Ancestry of Jim Carrey

James Eugene Carrey (a.k.a. Jim Carrey) is a Canadian-American actor, comedian, impressionist, screenwriter, and producer. He is known for his highly energetic slapstick performances.

Jim Carrey was born on January 17, 1962 in Newmarket, Ontario, Canada. He was raised a Roman Catholic. His mother, Kathleen Oram, is a homemaker of Irish and Scottish descent; John Oram, Jim’s maternal grandfather, was born in Glasgow, Lanarkshire, Scotland. His father, John Percy Carrey, is a musician and accountant, he mainly has French-Canadian ancestry (the family's original surname is Carre and is originated from Brittany in France) but he also has some German, Swiss and English ancestry. Jim Carrey has three older siblings: John, Patricia, and Rita.

Two-time Golden Globe winner for his roles in The Truman Show (1998) and Man on the Moon (1999), Jim Carrey received U.S. citizenship in October 2004 and remains a dual citizen of the United States and his native Canada.

Jim Carrey, a cousin of Angelina Jolie, Hillary Clinton, Madonna, Celine Dion, Justin Bieber, Jack Kerouac and Camilla, Queen of the United Kingdom…

Jim Carrey has many family ties with celebrities in the film industry, politics and music.

perche-quebec.com has found out not less than:
• 273 family links with Celine Dion
• 257 family links with Justin Bieber
• 180 family links with Jack Kerouac
• 168 family links with Ryan Gosling
• 148 family links with Madonna
• 144 family links with Xavier Dolan
• 114 family links with Angelina Jolie
• 111 family links with Justin Trudeau
• 52 family links with Alanis Morissette
• 21 family links with Hillary Clinton
• 8 family links with Camilla, Queen of the United Kingdom

All those celebrities have in common French-Canadian pioneers, and in particular Percheron pioneers. For instance, the Percheron pioneer Zacharie Cloutier, an ancestor of most of the celebrities mentioned before, who was born in Mortagne-au-Perche.

As strange as it may seem, there is nothing exceptional about those family ties. As the Percheron pioneers were among the very first French settlers to arrive in what was then known as New France, most of North Americans with French-Canadian ancestry have Percheron blood and are more or less related.

The Percheron ancestors of Jim Carrey