Jim Carrey Marries Longtime Girlfriend Min Ah in Private L.A. Ceremony

He spent decades being Hollywood’s most famously elastic funny man, the guy who could stretch his face into a hundred different punchlines. But this week, Jim Carrey showed off a side fans rarely get to see: the romantic. The 64-year-old actor has quietly tied the knot with longtime partner Min Ah, confirming that yes, the man who once joked his way through Dumb and Dumber and The Mask is now, officially, a married man once more.

A spokesperson for Carrey confirmed the happy news to Just Jared on Wednesday, September 30, revealing that the couple recently wed in a small, private ceremony in Los Angeles. No stadium-sized guest list. No sold-to-a-magazine photo spread. Just the two of them, and presumably the people who matter most to them, saying their vows somewhere in the city they’ve both called home.

Details about the actual nuptials? Practically nonexistent. And honestly, that tracks. Jim Carrey has always guarded his personal life with a kind of gentle stubbornness. When he wants you to know something, he tells you. When he doesn’t, you find out months later, through a publicist, in the middle of an otherwise quiet week. That’s exactly what happened here.

But here’s the thing — this wedding, quiet as it was, feels like the punctuation mark at the end of a sentence the couple has been writing for years. They’ve been linked since at least 2022, when they were first spotted together on a night out in Los Angeles. They’ve kept things low-key ever since, rarely appearing in public together, letting the relationship breathe away from the flashbulbs. And now? They’re husband and wife.

A Private Ceremony in Los Angeles

Let’s be honest: a secret wedding is a rare feat in 2026. This is an era when engagement announcements come with coordinated Instagram posts and wedding vendors leak seating charts to tabloids. The fact that Jim Carrey and Min Ah pulled off an intimate ceremony without anyone knowing until his team confirmed it afterward is, frankly, impressive.

According to the confirmation, the ceremony took place in Los Angeles and was kept deliberately small. Nobody’s named the venue. Nobody’s described the guest list. We don’t know if there were flowers, who officiated, whether Jim cracked a joke at the altar (you have to imagine he at least considered it), or what Min wore. And you know what? That’s fine. Not everything needs to be content.

What we do know is that this marks Carrey’s third marriage — a milestone that, as we’ll get into, represents something of a reversal for a man who once publicly questioned whether marriage was even necessary. People change. Minds open. Hearts do their own thing, no matter what anyone said in a radio interview a decade ago.

“My Sublime Companion”: The César Awards Debut

If you’re looking for the moment this relationship became real to the public, it was this past February at the César Awards in France. Carrey was there to receive an Honorary César — France’s most prestigious film honor — and he walked in with Min Ah on his arm. First time they’d ever appeared together publicly as a couple. First time he’d ever confirmed, with his actions rather than his words, that this was someone who mattered.

And then he made it official in the most Jim Carrey way imaginable. His acceptance speech — delivered entirely in French, because of course it was — included a shout-out that melted the room. “Thank you to my wonderful family, my daughter Jane, and my grandson Jackson. I love you now and forever,” he said, according to Variety. Then, turning to Min: “Thank you to my sublime companion, Min Ah. I love you, Min Ah.”

Sublime companion. That’s not a phrase you toss around casually. The audience responded with an ovation — for Min, for daughter Jane, for grandson Jackson. In that same speech, Carrey also paid tribute to the funniest man he’d ever known: his late father, Percy Joseph Carrey, “who taught me the value of love, generosity, and laughter.” Three generations of Carrey family in one speech, and one woman standing at the center of his present. Looking back, it reads like a love letter in disguise.

Min Ah, for her part, is described as an L.A.-based actress and artist. She keeps a low profile — there’s not much of a public footprint beyond her connection to Carrey, and it seems she’d like to keep it that way. Given how carefully the two have managed their privacy over the years, the wedding staying under wraps feels less like an accident and more like a deliberate choice by two people who knew exactly what they were doing.

Third Time Down the Aisle

This isn’t Carrey’s first trip down the aisle, and he’s never pretended otherwise. His first marriage was to former actress Melissa Womer, whom he wed in 1987. That relationship gave him his daughter, Jane Erin Carrey — who, in turn, has given him grandson Jackson, the very same grandson who stood beside him at the Césars. Family has always been there in the background of Carrey’s life, even when the spotlight was somewhere else.

His second marriage was the Hollywood one people tend to remember: he wed his Dumb and Dumber co-star Lauren Holly in 1996, back when both of them were riding the wave of ’90s comedy stardom. That one lasted about a year. Short, bright, very Hollywood — the kind of marriage that burns fast because everything around it is burning fast too.

Since then, Carrey’s romantic history has been a mix of high-profile relationships and quieter chapters. He was engaged to Renée Zellweger at one point. He had a long, on-and-off relationship with Jenny McCarthy. There was the deeply tragic chapter with Cathriona White. More recently, he dated his Kidding co-star Ginger Gonzaga — his rep confirmed that one to People back in January 2019 after their red carpet debut at the Showtime Golden Globes Nominees Celebration.

And threaded through all of that was a philosophy about love and commitment that Carrey was remarkably candid about. Speaking to Howard Stern in 2020, he reflected on his past relationships with genuine warmth: “I do appreciate the people that have come through my life for the good that they gave me.” But years earlier, in 2014, he’d told Stern something very different about marriage itself: “I just don’t see it as necessary at this point.” At the time, he seemed settled in that view. Done with the institution. Happy with his own company and his painting and his spiritual life.

A Change of Heart — and a Quieter Life

So what changed? Well, people do. That’s the short answer. The longer answer might be found in what Carrey told reporters back in April 2022 while promoting Sonic the Hedgehog 2. He spoke about enjoying a quieter life away from the spotlight — painting on canvas, tending to his spiritual life, being genuinely content. “I really like my quiet life, and I really love putting paint on canvas, and I really love my spiritual life,” he said. “I have enough.” It was the kind of statement you might never expect to hear from a celebrity, and he knew it.

He even hinted at stepping back from acting, telling reporters he was “being fairly serious” about it — though he left the door open for a script that felt particularly important. And here’s where the Min Ah of it all comes into focus. Somewhere in that quiet life, painting canvases and keeping the spotlight at arm’s length, he built a relationship. Not a tabloid relationship. Not a red carpet relationship. A real one, apparently, that began at least as far back as 2022 and was strong enough by February 2026 for him to bring her to Paris and tell a room full of people, in another language, that he loved her.

There’s something genuinely lovely about a man who once declared marriage unnecessary changing his mind — not for the cameras, not for a storyline, but quietly, privately, in Los Angeles, with no audience at all. The guy who made his name being the loudest person in every room chose, for the most important moment of his recent life, to be quiet about it. Growth looks good on him.

What’s Next for the Newlyweds

Knowing this couple’s track record, don’t expect a honeymoon photo dump or a joint talk-show tour. If history is any guide, Carrey and Min Ah will do what they’ve always done: keep their heads down, enjoy each other, and let the public find out the important things when (and if) they decide to share them.

Professionally, Carrey has been selective in recent years. He popped up as Dr. Robotnik in the Sonic films — a role that let him flex those classic Carrey muscles without requiring him to carry the whole movie. He’s painted. He’s reflected. He’s clearly been building a life that doesn’t revolve around premieres and press junkets. Marriage, in that context, feels less like a plot twist and more like the natural next chapter of a man who has, slowly and deliberately, rearranged his priorities.

For now, though, the congratulations are in order. After a career spent making the whole world laugh, Jim Carrey has found his own reason to smile — a sublime companion, as he put it. And this time, it seems, it’s forever.

Source: Just Jared