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Steven John "Steve" Carell (born August 16, 1962) is a Golden Globe- and Screen Actors Guild Award-winning American comedian, actor, producer and writer, who rose to fame as a correspondent on The Daily Show with Jon Stewart, from 1999 to 2004. Since 2005, he has starred in the American version of British TV series The Office, as main character Michael Scott. He has starred in several films including Bruce Almighty, Evan Almighty, Anchorman, The 40-Year-Old Virgin, Dan in Real Life, Horton Hears a Who!, Little Miss Sunshine, and Get Smart.
He was nominated 'America's funniest man' in Life Magazine.
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Steven John "Steve" Carell (born August 16, 1962) is a Golden Globe- and Screen Actors Guild Award-winning American comedian, actor, producer and writer, who rose to fame as a correspondent on The Daily Show with Jon Stewart, from 1999 to 2004. Since 2005, he has starred in the American version of British TV series The Office, as main character Michael Scott. He has starred in several films including Bruce Almighty, Evan Almighty, Anchorman, The 40-Year-Old Virgin, Dan in Real Life, Horton Hears a Who!, Little Miss Sunshine, and Get Smart.
He was nominated 'America's funniest man' in Life Magazine. He received the 2006 Golden Globe Award for Best Actor in Television Comedy for the leading role of Michael Scott in American adaptation of the British series The Office.
Biography
Early life
Carell, the youngest of four sons, was born and raised in Acton, Massachusetts to Harriet T. (née Koch), a psychiatric nurse, and Edwin A. Carell, an electrical engineer. His maternal uncle was Stanley Koch, a glassblower who worked with Allen B. DuMont to create cathode ray tubes. Carell's paternal grandfather was Italian; his father was born with the surname "Caroselli", later shortening it to "Carell". Carell was educated at The Fenn School and Middlesex School, and attended Denison University in Granville, Ohio where he met Beth Rexroat. He originally aspired to become a radio broadcaster, deejaying at WDUB in Granville. He returned to his radio roots on a national level by guest-hosting "American Top 40" with Ryan Seacrest on the show's Saturday, May 31, 2008 broadcast.
Early career
Prior to opting for a career as a performer, Carell claims that he worked as a mail carrier in Littleton, MA, although this claim is disputed by Littleton postal employees. He later recounted that he quit after a few months because his boss Janice Eddy told him he was not very good as a mail carrier; he needed to be a lot more efficient. He also planned on attending law school, but was unable to write an explanation on an application form as to why he wanted to be a lawyer. Carell performed with Chicago troupe The Second City in 1991, where Stephen Colbert was his understudy for a time. That same year, he landed his first film work in a minor role as Tesio in Curly Sue.
In 1996, he was a cast member of the briefly aired The Dana Carvey Show. Along with fellow cast member Stephen Colbert, Carell provided the voice of Gary, half of "The Ambiguously Gay Duo", the Robert Smigel-produced animated short which was moved to Saturday Night Live in 1997. He played a supporting character on many shows including Come to Papa and the short-lived 1997 Tim Curry sitcom Over the Top. He has made numerous notable guest appearances, including on an episode of Just Shoot Me entitled "Funny Girl."
Other early screen credits include a role in Julia Louis-Dreyfus's short-lived sitcom Watching Ellie (2002 – 2003) and Woody Allen's Melinda and Melinda. Carell has also poked fun at himself for auditioning for Saturday Night Live, but losing the job to Will Ferrell.
Carell was a correspondent on The Daily Show from 1999 until 2005, with a number of regular segments including "Even Stephven" with Stephen Colbert and "Produce Pete." Carell appeared as a guest on The Daily Show on August 15, 2005 to promote The 40-Year-Old Virgin, June 18, 2007 to promote Evan Almighty and again, a year later on June 18, 2008, to promote his newest movie, Get Smart. He joked about wanting to buy the show since he was now "very, very rich."
The Office
In 2005, Carell signed a deal with NBC to star in an American reimagination of the BBC TV show The Office, a mockumentary about life at a mid-sized paper supply company. He plays Michael Scott, the idiosyncratic regional manager of Dunder Mifflin Scranton. The show has become enormously popular, with Carell receiving praise for his comedic performance, as well as a Golden Globe award and multiple nominations.
