“I believe I probably was trying too hard, in a way that’s destructive,” Fraser told GQ in 2018 of the highs and lows of his career. He’s a powerful dramatic actor, but deep down inside, he’s a goofball.”ĭespite having numerous box office hits in the early ‘00s, Fraser saw a decline in his numbers around the same time after appearing in films like Looney Toons: Back in Action in 2003.

If you gave him the choice of doing dramatic monologues or slipping on a banana peel into a mud puddle, I think he would choose the pratfall every time.

“Brendan is one of the few guys in Hollywood, if not the only guy, who is movie-star handsome and built like an Adonis, but not afraid to take a pie in the face,” the Tomb of the Dragon Emperor director Rob Cohen told the Orange County Register in July 2008. He played the action-adventure hero in three films, 1999’s The Mummy, 2001’s The Mummy Returns and 2008’s The Mummy: Tomb of the Dragon Emperor. That success was just the beginning for the actor, who landed the role of Rick O’Connell in The Mummy franchise shortly thereafter. The film, in which Fraser wore a loincloth that highlighted his muscles, eventually grossed $175 million worldwide. He didn’t, however, make a real splash in the industry until 1997’s George of the Jungle. The With Honors actor landed his first lead role one year later with Encino Man. “I think I bruised a rib, but I was like, ‘That’s OK! I’ll take it. And I got my Screen Actors Guild card and an extra 50 bucks for the stunt adjustment, ‘cause they threw me into a pinball machine,” Fraser recalled during a February 2018 interview with GQ of his first Hollywood gig. “They gave me a sailor outfit, along with some other guys, and we did a punch-up scene with some Marines. He later studied the craft at a small acting college in New York City before making his film debut in 1991 with a role in Dogfight playing Sailor No. and Canada, has also had his fair share of ups and downs in the entertainment industry.Īfter falling in love with acting while visiting London as a teenager, Fraser attended Cornish College of the Arts in Seattle. The Indiana native, who is a dual citizen in the U.S. Brendan Fraser has made a big impression in Hollywood, from portraying a man raised by apes to helming an action-film franchise and beyond.

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