Steve Carell

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Steve Carell (2014)

Steven John "Steve" Carell (born August 16, 1962 in Concord , Massachusetts ) is an American actor and comedian .

Film and television career

Carell grew up as the youngest of four brothers in Acton in a Catholic family with Polish, German and Italian roots. His father was an electrician, his mother a nurse. He actively played ice hockey and lacrosse during his school years , then studied history at Denison University .

Carell began acting as a member of an academic improvisational theater . As a result, he had minor appearances at various theaters in Chicago while he tried to earn a living as a postman .

Carell became known to a wider audience as a correspondent for the satirical news program Daily Show on the US cable channel Comedy Central . He also appeared in the Even Stephven and Produce Pete segments for the newscast . After a long hiatus, Carell returned to the Daily Show on March 23, 2005 for a guest appearance on the occasion of the second anniversary of the Iraq War . On August 17, 2005, he announced his permanent resignation from the Daily Show's team , dispelling rumors of a possible return.

From 2005 to 2011 Carell played the lead role of Michael Scott in NBC - remake of the British comedy series The Office of Ricky Gervais and Stephen Merchant . For this he received a Golden Globe in 2006 for best actor in a comedy or musical television series and was nominated for an Emmy six times in a row from 2006 to 2011 . In the hour-long series finale of The Office , which aired on May 16, 2013, he took over his role again as Michael Scott .

In 2005 the film Jungfrau (40), male, looking for ... was released , in which Carell was not only involved as an actor in the lead role, but also as a co-screenwriter and producer. In addition, Carell appeared in minor roles in the films Bruce Almighty , Anchorman: The Legend of Ron Burgundy and Melinda and Melinda . In the 2006 road movie Little Miss Sunshine , he played the gay Proust researcher Frank , who wanted to cut his wrists after his closest competitor had been awarded the MacArthur Foundation's Genius Prize . In the same year Carell dubbed the squirrel Hammy for the first time in the animated film Ab durch die Hecke . In 2007 the sequel to the international hit movie Bruce Almighty came to theaters with the title Evan Almighty . Jim Carrey as Bruce was no longer in this film and gave the lead role to Steve Carell as Evan . In the 2008 action comedy Get Smart , he played agent Maxwell Smart , whose first assignment as a field agent was to save Los Angeles from an atomic bomb. In 2011 he was in the comedy Crazy, Stupid, Love. seen alongside Julianne Moore . In the tragic comedy In Search of a Friend for the End of the World , Carell first played a relatively serious role - a single who tried to break his loneliness in the weeks before a large asteroid hit.

In 2014, Carell took on a serious leading role for the first time as John du Pont opposite Mark Ruffalo and Channing Tatum in the film drama Foxcatcher , which earned him a nomination for a Golden Globe and an Oscar . The following year followed another lead role in the film drama Freeheld - Every Love Is Equal to Julianne Moore and Ellen Page . Carell was also able to convince in the documentary film drama The Big Short , for whose appearance he was again nominated for a Golden Globe . In the following years Carell played almost exclusively in serious roles. Most recently at the side of Christian Bale in Biopic Vice - The Second Man as Donald Rumsfeld .

Carell is married to the American actress Nancy Carell, née Walls, and has a daughter and a son with her.

Awards

He was nominated for a Golden Globe Award and an Oscar in 2015 for his role as paranoid billionaire John E. du Pont in Bennett Miller's drama Foxcatcher .

Filmography (selection)

German dubbing voices

Over the years, Carell has been dubbed for the German versions of his films by several speakers , most often in recent years by Uwe Büschken and Stefan Gossler , e. B. in Date Night - gangsters for one night and in the television series Das Büro .

Web links

Commons : Steve Carell  - Collection of Images

Individual evidence

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  2. ↑ http://www.synchronkartei.de/index.php?action=show&type=actor&id=5236 (accessed on September 26, 2010)
personal data
SURNAME Carell, Steve
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Carell, Steven John (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American actor and comedian
DATE OF BIRTH August 16, 1962
PLACE OF BIRTH Concord , Massachusetts, United States