After appearing in the critically panned Furry Vengeance in 2010, he moved from being represented by William Morris Endeavor to the Creative Artists Agency. Fraser starred in a Broadway production of Elling in 2010, but the play closed after 9 performances due to lackluster reviews. On January 12, 2002, The show closed, with Fraser garnering many excellent reviews. Castmates included Frances O’Connor, Ned Beatty and Gemma Jones.
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In the West End production of Tennessee Williams’s Cat on a Hot Tin Roof in September 2001, Brendan Fraser starred as “Brick, directed by Anthony Page. That same year, Fraser starred in the 3D film adaptation of Jules Verne’s Journey to the Center of the Earth and the fantasy film Inkheart (chosen personally for the lead role by the novel’s author Cornelia Funke). Filming startedo n Jin Montreal and also starred Jet Li as Emperor Han. Fraser returned for the second sequel to The Mummy after a six-year hiatus in the franchise, released in August 2008 and titled The Mummy: Tomb of the Dragon Emperor. He was inducted into Canada’s Walk of Fame in March 2006, the first American-born actor to receive the honor. He appeared as part of an ensemble cast in the Academy Award-winning film Crash in 2004.īrendan Fraser has also made guest appearances on the television shows, Scrubs, King of the Hill and The Simpsons. Fraser starred alongside Michael Caine in the political drama The Quiet American which was well received by critics in 2002. Fraser lent his voice for the unreleased animated film Big Bug Man. The film was written and directed by Bill Condon and follows the loss of creativity, ambiguous sexuality and unlikely bonds between a heterosexual gardener and a homosexual, tortured and ailing filmmaker. In 1998’s Gods and Monsters, Brendan Fraser also played a dramatic role, which was based on the life of James Whale (Ian McKellen) who directed Frankenstein. Fraser went on to star in films such as Philip Ridley’s The Passion of Darkly Noon in 1995 and The Twilight of the Golds in 1997. He played Steve Nebraska in 1994, in The Scout and Montgomery “Monty” Kessler in With Honors as well as co-star with Adam Sandler and Steve Buscemi in Airheads. That same year Fraser starred with Matt Damon and Chris O’Donnell in School Ties. The film was a moderate box office success and is considered a cult film. Fraser got his first leading film role in the 1992 comedy film Encino Man where he played a frozen pre-historic caveman who is thawed out in the present day. Fraser made his film debut with a bit part in Dogfight in 1991. Brendan Fraser Careerīrendan Fraser made a brief appearance as a friend of murder victim Rodney Mark Peterson in the reenactment of America’s Most Wanted. He planned on attending graduate school in Texas, but stopped in Hollywood on the way and decided to stay there to work in film. Fraser began acting at a small acting college in New York City. Fraser graduated in 1990 from Seattle’s Cornish College of the Arts.
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While on vacation in London, he attended his first professional theatre show in the West End.
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Brendan Fraser attended Upper Canada College, a private boarding school in Toronto.