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Brendan Fraser

Photo: Montclair Film via Wikimedia Commons, CC BY 4.0

File No. 997728  ·  Adjudicated

Brendan Fraser

Actor — The Mummy, George of the Jungle, The Whale

Born
1968
Birthplace
INDIANAPOLIS, USA
Citizenships
US / CA

Canadianness Score

🍁🍁🍁🍁🍁
4.0/ 5
Weighted across 6 scored criteria

Designation

Johnny Canuck 🦸

Canadian to the core. May have moved, but still calls everyone “bud”.

Scorecard

Path B — not born on Canadian soil
I. Origin
Born on Canadian soil — no
INDIANAPOLIS, USA
Canadian parentage — yes
Both parents Canadian
Citizenship on record — yes
Held — by descent or naturalisation
II. Residency
Formative years spent in Canada — yes
Raised — Ontario
Lived in Canada by choice — yes
Residency on record as an adult
Worked or filmed in Canada — yes
Credits filed north of the 49th
III. Cultural evidence — not scored
Section III is recorded for the file only. It carries no weight under either path.
Publicly claims to be Canadian — not scored
Says so, out loud
Canada claims them back — not scored
Claimed, enthusiastically

Fun fact

First Canadian to win the Academy Award for Best Actor — for The Whale in 2023.

The verdict

Born in Indianapolis to two Canadian parents, raised partly in Ottawa, and attended Upper Canada College in Toronto. Holds dual citizenship and is the first Canadian to win the Academy Award for Best Actor. Technical American birth, but Canadian in every way that counts.

Adjudicated by
The Standings Committee
Status
Final — appealable
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References — en.wikipedia.org