Who is Brendan Fraser, the first Canadian to win the Oscar for Best Actor?
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- 20 Mar 2023
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Fraser, a dual citizen of the U.S. and Canada, earned the Academy Award for his acclaimed performance in ‘The Whale’
Brendan Fraser made Academy Award history Sunday night, becoming the first Canadian to receive an Oscar for Best Actor.
Fraser, 54, nabbed the prize for his performance in “The Whale,” in which he played a shut-in professor looking to connect with his estranged daughter.
The Canadian-American dual citizen was considered one of the front-runners for the trophy throughout much of the awards season, during which he also picked up a Screen Actors Guild Award and Critics Choice Movie Award.
On Sunday, the actor delivered an emotional acceptance speech as he earned the industry’s biggest prize.
“I started in this business 30 years ago and things didn’t come easily for me,” he said on stage at the Dolby Theatre in Los Angeles, accepting his first Oscar after beating fellow nominees Austin Butler, Colin Farrell, Bill Nighy, and Paul Mescal.
“I’m grateful to Darren Aronofsky for throwing me a creative lifeline and hauling me aboard the good ship, ‘The Whale,’” he said, referring to the film’s director.
Canadian actor attended school in Toronto
Fraser was born in Indianapolis, Indiana to Canadian parents. His father, Peter, was a former journalist who moved his family to the U.S. to work for the Government Office of Tourism as a Canadian foreign service officer. Fraser’s uncle, George Genereux, was a trap shooter and the only Canadian to win a gold medal at the 1952 Summer Olympics. Read More…
