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<a href="/biography/dana-carvey">Dana Thomas Carvey</a> was born on June 2, 1955, in Missoula, Montana, and he is a stand-up comedian, and an American actor.

Carvey was born from Bud Carvey, a high school teacher of business, and Billie Dahl, a schoolteacher. He has a brother, whose name is Brad, that Dana took as a model for his personation of “Garth Algar”, the weird, funny character he brought on the “Saturday Night live”, the show that gave Carvey his popularity.

The Carvey’s family moved to San Carlos, California, when Dana was three years old. Carvey went to the “Tierra Linda High” in San Carlos, and to the “Carlmont High School” in Belmont (where he joined the “Central Coast Section” champion cross country team). He then attended the “College of San Mateo” in San Mateo, and he finally went to the “San Francisco State University where he received his bachelor degree in broadcast communications.

Carvey started to perform after he finished his studies, and he moved to Hollywood. He rapidly got a small role in the movie “Halloween II” (1981), and in “This Is Spinal Tap” and “Racing with the Moon” in 1984. Carvey also participated in a couple of TV shows, “One of the Boys” (1982) and “Blue Thunder” (1984), before receiving the phone call that would have changed his career and his life: in 1986 <a href="/biography/lorne-michaels">Lorne Michaels</a> asked him to play in the “Saturday Night Live”, and Carvey will remain in this show till the 1993 (starring in some other single episodes even in 1994, 1996, 2000, and 2011).

Carvey had been a <a href="/biography/dana-carvey">guest</a> in “The Larry Sanders Show” (3 appearances in 1992, 1993, and 1997), and in 1996 he got his own programs “The Dana Carvey Show”, where he was the <a href="/biography/dana-carvey">host</a>, and where he impersonated various characters from SNL as well. He starred in many other shows, among which there are the “Dana Carvey: Critics’ Choice (a stand-up special in 1995 dedicated to himself), “Just Shoot Me!” (1998), “LateLine” (2 episodes, one in 1998 and one in 1999), “The Fairly OddParents” (2010), “Spoof” (2010), “Good Vibes” (2011), “Live with Kelly” (2012), “Rich and Morty” (2013), “The Birthday Boys” (2014), “First Impressions” (2016), and “Dana Carvey: Straight White Male, 60” (another stand-up special dedicated to himself in 2016),

Carvey has been very active even on the big screen. After the first small roles at the start of his career, he participated in “Tough Guys” (1986), “Moving (1988), “Opportunity Knocks” (1990), in the two cult movies “Wayne’s World” (1992) and “Wayne’s World 2” (1993) in which he portrayed the character of Garth Algar, always in tandem with <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mike_Myers">Mike Myers</a> from Saturday Night Live.

Carvery has been in “Clean Slate” (1994), "The Road to Wellville" (1994), "Trapped in Paradise" (1994), "The Shot" (1996), "Fire on the Track: The Steve Prefontaine Story" (1996), and "Little Nicky" (2000).

In 2002 Carvey played in the comedy spy movie "The Master of Disguise". The movie was released just a week after the movie of his former colleague <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mike_Myers">Mike Myers</a>’ “Austin Powers iin Goldmember”, and, despite the two movies were very similar as a genre, Carvey didn’t have the same success that <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mike_Myers">Myers</a> had.

Carvey’s other movies are "Presidential Reunion" (2010, in which he played the role of the President George H. W. Bush), "Jack and Jill" (2011), "Hotel Transylvania 2" (2015), "The Secret Life of Pets" (2016), "Sandy Wexler" (2017), "Becoming Bond" (2017), "Too Funny to Fail" (2017).

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In his career Carver had many nomination and many won awards. Among the most important there are the “Primetime Emmy Awards” he won in 1993 for the “Outstanding Individual Performance in a Variety or Music Program” in “Saturday Night Live”, the “American Comedy Awards” he won in 1989, 1990, and in 1991 as the “Funniest Supporting Male Performer in a TV Series” always for “Saturday Night Live”, and the “MTV Movie + TV Awards” he won in 1992 for the movie “Wayne’s World”.

He’s been selected in the 90th place of the Comedy Central’s list of the 100 Greatest Stand-Ups of All Time. Carvey portrayed on the screen many original characters: the most famous is “Garth Algar” (from “Wayne's World” and “Saturday Night Live”), Hans (from "<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hans_and_Franz">Hans and Franz</a>"), and the Grumpy Old Man (from Weekend Update appearances). When there has been the election and presidency of George H. W. Bush, he was the designated impersonator of the president, making him the lead actor of the regular political sketches on SNL.

During the US presidential election campaign in 1992, Carvey did an impression of the independent <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ross_Perot">candidate</a> <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ross_Perot">Ross Perot</a>: in a prime-time special before the election, Carvey played both George H. W. Bush and <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ross_Perot">Perot</a> in a hilarious three-way debate with Bill Clinton, played by <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phil_Hartman">Phil Hartman</a>. He brought on the screens once again his impression of the President Bush in 2010, for the “Presidential Reunion” short movie.

Dana Carvey met his girlfriend, Paula Zwaggerman in 1979, while performing at “The Other Café” in San Francisco. He got engaged to her in 1981, and they had two children from their marriage that took place in 1983: Thomas and Dex. In 1997, Carvey had to undergo a heart bypass surgery because his coronary artery was blocked. However, the surgeon operated on the wrong artery. He sued the hospital for medical malpractice and he got damages worth 8 million dollars. The money was donated to the charity. He had to undergo another surgery so that they can correct this problem.  While undergoing the final angioplasty, in the room next to his, is where <a href="/biography/frank-sinatra">Frank Sinatra</a> died.

He votes for Independent and he likes to play basketball, to paint, to play drums and also the guitar. Carvey said that he prefers the stand-up comedy to acting in movies, and he doesn’t regret having turned down many important roles (like a role in the movie Bad Boys, and the hosting spot for Late Night) so he could spend more time with his children and enjoy them when they were young. Dana Carvey’s net worth is estimated in 20 million dollars.

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