![]() That same year he starred with Matt Damon and Chris O'Donnell in School Ties. The film was a moderate box office success and is now considered a cult film. He got his first leading film role in the 1992 comedy film Encino Man where he played a frozen pre-historic caveman who is thawed out in the present day. In 1991, Fraser made his film debut as a sailor headed to Vietnam in Dogfight. He planned on studying toward a Master of Fine Arts in Acting from Southern Methodist University, but stopped in Hollywood on the way and decided to remain there to work in film. He began acting at a small acting college in New York City. He graduated from Seattle's Cornish College of the Arts in 1990. While on vacation in London, he attended his first professional theatre show in the West End, which began his interest in acting. He attended Upper Canada College, a private boarding school in Toronto. įraser's family moved often during his childhood, living in Eureka, California Seattle, Washington Ottawa, Ontario the Netherlands and Switzerland. He holds dual American and Canadian citizenship. He has Irish, Scottish, German, Czech, and French-Canadian ancestry. He has three older brothers: Kevin, Regan, and Sean. His maternal uncle, George Genereux, was the only Canadian to win a gold medal in the 1952 Summer Olympics, at the Olympic Trap. ![]() His mother was a sales counselor, and his father was a former journalist who worked as a Canadian foreign service officer for the Government Office of Tourism. Fraser, the youngest of four boys, was born in Indianapolis, Indiana, the son of Canadian parents Carol Mary ( née Genereux Ma– November 21, 2016) and Peter Fraser. ![]()
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