1. Brendan James Fraser is an American-Canadian actor.
45 Facts About Brendan Fraser
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Brendan Fraser gained further prominence for his starring roles in the comedies With Honors and George of the Jungle and emerged as a star playing Rick O'Connell in The Mummy trilogy.
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Brendan Fraser took on dramatic roles in Gods and Monsters, The Quiet American, and Crash, and further fantasy roles in Bedazzled and Journey to the Center of the Earth.
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Brendan Fraser was born on December 3,1968, in Indianapolis, Indiana, to Canadian parents Carol Mary and Peter Brendan Fraser.
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Brendan Fraser is the youngest of four siblings; his brothers are Kevin, Sean, and Regan.
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Brendan Fraser's mother was a sales counselor, and his father was a former journalist who worked as a Canadian foreign service officer for the Government Office of Tourism.
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Brendan Fraser's family moved often during his childhood, living in Eureka, California; Seattle, Washington; Ottawa, Ontario; the Netherlands; and Switzerland.
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Brendan Fraser then attended Upper Canada College, a private boarding school in Toronto, from which he graduated in 1987.
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Brendan Fraser graduated from Seattle's Cornish College of the Arts in 1990.
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Brendan Fraser then began acting at a small acting college in New York City.
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Brendan Fraser had planned on studying toward a Master of Fine Arts in Acting from Southern Methodist University, but after visiting Hollywood, he decided instead to move there to pursue work in film.
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In 1991, Brendan Fraser made his film debut with a small role as a seaman headed to Vietnam in Dogfight.
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Brendan Fraser got his first leading film role alongside Sean Astin and Pauly Shore in the 1992 comedy film Encino Man, where he played a frozen pre-historic caveman who is thawed out in the present day.
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Brendan Fraser had a small part in the 1995 film Now and Then.
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Brendan Fraser made cameo appearances in the Pauly Shore films Son in Law and In the Army Now, reprising his Encino Man role.
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Brendan Fraser performed at his first theatre production in 1995 at the Geffen Playhouse, taking on the role of Victor in John Patrick Shanley's Four Dogs and a Bone.
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Brendan Fraser had his first major box office success with the 1997 comedy film George of the Jungle which was based on the animated series of the same title created by Jay Ward.
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Brendan Fraser received critical acclaim for his dramatic role in 1998's Gods and Monsters, which was based on the life of James Whale, who directed Frankenstein.
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Brendan Fraser achieved his biggest commercial success when he portrayed the lead adventurer Rick O'Connell in the fantasy adventure film The Mummy and its sequel The Mummy Returns.
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Brendan Fraser lent his voice for the unreleased animated film Big Bug Man, with Marlon Brando.
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In late 2001, Brendan Fraser starred as "Brick" in the Pulitzer Prize winning play Tennessee Williams's Cat on a Hot Tin Roof, directed by Anthony Page.
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Brendan Fraser has made guest appearances on the television shows Scrubs, King of the Hill, and The Simpsons.
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In 2010, Brendan Fraser returned to Broadway in the production of Elling, but the play closed after one week, due to lackluster reviews.
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In 2010, he starred in Whole Lotta Sole directed by Terry George and in 2011, he was set to play William Tell in The Legend of William Tell: 3D, directed by Eric Brevig, with whom Brendan Fraser had worked in Journey to the Center of the Earth.
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Moyer later countersued for assault, which Brendan Fraser dismissed as [Moyer's] desperate attempt to avoid paying his debt.
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In 2016, Brendan Fraser replaced Ray Liotta in the Bollywood thriller Line of Descent.
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Brendan Fraser later joined the recurring cast of the television drama series The Affair during season 3 where he portrayed the misery-minded prison guard Gunther.
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In September 2020, Brendan Fraser was cast as gangster Doug Jones in Steven Soderbergh's period crime film No Sudden Move, which was released in 2021.
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In January 2021, Brendan Fraser was announced as the lead in Darren Aronofsky's film The Whale.
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Aronofsky stated he had looked for the lead role in the movie for a decade, and decided to cast Brendan Fraser after seeing him in the trailer of the low-budget Brazilian film Journey to the End of the Night.
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Brendan Fraser became the first Canadian to win the best actor award.
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In October 2021, Brendan Fraser was cast to portray the villain Firefly in the superhero film Batgirl, set in the DC Extended Universe; the release of the film was canceled in August 2022 after a change in Warner Bros.
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In December 2023, Brendan Fraser was a guest narrator at Disney's Candlelight Processional at Walt Disney World.
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On July 4,1993, shortly after he had arrived in Los Angeles, Brendan Fraser met his future wife, actress Afton Smith, at a barbecue at Winona Ryder's house.
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Holden and Leland are both fashion models signed with Marilyn Agency; in a 2018 interview with GQ, Brendan Fraser said that Griffin is on the autism spectrum.
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Brendan Fraser was ordered to make monthly alimony payments of $50,000 for ten years or until Smith remarried, whichever came first, and monthly child support payments of $25,000.
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In early 2011, Brendan Fraser asked the court to reduce his alimony payments, asserting that he was unable to meet the annual obligation of $600,000; he did not contest the child support payments.
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Since September 2022, Brendan Fraser has been in a relationship with makeup artist Jeanne Moore.
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The couple made their red-carpet debut at the 2022 Venice Film Festival, and Brendan Fraser expressed his gratitude to Moore during his acceptance speech for the Oscar for Best Actor at the 95th Academy Awards.
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Brendan Fraser speaks French and serves on the board of directors for FilmAid International.
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Brendan Fraser is an accomplished amateur photographer and has used several instant cameras in movies and on TV shows, most notably in his guest roles on Scrubs.
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In 2018, Brendan Fraser stated publicly that the physical demands of the stunts and maneuvers he had performed in his action and comedy roles had required him to undergo several surgeries over a period of seven years, including a partial knee replacement, a laminectomy, and vocal-cord surgery.
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Several publications and social media users assumed that Brendan Fraser had been blacklisted from Hollywood because of his accusation against Berk.
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Since 2018, Brendan Fraser has been a celebrity judge on the Dancing Stars of Greenwich annual charity gala which raises money for the non-profit organization Abilis, a local charity which supports more than 800 individuals and their families with disabilities in Fairfield County, Connecticut.
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In 2022, Smith and Brendan Fraser received the Heart of Abilis Award for their support and fundraising work for the charity.