Brendan Fraser
Birth Name : Brendan James Fraser
Famous as : Actor
Birth Date : December 03, 1968
Birth Place : Indianapolis, Indiana, USA
Spouse : Afton Smith (actress, 27-Sept-98 - 26-Dec-07)
Claim to fame : As George, the King of the Jungle, in "George of the Jungle" (1997)
Biography
Known for his versatility in action with inner quality of being a modest and polite manner person, which certainly makes it a special star in everyone's heart, James Brendan Fraser, in fact, is a fine example of a real Hollywood actor. The youngest of four children, he was born on 3 December 1968 in Indianapolis, Indiana, and is the son of Carol and Peter Fraser, whose job as a Foreign Service Officer for the Canadian Government Tourist Office often the family is required to get from one place to another.
Although this nomadic life caused him to frequently change schools during his early life, she gave the boys plenty of opportunity to see the unique character of Detroit, Seattle, Ottawa, the Netherlands, Switzerland, and especially London, where he became the first Once introduced to the wonders of the acting by a West End matinee of the musical "Oliver!". Immediately fascinated by the performance, the child could not help but fell in love with theater after.
As his interest in this branch of art grew larger, if continued his studies in Upper Canada College in Toronto, Brendan carefully honed his acting skills in school productions of plays and revues before taking theatre at the Cornish College of the Arts in Seattle. Successful earned his Bachelor of Fine Arts degree in 1990, he was selected to an internship at the Intiman Theatre, which he likes, in its preparation to enter Southern Methodist University in Dallas, Texas for a master's degree. Around this time, however, he heard about a movie audition in the city for a role of a Latino-type in a movie, called "Bound By Honour", so that impulsive to give himself out. He unexpectedly took him to LA as a casting agent invited him to read for the director, and if it is not part of the land, succeeded his audition tape, are put into circulation around ultimately leads to a small part as Sailor # 1 in the River Phoenix's vehicle "Dogfight" (1991).
In the search for massive rise in filmmaking, this charming blue-eyed guy then came to a decision to prosecute a career in Hollywood, led to the cancellation of his enrollment at SMU. Continued strove for bigger roles, he finally nabbed the second settlement in Les Mayfield's patchwork of Comedy "Encino Man" (1992) to play Link, a Neanderthal back to life by two of today's teenagers, played by Pauly Shore and Sean Astin, thawed, after it from a block of ice. Although critical Panorama half, the image surprisingly, the great successes in terms of box office with domestic revenues of more than 40 million U.S. dollars, Brendan brought the name on the surface as a new fresh appearance to note this year. Moved on without much difficulty, he was beginning a familiar face to the audience through a number of other strange features, such as "Airheads" (1994) and "Mrs. Winterbourne" and "Glory Daze," which both came in 1996.
First, he was cast to portray the title role in "George of the Jungle" (1997), Brendan finally rose to eyes wide recognition he had since the beginning of his career. Delivered far more memorable performance, he effortlessly captures not only for children's attention, but also those of adults fantastic drive of the Strip's total gross worldwide in more than $ 170 million, unmistakably the creation of huge profits for Disney, the film distributor. In view of this huge achievement, so many waited for him in the run-up to generate other roaring laughter, but he, presumably to avoid typecast, preferred to the diversity of human nature, always in the romantic "Still Breathing" (1997) , Then shows his dramatic side in "Gods and Monsters" (1998), before re-enacting a fish-out-of-water guy in "Blast from the Past" (1999). Kept stay away from comic roles, he crossed next to more exciting genre of adventure in "The Mummy" (1999), one of Universal's big-budgeted pictures of the year.
Although this nomadic life caused him to frequently change schools during his early life, she gave the boys plenty of opportunity to see the unique character of Detroit, Seattle, Ottawa, the Netherlands, Switzerland, and especially London, where he became the first Once introduced to the wonders of the acting by a West End matinee of the musical "Oliver!". Immediately fascinated by the performance, the child could not help but fell in love with theater after.
As his interest in this branch of art grew larger, if continued his studies in Upper Canada College in Toronto, Brendan carefully honed his acting skills in school productions of plays and revues before taking theatre at the Cornish College of the Arts in Seattle. Successful earned his Bachelor of Fine Arts degree in 1990, he was selected to an internship at the Intiman Theatre, which he likes, in its preparation to enter Southern Methodist University in Dallas, Texas for a master's degree. Around this time, however, he heard about a movie audition in the city for a role of a Latino-type in a movie, called "Bound By Honour", so that impulsive to give himself out. He unexpectedly took him to LA as a casting agent invited him to read for the director, and if it is not part of the land, succeeded his audition tape, are put into circulation around ultimately leads to a small part as Sailor # 1 in the River Phoenix's vehicle "Dogfight" (1991).
