Celebrity Biographies
Steve Carell
You have to admit it. Steve Carell has a funny face. He easily puts on a look as if he were immersed in high-flying thoughts, but at once a slightly ironic smile betrays the great joke that he carries over him. However, this actor has given proof of his versatility with the tragic air that he imposed on his character as a bearded homosexual intellectual in Little Miss Sunshine .
Like every self-respecting comedian in the United States, Steve Carrell carved out his comedic popularity on television, on shows like Saturday Night Live. But first you had to be born, of course, and Steven John Carell did it in 1962 in Concord, Massachusetts, in the bosom of an Italian-American family. He attended college in Granville, but had an itch for acting, which he did in a traveling Chicago theater company. He soon saw that he was not bad at comedy, so, although it sounds paradoxical, he began to take classes to develop his gift for improvisation: this led him to make his film debut with a film with a girl by John Hughes , promoted by the success ofHome Alone , though without the same success:The little naughty (1991). That was hardly an anecdote when it comes to his career in the 90s, since he was almost exclusively focused on writing gags for television on The Dana Carvey Show; a similar task he would develop years later for Jon Stewart in The Daily Show. The truth is that when he playeda hateful reporter role with Jim Carrey inLike God in 2003, there was nothing to imagine that four years later he would be the protagonist of the sequelI continue as God . A true “miracle”, never better said in the case of a “divine” comedy. Meanwhile, someone must have thought that Carell was ideal to play supporting characters of journalists along with more famous jokers, since he seconded Will Ferrell in a 2004 film, rightly titled The Reporter . He curiously reprized with Ferrell that same year in a Woody Allen film ,Melinda and Melinda , and as if that were not enough, in 2005 they met again on screen, would it be magic?, inBewitched , the film review of the famous television series.
Carell’s big break in film came withVirgin at 40 , who starred in addition to co-writing his script with Judd Apatow , now a fashionable filmmaker with his uncouth comedies thanks to titles likesuper horny orembarrassing mess . The film revealed the sexual obsessions of today’s society by painting a guy whose great trauma is precisely what gives the film its title. In that same year, 2005, the American version of a British television hit was born,The Office , which painted more or less Kafkaesque situations in the world of the office. The series was his consecration, as it swept away many awards and nominations, and it earned him a Golden Globe for best actor in a comedy series.
He had already given voice to animated characters on television, but he took a giant leap with his work inInvading Neighbors (2006), making Hamy, a nice squirrel, talk. Undoubtedly the best work of hers in cinema has been that ofLittle Miss Sunshine (2006), a perfect example of support and collaboration with an ensemble cast where all the characters are important. After making people laugh in Sigo como Dios , this actor, happily married since 1995 with two children, lives what seems to be a calm and peaceful life, and has several projects in the pipeline. He has been highly praised for his work inLike life itself , which will not arrive in Spain until February 2008, and where it has Juliette Binoche as ‘partenaire’; she will coincide again with Jim Carrey in an animated film, Horton Hears a Who! ; and we will see him as superagent 86 – it is seen that her relationship with television continues with occasion and without her – in Get Smart , along with Anne Hathaway . All of this without stopping shooting episodes of The Office , it would be missing more.