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Brendan Fraser
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Born: Dec 3, 1968
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Brendan Fraser is not the first actor to have arrived in Hollywood dreaming of Shakespeare. With his good looks, Fraser seems tailor-made to play the kind of beefcake roles that appeal to the young-and-female box-office demographic. Yet, this stage vet has made several films, which have tapped, into his years of dramatic training, helping to extend his audience.
He was born December 3, 1968 in Indianapolis, Indiana. Brendan and his three older brothers traveled through a series of European and Canadian cities due to his father’s job. Fraser acquired an international education, gaining his knowledge of French in Ottawa, of Dutch during a stint in The Hague. He attended high school in Toronto, Canada. He entered the theater department at the Cornish College of the Arts in Seattle, Washington, where he pursued a fine arts degree with an emphasis on physical performance. After graduation, he found steady work with Seattle's Intiman Theater, as well as with the Laughing Horse Summer Theater in Ellensburg, Washington.
In January of 1991, after scoring a one-line part in a film, headed Southern California. The bold career move was fruitful that same year when Fraser appeared in two made-for-TV movies. He stood poised to advance his career on both the big and small screens.
His first major cinematic outing, as the titular character in 1992's Encino Man , the theatrical movement training in Fraser's collegiate past proved invaluable. The film, which did little for his reputa...[MORE]
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Brendan Fraser Nude and Sexy
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