In the search for massive rise in filmmaking, this charming blue-eyed guy then came to a decision to prosecute a career in Hollywood, led to the cancellation of his enrollment at SMU. Continued strove for bigger roles, he finally nabbed the second settlement in Les Mayfield's patchwork of Comedy "Encino Man" (1992) to play Link, a Neanderthal back to life by two of today's teenagers, played by Pauly Shore and Sean Astin, thawed, after it from a block of ice. Although critical Panorama half, the image surprisingly, the great successes in terms of box office with domestic revenues of more than 40 million U.S. dollars, Brendan brought the name on the surface as a new fresh appearance to note this year. Moved on without much difficulty, he was beginning a familiar face to the audience through a number of other strange features, such as "Airheads" (1994) and "Mrs. Winterbourne" and "Glory Daze," which both came in 1996.
First, he was cast to portray the title role in "George of the Jungle" (1997), Brendan finally rose to eyes wide recognition he had since the beginning of his career. Delivered far more memorable performance, he effortlessly captures not only for children's attention, but also those of adults fantastic drive of the Strip's total gross worldwide in more than $ 170 million, unmistakably the creation of huge profits for Disney, the film distributor. In view of this huge achievement, so many waited for him in the run-up to generate other roaring laughter, but he, presumably to avoid typecast, preferred to the diversity of human nature, always in the romantic "Still Breathing" (1997) , Then shows his dramatic side in "Gods and Monsters" (1998), before re-enacting a fish-out-of-water guy in "Blast from the Past" (1999). Kept stay away from comic roles, he crossed next to more exciting genre of adventure in "The Mummy" (1999), one of Universal's big-budgeted pictures of the year.
Starred opposite Rachel Weisz in this ambitious effort from Stephen Sommers, Brendan succeeded wonderfully is a good team chemistry also working with the British actress and so helped the legendary film score over $ 415 million in the whole world after garnering about $ 44 , 6 million in its first weekend in U.S. cinemas. The glorious achievement was certainly such a large contribution to his career, promoting his popularity and his position in the industry several notches higher. So glided very well in maintaining his way, he eagerly returned to comedy genre in the following projects of "Dudley Do-Right" (1999), "Bedazzled" (2000), plus "Monkey Bone" (2001) to later again in the "Mummy" cast for his successor, "The Mummy Returns".
Mummy (2001), who is also a tremendous result as his predecessor had experienced. Following this was a challenging part in "The Quiet American" (2002) with Michael Caine and other comic turn in the WB production of "Looney Tunes: Back in Action" (2003).
Mummy (2001), who is also a tremendous result as his predecessor had experienced. Following this was a challenging part in "The Quiet American" (2002) with Michael Caine and other comic turn in the WB production of "Looney TunesMarked the year 2005 with a short more polished performance alongside Sandra Bullock, Thandie Newton, Matt Dillon, Terrence Howard is also in the 2006 Oscar-winning image of "Crash", Brendan continue on foot along the way, by roles in "Journey to the End of the Night" and "The Last Time" for the next two years. 2008 even saw him much busier than he was tied to a certain big screen titles like "The Air I Breathe", "Journey to the Center of the Earth 3D," "Inkheart" and "Singularity." In Between, dark hair actor eagerly took time to reprise his "Mummy" role in the third chapter of the adventure series, "The Mummy: Tomb of the Dragon Emperor", under the direction of measures filmmaker Rob Cohen. All these clearly demonstrated that Brendan, in fact, have scored in Hollywood, despite the endless coming much younger and more attractive players in this glamorous world.: Back in Action "(2003).
Brendan married his longtime lover Afton Smith, 27 September 1998 after four years of their relationship, followed by a romantic proposal in the river Seine in Paris, led to a commitment for one year. Warteten in nearly four years, the couple finally embraced their first child, Arthur Griffin, 17 September 2002, before adding two more members of the family with the arrival of second son, Holden Fletcher, 16 August 2004 and the third called Leland Francis on 2 May 2006. In December 2007 the couple announced in a joint statement by the actors of journalist that they ended their 9-year-old marriage nor would "continue to build and maintain a close friendship."
Filmography
The Mummy Collection ( 2002 )
The Quiet American ( 2002 )
Monkeybone ( 2001 )
The Mummy Returns ( 2001 )
Bedazzled ( 2000 )
Sinbad: Beyond the Veil of Mists ( 2000 )
Dudley Do-Right ( 1999 )
Blast From the Past ( 1999 )
The Mummy ( 1999 )
Still Breathing ( 1998 )
Gods and Monsters ( 1998 )
The Twilight of the Golds ( 1997 )
George of the Jungle ( 1997 )
The Passion of Darkly Noon ( 1996 )
Mrs. Winterbourne ( 1996 )
Glory Daze ( 1996 )
Younger & Younger ( 1995 )
Now and Then ( 1995 )
The Scout ( 1994 )
With Honors ( 1994 )
Airheads ( 1994 )
School Ties ( 1992 )
Encino Man ( 1992 )
Dogfight ( 1991 )
Award
1997 Golden Space Needle Award - STILL BREATHING
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