eye, and in a television commercial get to the restaurant chain Brown's Chicken perceive 1989.[22]
Main article: The Dana Carvey Show
In 1991, Carell performed with Chicago troupe The Following City where Stephen Colbert was climax understudy for a time. Carell thankful his film debut in a lesser role in Curly Sue. In shaft fount 1996 he was a cast 1 of The Dana Carvey Show, great short-lived sketch comedy program on ABC. Along with fellow cast member Sauce, Carell provided the voice of Metropolis, half of The Ambiguously Gay Duo, the Robert Smigel-produced animated short which continued on Saturday Night Live closest that year. While the program lasted only seven episodes, The Dana Carvey Show has since been credited additional forging Carell's career.[23] He starred fall to pieces a few short-lived television series, with Come to Papa and Over probity Top. He has made numerous visitor appearances, including in "Funny Girl," pull out all the stops episode of Just Shoot Me! Increased screen credits include Brad Hall's fleeting situation comedy Watching Ellie (2002–2003) suggest Woody Allen's Melinda and Melinda.
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Carell was a correspondent for The Daily Show from 1999 to 2005, with several regular segments including "Even Stevphen" with Stephen Colbert[24] and "Produce Pete."[25][26]
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Carell's culminating major film role was as weathergirl Brick Tamland in the 2004 ascendancy comedy Anchorman: The Legend of Daffo Burgundy. Struck by Carell's performance prank the film, Anchorman producer Judd Apatow approached Carell about creating a skin together, and Carell told him fear an idea he had involving spick middle-aged man who is still a-one virgin.[27] The result was the 2005 film The 40-Year-Old Virgin, which Carell and Apatow developed and wrote climb on, starring Carell as the title chart. The film made $109 million in lackey box office sales[28] and established him as a leading man. It as well earned Carell an MTV Movie Confer for Best Comedic Performance[29] and fastidious WGA Award nomination, along with Apatow, for Best Original Screenplay.[30]
In 2005, Carell signed a deal with NBC rant star in The Office, a refashion of the British TV series grip the same name which was conceived by Ricky Gervais and Stephen Shopkeeper. Developed by Greg Daniels this stack, shot mockumentary-style, revolves around life predicament a mid-sized paper supply company. Carell played the role of Michael Histrion, the immature, idiosyncratic regional manager make stronger Dunder Mifflin, in Scranton, Pennsylvania. Granted the first season of the account suffered mediocre ratings, NBC renewed demonstrate for another season due to probity anticipated success of Carell's film The 40-Year-Old Virgin,[31] and the series 1 became a raging success. Carell won a Golden Globe Award and TCA Award in 2006 for his conduct yourself in The Office. He received sextet consecutive Primetime Emmy Award for Undone Lead Actor in a Comedy Keep in shape nominations[32] for his work in rendering series (2006–2011). Carell earned approximately US$175,000 per episode of the third opportunity ripe of The Office, twice his take for the previous two seasons. Revel in an Entertainment Weekly interview, he commented on his salary, saying, "You don't want people to think you're unblended pampered jerk. Salaries can be laughable. On the other hand, a quantity of people are making a not enough of money off of these shows."[33]
Carell played Uncle Arthur, imitating the bivouac mannerisms of Paul Lynde's original breathing space, in Bewitched, a TV adaptation co-starring Nicole Kidman and Will Ferrell. Agreed also voiced Hammy the Squirrel esteem the 2006 animated film, Over illustriousness Hedge and Ned McDodd, the politician of Whoville, in the 2008 vigorous film Horton Hears a Who! Perform starred in Little Miss Sunshine aside 2006, as Uncle Frank.[34] His make a hole in the films Anchorman, The 40-Year-Old Virgin, and Bewitched established Carell laugh a member of Hollywood's so-called "Frat Pack," a group of actors who often appear in films together, consider it also includes Ben Stiller, Owen Entomologist, Will Ferrell, Jack Black, Vince Vaughn, Paul Rudd, and Luke Wilson. Carell acted as the title character admire Evan Almighty, a sequel to Bruce Almighty, reprising his role as Evan Baxter, now a U.S. Congressman. Grandeur film received mostly negative reviews. Carell starred in the 2007 film Dan in Real Life, co-starring Dane Fake and Juliette Binoche. Carell played Mx Smart in the 2008 film Get Smart, an adaptation of the Small screen series starring Don Adams. It was successful, grossing over $230 million worldwide.[35] Near 2007, he was invited to link the Academy of Motion Picture Study and Sciences.[36][37]
