Steve Carell is a well-known actor, mostly because of his comedy movies and his role in the series called ‘’ The Office’’.
These are some facts you should know about him!
- Steve Carell was born on August 16, 1962.
- He was born at Emerson Hospital in Concord, Massachusetts, and raised in nearby Acton, Massachusetts.
- He is the youngest of four brothers.
- His father is of German and Italian descent and his mother was of Polish ancestry.
- He played ice hockey and lacrosse while in high school.
- He played the fife, performing with other members of his family, and later joined a reenacting group portraying the 10th (North Lincoln) Regiment of Foot.
- He attended Denison University in Granville, Ohio.
- While in college, he spent time as a disc jockey under the name “Sapphire Steve Carell” at WDUB, the campus radio station.
- Early in his performing career, Carell acted on the stage in a touring children’s theater company, later in the comedy musical Knat Scatt Private Eye and in a television commercial for the restaurant chain Brown’s Chicken in 1989.
- His inspirations for acting and comedy are Steve Martin, Peter Sellers, John Cleese, Bill Cosby, and George Carlin.
- In 2005, Carell signed a deal with NBC to star in The Office, a remake of the British TV series of the same name.
- The actor’s first major film role was as weatherman Brick Tamland in the 2004 hit comedy Anchorman: The Legend of Ron Burgundy.
- He is a member of Hollywood’s so-called “Frat Pack”, a group of actors who often appear in films together, that also includes Owen Wilson, Will Ferrell, Vince Vaughn, and Luke Wilson.
- He voiced Gru, the main character in the Universal CGI film Despicable Me.
- On August 5, 1995, he married Saturday Night Live alumna Nancy Carell (née Walls), whom he met when she was a student in an improvisation class he was teaching at Second City.
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