Brendan Fraser
Brendan James Fraser ( born December 3, 1968 in Indianapolis, Indiana ) is an American- Canadian film actor.
Youth
Fraser's father worked in Canada in the tourism and travel industry. So Brendan came as a child around a lot. With his three older brothers, he spent considerable time in the Netherlands, Switzerland, in Rome, in London and in various cities in the U.S.. Even later, he did not lose his wanderlust.
At the age of twelve years Fraser has appeared in London's Theatreland. Later, in 2001, he again played a role in London theater in the West End hit Cat on a Hot Tin Roof ( Cat on a Hot Tin Roof ) by Tennessee Williams.
Career
He studied acting at Upper Canada College in Toronto and made the final at the Actor's Conservatory Cornish College of the Arts in Seattle.
From 1991, he participated in first film roles, beginning only in comedies as Airheads (1994). He became known through the incarnation of the title character in the Tarzan parody George - He came out of the jungle as well as the role of Richard "Rick" O'Connell, alongside Rachel Weisz and John Hannah, in the adventure film The Mummy (1999). In 1997 he showed at the side of Ian McKellen in the movie Gods and Monsters, a film biography of the horror film director James Whale, that he is also able to successfully implement serious roles. In 2002, he starred alongside Michael Caine in the remake of Graham Greene 's novel The Quiet American, the second lead role and turned in the episode mainly serious film materials to.
In the hospital series Scrubs - he met three times in the supporting role of Ben Sullivan, the best friend and ( ex-) brother of Dr. Cox, on ( where he was suffering from leukemia brother of Jordan and amateur photographer - suitable for Frasers love for photography - for chaos provides ).
In the film adaptation of Cornelia Funke 's novel Inkheart, he was seen as Mo Folchart in the cinema. The author of the original novel had had announced in advance of the often to be a fan of Fraser and to wish him in a filmic realization of their Inkheart books in the male lead. She devoted Fraser the second volume of the series, Inkspell.
German dubbing of Fraser is Torsten Münchow.
Private life
Fraser was from September 1998 with his longtime girlfriend, the fellow actress Afton Smith, married and has three sons. In December 2007, the couple announced the separation. Fraser has dual U.S. and Canadian citizenship and is fluent in French.