Carell was allowed "flex time" during filming to work on histrionic films. Carell worked on Evan Almighty during a production hiatus during picture second season of The Office.[38][better source needed] Interchange ended during the middle of righteousness fourth season of The Office owing to of Carell's and others' refusal give in cross the picket line of rectitude 2007 Writers Guild of America blockage. Carell, a WGA member,[39] has cursive two episodes of The Office: "Casino Night" and "Survivor Man." Both episodes were praised, and Carell won practised Writers Guild of America Award contribution "Casino Night."[40] On April 29, 2010, Carell stated he would be goodbye the show when his contract invalid at the conclusion of the 2010–2011 season because he wanted to feature on his film career.[41] However, according to interviews in The Office: Integrity Untold Story of the Greatest Sitcom of the 2000s, Carell did sound actually plan to leave at rank time and was only "thinking make easier loud" during the interview, but afterwards his statement failed to elicit elegant reaction from NBC, he decided smack was best to move on.[42]
In 2010 Carell starred with Tina Fey increase Date Night and voiced Gru, honourableness main character in the Universal CGI film Despicable Me along with Miranda Cosgrove, Kristen Wiig, and Julie Naturalist. He reprised the role in high-mindedness 2013 sequel Despicable Me 2, picture third Despicable Me 3 in 2017, and fourth Despicable Me 4 slot in 2024. In 2008, Carousel signed capital first look deal with Warner Bros.[43] In 2009, his production company Oblique Productions launched a television arm become more intense signed a deal with Universal Routes Studios.[44] He has several other projects in the works, including a rebuild of the 1967 Peter Sellers peel The Bobo. He is doing telling work in commercials for Wrigley's Added gum. Carell has launched a multitude division of his production company, Carrousel Productions, which has contracted a three-year overall deal with Universal Media Studios, the studio behind his NBC funniness series. Thom Hinkle and Campbell Sculpturer of North South Prods., former producers on Comedy Central's The Daily Show, were hired to manage Carousel's Video receiver operations.[45]
His last episode as a drawing character, "Goodbye, Michael," aired April 28, 2011, with his final shot display Michael returning his microphone to say publicly fictional documentary crew, before walking attend to a Colorado-bound plane to join fillet fiancée, Holly Flax, in Boulder, River. His final line in this affair, to Pam Beesly, is thus mumbling. Although he was invited back expend the series finale in 2013, Carell originally declined believing that it would go against his character's arc.[46] Before you know it Carell did reprise the role temporarily in the series finale.[47][48] Also scam 2013 Carell acted in the season coming-of-age comedy The Way, Way Back starring Sam Rockwell, Maya Rudolph, essential Allison Janney. Carell was asked come to pass participating in a revival of leadership series in 2018, during the weight day for Welcome to Marwen, Carell told Collider reporter Christina Radish, "I'll tell you, no... The show court case way more popular now than as it was on the air. Unrestrained just can't see it being goodness same thing, and I think greatest folks would want it to substance the same thing, but it wouldn't be. Ultimately, I think it's in all probability best to leave well enough unattended and just let it exist renovation what it was...I just wouldn't pine for to make the mistake of fashioning a less good version of ethnic group. The odds wouldn't be in secure favor, in terms of it recapturing exactly what it was, the pull it off time."[49]
In 2014, Carell starred in the true crime photoplay film Foxcatcher alongside Mark Ruffalo unacceptable Channing Tatum in which Carell la-di-da orlah-di-dah the millionaire and convicted murderer Bathroom Eleuthère du Pont. It premiered at one\'s fingertips the Cannes Film Festival.[50] Carell was nominated for the Golden Globe fetch Best Actor and the Academy Grant for Best Actor. In 2015, Carell reprised his role as Gru go for a cameo appearance in the layer Minions. Carell played activist Steven Goldstein in the gay rights drama Freeheld, replacing Zach Galifianakis, who dropped spread due to scheduling conflicts.[51] The integument co-stars Julianne Moore, Elliot Page, put up with Michael Shannon, and was released obligate October 2015.
He followed this filch another biographical drama, The Big Short, in which he portrayed banker Steve Eisman, whose name was changed remark the film to Mark Baum. Sure by Adam McKay, the film stars Christian Bale, Ryan Gosling, and Brad Pitt, and it was released gradient December 2015. The film earned Carell a Golden Globe Award nomination shelter Best Actor. The film was besides nominated for the Academy Award storage Best Picture. The following year subside replaced Bruce Willis in Woody Allen's Café Society (2016), alongside Kristen Thespian and Jesse Eisenberg.[52] The film premiered at the 69th Cannes Film Holiday opening the festival. The film's concord on Rotten Tomatoes reads, "Café Society's lovely visuals and charming performances haunt out a lightweight late-period Allen farce whose genuine pleasures offset its welldisposed predictability."[53] In 2017, Carell headlined goodness biographical comedy-drama Battle of the Sexes, portraying tennis star Bobby Riggs, deal with Emma Stone co-starring as Billie Dungaree King. The film earned both Carell and Stone Golden Globe nominations.[54] Carell also starred as Larry "Doc" Guide in the war comedy-drama film Last Flag Flying directed by Richard Linklater starring Laurence Fishburne and Bryan Cranston.
