Steve Carell

Carell is married to Nancy Walls, whom he met when she was a student in an improvisation class he was teaching at Second City and they have two children, Elisabeth Anne and John.

Carell was born at Emerson Hospital in Concord, Massachusetts, to Edwin A. Carell, an electrical engineer and Harriet T, a psychiatric nurse. The youngest of four siblings, he grew up in Acton, Massachusetts.

He was raised Roman Catholic and attended Nashoba Brooks School, The Fenn School, and Middlesex School. He played ice hockey while in high school and played the fife with other family members.

He earned his degree from Denison University in Granville, Ohio in 1984. Here, he was a member of Burpee's Seedy Theatrical Company, a student-run improvisational comedy troupe.

Starting with a touring children's theater company, he performed with Chicago troupe in The Second City. In 1991, he made his film debut in a minor role as Tesio in Curly Sue.

’The Dana Carvey Show’ is credited with building his career when he appeared in 1996, in a short sketch comedy program on ABC providing the voice of Gary of The Ambiguously Gay Duo.

Between 1997 and 2005, he played supporting characters in several series such as ‘Come to Papa’, ‘Tim Curry’, ‘Over the Top’, ‘Just Shoot Me!, and ‘Watching Ellie’ and tuned his acting skill.

He was a correspondent for ‘The Daily Show’ from 1999 until 2005.

In 2003 he acted in the film ‘Bruce Almighty’, starring Jim Carrey as Bruce, and Morgan Freeman as God. He played Evan Baxter the coworker rival of Bruce.

His ‘Little Miss Sunshine’, a 2006 comedy-drama film about a family determined to get their young daughter into the finals of a beauty pageant grossed of $100.5 million.

He played Michael Scott, the idiosyncratic regional manager in the acclaimed serial, ‘The Office’, a mockumentary about typical office workers, their ego clashes, inappropriate behavior, and tedium.