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Steve Carell, who was a virgin at 40, turns 60

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Steve Carell, who was a virgin at 40, turns 60

Was Virgo at 40 and today, August 16th, Steve Carell turns 60. Everyone will have their first memory of when they discovered it, in the cinema or on the television screen. He was in the series office? Like the reporter who was sweating like crazy Almighty, comedy with Jim Carrey? Or in the quoted Virgo at 40?

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Son of Harriet Theresa, a psychiatric nurse, and Edwin A. Carell, an electrical engineer, his father was of Italian and German descent. It was Steve’s grandfather who changed the surname Caroselli to Carell. So his name is Steven John Carell.

20 facts about his life and career

In "Almighty".  The scene where, as a presenter, he sweats on the TV is a

In “Almighty”. The scene where, as a presenter, he sweats on the television is an anthology. Clarin archive photo

  • In 1996 he became a cast member of Dana Carvey’s show and voiced Gary, alongside 10-time Emmy winner Stephen Colbert The ambiguously gay duoa series of animated shorts that have gone mythical Live Saturday night (1975), but Carell always jokes that he auditioned SNL and lost to Will Ferrell.
  • He made his film debut in the little rascal (1991), by the great John Hughes, and played Evan Baxter opposite Jim Carrey in Almighty (2003) and Uncle Arthur on the loose haunted (2005), opposite Nicole Kidman and her friend Will Ferrell.
He was still Steven -with n-Carell when he starred with Jim Carrey in "Almighty".

He was still Steven -with n-Carell when he starred with Jim Carrey in “Almighty”.

  • When he went to the premiere of Almighty (2003), he was hopeless: he believed that his scenes had been discarded in the editing room. The scene of him sweating in front of the camera sitting at a desk in the television studio is one of the funniest scenes in the entire Jim Carrey movie without Carrey. He and Jim Carrey were both goalkeepers of growing ice hockey teams.
Like Andy, l

Like Andy, the man who hadn’t had sex in Judd Apatow’s “The 40-Year-Old Virgin”.

  • It was in that same year, in 2005, when he leapt to success in film with Virgin at 40, which he also co-wrote. The film was chosen as one of the top ten films of 2006 by the American Film Institute.
When they take his hair off his character in "Virgin at 40" ... that

When they take his hair off his character in “Virgin at 40” … that’s true.

  • the scene of Virgo at 40, in which Andy had his chest hair removed, required the installation of five cameras for filming. It’s just that his real hair was removed. Carell told director Judd Apatow: “It has to be real. It won’t be that fun if it’s a simulation, or if it’s a special effect later on. It must feel like this is really happening “, so there was no opportunity to take a shot …
Together with Greg Kinnear, Toni Collette and Paul Dano in the nominated film all

Together with Greg Kinnear, Toni Collette and Paul Dano in the Oscar-nominated film “Little Miss Sunshine”.

  • He then starred in the independent Little Miss Sunshine (2006), a dark comedy that was a surprise box office success and garnered four Oscar nominations (won two statuettes, supporting actor for Alan Arkin and original screenplay for Michael Arndt, later co-writer of Toy Story 3 and STar Wars: The Force Awakens).
Like Maxwell Smart, in "Super Agent 86".

Like Maxwell Smart, in “Super Agent 86”.

  • Many expectations had raised his portrayal of Maxwell Smart in the film adaptation of super agent 86(2008), with Anne Hathaway as 99. But it wasn’t a hit and there wasn’t a sequel.
In his role in the television comedy "The Office".  He was in six seasons, and all six times he was nominated for an Emmy: he always lost.

In his role in the television comedy “The Office”. He was in six seasons, and all six times he was nominated for an Emmy: he always lost.

  • On television he was Michael Scott in the American version of the British sitcom office (2005). But before that she had participated in three other sitcoms without success. For the NBC sitcom he won the Golden Globe for Best Actor in a Television Comedy in 2006 and earned Emmy and Golden Globe nominations for each consecutive show until he left the show in 2011.
For playing a real character, John du Pont in "Foxcatcher", one of his few plays, was nominated for

For playing a real character, John du Pont in “Foxcatcher,” one of his few plays, was nominated for an Academy Award for Lead Actor.

  • He does not usually act in dramas, but was nominated for an Oscar for Best Actor in a Leading Role Fox catcher (1024), with whom he was at the Cannes Film Festival. The figurine eventually went to Eddie Redmayne, why the theory of everything.
  • He has been a member of the Hollywood Academy for 15 years.
At the premiere of "Despicable Me 2".  Since the first film, in 2010, she has been giving voice to Gru.  And she went on to collect a fortune.

At the premiere of “Despicable Me 2”. Since the first film, in 2010, she has been giving voice to Gru. And she went on to collect a fortune.

  • He gives voice to Gru, in all the films of the “Despicable Me” and “Minions” saga. For the first one, she received US $ 500,000. Do you know how much she received for “Minions: A Villain Is Born”, which is currently in theaters …? $ 12.5 million.
  • He is married to actress Nancy Carell, whom he met when she was a student in an improvisation class she taught at the comedy company The Second City in Chicago. They have two children.
With Anne Hathaway, like 99, in "El Superagent 86".  The comedy didn

With Anne Hathaway, like 99, in “El Superagent 86”. The comedy didn’t work and it couldn’t become a saga.

  • He was editor-in-chief of his high school newspaper, The roar of the lion by Newton South.
  • He originally wanted to become a lawyer but came up with a question on an application form that said, “Why do you want to become a lawyer?” I couldn’t think of anything.
In "A Supper for Fools", an adaptation of Francis Veber

In “A Supper for Fools”, an adaptation of Francis Veber’s French comedy, he starred with Paul Rudd.

  • He worked the night shift at a 24-hour business in Maynard, Massachusetts, and says he took many of his characters from the experience.
  • Join the so-called group brotherhood, along with Jack Black, Ben Stiller, Vince Vaughn, Will Ferrell, Owen Wilson and Luke Wilson. The Frat Pack name is a reference to the later director’s film jokerToddPhillips, Those old days (old school, 2003), with Vaughn, Ferrell and Wilson, for the large number of films with all seven actors. Frat Pack movies that Carell has appeared in include The Reporter: The Legend of Ron Burgundy (2004), haunted (2005) and melinda and melinda (2004).
In the romantic (and dramatic) comedy "Crazy and Stupid Love", with Julianne Moore (pictured), Ryan Gosling and Emma Stone.

In the romantic (and dramatic) comedy “Crazy and Stupid Love”, with Julianne Moore (pictured), Ryan Gosling and Emma Stone.

  • He was a member of Burpee’s Seedy Theatrical Company, Denison University’s comedy improvisation company, and the nation’s longest-running collegiate improvisation company.
  • He worked briefly at a post office in Massachusetts, where he delivered mail in his own car, because the post office didn’t have them … He says that, when he resigned to move to Chicago, he continued for months to find undelivered mail under the seats of your car.
Another of the films in which he starred and was nominated for

Another of the films in which he starred and was nominated for the main Oscar was “The Big Short”.

  • He received a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame at 6708 Hollywood Boulevard in Hollywood, California on January 6, 2016.
  • Always remember that the first rock concert he went to was Jethro Tull’s.

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