Biography
Brendan James Fraser (born December 3, 1968) is an American-Canadian actor. Fraser had his breakthrough in 1992 with the comedy Encino Man and the drama School Ties. He gained further prominence for his starring roles in the comedies With Honors (1994) and George of the Jungle (1997) and emerged as a star playing Rick O'Connell in The Mummy trilogy (1999–2008). He took on dramatic roles in Gods and Monsters (1998), The Quiet American (2002), and Crash (2004), and further fantasy roles in Bedazzl...
Known For
Complete Filmography

Sea Lions of the Galapagos
2025
as Self - Narrator (voice)
Follow Leo, a handsome sea lion pup who's learning how to navigate life alongside his mother, Luna.

Brothers
2024
as Farful
A reformed criminal's attempt at going straight is derailed when he reunites with his sanity-testing twin brother on a road trip for the score of a li...

Killers of the Flower Moon
2023
as W.S. Hamilton
When oil is discovered in 1920s Oklahoma under Osage Nation land, the Osage people are murdered one by one—until the FBI steps in to unravel the myste...

The Whale
2022
as Charlie
A reclusive English teacher suffering from severe obesity attempts to reconnect with his estranged teenage daughter for one last chance at redemption.

No Sudden Move
2021
as Douglas 'Doug' Jones
A group of criminals are brought together under mysterious circumstances and have to work together to uncover what's really going on when their simple...

The Secret of Karma
2020
as Ronay
The story of a man who sees his past lives from before he was born after being declared dead for the second time.

Line of Descent
2019
as Charlie 'Charu' Jolpin
A classic crime narrative in the backdrop of Delhi merges a dysfunctional, mafia family at war with each other as an undercover officer fights his dem...

The Poison Rose
2019
as Dr. Miles Mitchell
A down-on-his-luck PI is hired by his old flame to investigate a murder. But while the case at first appears routine, it slowly reveals itself to be a...

The Nut Job
2014
as Grayson (voice)
Surly, a curmudgeon, independent squirrel is banished from his park and forced to survive in the city. Lucky for him, he stumbles on the one thing tha...

Hairbrained
2013
as Leo Searly
A fourteen-year-old genius gets rejected by Harvard and ends up at a much lower ranked school where he makes friends with a mature student.

A Case of You
2013
as Tony
Young writer Sam has a crush on Birdie, the cute and quirky barista at his local coffee shop. When his conventional attempts to woo her crash and burn...

Gimme Shelter
2013
as Tom Fitzpatrick
After running away from her abusive mother, a streetwise teen seeks refuge with her father, but he rejects her when he learns that she's pregnant.

Breakout
2013
as Jack Damson
A pair of criminals try to track down the kids who witnessed them commit a murder in the woods.

Breakout
2013
Producer
A pair of criminals try to track down the kids who witnessed them commit a murder in the woods.

Pawn Shop Chronicles
2013
as Ricky
The stories of a missing wife, a couple of meth heads and an Elvis impersonator are connected by the items found in a small town's pawn shop.

Escape from Planet Earth
2013
as Scorch Supernova (voice)
Astronaut Scorch Supernova finds himself caught in a trap when he responds to an SOS from a notoriously dangerous alien planet.

Whole Lotta Sole
2011
as Maguire
In a misguided attempt to protect his family and pay back gambling debts to the local Mobster, Jimbo robs a fish market, which is coincidentally owned...

Whole Lotta Sole
2011
Executive Producer
In a misguided attempt to protect his family and pay back gambling debts to the local Mobster, Jimbo robs a fish market, which is coincidentally owned...

Nuts & Robbers
2011
as Grayson
This short was created as a teaser for the feature film The Nut Job. Surly Squirrel plans a heist from the nut store, however inadvertently gets caugh...

Furry Vengeance
2010
as Dan Sanders
When real estate developer Dan Sanders finalizes plans to level a swath of pristine Oregon forest to make way for a soulless housing subdivision, a ba...

Furry Vengeance
2010
Executive Producer
When real estate developer Dan Sanders finalizes plans to level a swath of pristine Oregon forest to make way for a soulless housing subdivision, a ba...

Extraordinary Measures
2010
as John Crowley
Working-class father John Crowley is finally on the fast track to corporate success when his two young children are diagnosed with Pompe disease—a con...

G.I. Joe: The Rise of Cobra
2009
as Sgt. Stone (uncredited)
From the Egyptian desert to deep below the polar ice caps, the elite G.I. JOE team uses the latest in next-generation spy and military equipment to fi...

