Jim Carrey has been a familiar face in Hollywood for decades, which means that red carpets
are just a part of doing business for him.
While he's occasionally shown up on his own, he's just as likely to have an equally intriguing
lady by his side.
Carrey went mainstream in 1990 when he joined the cast of the sketch comedy show In Living
Color.
It took another four years for him to become a full-blown A-Lister when, in 1994, he starred
in three smash hits: Ace Ventura: Pet Detective, The Mask, and Dumb and Dumber.
By this time, he'd already separated from his first wife Melissa.
She accompanied him to a few red carpet events prior to his big breakout, although photos
of the pair from that time are hard to come by.
The two met when Jim was a struggling stand-up comic, and Melissa was a waitress at the Comedy
Store.
They married in March 1987 and had a baby girl named Jane Erin six months later.
The Carreys officially divorced in 1995 after separating in 1993, supposedly due to the
effect that burgeoning fame and fortune had on the actor.
Melissa talked with Rolling Stone the year they divorced, revealing that she had told
her husband,
"You must come home and put your feet back on the ground and take your garbage out like
everyone else, or I can't be married to you.'"
Instead of changing his ways, he called her bluff, and with that, their wedded bliss was
over.
Jim Carrey hit up the red carpet with another woman while he was technically still married
to Melissa, but there was nothing iffy going on.
In 1994, he posed with Cameron Diaz at the premiere for The Mask, which they starred
in together.
And they weren't alone, as they were joined by their canine co-star, a Jack Russell terrier
named Max.
Carrey and Diaz have formed a friendship that's lasted throughout the years.
They've bumped into each other at various events, including the 1995 MTV Movie Awards,
the 2003 Nickelodeon Kids' Choice Awards, and AFI's Night At The Movies event in 2008.
They even shared a kiss when she presented him with the Funniest M.F. award during Spike
TV's Guys Choice Awards in 2011.
If you love seeing this pair together, then you'll be happy to hear that Carrey told ComicBook.com
in 2020 that he would be willing to tackle a sequel to The Mask as long as, quote, "some
crazy visionary filmmaker" was on board to make it.
Carrey may have found a lasting friendship with Cameron Diaz, but he ended up finding
more than that with another on-screen love interest, Lauren Holly.
They co-starred in Dumb and Dumber, and following his split from his first wife, they ended
up getting married in 1996.
"So you're telling me there's a chance?
YEAH!"
During their time together, they hit up red carpets for premieres of films like Get Shorty,
Batman Forever, and Liar Liar, just to name a few.
While they always seemed to be happy while in front of the cameras, she filed for divorce
just nine months after they tied the knot.
When Entertainment Weekly asked Carrey in 1997 if he felt like Holly had only been with
him for his money, he said,
"No...There are certain PR advantages to being with me, and Lauren knows that, too, but the
bottom line is she's made her way in this world, she's proven herself."
While Holly may or may not have benefitted from Carrey's fame, there was a downside to
being married to someone who's headline fodder.
During a 2013 appearance on the Canadian talk show George Stroumboulopoulos Tonight, she
explained that photographers would sneak into their backyard to take pictures and go through
their garbage.
We imagine you'd have to have a really strong bond to survive that invasion of privacy.
"At first it was kind of fun.
And then our whole life became about, we have to keep them out."
After things fizzled out between Carrey and Holly, he attempted to find love with another
co-star.
He started up a friendship with Renée Zellweger on the set of 1999's Me, Myself & Irene and
they then began dating when filming ended.
He talked with CNN about their relationship in 2000, saying,
"Aside from giving personal details, because I think that what we are is too special to
share with strangers and the world...I will say that we had the most wonderful, old-fashioned,
tremendously something-you-dream-about-happening-and-never-happens-anymore type of courtship.
We're having a great time.
I think she's absolutely a gem of a human being."
Carrey and Zelleger made red carpet appearances together at the premieres of his film Man
on the Moon and her movie Nurse Betty.
They also appeared at several events promoting his star turn as the title character in Dr.
Seuss' How the Grinch Stole Christmas.
They even sparked rumors that they were engaged after he purchased a $200,000 diamond "friendship
ring" for her in 2000.
That's a pretty expensive trinket for something that apparently wasn't an engagement ring.
However, for whatever reason, they broke things off later that same year.
Carrey was likely still in a relationship with Renée Zellweger while he was filming
2001's The Majestic.
One of his co-stars in that film was Laurie Holden, who's probably best known for playing
Andrea on The Walking Dead.
The fact that Carrey wasn't single at the time means that Holden didn't end up as another
one of his co-stars-turned-girlfriend.
However, the pair did appear together at their movie's premiere and looked happy to do so.
Over a decade later, the two teamed up again when she was cast as the female lead in Dumb
And Dumber To.
Sadly, though, it seems as if she may not have gotten to ride in the famous Mutt Cutts
van.
However, she did get a chance to meet up with Carrey at the world premiere's afterparty
where the two appeared to take a little time to catch up.
We can't wait to see these two back together again for Dumb and Dumbest or even an unexpected
many-years-later sequel to The Majestic.
At the premiere of their crime-fueled comedy Fun With Dick and Jane in 2005, Jim Carrey
and Téa Leoni posed together and shared a quick, friendly kiss while on the red carpet.
They were entertaining on screen together as a rich couple who engage in illegal acts
in order to sustain their lavish lifestyle.
And they seemed to get along just as well offscreen, despite not committing felonies
together.
However, they almost never worked together at all, as Cameron Diaz was originally supposed
to fill Leoni's role.
But things ultimately worked out just fine in the end.
