Jim Carrey as Stanley Ipkiss / The Mask: An everyday polite, nice, kind, down on his luck bank employee who is mistreated and taken advantage of by people which Carrey commented that he characterized Stanley after his own father: "a nice guy, just trying to get by."

When he wears the Mask, Stanley becomes a mischievous, green-faced figure known as The Mask who has the ability to cartoonishly alter himself and his surroundings at will.