The Fairly OddParents: Wishology!
2009
as Turbo Thunder (voice)
Wishology is a television film trilogy and the ninth movie special of the animated television series The Fairly OddParents.

Inkheart
2008
as Mo 'Silvertongue' Folchart
The adventures of a father and his young daughter, in their search for a long lost book that will help reunite a missing, close relative.

Journey to the Center of the Earth
2008
as Trevor Anderson
On a quest to find out what happened to his missing brother, a scientist, his nephew and their mountain guide discover a fantastic and dangerous lost ...

Journey to the Center of the Earth
2008
Executive Producer
On a quest to find out what happened to his missing brother, a scientist, his nephew and their mountain guide discover a fantastic and dangerous lost ...

Unraveling the Legacy of the Mummy
2008
as Self
Documentary on the Mummy film(s) by Universal Studios.

The Mummy: Tomb of the Dragon Emperor
2008
as Rick O'Connell
Archaeologist Rick O'Connell travels to China, pitting him against an emperor from the 2,000-year-old Han dynasty who's returned from the dead to purs...

The Air I Breathe
2007
as Pleasure
A gambler’s bet spiraling into chaos, a gangster's prophetic visions, a pop star’s dark entanglement, a doctor’s desperate race against time to rescue...

...So Goes the Nation
2006
as Self
A look at the role of the Buckeye State in the 2004 Presidential Election.

The Last Time
2006
as Jamie Bashant
Ted Ryker is the top salesman in the New York office of a business machine company; the corporate stock lives by quarterly sales numbers, the competit...

The Last Time
2006
Executive Producer
Ted Ryker is the top salesman in the New York office of a business machine company; the corporate stock lives by quarterly sales numbers, the competit...

Journey to the End of the Night
2006
as Paul
In a dark and decadent area of São Paulo, the exiled Americans Rosso and his son Paul own a brothel. Paul is a compulsive gambler addicted in cocaine ...

Crash
2005
as Rick Cabot
In post-Sept. 11 Los Angeles, tensions erupt when the lives of a Brentwood housewife, her district attorney husband, a Persian shopkeeper, two cops, a...

Looney Tunes: Back in Action
2003
as DJ Drake / Tasmanian Devil (voice) / She-Devil (voice) / Self
Fed up with all the attention going to Bugs Bunny, Daffy Duck quits Hollywood, teams up with recently-fired stuntman Damien Drake Jr. and embarks on a...

Dickie Roberts: Former Child Star
2003
as Self (uncredited)
TV child star of the '70s, Dickie Roberts is now 35 and parking cars. Craving to regain the spotlight, he auditions for a role of a normal guy, but th...

The Quiet American
2002
as Alden Pyle
Cynical British journalist Fowler falls in love with a young Vietnamese woman but is dismayed when a naïve U.S. official also begins vying for her att...

The Mummy Returns
2001
as Rick O'Connell
Rick and Evelyn O’Connell, along with their 8-year-old son Alex, discover the key to the legendary Scorpion King’s might: the fabled Bracelet of Anubi...

Monkeybone
2001
as Stu Miley
After a car crash sends repressed cartoonist Stu into a coma, he and the mischievous Monkeybone, his hilarious alter-ego, wake up in a wacked-out ways...

Bedazzled
2000
as Elliot
Elliot Richards, a socially awkward IT worker, is given seven wishes to get the girl of his dreams when he meets a very seductive Satan. The catch: hi...

Sinbad: Beyond the Veil of Mists
2000
as Sinbad
The sailor is "persuaded" by a princess to help her rescue her kingdom from something fishy.

Building A Better Mummy
1999
as Self
An in-depth look into the creative and technical processes that brought us the heart-stopping visual effects of the film, with director Stephen Sommer...

Dudley Do-Right
1999
as Dudley Do-Right
Royal Canadian Mountie Dudley Do-right is busy keeping the peace in his small mountain town when his old rival, Snidely Whiplash, comes up with a plot...

The World of Gods and Monsters: A Journey with James Whale
1999
as Self
Written, co-produced and co-directed by David J. Skal, THE WORLD OF GODS AND MONSTERS is a behind-the scenes chronicle of the making of the 1998 Acade...

The Mummy
1999
as Rick O'Connell
Dashing legionnaire Rick O'Connell stumbles upon the hidden ruins of Hamunaptra while in the midst of a battle to claim the area in 1920s Egypt. It ha...

Blast from the Past
1999
as Adam
Following a bomb scare in the 1960s that locked the Webers into their bomb shelter for 35 years, Adam now ventures forth into Los Angeles to obtain fo...

