Jim Carrey plays the title character in the 1994 romantic comedy The Mask. He portrays Stanley Ipkiss, a timid bank clerk who becomes the extravagant, green-faced Mask after discovering a magical wooden mask.
The film also stars Cameron Diaz in her movie debut as Tina Carlyle. Stanley’s romance with Tina is combined with comic-book action, slapstick, and supernatural transformation. The Mask was directed by Chuck Russell and was based loosely on a Dark Horse Comics character.
The title can create confusion because “the Mask” refers both to the enchanted object and to the exaggerated persona it creates. Jim Carrey plays Stanley and his transformed alter ego; he does not play a separate character named Mask.