Brendan Fraser
American-Canadian actor and Academy Award winner celebrated for The Mummy trilogy and his acclaimed comeback in The Whale.
Brendan Fraser - Personal Information
- Name: Brendan Fraser
- Date of Birth: December 3, 1968
- Place of Birth: Indianapolis, Indiana, USA
- Gender: Male
- Job Title: Actor
- Crew Jobs: Executive Producer, Producer
Biography
Brendan James Fraser (born December 3, 1968) is an American-Canadian actor. Fraser had his breakthrough in 1992 with the comedy Encino Man and the drama School Ties. He gained further prominence for his starring roles in the comedies With Honors (1994) and George of the Jungle (1997) and emerged as a star playing Rick O'Connell in The Mummy trilogy (1999–2008). He took on dramatic roles in Gods and Monsters (1998), The Quiet American (2002), and Crash (2004), and further fantasy roles in Bedazzled (2000) and Journey to the Center of the Earth (2008).
Fraser's film work slowed from the late 2000s to mid-2010s due to the poor box office performances, and various health and personal problems, including the fallout from a sexual assault committed against him in 2003 by Philip Berk, the then-president of the Hollywood Foreign Press Association. Fraser branched into television with roles in the Showtime drama The Affair (2016–2017), the FX series Trust (2018), and the Max series Doom Patrol (2019–2023). His film career was revitalized by roles in Steven Soderbergh's No Sudden Move (2021) and Darren Aronofsky's The Whale (2022). Fraser's starring role as an obese gay man in the latter earned him critical acclaim and numerous accolades, including the Academy Award for Best Actor, becoming the first Canadian to win this category.
Selected Filmography
A look at Brendan Fraser's most notable recent screen appearances across film and television.
- The Mummy 4 (2028) as Rick O'Connell
- Pressure (2026) as Dwight D. Eisenhower
- Variety & CNN Actors on Actors (TV - 2025) as Self - Guest
- Rental Family (2025) as Phillip Vanderploeg
- Sea Lions of the Galapagos (2025) as Self - Narrator (voice)
- Brothers (2024) as Farful
- Killers of the Flower Moon (2023) as W.S. Hamilton
- People Are Amazing: Making 'The Whale' (2023) as Self
- The Whale (2022) as Charlie
- No Sudden Move (2021) as Douglas 'Doug' Jones
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