Brendan Fraser's best actor Oscar win on Sunday for his powerful performance as a morbidly obese man in 'The Whale' caps a remarkable career comeback for the charismatic leading man.
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"I started in this business 30 years ago, and things -- they didn't come easily to me, but there was a facility that I didn't appreciate at the time until it stopped," he said, referring to his long absence from the big screen.In Darren Aronofsky's"The Whale," Fraser plays Charlie, a 600-pound English teacher whose only regular contact with the real world is his nurse and friend Liz .
"Charlie is by far the most heroic man I've ever played," Fraser said at the film's world premiere in Venice last year.US actor Brendan Fraser has seen his career rebound with the success of "The Whale" after years in the Hollywood wildernessFraser was born in December 1968 to Canadian parents in the US state of Indiana.
Loosely based on the 1930s ancient Egypt horror film franchise, the movies starred Fraser as Rick O'Connell, a maverick American adventurer who battles sinister immortals and greedy treasure hunters.
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