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Mat Fraser is an English actor. He has thalidomide-induced Phocomelia.
As an actor Fraser has performed on the hit show American Horror Story: Freak Show, and with the "Graeae Theatre Company", Europe's leading disabled theatre company. He is the creator and main performer in a new play called Thalidomide!! A Musical. He also co-hosts the BBC's Ouch! Podcast.
Fraser has appeared on television both as a presenter and as an actor, in a number of productions including Metrosexuality and Every Time You Look at Me. He is also a martial artist having studied hapkido, taekwondo, and karate. Fraser coined the use of term "spacking up" to describe when an able-bodied actor plays the part of a disabled person rather than the part going to a disabled actor, as a play on "blacking up", used to describe the controversial practice where non-black actors take on the characters of black people.
His film Kung Fu Flid was released in 2009, starring Faye Tozer (formerly of pop group Steps), Frank Harper and Terry Stone.
The CrossFit Games is an athletic competition sponsored by Crossfit Inc. The competition has been held every summer since 2007. Athletes at the Games compete in workouts they learn about only hours beforehand, mostly comprising an assortment of standard aerobic, weightlifting, and gymnastics movements, as well as surprise elements that are not part of the typical CrossFit regimen such as an ocean swim, a short triathlon, or a softball throw. The Games are styled as a venue for determining the "Fittest on Earth," where competitors should be "ready for anything."
In 2011, the Games adopted an online format for the first stage of the qualification process, called the "CrossFit Open", to facilitate participation by athletes worldwide. Prior to the introduction of the Open, the preponderance of competitors were American (though the 2009 individual men's champion, Mikko Salo, is from Finland, and the 2010 women's runner-up, Annie Thorisdottir, is from Iceland). During the Open, a new workout is released each week on Thursday night and athletes have until Monday evening (Pacific Time) to complete the workout and submit their scores online, with either a video or validation by a CrossFit affiliate. Beginning in 2013, CrossFit began airing live announcements for the Open workouts and would have past CrossFit Games athletes immediately complete the workout in a head-to-head competition. The top CrossFit Open performers in each region advance to the regional events, held over the following two months; the top performers from these regional competitions go to the CrossFit Games, which in recent years have been held at the StubHub Center in Carson, CA.
Actors: Roy Lee (producer), Stuart Matthews (actor), Guy East (producer), Helen McCrory (actress), Ned Dennehy (actor), Ian Watermeier (miscellaneous crew), Nigel Sinclair (producer), Adrian Rawlins (actor), Shane Salter (actor), Jen Lambert (miscellaneous crew), Matthew David McCarthy (actor), Aliza James (miscellaneous crew), Jake Edmonds (miscellaneous crew), Annie Symons (costume designer), Deryn Stafford (miscellaneous crew),
Genres: Drama, Horror, Thriller,Actors: Forbes KB (actor), Christopher Fosh (actor), Ricci Harnett (actor), Nicola Posener (actress), Gemma Deerfield (actress), Gemma Deerfield (producer), Frank Jakeman (actor), Sarah-Jane Sherwood (actress), Tom Bennett (actor), James Thornton (actor), Greg Harwood (composer), Grant Huggair (actor), Marcus Massey (actor), Lisa Shelley (actress), Jing Lusi (actress),
Plot: Carol Bailey is buckling under the weight of financial pressure, family responsibilities and his own ambition and desires. After endless parties, too many dead end jobs and family arguments, Bailey becomes Self-Destructive. Resorting to violence and severing all ties of friendship and love, Bailey enters a world where his friends are unable to follow. After a self-imposed exile Bailey returns to London to apologise, things have changed. Not everyone is sympathetic to his sudden re-appearance and there are others who will stop at nothing to make Bailey's life a living hell. Faced with a relationship lost amongst affluence and drug fueled parties, Bailey must accept his own limitations and confront the demons of his past.
Genres: Action, Drama,Actors: Sean Murray (composer), Shawn K. Clement (composer), Mike Marvin (producer), Kimberly Eaton (miscellaneous crew), Ai Wan (actress), Paul Heiman (editor), William Burke (producer), Randy Spangler (miscellaneous crew), Naomi L. Selfman (writer), Nicole Visram (miscellaneous crew), Ray Raglin (actor), Ray Raglin (producer), Lisa Falcone (actress), Anne Woodard (costume designer), Lafayette Parish (producer),
Genres: ,Actors: Liam Cunningham (actor), Jason Flemyng (actor), Ciarán Hinds (actor), Gina McKee (actress), Ewen Bremner (actor), John Lunn (composer), Justin Krish (editor), Stuart McQuarrie (actor), Simon Donald (writer), Simon Donald (director), Alan J. Wands (producer), Simon Donald (writer), Sarah Booth (miscellaneous crew), Alison Campbell (miscellaneous crew), Lynda Myles (producer),
Genres: ,Actors: Sean Penn (actor), Max Perlich (actor), Harry Dean Stanton (actor), Ed Begley Jr. (actor), Martin Hunter (editor), C.M. Talkington (actor), Matt Palmieri (director), Matt Palmieri (producer), Ulrika Akander (miscellaneous crew),
Genres: Short,Actors: Len Lesser (actor), Campbell Scott (actor), Tony Miller (producer), Tony Miller (editor), Jerry Feifer (producer), Bernard White (actor), John Durbin (actor), Arne Olsen (actor), Ernie Anderson (actor), Troy Fromin (actor), Joe Mays (actor), Murielle Hamilton (composer), Julianne Dechaine (costume designer), Jim Hanson (producer), Dennis Ott (actor),
Plot: Two men on weekend outing assist country lass in trouble but find themselves in a stew. One is killed, one severely injured who recovers at the Campbell cabin. He learns the simplicity of country living and falls in love with daughter. She explains, mysteriously, that although she cares, this cannot be; the feud is coming', as it always does. Only after his own death, during the feud, does he realize that the Campbell and McDonald clans have been 50 years dead! He has, however, broken the cycle of the ongoing feud and now all, him included, may rest in peace.