Mainstream success
Two important roles helped Carell get the attention of audiences: Bruce Almighty, in which Carell plays Evan Baxter (an arrogant rival to Jim Carrey's character), and the sequel, Evan Almighty, in which Carell plays a US Congressman that has an experience similar to the biblical story of Noah's Ark . In Anchorman: The Legend of Ron Burgundy, Carell plays another news personality, as slow-witted weatherman Brick Tamland.
In spring of 2005, Carell began playing the lead role of Michael Scott on NBC's adaptation of a British program The Office. Although the first season of the adaptation was notable for its mediocre ratings, NBC renewed it for another season due to the anticipated success of Carell's movie The 40-Year-Old Virgin, and the show subsequently became a ratings success. Carell won a Golden Globe and Television Critics Association award in 2006 for his Office role. He also received Emmy nominations in 2006 and 2007 for his work in the series.
He played the lead role in the 2005 film The 40-Year-Old Virgin, which he developed and co-wrote. Although the film was a surprise success, Carell revealed in an interview with Entertainment Weekly that he has no plans to leave The Office.
Carell earned approximately $175,000 per episode of the third season of The Office, twice his salary for the previous two seasons. Carell is also allowed "flex time" during filming to work on theatrical films. Carell worked on Evan Almighty during a production hiatus during the second season of the The Office.
Carell appeared as "Uncle Arthur" alongside Nicole Kidman and Will Ferrell in the 2005 remake of Bewitched. He also voiced a starring role in the 2006 computer-animated film Over the Hedge as Hammy the Squirrel. He also voiced in the 2008 animated film Horton Hears a Who! as the mayor of Whoville, Ned McDodd. He starred in Little Miss Sunshine in 2006, as Uncle Frank. His work in the films Anchorman: The Legend of Ron Burgundy, The 40-Year-Old Virgin, and Bewitched established Carell as a member of Hollywood's Frat Pack group. This set of actors, headlined by Ben Stiller, Owen Wilson, Jack Black, Will Ferrell, Vince Vaughn and Luke Wilson, has become a profitable force in modern comedy. Carell acknowledged his membership in the group in his monologue when hosting the first episode of Saturday Night Lives 31st season on October 1, 2005. Carell also mentioned that he auditioned to be a castmember on Saturday Night Live for the 1995-1996 season (season 21), but lost to Will Ferrell.
Carell appeared as the title character of Evan Almighty, a sequel to Bruce Almighty, reprising his role as Evan Baxter, now a U.S. Congressman. Although, ostensibly, God tasks Baxter with building an ark, Baxter also learns that life can generate positive returns with people offering Acts of Random Kindness. In October 2006, Carell began shooting the film Dan in Real Life, co-starring Dane Cook and Juliette Binoche. Filming wrapped December 22, 2006, and the film was released on October 26, 2007.
Carell played Maxwell Smart in a movie remake of Get Smart, which began filming February 3, 2007 and was shot in Los Angeles, Washington DC, and Moscow, Russia). In 2007, Carell was invited to join the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences.
Carell had an interest for playing the Joker in the 2008 superhero film, The Dark Knight.
Production closed down in the middle of the fourth season of The Office because of Carell's and others' refusal to cross the picket line of the 2007 Writers Guild of America strike, although it has begun again.
Carell is going to begin shooting a movie in late 2008 opposite Tina Fey, with a release sometime in 2009, entitled Date Night. He has several other projects in the works, including a remake of the 1967 Peter Sellers film, The Bobo. He is currently doing voiceover work in commercials for Wrigley's Extra Gum.
Carell has launched a television division of his Carousel Prods., which has inked a three-year overall deal with Universal Media Studios, the studio behind his NBC comedy series. Thom Hinkle and Campbell Smith of North South Prods., former producers on Carell's alma mater, Comedy Central's "The Daily Show," have been tapped to run Carousel's TV operations.
Personal life
Carell is married to Saturday Night Live alumna Nancy Walls, whom he met when she was a student in an improv class he was teaching at The Second City. They have two children, Elisabeth Anne "Annie" (born May 25, 2001) and John "Johnny" (born June 2004). Walls appeared with him on The Office as his realtor and short-lived girlfriend, Carol Stills. Like her husband, Walls had been a Daily Show correspondent.
