Brendan Fraser'
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Brendan Fraser BiographyIn cinema, it is very difficult to come out of the mold you have been initially cast in, but this man has managed to break the streotype that threatens to surround every actor. Despite doing the comic act in George of the jungle, Fraser has emergerd as a serious and talented actor. For his role in this movie, he was greatly appreciated and adored but mostly by kids. But now he has reached to such level that he is admired by young and old, boys ang girls, all alike.This hunk was born Brendan James Fraser on the 3rd of December, 1968, in Indianapolis. His ancestors belong to Canada and the past record of the family shows a very good performance in education and sport. His father, Peter Fraser had been a journalist and a government servant. Mother Carol was a marketing counsellor. By the time he had turned 13, He had seen Ottawa, Detroit, Cincinnati, London, Rome, Switzerland, Wassenaar in Holland, and Seattle. He went to Upper Canada College in Toronto and did acting in plays. Brendan role model seems to be actor, clown and pantomimic expert Bill Irwin. The child specially liked the actors uniue ability of making people laugh. Fraser decided at that time only that he too would be different like his role model. Brendan graduated in 1990 as a Bachelor of Fine Arts graduate and after this, he decided to go for internship at the Intiman Theatre, and was also a member of the Laughing Horse Summer Theatre. Some of his best performing movies are Romeo And Juliet, A Midsummer Night's Dream, Three Sisters, Arms And The Man, The King Stag and The Madwoman Of Chaillot. Eventually, the movies that would make Brendan an icon came to him. Casting director Sharon Bialy noticed him and asked if he would like to be introduced to various casting agents. Brendan realized that atleast he should give it a try. Initially, he had very small parts in the movies and sometimes went unnoticed. He made his debut in Dogfight where his only role was to speak a one liner. The small screen eventually became his launching platform. He had some cameo appearances in Child Of Darkness, Child Of Light, Guilty Until Proven Innocent. After that he did a number of movies but sadly they did not work for him. His luck finally started favoring him. Going indie with Philip Ridley's The Passion Of Darkly Noon, he played the title role of a poor innocent whose ultra-religious parents die, leaving him all alone. After that came a major breakthrough. Having lost out to Dermot Mulroney for a key role in Julia Roberts' mega-hit My Best Friend's Wedding, Brendan did score the lead in the wacky kids' flick George Of The Jungle, based on the same cartoon series. Here he played an unconscionably clumsy Tarzan figure, repeatedly crashing into trees, who's discovered by a socialite on safari and taken back to San Francisco, only to return to save his ape brother from poachers. Brendan became a huge star for children everywhere, thereby becoming a household name. 1998 also saw Brendan in Still Breathing, where he played a San Antonio puppeteer who dreams of LA con artist Joanna Going and makes a strategy to get her. It was a sweet romance, with a supernatural edge - and it earned Brendan his first major award, as Best Actor at the Seattle International Film Festival . Life only got better, too, as the same year saw him marry his long-time girlfriend Afton Smith. Afton has been a major support in his life and the couple is now busy bringing up their two sons. The biggest success for Fraser came with Stephen Sommers' The Mummy where he played Rick O'Connell, a slightly dodgy adventurer who helps Egyptologist Rachel Weisz discover Hamunaptra, the city of the dead. But far more challenging was his role in Harold Ramis's Bedazzled, a remake of the Peter Cook/ Dudley Moore classic. The comedy continued in 2001 with Monkeybone. The Mummy Returns could not be as successful as his first part and disappointed viewers as compared to The Mummy. Camera ManiaHis hobby is to collect vintage Polaroid cameras. Where ever he finds one, he is just unable to resist himself and ends up buying more to his already huge collection. He himself admits that where ever he goes, a truck load of cameras follow him. This celebrity beats even the paparazzi following him. Guess what would he have been if not an actor? A photographer for sure |
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Play It Safe
Brendan Fraser has reportedly upset family groups in America by joking he'll teach his sons to prick condoms and trick their partners into getting pregnant. In the question-and-answer interview, Fraser is asked what advice about women he would like to give to his sons Griffin and Holden. He said, "Listen to women... and please put a little pinhole in the condom, because we want to be grandparents sooner rather than later.
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Married to Afton Smith (actress; born on December 3, 1967; married on September 27, 1998)
For Fraser, working with McKellen was a dream come true. Back at Cornish, he'd studied the great man's Acting Shakespeare tapes and came near to idolising him. When, a few years before Gods and Monsters, McKellen was casting for his black shirt version of Richard III, Brendan had gone to audition and wrote a personal card to McKellen, begging for a role. Brendan did receive a handwritten reply from McKellen, saying that the project could do with Brendan's enthusiasm but, oops!, there just wasn't a place for him. Brendan would show McKellen the card when they met up to prepare for Gods. 
The first meeting of Fraser and Smith was possible because of a match maker pooch. The couple had met at Winona Ryder's 4th of July barbecue in 1993. Actually, Fraser had first met Smith's dog, a collie mix called Wile E. When Smith came looking for her pooch, she found him with Brendan and said "Wile E, what did you find?" All agree that Wile E indeed found a treasure that day!