Rita Carrey, the sibling of famous actor and comedian Jim Carrey, has died at 68 just over a year after her marriage.
Rita’s husband Alex shared the sad news on her Facebook page, saying that she passed away on November 14, “surrounded by family and friends.”
“It is with a heavy heart and my deepest sadness that Rita passed away peacefully and quietly on November 14, 2024,” he wrote. He also mentioned that they had been together for 16 years before getting married in an outdoor ceremony last July.
“We traveled around the world and met many people we consider friends. Rita was my best friend, my love, and my wonderful wife,” Alex added. “She always had a caring spirit and wanted to help everyone even total strangers. As everyone knows Christmas was Rita’s favorite time of year actually it was every day for her as she started a fundraiser to support a local charity.”
Sister of Jim Carrey
Rita was one of The Mask star Jim Carrey’s three older siblings. He has a brother named John along with another sister named Patricia. All four grew up in Canada.
In a 2015 chat with SiriusXM 167, Rita talked about being the sister of one of the most famous actors in the world.
“It’s not hard,” she said. “People ask me every day… I say now my name – ’cause they always go ‘Jim Carrey’s sister’ – so I call myself JCS for Jesus Christ Superstar because I never get: ‘Oh, you’re Rita?’”
“But I’ve been asked for twenty-five years about Jim every single day of my life. Every day someone will say: ‘you’re Jim Carrey’s sister’, or ‘you look like someone I know’, things like that. So it doesn’t bother me.”
As of now, Jim has not yet made any statement regarding his sister’s death.
