Jim Carrey is one of the biggest working movie stars with decades of celebrated and successful projects, and he has a large net worth to go along with that career. Getting his start in the early 1980s with some small TV and movie roles, Jim Carrey really came to wider attention with In Living Color. From there, Carrey went on to become one of the most successful comedy movie stars of the 1990s with incredible performances in Ace Ventura, Dumb and Dumber, and much more. In the 2000s, Carrey entered a more dramatic portion of his career.

These new Jim Carrey movies saw the actor exploring darker and more psychological aspects of the world. It was an exploration that spilled over into his real life, as seen in the documentary Jim & Andy: The Great Beyond. His life was also rocked by the pᴀssing of his girlfriend, Cathriona White, who he dated from 2012 to 2015 (via TheTelegraph). His other relationships include marriages to Melissa Womer and Lauren Holly, both of which ended in divorce, and long-time partnerships with Linda Ronstadt, Renée Zellweger, January Jones, Jenny McCarthy, and Ginger Gonzaga.

Jim Carrey’s Net Worth

Jim Carrey Has A Net Worth Of $180 Million

According to CelebrityNetWorth, Jim Carrey has a net worth of $180 million. Carrey has regularly been one of the highest-paid actors in the business and often fetches salaries of $20 million and more. In fact, Carrey was the first actor ever to earn a $20 million salary, which was for his leading role in The Cable Guy.

He ended up earning a similar salary for Batman Forever; Liar Liar; Me, Myself & Irene; How the Grinch Stole Christmas; and Yes Man. Altogether, Carrey has likely earned around $300 million from his movie salaries alone over his career, not to mention getting points on the back end and merchandising for movies like How the Grinch Stole Christmas and Sonic the Hedgehog.

Jim Carrey’s Age & Height

Jim Carrey Is A Capricorn

Jim Carrey is 6′ 2″ on IMDb but 6′ 1 1/2″ on CelebHeights, so somewhere around 6′ 1 3/4″ is a good estimation. He was born on January 17, 1962, making him 62 in the fall of 2024 and a Capricorn. These earth signs are known for their resilience, ambition, and bravery in the face of strife. Carrey’s 2010s were difficult with the death of his girlfriend and the public scrutiny that came along with it. Like a Capricorn, he pushed past those trials and came out stronger on the other side.

Capricorns are also known as mischievous troublemakers. While Carrey is not his characters, there’s probably more than a bit of his own mischievous personality embedded in wild characters like Stanley Ipkiss in The Mask or Charlie Baileygates/Hank Evans in Me, Myself & Irene.

Jim Carrey Is A Talented And Prolific Painter

Carrey Has Presented His Works At Exhibitions

Jim Carrey has proven himself to be a soulful and philosophical artist, despite many of his roles being so performative and exaggerated. Since the early 2010s, Carrey has been prolifically painting. He has painted so much that in 2017, he hosted a solo exhibition at the Signature Gallery Group’s Las Vegas gallery тιтled, “Sunshower” (via ArtNet). In an interview with the fashion and style magazine, W Magazine, Carrey said,

“There’s not a day that goes by that I’m not covered in paint or something from doing sculptures. I’ve had a few sculptures happen to me as well in the last while that have revealed different aspects of consciousness and truth to me, even before I intended them to…. It’s all about that for me now—being completely involved, heart, mind, and soul. Sometimes it”s art, sometimes it’s performance, and sometimes it’s just talking to someone, but there’s very little preparation anymore in anything. I allow things to happen and then they tell me what they meant later.”

He even dabbled in political cartoons and pivoted to NFTs during their boom in popularity (via ArtNet). While Jim Carrey’s artistry is not likely to add a significant amount to his net worth, his ability to take time away from acting to pursue other interests is a result of the work he did up until this point.

Jim Carrey Has Retired From Acting…Sort Of

Carrey Recently Appeared In Sonic The Hedgehog 3

In 2022, Jim Carrey saddened fans everywhere when he announced that he would be retiring from the world of acting. Carrey was still young enough that many ᴀssumed that he had many decades left of performances to give before the end of his career. However, after delivering so many iconic movie moments over the years, Carrey suggested his retirement marked a career that had given “enough”:

I really like my quiet life, and I really like putting paint on canvas, and I really love my spiritual life, and I feel like – and this is something you might never hear another celebrity say as long as time exists – I have enough. I’ve done enough. I am enough.

Carrey announced that Sonic the Hedgehog 2 would mark his final role before retiring. Of course, fans know that the actor reprised his role as Dr. Robotnik in Sonic the Hedgehog 3, showing that his retirement was not set in stone. He actually even took on a second role in that film, showing he has a lot left to give.

There have been other actors who have retired early in their careers who have recently returned to movies, including Cameron Diaz and Daniel Day-Lewis. Carrey has expressed interest in returning for Sonic the Hedgehog 4 and it stands to reason that the right script for another project could bring him back to work as well.