Gods and Monsters
1998
as Clayton Boone
It's 1957, and James Whale's heyday as the director of "Frankenstein," "Bride of Frankenstein" and "The Invisible Man" is long behind him. Retired and...

Still Breathing
1997
as Fletcher McBracken
Two lost souls: she a con-artist in L.A.; he a puppeteer in San Antonio have the same dream linking each with the other. He travels to L.A. to find th...

George of the Jungle
1997
as George of the Jungle
Deep in the African jungle, a baby named George, the sole survivor of a plane crash, is raised by gorillas. George grows up to be a buff and lovable k...

The Twilight of the Golds
1996
as David Gold
A woman discovers her unborn baby has a genetic predisposition to homosexuality, unwittingly exposing deep-seated prejudices within her family.

Mrs. Winterbourne
1996
as Bill/Hugh Winterbourne
Connie Doyle is eighteen, pregnant and alone. She accidentally ends up on a train where she meets Hugh Winterbourne and his wife pregnant Patricia. Th...

Kids in the Hall: Brain Candy
1996
as Placebo Patient
A pharmaceutical scientist creates a pill that makes people remember their happiest memory, and although it's successful, it has unfortunate side effe...

Now and Then
1995
as Vietnam Veteran (uncredited)
Waxing nostalgic about the bittersweet passage from childhood to puberty, four childhood girlfriends — Teeny, Chrissy, Samantha and Roberta — recall t...

Glory Daze
1995
as Doug
Jack, a soon-to-be graduate, finds he's having a difficult time letting go of the college life -- and decides maybe he doesn't have to. Also questioni...

The Passion of Darkly Noon
1995
as Darkly Noon
Desire torments a former cultist taking refuge at the home of a scantily clad woman whose husband is away.

The Scout
1994
as Steve Nebraska
When his star recruit botches a Major League Baseball debut, humiliated talent scout Al Percolo gets banished to rural Mexico, where he finds a potent...

In the Army Now
1994
as Link (Uncredited)
Bones Conway and Jack Kaufman, two misguided youths, join the reserves to make some easy money for their entrepreneurial dreams. Unfortunately, no soo...

Airheads
1994
as Chester 'Chazz' Darvey
The Lone Rangers have heavy-metal dreams and a single demo tape they can't get anyone to play. The solution: Hijack an FM rock radio station and hold ...

With Honors
1994
as Montgomery 'Monty' Kessler
Convinced he'll graduate with honors because of his thesis paper, a stuffy Harvard student finds his paper being held hostage by a homeless man, who m...

Twenty Bucks
1993
as Sam Mastrewski
A story about the life of a twenty dollar bill as it weaves in and out of the various lives of several people.

Younger and Younger
1993
as Winston Younger
The eccentric owner of a Los Angeles self-storage company finds his world come crashing down when his long-suffering wife dies, only to return as a be...

Son in Law
1993
as Link (Uncredited)
Country girl Rebecca has spent most of her life on a farm in South Dakota, and, when she goes away to college in Los Angeles, Rebecca immediately feel...

School Ties
1992
as David Greene
When David Greene receives a football scholarship to a prestigious prep school in the 1950s, he feels pressure to hide the fact that he is Jewish from...

Encino Man
1992
as Link
High school misfits Stoney and Dave discover a long-frozen primeval man buried in their backyard. But the thawed-out Link—as the boys have named him—q...

Guilty Until Proven Innocent
1991
as Bobby McLaughlin
A teenage high school drop-out Bobby McLaughlin is accused of the murder of a local drug dealer he says he didn’t commit. When he is convicted with li...

Dogfight
1991
as Sailor #1
In the fall of 1963, Eddie Birdlace is an 18-year-old Marine Corps volunteer who is about to ship out with three of his buddies for a tour of duty in ...

Child of Darkness, Child of Light
1991
as John's Friend
A Catholic priest is sent to investigate reports of two virgin conceptions. One is about to give birth to the child of God and the other is the child ...

Rental Family
N/A
A down-and-out actor living in Tokyo is hired as a token American guy for a Japanese rental-family company, leading him on an unexpected journey of se...

Pressure
N/A
as Dwight D. Eisenhower
In the seventy two hours leading up to D-Day, all the pieces are in place except for one key element – the British weather. Britain’s chief meteorolog...
Assassination
N/A
A new take on the JFK conspiracy, centering around Dorothy Kilgallen, one of the most famous voices in media at the time. When Dorothy suspects that L...
My Old School
N/A
as Chevy
My Old School centered on the Stephen Mailer character as he began his first year of college in the early 1970's. Mailer played a young man who is try...