Jim Carrey

Jim Carrey was the highest-paid comic actor of the mid-1990s on the back of rubber-faced hits such as Ace Ventura and The Mask. He chose Peter Weir's The Truman Show (1998), Miloš Forman's Man on the Moon and Michel Gondry's Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind (2004), restrained performances that won him two Golden Globes and a new kind of respect.