Brendan Fraser

Seamlessly transitioning from smart independent films to action-packed blockbusters, Brendan Fraser is an Academy Award winning actor that continues to garner widespread critical acclaim for his versatile, inspired performances as well as his keen eye for selecting thought-provoking material.

Most notably, Fraser can recently be seen as the lead role in Darren Aronofsky’s The Whale, which premiered in December 2022. His groundbreaking performance has earned him several awards including his first Academy Award for Best Lead Actor. This role additionally won him a Critics Choice Movie Award, SAG Award, AACTA International Award, Satellite Award, and nominations for a Golden Globe, BAFTA Award, and Gotham Independent Film Award,

Upcoming this year for Brendan includes starring as the lead in Legendary Pictures’ Brothers alongside Glenn Close, Josh Brolin and Peter Dinklage. He’s also a supporting role in Martin Scorsese’s new epic western, Killers Of The Flower Moon.

Other recent works for Fraser include starring alongside Don Cheadle and Benicio Del Toro in Steven Soderbergh’s No Sudden Move for HBOMax, as well as Doom Patrol, the hit HBOMax/DC Entertainment series, where he stars as Cliff Steele and is the voice of Robotman. In addition, he was recently seen in Line of Descent, a crime narrative that follows the relationship between a mafia family and an undercover officer; The Secret of Karma; The Poison Rose; Trust, an FX anthology series where he starred opposite Donald Sutherland and Hilary Swank; and Condor, where he played Nathan Flower, an unstable yet efficient central cog in an unholy alliance between the private military company that employs him and the CIA.

Other credits include the third season of Showtime’s award-winning TV show, The Affair, where he played Gunther, a menacing security guard in the prison that Noah Solloway (Dominic West) was incarcerated in and The Field, a classic crime narrative which merges a dysfunctional, mafia family at war with each other as an undercover officer plots their downfall. Brendan played an arms dealer in this independent feature. He was seen in the A&E mini-series, Texas Rising, starring alongside Bill Paxton, Ray Liotta, Jeffrey Dean Morgan and Olivier Martinez. Fraser previously starred in the feature, Gimme Shelter, opposite Rosario Dawson and Vanessa Hudgens; voiced characters in two animated films as Scorch Supernova in The Weinstein Company’s Escape from Planet Earth; Open Road Films’ The Nut Job, with Will Arnett and Katherine Heigl; and Whole Lotta Sole, a heist comedy directed by Terry George in which Brendan starred and served as Executive Producer. In 2008, Fraser had an incredible summer at the box office. The Newline/Warner Bros. release of Journey to the Center of the Earth in 3-D, which he starred in and served as Executive Producer, has grossed more than $100 million domestically. The film is the first live-action feature to be filmed entirely in 3D. More credits include Inkheart, GI Joe: The Rise Of the Cobra, The Air I Breathe, George of the Jungle, Furry Vengeance, Extraordinary Measures, Looney Tunes: Back in Action, Bedazzled, Monkey Bone, Blast From the Past, Dudley Do-Right, Mrs. Winterbourne, Encino Man, School Ties, With Honors, Airheads, The Scout, and The Twilight of the Golds. Brendan has been in a string of some of the most successful independent films of the past decade including Lionsgate’s Academy-award winning Best Picture Crash, directed by Paul Haggis; Phillip Noyce’s The Quiet American, based on Graham Greene’s 1955 thriller of the same name; and Bill Condon’s Gods and Monsters, opposite Sir Ian McKellen and Lynn Redgrave.

Fraser is most well-known for his role in Universal’s Mummy Franchise as Rick O’Connell. Stephen Sommers’ 1999 smash hit action/horror adventure, The Mummy, was an ambition retooling of the 1932 horror classic, with Brendan cast as an America serving in the French Foreign Legion who becomes involved with an English archaeological expedition and the ancient secrets they unleash. In 2001, Fraser reteamed with Sommers and co-star Rachel Weisz on the film’s sequel, The Mummy Returns. In 2008, Universal released Mummy 3: Tomb of the Dragon Emperor. The Mummy franchise has grossed $1.415 billion worldwide to date.

Brendan made his Broadway debut, starring in the comedy Elling, based on the Norwegian novels by Ingvar Ambjørnsen. Fraser’s diverse theatre roster includes his appearance at the Lyric Theatre on Shaftesbury Avenue in London, in the West End production of Tennessee Williams’ Cat on a Hot Tin Roof. Brendan also received high praise for his work as the anxious writer in John Patrick Shanley’s Four Dogs and a Bone at the Geffen Playhouse in which he co-starred with Martin Short, Parker Posey and Elizabeth Perkins for director Lawrence Kasdan.

Born in Indianapolis and raised in Europe and Canada, Brendan has been dedicated to honing his craft since an early age of 12 and began attending theater when his family lived in London. He attended high school at Toronto’s Upper Canada College and received a BFA in acting from the Actor’s Conservatory, Cornish College of the Arts in Seattle.