Steven John Carell is an American actor, comedian, writer, producer, and director. He is best known for his portrayal of boss Michael Scott on the NBC sitcom The Office. Carell gained recognition as a correspondent on The Daily Show with Jon Stewart from 1999 to 2005. He went on to star in several hit comedy films, such as Anchorman: The Legend of Ron Burgundy and its 2013 sequel Anchorman 2: The Legend Continues. He received critical acclaim for his starring role as Mitch Kessler in the Apple TV+ drama series The Morning Show.
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Steven John Carell is an American actor, comedian, writer, producer, and director. He is best known for his portrayal of boss Michael Scott on the NBC sitcom The Office. Carell gained recognition as a correspondent on The Daily Show with Jon Stewart from 1999 to 2005. He went on to star in several hit comedy films, such as Anchorman: The Legend of Ron Burgundy and its 2013 sequel Anchorman 2: The Legend Continues. In the 2010s, Carell received further attention for more dramatic roles. In 2018, he re-teamed with Anchorman and The Big Short director Adam McKay for the Dick Cheney biographical film Vice, in which he portrayed Donald Rumsfeld. He also returned to comedy with the lead role of General Mark R. Naird in the Netflix sitcom Space Force. He received critical acclaim for his starring role as Mitch Kessler in the Apple TV+ drama series The Morning Show, for which he received a nomination for the Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Lead Actor in a Drama Series. In 1991 he performed with Chicago troupe The Second City where Stephen Colbert was his understudy. In 1996 he was a cast member of The Dana Carvey Show, a short-lived sketch comedy program on ABC. He has been credited with forging Carell’s short career, including a few episodes of The Ambiguously Gay Duo, the Robert Smigel-produced animated short-produced series Saturday Night Live, and the animated short The Smigly Gay Duo.
He was recognized as \”America’s Funniest Man\” by Life magazine. His father’s surname was originally Caroselli; it was changed to Carell in the 1950s. His maternal uncle, Stanley Koch, worked with scientist Allen B. DuMont to create cathode ray tubes, his mother was of Polish ancestry. He worked as a USPS mail carrier in Littleton, Massachusetts, but quit after seven months because his boss told him he was not very good at the job and needed to be faster. He played ice hockey and lacrosse while in high school, and later joined a reenacting group portraying the 10th Regiment of Foot. He earned a degree in history from Denison University in Granville, Ohio, in 1984, and was a goalie on the school’s Big Red hockey team for four years. His mother, Harriet Theresa, was a psychiatric nurse, and his father is of Italian and German descent and his mother is of German descent. He currently lives in Los Angeles with his wife, Nancy Carell, and their three children. He and his wife have a daughter, Ava, and a son, Jack, who was born in 2007. He lives with his parents in Massachusetts and has two step-daughters, Emma and Abigail, and one step-son, Alex. He recently moved to Los Angeles to be closer to his wife and two children, and has a daughter with his ex-wife, Nancy.
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