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Steven Carell (born August 16, 1963 in Acton, Massachusetts) is an Italian-American actor. The family name was originally Carello.

He was educated at the Middlesex School in Concord and Denison University in Granville, Ohio.

He is married to Nancy Walls, a former Daily Show correspondent, whom he originally met when she was a student in an improv class he was teaching at The Second City. They have one daughter (Elisabeth) and one son (John).

Early career

Prior to deciding on a career as a performer, he was a mail carrier. He later explained he quit after a few months because he was "very, very bad at it." He also planned on going to law school, but when he was asked on his entry form why he wanted to become a lawyer, he was unable to write a response.

He performed with the Chicago troupe of The Second City in 1991. This same year, he landed his first role (albeit minor) in a major motion picture as Tesio in Curly Sue.

In 1996, he was a cast member of the briefly aired The Dana Carvey Show. Carell has also done some voice acting, including several voices in "The Ambiguously Gay Duo" for Saturday Night Live
.

Other screen credits include a role in the short-lived Julia Louis-Dreyfus sitcom Watching Ellie (2002 – 2003) and Woody Allen's, Melinda and Melinda
.

The Daily Show

In 1999, he became a correspondent on The Daily Show, appearing in recurring sketches like "Even Stephven" (with Stephen Colbert) and "Produce Pete with Steve Carell". He remained a regular on the show until 2004.

Carell returned to The Daily Show on March 23, 2005, for a piece on the second anniversary of the 2003 invasion of Iraq.

While there he also recorded two guest appearances as Produce Pete which aired on April 4, 2005, and May 3, 2005 (and was credited as a contributor until that time).

He has since been on the show as the guest on August 15, 2005, and declared on that day's program (much to Jon Stewart's faux tearful dismay) that he is officially no longer with the show, ending a bit of speculation as to if he would one day return or not.

Mainstream success

Two supporting roles in films helped get the attention of audiences: In Bruce Almighty
, Carell played Evan Baxter, an arrogant rival to Jim Carrey who gets the ultimate comeuppance at a news desk. In Anchorman: The Legend of Ron Burgundy
, he played yet another news personality, this time as the dimwitted weatherman Brick Tamland, whose non-sequiturs (including "I love lamp" and "LOUD NOISES!") helped make the comedy a success at the box-office.

In spring of 2005, Carell began playing the lead role of Michael Scott on NBC's remake of the British sitcom The Office, for which he subsequently won a Golden Globe in 2006 ("Best Performance by an Actor In A Television Series - Musical Or Comedy").

He played the lead role in the 2005 film The 40-Year-Old Virgin
, which he developed and co-wrote. With Carell's surprise success with the film, he revealed in an interview with Entertainment Weekly that he has no plans to leave The Office, citing that early on in an actor's career that they can only dream to work full time one day, that they shouldn't be whining when they're working all the time when they wanted to in the first place.

Carell also appeared in a short cameo alongside Nicole Kidman and Will Ferrell in the 2005 remake of Bewitched
.

Future plans

He is currently scheduled to play Maxwell Smart in a movie remake of Get Smart. He is also lending his voice to a to-be-released CGI movie entitled Over the Hedge.

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