Brendan Fraser Reveals He Had a Brush With Death While Filming ‘The Mummy’

Brendan Fraser recently revealed a near-death experience that left him barely hanging on while filming The Mummy (1999). The Academy Award-nominated actor made his return to Hollywood with his starring role in The Whale (2022), but all that almost changed with a fateful on-set malfunction.


Brendan Fraser was born on December 3, 1968 in Indianapolis, Indiana, but grew up throughout the United States and Canada. After graduating from college in 1990, he traveled to Hollywood with plans of settling in New York City to study acting. However, he ended up remaining in Los Angeles.

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Brendan Fraser Reveals He Had a Brush With Death While Filming ‘The Mummy’

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