By Annabella Ramirez
FROM WIKIPEDIA COMMONS
Brendan James Fraser (/ˈfreɪzər/ FRAY-zər; 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 Bedazzled (2000) and Journey to the Center of the Earth (2008).
Fraser’s film work slowed from the late 2000s to mid-2010s due to poor box office performances, and various health and personal issues, including the fallout from a sexual assault committed against him in 2003 by Philip Berk, the then-president of the Hollywood Foreign Press Association. In addition to films, Fraser branched into television with roles in the Showtime drama The Affair (2016–2017), the FX series Trust (2018), and the Max series Doom Patrol (2019–2023).
His film career was revitalized by roles in Steven Soderbergh‘s No Sudden Move (2021) and Darren Aronofsky‘s The Whale (2022). Fraser’s starring role as an obese gay man in the latter earned him critical acclaim and numerous accolades, including the Academy Award for Best Actor, the first Canadian to do so.
TODAY’S ALMANAC
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Word of the Day
Puzzle of the Day
Born
- Gilbert Stuart (portrait painter) –
- Cleveland Abbe (meteorologist, known as Old Probabilities) –
- Bobby Allison (race car driver) –
- Ozzy Osbourne (singer) –
- Daryl Hannah (actress) –
- Brendan Fraser (actor) –
Died
- Madeline Kahn (actress) –
- Henry Chauncey (founded the Educational Testing Service, whose SAT is used by thousands of colleges and universities) –
- David Hemmings (actor) –
Events
- Illinois was admitted to the Union as the 21st state–
- Andrew Jackson was elected President of the United States–
- Oberlin College, the first college to admit women (first coeducational college), founded in Oberlin, Ohio. First named Oberlin Collegiate Institute–
- Johann Ludwig Krapf and Johannes Rebmann are the first Europeans to see Mt. Kenya–
- Quebec Bridge opened to rail traffic, Quebec City–
- George Gershwin, the young American composer, appeared as a soloist at a concert in Carnegie Hall, N.Y.C., playing his Concerto in F, the first jazz concerto for the piano in musical history–
- Eleanor Roosevelt, Mayor La Guardia, and Governor Lehman dedicate the New Deal’s first low cost housing project in NYC–
- Discovery of the “Pumpkin Papers” secret documents was announced–
- Annette Toft was two millionth immigrant to Canada since WWII ended–
- Commonwealth Pacific Cable (COMPAC) opened–
- Final run of luxury train 20th Century Limited finished–
- Pioneer 10, U.S. unmanned spacecraft, reached its closest approach to Jupiter, 21 months after its launch–
- Jupiter flyby of Pioneer 11 spacecraft–
- Polar bear cub born, Toledo Zoo, Ohio–
Weather
- A storm raged in Denver, Colorado, and eventually left 45.7 inches of snow, smashing a previous record–
- Providence, Rhode Island, had a record high of 66 degrees F–
- Boston, Massachusetts, had a temperature of 69 degrees F, breaking the old record of 65 degrees F for this date–
- Concord, New Hampshire, set a record at 65 degrees F–
- In Portland, Maine, the temperature reached 68 degrees F, beating the old record high of 55 for this date–
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