Brendan Fraser's Complete Transformation Through The Years

Brendan Fraser has been a global citizen since the beginning. Born in Indiana, Fraser never remained rooted in a single place, with the nature of his tourism executive father's job taking the family across continents. His position with the Canadian government had Fraser Sr. intercepting a bulk of instructions from the capital city of Ottawa, which prompted his son to innocently believe that "Ottawa was like a guy who sat behind a desk, and he had a dart, and a map, and he went 'Mmmph, let's send the Fraser family to . . . boomp, the Hague'" (via IndyStar). 

Fraser soaked in a multicultural upbringing, moving between schools in Europe, Canada, and the United States where he picked up on world languages, per The New York Times. He was, for a while, even enrolled in a boarding school in Toronto — not the best of occurrences to happen to him. "I didn't fit in. ... We were like gang members in suits and ties," he said, recalling his time there. 

Like his father, Fraser secured dual American-Canadian citizenship. Though his most renowned work ties him to the American film industry, Fraser's significance is deeply recognized in Canada as well; the actor was honored with a star on Canada's Walk of Fame in 2006, CBC reported. A tribute to Fraser on a sidewalk in Toronto had been many years in the making, with an affinity for the performing arts gnawing at him since his youth.