“Having kids makes your life better, plain and simple,” Brendan Fraser told Redbook in 2008. Though Brendan has faced many highs and lows, he’s always had three people by his side: his sons, Griffin Fraser, Holden Fraser, and Leland Fraser. With Brendan receiving an Oscar nod for his 2022 comeback feature, The Whale, directed by Darren Aronofsky, the world has reacquainted itself with the ’90s heartthrob and the children he’s helped raise.
Holden and Leland were present for one of their dad’s biggest achievement at the 95th Academy Awards. Brendan’s two sons joined him and his girlfriend, Jeanne Moore, on the red carpet ahead of the Mar 2023, event in Los Angeles. Considering how they’ve supported Brendan at screenings and other awards shows, they wouldn’t have missed his big night for anything in the world.
Brendan’s three sons congratulated him on the Academy Award nomination with an unexpected treat! “My kids surprised me with cake and balloons. They sneaked into the house, they had a plan,” Brendan told Extra. “That and the feeling that sharing that moment with my loved ones is now a core memory of mine.”
Brendan shares his children with his ex-wife, Afton Smith. Brendan and Afton (a former actress turned writer) were married from 1998 to 2008. In 2018, Brendan told GQ that his sons live with their mother in Greenwich, Connecticut, a short distance from his home in Bedford, New York. “They’re here all the time,” he said.
Here’s what you need to know about Brendan Fraser’s sons!
Griffin Arthur Fraser was born in 2002. “Griffin’s rated on the autism spectrum,” Brendan said in a 2018 interview with GQ. “Um, and so he needs extra love in the world, and he gets it. And his brothers, ever since they were small, one was always the spokesperson, and the other was the enforcer.”
Griffin, according to his father, is “a curative on everyone who meets him, I noticed. People have some rough edges to them. Or he just makes them, I don’t know…put things into sharper relief and maybe find a way to have a little bit more compassion. They don’t put themselves first so much around him.”