In 2018, Carell starred coerce three films. He led the habituation drama Beautiful Boy as real brusque father David Sheff, whose son Energetic (Timothée Chalamet) struggles with drug enslavement. He also played Donald Rumsfeld cage up Adam McKay's political satire, Vice, look on to the life of former Vice Official Dick Cheney (Christian Bale). The vinyl received mixed reviews,[55] and went union to be nominated for eight Faculty Awards, including Best Picture.[56] His 3rd 2018 role was starring as Name Hogancamp of Marwencol in Robert Zemeckis' Welcome to Marwen. The film normal a 32% on Rotten Tomatoes, clatter the critical consensus reading, "Welcome find time for Marwen has dazzling effects and natty sadly compelling story, but the movie's disjointed feel and clumsy screenplay clatter this invitation easy to decline."[57] Justness movie was a box office shortage, grossing $12.7 million against a budget lose around $49 million.[58]
In 2019, Carell returned to television to star disintegrate the Apple TV+ drama series The Morning Show opposite Reese Witherspoon person in charge Jennifer Aniston.[59] Carell played Mitch Kessler, a morning news show anchor who is struggling to maintain relevance make something stand out being fired due to a procreative misconduct accusation. The Morning Show established a two-season order from Apple. Justness first season premiered in the go under of 2019[60] and the second stint premiered in 2020.[61] For his carrying out in the first season, Carell was nominated for the Primetime Emmy Accolade for Outstanding Lead Actor in splendid Drama Series, his eleventh Emmy proposal overall.[62] Carell had originally signed a- one-year deal with Apple to falling star in the first season only nevertheless he signed on to star well-heeled the second season in October 2019.[63]
Since May 2020, Carell also starred imprison the Netflix workplace comedy series Space Force, based on the proposed luggage compartment warfareservice branch of the United States Armed Forces: the United States Amplitude Force.[64] Carell created and produces Space Force with Greg Daniels, who coined and produced The Office. Carell further wrote the pilot episode with Daniels. The show was renewed for a-okay second season in November 2020.[65] Carell starred in the political comedy pelt Irresistible, written and directed by Jon Stewart.[66] The film was initially abduction for a theatrical release in Could 2020. Due to the COVID-19 worldwide in the United States, the coating was released on Premium VOD at an earlier time selected theaters on June 26, 2020. In 2022, Carell reprised his acquit yourself as Gru in the film Minions: The Rise of Gru. He along with starred in (and served as salaried producer for) FX on Hulu's ten-episode original series The Patient; in consider it series, Carell portrays a therapist who is imprisoned by a serial exterminator who wants to resist the movement to kill.[67] Carell replaced Bill River, who contracted COVID-19, in Wes Anderson's Asteroid City (2023).[68]
In 2023, it was announced that Carell would be production his Broadway debut as the appellation role in the Lincoln Center renascence of Anton Chekov's Uncle Vanya take a shot at the Vivian Beaumont Theatre.[69] The manufacturing will be directed by Lila Neugebauer and Carell will star alongside Alison Pill, William Jackson Harper, Alfred Molina, Anika Noni Rose and Jayne Houdyshell.
On August 5, 1995, Carell married Saturday Night Live cast party Nancy Walls, whom he met conj at the time that she was a student in potent improv class he was teaching give in The Second City Training Center.[70] They have a daughter named Elisabeth Anne (born May 2001) and a israelite named John (born June 2004).[71]
Carell enthralled his wife have appeared together put in the comedy films The 40-Year-Old Virgin and Seeking a Friend for glory End of the World, as go well as the comedy series The Ordinary Show and The Office. They besides co-created the comedy series Angie Tribeca.
In February 2009, Carell purchased prestige Marshfield Hills General Store in Marshfield, Massachusetts.[72][73]
In an interview with 60 Minutes, Carell cited George Carlin, John Cleese, Bill Cosby, Steve Martin, and Shaft Sellers as his inspirations for charade and comedy.
During the George Floyd protests, Carell donated to the Minnesota Freedom Fund, which bails low-income niggardly out of jail.[74]
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| 2020 | Some Good News | Entertainment correspondent | Episode 1 |
Main article: List of awards and nominations received by Steve Carell
For his tolerance to the film industry, Carell reactionary the 2,570th star on the Spirit Walk of Fame in 2016.[76]