According to Dick and Jane director Dean Parisot, Carrey and Leoni were, quote "like an old
comedy couple from the '30s or '40s."
During an interview on the red carpet, Carry talked about their chemistry together, saying,
"When it works, it works, you know.
It felt like we had a shorthand.
We immediately liked each other, you know.
And it just was easy."
Despite the good times, Carrey and Leoni haven't worked together since.
You might think that after his relationships with Lauren Holly and Renée Zellweger, Jim
Carrey might be wary of getting involved with another famous woman.
But that doesn't appear to be the case at all.
In 2005, he started dating model, actress, and future Masked Singer judge Jenny McCarthy.
"I am having a wonderful time, yes."
"Jenny McCarthy is a very great lady."
"She's greater than people know."
Carrey and McCarthy were together for five years.
During that time, they showed up on the red carpet for plenty of A-list industry events,
including movie premieres for the likes of Yes Man, A Christmas Carol, and The Hangover.
Alas, they split up in 2010, which Carrey addressed by tweeting,
"Jenny and I have just ended our 5yr relationship.
I'm grateful 4 the many blessings we've shared and I wish her the very best!"
As for McCarthy, she released a statement that said,
"I'm so grateful for the years Jim and I shared together.
I will continue to be in his daughter's life and will always keep Jim as a leading man
in my heart."
After the breakup, McCarthy went on to marry actor and former New Kids on the Block singer
Donnie Wahlberg in 2014.
In 2017, Carrey popped onto the red carpet with Victoria's Secret model Taylor Hill for
the Harper's Bazaar ICONS party at The Plaza Hotel.
While it's not clear why the pair posed together, it didn't appear as if they were announcing
a new romance.
Instead, Carrey chatted with E! News' Catt Sadler and things got a little weird.
"There's no meaning to any of this.
So I wanted to find the most meaningless thing that I could come to and join, and uh, and
uh, and here I am."
Sadler attempted to salvage the awkward interaction by asking about the celebration of icons,
to which Carrey responded,
"Celebrating icons?
Boy, that's just the absolute lowest aiming possibility that we could come up with.
I don't believe that you exist but there is a wonderful fragrance in the air."
He then launched into a James Brown impression for some reason.
While others might have abandoned the cringeworthy task at hand, Sadler bravely attempted to
get Carrey to talk about his outfit, which went just about as well as you can imagine.
"I didn't get dressed up."
"Who did?"
"There is no me."
"There's no you?"
"No."
"We're not here?
This is a dream?"
"There's just things happening."
In 2018, Carrey had one of his more unusual red carpet dates.
For one thing, he posed with two women instead of just one.
But this time around, neither was his romantic partner.
Instead, he kept it platonic with his fellow actors Judy Greer and Catherine Keener at
the Los Angeles premiere of the Showtime series Kidding, which the three of them star in together.
Carrey wore a bright yellow jacket and robot shirt and smiled widely for the cameras.
Meanwhile, the ladies opted for slightly more serious expressions.
Carrey, Greer, and Keener may all be friendly nowadays, but Greer admitted to Newsweek that
before being on the show with Carrey, she was, quote, "super nervous to work with him
and meet him."
On Kidding, she plays his estranged wife, and he plays Jeff Pickles, a TV personality
similar to Mr. Rogers.
As Greer explained to Newsweek,
"I really fell for Jeff Pickles, just the idea of people being nice to other people
and treating other people with respect."
It's worth noting that Carrey didn't pose with actress Ginger Gonzaga at the Kidding
red carpet, even though she also appears on the show and attended the premiere.
But that doesn't mean the two of them wouldn't spend time together at future events.
Carrey may not have found romance with Judy Greer or Catherine Keener, but that doesn't
mean that he didn't make a connection with any of his Kidding co-stars.
He ended up dating Ginger Gonzaga, who plays Vivian, a woman dying of cancer who becomes
romantically linked to Carrey's character.
It's unclear exactly when Carrey and Gonzaga started dating, but they made their red carpet
debut together on January 5, 2019 at the Showtime Golden Globe Nominees Celebration.
Gonzaga commemorated the event on Instagram when she posted a picture of the pair along
with the caption,
"Most partial to this talented nominee #goldenglobes."
Carrey and Gonzaga also showed up at the InStyle and Warner Bros.'
Golden Globes after-party that same month and walked the Globes red carpet together.
The couple took some to chat with Entertainment Tonight's Nancy O'Dell while on the red carpet,
and Carrey just couldn't help but gush about his co-star.
"I'm very lucky.
I feel very lucky."
"She's a beautiful lady."
"She's not only beautiful.
She's not only beautiful.
She's wickedly talented and amazing and smart."
Although it sounded like the two were in a good place during awards season, they ended
their relationship in October of that same year.
The final lady on this list might be the most special person in Jim Carrey's life.
Back in 1995, he first brought his daughter Jane with him to a prestigious industry event.
She was just a kid at the time dressed in a sweet floral dress.
She smiled for the cameras and flashed a thumbs up when her dad put his handprints and footprints
in cement at Mann's Chinese Theatre in Hollywood.
She also showed up for the premiere of Horton Hears a Who! at the Mann Village Theater in
2008, and by that time, she had grown up quite a bit.
If you think that Jane looks familiar, then that may very well be because you saw her
when she popped up on American Idol in 2012.
While striking out on her own, she survived the initial audition for the singing competition.
But after a shaky performance of Creedence Clearwater Revival's "Looking Out My Back
Door," her time on the show came to an end.
Jane hasn't yet established the kind of career in show business that will see her invited
to a red carpet event on her own.
But we're sure we haven't seen the last time she's out on the town with her superstar dad.
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