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Brendan Fraser (born December 3, 1968), born Brendan James Fraser, in Indianapolis is an American film and stage actor of Canadian descent. He is known for having starred in several major Hollywood films, including The Mummy film series, The Quiet American, and Crash. He attended the private boys boarding school Upper Canada College in Toronto. He graduated from Seattle's Cornish College of the Arts in 1990. His career began acting at a small acting college in New York. He originally planned on attending graduate school in Texas but stopped in Hollywood on his way south and decided to stay in Los Angeles and work in movies.
Fraser's first film role was a brief cameo in America's Most Wanted Reenactment (1985) he played friend to Rodney Mark Peterson, who was murdered. He has since garnered over 30 film credits. He had his first lead role in Encino Man (1992). That same year he played opposite Matt Damon, Ben Affleck, and Chris O'Donnell in School Ties (1992). In 1994 he co-starred alongside Adam Sandler in the comedy Airheads. In 1997 he got his breakhthrough role with the hit comedy film George of the Jungle. He went onto appear in several comedy films such as Blast from the Past (1999), Bedazzled (2000) and Monkeybone (2001).
