Brendan Fraser and Girlfriend Jeanne Moore Have Date Night at 2022 Gotham Awards

Brendan Fraserand Jeanne Moore continue to be at each other’s side for awards season.The pair attended the 32nd annual Gotham Awards in New York City on Monday night, where Fraser, 53, was nominated for outstanding lead performance forThe Whale.Tillactress Danielle Deadwylerultimately won the category.Earlier this year, Fraser and Moore, a makeup artist, walked red carpets together at awards shows and movie festivals, including theGQMen of the Year Party earlier this month, the 66th BFI London Film Festival in October, and the 79th Venice International Film Festival in September....

March 16, 2025 · 3 min · 573 words · Timothy Dawson

Brendan Fraser Compares a Golden Globe Award to a 'Hood Ornament': Not 'Meaningful to Me'

Brendan Fraser.Photo: David Crotty/Patrick McMullan via Getty Brendan Fraserhas no interest in winning aGolden Globeaward. Though he was nominated in the best drama actor category this year forThe Whale, he did not attend theceremony and made it clear why not. Fraser, 54, previously claimed that former Hollywood Foreign Press Association President Philip Berksexually assaulted him in 2003while at a luncheon at the Beverly Hills Hotel — an alleged incident Berk, 89, disputed....

March 16, 2025 · 4 min · 693 words · Timothy Henderson

Brendan Fraser Crashes 'The Mummy' Screening — Dressed Like His Character! — in London: 'I Am Proud'

Brendan Fraseris celebrating his film roots. TheAcademy Award-nominated star — who is currently wowing audiences in his new filmThe Whale— surprised a packed house in a London theater about to show his hit 1999 adventure filmThe Mummyon Friday night. Fraser, 54, was met withloud cheers and a standing ovationafter being introduced right before the movie began at thePrince CharlesCinema, much to the actor’s delight. “I am proud to stand before you tonight,” Fraser began....

March 16, 2025 · 3 min · 433 words · Jason Bradley

Brendan Fraser Encourages Actors to 'Stay in There' as He Wins at 2023 SAG Awards: 'Have Courage'

Brendan Fraser is a winner at the 2023SAG Awards! “I never would have believed I would have been offered the role of my life in this character, Charlie inThe Whale, he’s someone who is on a raft of regrets but he’s in a sea of hope,” the actor said, after recounting that he first received his SAG-AFTRA card in 1991. “I’ve been at that sea, and I’ve rode that wave lately and it’s been powerful and good and I’ve also had that wave smash me right down to the ocean floor and drag my face along there and wind up on some strange beach in a different world, wondering ‘where am I now?...

March 16, 2025 · 3 min · 499 words · Connie Rodriguez

Brendan Fraser Explains Why Oscar-Winning 'The Whale' Role Was His 'Most Emotionally Demanding' Yet

Brendan Fraser’sThe Whalecharacter is the “most emotionally demanding” of any film he’s ever taken on. “His emotional world is, for all of that sadness he carries, an intensely optimistic one at the same time, because he sees in his students the capacity to be the best that they can,” Fraser says in the clip. “Charlie can see the good in others, but he can’t see it in himself, sadly.” The WhalescreenwriterSamuel D....

March 16, 2025 · 2 min · 325 words · Frederick Lopez

Brendan Fraser Felt He 'Deserved' Physical Wear and Tear of Doing Own Stunts: 'There Was Self-Loathing'

Brendan Fraser.Photo: Elisabetta A. Villa/GettyBrendan Fraseradmitted that past self-loathing caused him to accept physical pain and injuries while working.The actor, who recentlyscored his first Oscar nominationforThe Whale,recalled toThe Telegraphhow he suffered wear and tear on his body early in his Hollywood career, requiring surgeries like a partial knee replacement, among other procedures.“I got a little banged up from years of doing my own stunts and needed a surgical fix on the spine and the hinges,” said Fraser, 54, adding of recovery, “That took a lot out of me....

March 16, 2025 · 6 min · 1108 words · Brian Gordon

Brendan Fraser Gets Emotional Accepting Highest Honor at TIFF: 'Wow, This Is New for Me'

Brendan Fraser.Photo: Tommaso Boddi/GettyBrendan Fraserwas overwhelmed with emotion while accepting the Tribute Award for his role inThe Whaleat Sunday’sToronto International Film Festivalgala.“Wow, this is new for me because normally I am the guy at the podium who hands these things out,” Fraser said. “I think that the last time I waited to hear my name called out loud to receive an award was in grade 4 and it was from the peewee bowling league....