Carell is an avid hockey fan and a skilled hockey goalie, which he had the opportunity to utilise in a Season Two episode of The Office. He plays in a men's league in Los Angeles, where he lives with his family.
Carell also has a home in the coastal town of Marshfield, Massachusetts. Carell recently helped to preserve some of the town's history by purchasing the 155-year-old Marshfield Hills General Store , an antique country store well-known for its candy counter.
He is a life-long Roman Catholic.
He spoke at the We Are One Concert for the Inaugural Celebration on Sunday, January 18 2009.
Awards
Golden Globes
Won:
- 2006: Best Performance by an Actor in a TV series Musical or Comedy (for his role as Michael Scott in
The Office)
Nominated:
- 2007: Best Performance by an actor in a TV series Musical or Comedy (for
The Office)2008: Best Performance by an actor in a TV series Musical or Comedy (for The Office)2009: Best Performance by an actor in a TV series Musical or Comedy (for The Office)
Emmy Awards
Nominated:
- 2006: Outstanding Lead Actor in a Comedy Series (
The Office)2007: Outstanding Lead Actor in a Comedy Series (The Office) - Since Ricky Gervais was not at the ceremony to receive his trophy for 'Extras', presenters Jon Stewart and Stephen Colbert chose instead to present it to their "good friend," Steve Carell. A year later, Ricky Gervais demanded for and eventually got his "stolen" Emmy back from Steve Carell.2008: Outstanding Lead Actor in a Comedy Series (The Office)
Writers Guild of America
Won:
- 2007: Comedy Series (shared with Jennifer Celotta, Greg Daniels, Lee Eisenberg, Brent Forrester, Ricky Gervais, Mindy Kaling, Paul Lieberstein, Stephen Merchant, B.J. Novak, Michael Schur, Justin Spitzer, Gene Stupnitsky) for
The Office2007: Episodic Comedy (any length — one airing time), for The Office - "Casino Night"
Nominated:
- 2006: Best Original Screenplay (shared with Judd Apatow) for the film
The 40-Year-Old Virgin
Television Critics Association
Won:
- 2006: Outstanding Individual Achievement in Comedy (for his role as Michael Scott in
The Office)
Screen Actors Guild of America
Won:
- 2007: Outstanding Performance by a Cast in a Motion Picture (part of ensemble cast for
Little Miss Sunshine)2007: Outstanding Performance by an Ensemble in a Comedy Series (part of ensemble cast for The Office)2008: Outstanding Performance by an Ensemble in a Comedy Series (part of ensemble cast for The Office)
Nominated:
- 2007: Outstanding Performance by a Male Actor in a Comedy Series
- 2008: Outstanding Performance by a Male Actor in a Comedy Series
- 2009: Outstanding Performance by a Male Actor in a Comedy Series
- 2009: Outstanding Performance by an Ensemble in a Comedy Series (part of ensemble cast for
The Office)
MTV Movie Awards
Won:
- 2006: Best Comedic Performance for the film
The 40-Year-Old Virgin
Nominated:
- 2006: Best Performance for the film
The 40-Year-Old Virgin2006: Best On-Screen Team (shared with Paul Rudd, Seth Rogen and Romany Malco) for the film The 40-Year-Old Virgin2005: Best On-Screen Team (shared with Will Ferrell, Paul Rudd and David Koechner) for the film Anchorman: The Legend of Ron Burgundy2005: Best Musical Performance (shared with Will Ferrell, Paul Rudd and David Koechner) for the film Anchorman: The Legend of Ron Burgundy
Teen Choice Awards
Won:
- 2007: Choice TV Actor: Comedy for
The Office2008: Choice TV Actor: Comedy for The Office
Spike's Man Awards 2008
Won:
- 2008: Funniest Mother F****r Award
Filmography
Salary
The Office (Season 3) - $175,000 an episode (renegotiated in 2006). In an Entertainment Weekly interview, he commented on his salary, saying "You don't want people to think you're a pampered jerk. Salaries can be ridiculous. On the other hand, a lot of people are making a lot of money off of these shows." The Office (Seasons 1, 2) - $76,000 an episode Evan Almighty - $5,000,000 The 40-Year-Old Virgin - $500,000
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