Steve Carell in "Over the Hedge" (2006), "Horton Hears a Who!" (2008) and the "Despicable Me" franchise (2010–2017). In 2016, Carell co-created the TBS comedy series "Angie Tribeca" with his wife, Nancy Carell. Carell was nominated as "America's funniest man" in "Life" magazine, and received the Golden Globe Award for Best Actor – Television Series Musical or Comedy for his work on the first season of "The Office". His role as wrestling coach and convicted murderer John Eleuthère du Pont in the drama film "Foxcatcher" (2014) earned him, among various honors, nominations for the Academy Award for Best Actor, the Golden Globe
Steve Carell acted on the stage in a touring children's theater company, later in the comedy musical "Knat Scatt Private Eye" and in a television commercial for the restaurant chain Brown's Chicken in 1989. In 1991, Carell performed with Chicago troupe The Second City where Stephen Colbert was his understudy for a time. Carell made his film debut in a minor role in "Curly Sue". In spring 1996, he was a cast member of "The Dana Carvey Show", a short-lived sketch comedy program on ABC. Along with fellow cast member Colbert, Carell provided the voice of Gary, half of "The Ambiguously Gay