March 16, 2025 · 5 min · 894 words · Thomas Craig

Brendan Fraser Gets Emotional as He Talks About Son with Autism: 'Wouldn't Have It Any Other Way'

Brendan Fraser.Photo: Jamie McCarthy/Getty Brendan Fraseris opening up about what it’s like being a parent of a child with autism. Speaking about his experiences raising son Griffin, 20, during a recent sitdown with Howard Stern forhis SiriusXM radio show,The Whaleactor, 54, talked about making an effort to reach out to fans with autism at public events. “There’s just people who are, for whatever their personal reasons are, really fulfilled or happy to make your acquaintance, if only for a few moments....

March 16, 2025 · 4 min · 741 words · Jennifer Wade

Brendan Fraser Gets Emotional on Hearing TikTok Is Rooting for Him: 'Shucks, Ma'am'

Brendan Fraser.Photo: Cindy Ord/Getty Brendan Fraseris still overwhelmed with gratitude from his fans after a decades-long career. On Monday, Key shared a video of her conversation with Fraser on TikTok where he revealed he’s about to start filming director Martin Scorsese’sKillers of the Flower Moonin Oklahoma alongsideLeonardo DiCaprioandRobert De Niro. “I think I might be sick,” the actor seemingly half-joked as he faked bite into his fingernails. The cosplay star, who was dressed as Evelyn in the meet-and-greet, toldThe Mummystar, “The internet is so behind you!...

March 16, 2025 · 2 min · 266 words · Marissa Chavez

Brendan Fraser Lands Second DC Role as Supervillain in 'Batgirl' Movie: Reports

Brendan Fraser.Photo: Cindy Ord/Getty Brendan Fraseris taking on his second role in the DC universe. The actor, 52,has been tapped to starin the upcomingBatgirlmovie oppositeIn the HeightsbreakoutLeslie Grace. Fraser will play thesupervillain Firefly, according to Deadline andThe Hollywood Reporter. DC did not immediately respond to PEOPLE’s request for comment on his casting in the movie. Gracewas cast as the eponymous superhero(a.k.a. Barbara Gordon) in July. The daughter of Commissioner Gordon, Barbara is the most established version of Batgirl....

March 16, 2025 · 2 min · 279 words · Melinda Moore

Brendan Fraser on Movie-Star Comeback: 'I'm Waiting for Someone' to 'Tell Me That the Jig Is Up'

Brendan Fraser.Photo: Jamie McCarthy/Getty Brendan Fraseris reflecting on theemotional standing ovationhe got whenThe Whaledebuted in September at the Venice Film Festival. During an appearance onLate Night with Seth MeyersWednesday, the actor, 54, opened up about the movie and the audience reactions to it. “I just broke out crying. That solved all the problems,” Fraser said of the reportedly six-minute standing ovation. “I think it depends on who’s holding the stopwatch to tell you the truth,” Fraser joked in reference to the varying reports of how many minutes of applause....

March 16, 2025 · 2 min · 336 words · Patricia Larsen

Brendan Fraser Recalls Landing 'Airheads' Even Though He's 'Not a Musician': 'I Don't Play the Guitar'

Brendan Fraser’s acting chops were enough to make him believable in the role of a band’s lead guitarist, despite not having any musical prowess himself. “Idon’t play the guitar,” the actor, 54, said on Tuesday’s episode ofThe Drew Barrymore Show, while discussing his character in the 1994 comedyAirheads, one of his first starring film roles. TheCritics Choice Awardwinner went on to recall how he admitted to the movie’s director,Michael Lehmann, at the time that he’s “not a musician” — but Lehman, 65, wasn’t fazed....

March 16, 2025 · 2 min · 404 words · Tamara Hutchinson

Brendan Fraser Recalls Once Being Considered for Superman Role: 'Didn't Come to Fruition'

Brendan Fraseralmost played Superman at one point — though he was never really sure if he wanted the part.During theAcademy Award-nominated actor’s guest spot onThe Howard Stern ShowTuesday, hostHoward Sternrecalled reports that Fraser, 54, was up for the role whileJ.J. Abramswas developing the project that ultimately became 2006’sSuperman Returns.“Everyone in town was reading for Superman. Again, [they were] testing maybe 6 or 7 guys in 2002, 2003,” Fraser said, after Stern, 69, asked whether the part was “the role that got away....

March 16, 2025 · 5 min · 954 words · Jamie Figueroa