Actor: Jim Carrey

Jim Carrey had three films in one year, Ace Ventura, The Mask and Dumb and Dumber, that made him the highest-paid comic actor in the world, and the physical performance in all three is genuinely extraordinary technical work.

The Truman Show and Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind proved the dramatic capacity, and the latter is a performance of complete restraint from someone known for the opposite.

Man on the Moon, playing Andy Kaufman, involved staying in character for the entire shoot, which the documentary Jim and Andy documents uncomfortably.

He has spoken publicly about depression and has largely withdrawn from acting to paint.