Brendan Fraser is an actor and producer who is both American and Canadian. His net worth is $20 million. Fraser has been a successful actor since the 1990s when he started making movies. With more than 70 acting credits to his name, he is best known for his roles in “The Mummy” franchise, “George of the Jungle,” “Encino Man,” and “Dudley Do-Right,” as well as a memorable 3-episode arc on the NBC show “Scrubs.” Brendan was also in “Crash” and “The Quiet American,” both of which won awards.
| Net Worth: | $20 Million |
| Date of Birth: | Dec 3, 1968 (53 years old) |
| Gender: | Male |
| Height: | 6 ft 3 in (1.91 m) |
| Profession: | Actor, Film Producer, Voice Actor, Photographer |
| Nationality: | United States of America |
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Early Life
Brendan James Fraser was born in Indianapolis, Indiana, on December 3, 1968. He grew up with his three older brothers, Kevin, Regan, and Sean, and his Canadian parents, Carol (a sales counsellor) and Peter (a Canadian foreign service officer), in Washington, California, Ontario, Switzerland, and the Netherlands. Brendan went to Upper Canada College, a private boarding school in Toronto. In 1990, he graduated from Seattle’s Cornish College of the Arts. He had planned to study acting at Southern Methodist University in Dallas, but on his way there, he stopped in Hollywood, got a part as a sailor in the 1991 movie “Dogfight,” and decided to stay.
Career
Fraser’s first role on TV was as a friend of a murder victim in a reenactment on an episode of “America’s Most Wanted” in 1998. In 1992, he got his first leading role in “Encino Man” with Pauly Shore and Sean Astin. That same year, he also appeared in “School Ties,” a drama about sports. In 1994, Brendan was in “With Honors,” “The Scout,” “Airheads,” and “In the Army Now,” where he worked with Pauly Shore again. In 1997, he played the title role in “George of the Jungle,” which made $174.4 million at the box office.
After “George of the Jungle,” he made “Gods and Monsters” in 1998 and “Blast from the Past,” “Dudley Do-Right,” and the box office hit “The Mummy” in 1999, which made $416.4 million. The sequels, “The Mummy Returns” and “The Mummy: Tomb of the Dragon Emperor,” made $435 million and $403.4 million, respectively. Fraser then acted in “Bedazzled” (2000), “The Quiet American” (2002), “Looney Tunes: Back in Action” (2003), “Crash” (2004), “Journey to the Center of the Earth” (2008), “Inkheart,” and several other movies before taking a break from acting in 2014.
Brendan is best known for his roles in movies, but he has also been in many TV shows, such as “The Simpsons” (1998), “King of the Hill” (2000 and 2005), “Scrubs” (2002 and 2004), and “The Affair” (2016–2017). He also did the voice of Robotman in “Titans” (2018) and its 2019 spin-off, “Doom Patrol.” In 2020, Fraser will play a billionaire futurist in “Professionals,” a 10-part series for the Swedish streaming platform Viaplay. Brendan has also done well on stage. In 2001, he played Brick in a London production of “Cat on a Hot Tin Roof” and got great reviews. He has also been an executive producer on several of his movies, including “The Last Time” (2006), “Journey to the Center of the Earth” (which made $244.2 million at the box office), “Furry Vengeance” (2010), and “Stand Off” (2012).
Movie Salaries
Brendan made $1.5 million for The Scout, which came out in 1994. In 1999, he made $4 million for The Mummy and Duddley Do-Right. In 2000, he made $10 million for Bedazzled. The Mummy Returns made $12.5 million in 2001. His pay for the Mummy movie in 2008 was $14 million. Just from these movies, $46 million was made.
Personal Life
Brendan married actress Afton Smith on September 27, 1998. They had three sons, Griffin (born in 2002), Holden (born in 2004), and Leland (born in 2006), before getting a divorce in 2008. Fraser is a citizen of both the United States and Canada, and he speaks French very well. He is on the board of FilmAid International and is very interested in photography. Brendan has had several surgeries because of the stunts he has done in his movies. Over 7 years, he had a partial knee replacement, vocal cord surgery, and several back surgeries. In 2018, Fraser said that Philip Berk, who was president of the Hollywood Foreign Press Association at the time, had sexually assaulted him in 2003. He also said that he thinks speaking out hurt his career.
Finances
Fraser asked the court in March 2013 to lower his alimony payments because he was losing $87,000 every month because of alimony, mortgages, and other bills. He said he wasn’t making as much money as he did when he was at the height of his fame. He listed his assets as being worth $25 million and his monthly income as being $205,704. He also said that he made about $26,000 a month from investments and had to pay $113,000 in “professional expenses” (lawyers, managers, agents). Before these costs, Brendan had a monthly income of about $118,000 before paying for these things.
Fraser’s monthly bills were higher than his monthly income by $87,000. He had to pay $50,000 in alimony, $34,000 in income taxes, $25,000 in child support, and more than $25,000 in other bills (mortgages, property taxes, etc.). His annual payments for child support and alimony added up to $900,000. His ex-wife said he was hiding assets. Brendan could lower his alimony payments only if he made less than $3 million a year, which he did not do at the time of the divorce.
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Awards and Honors
Fraser won a Golden Space Needle Award for his role in “Still Breathing” at the Seattle International Film Festival in 1997. In 2004, he won an Online Film & Television Association Award for Best Guest Actor in a Comedy Series for “Scrubs.” In 2008, he won a ShoWest Award for Distinguished Decade of Achievement in Film. Brendan and his “Crash” co-stars also won a Screen Actors Guild Award, a Broadcast Film Critics Association Award, a Gold Derby Award, and a Hollywood Film Festival Award. In 2006, Fraser got a star on Canada’s Walk of Fame.
Real Estate
Brendan and Afton bought a 3,948-square-foot home in Beverly Hills for $675,000. In 2007, a few months before they broke up, they sold it for $3 million.
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