Keywords: feud, independent-film, moonshineActors: Peter Capaldi (actor), Alex Norton (actor), David Puttnam (producer), John M. Jackson (actor), Peter Riegert (actor), Denis Lawson (actor), Pat Rambaut (miscellaneous crew), Burt Lancaster (actor), Michael Bradsell (editor), Mark Knopfler (composer), Susan d'Arcy (miscellaneous crew), Rikki Fulton (actor), Anne Rapp (miscellaneous crew), Fulton Mackay (actor), Jimmy Yuill (actor),
Plot: Oil billionaire Happer sends Mac to a remote Scotish villiage to secure the property rights for an oil refinery they want to build. Mac teams up with Danny and starts the negotiations, the locals are keen to get their hands on the 'Silver Dollar' and can't believe their luck. However a local hermit and beach scavenger, Ben Knox, lives in a shack on the crucial beach which he also owns. Happer is more interested in the Northern Lights and Danny in a surreal girl with webbed feet, Marina. Mac is used to a Houston office with fax machines but is forced to negotiate on Bens terms.
Keywords: accountant, affection, american-abroad, aurora-borealis, beach, beachcomber, boyfriend-girlfriend-relationship, brandy, church, cometActors: Norman Bird (actor), Rosa von Praunheim (actor), Per Oscarsson (actor), Lionel Stander (actor), Harry Andrews (actor), James Payne (actor), Mia Farrow (actress), Vernon Dobtcheff (actor), Peter Cook (actor), Geoffrey Bayldon (actor), Laurence Harvey (actor), John Bird (actor), Tom Courtenay (actor), Laurence Harvey (director), Quincy Jones (composer),
Plot: Double-agent Alexander Eberlin is assigned by the British to hunt out a Russian spy, known to them as Krasnevin. Only Eberlin knows that Krasnevin is none other than himself! Accompanying him on his mission is a ruthless partner, who gradually discovers his secret as Eberlin tries to maneuver himself out of a desperate situation.
Keywords: based-on-novel, double-agent, drug-addict, food-in-title, german-democratic-republic, photographer, porn-magazine, spy, west-berlin-west-germanyActors: Harold Goodwin (actor), Jack Davies (writer), Richard Wattis (actor), Ian Wilson (actor), Jon Pertwee (actor), John Harvey (actor), Michael Ward (actor), Cyril Chamberlain (actor), Reginald Beckwith (actor), David Lodge (actor), Bernard Bresslaw (actor), Michael Ripper (actor), Bernard Bresslaw (actor), James Needs (editor), Lance Comfort (director),
Plot: Henry Jekyll was always the outsider, a bungling and awkward buffoon, relegated to waiting for his invitation to participate in life that never arrived: until he discovers a medical formula developed by a dead uncle, which claimed to turn 'a man of timid disposition into a bold, fearless dragon'. Taking a draught of the elixir Henry is transformed into suave, sophisticated and highly desirable Teddy Hyde. Armed with his new persona, Teddy is ready to face the world; but is Henry ready for the consequences?
Genres: Comedy, Crime,Actors: Edward J. Montagne (writer), Edward Montagne (director), Jack Lord (actor), Keith Andes (actor), Joanne Tree (actress), Herbert Holcombe (actor), Tom Ahearne (actor), Craig Kelly (actor), Harry Clark (actor), Joyce Selznick (writer), Edward Leven (producer), William Gibberson (actor), Mitchell Johnson (writer), Charles Martin (actor), Robert Noe (actor),
Plot: The New York-filmed production opens with a discourse on Communist infiltration into American colleges, and moves on to a series of dialogue exchanges in a night club, an apartment, a barber shop and some offices. A young physicist is being blackmailed, by a friend, into stealing a secret atomic energy plan.
Keywords: 1940s, apartment, atomic-age, atomic-bomb, atomic-energy, atomic-power, b-movie, barber-shop, blackmail, cigarette-smokingWhat's Mat Fraser's #1 goal after his CrossFit career is over? Watch Part 15 of the NF Sports series to find out!
In the opening chapter of this documentary series, 2016 CrossFit Games Champion and elite athlete Mat Fraser shares his backstory and shows viewers a day in the life at his hometown gym. Get Mat Fraser's Favorite NF Sport Supplements ► http://bbcom.me/2omGeyZ B-Elite: Free & Flat Rate Shipping on Top Brands► http://bbcom.me/2omRISR Mathew Fraser earned the title of Fittest Man on Earth at the 2016 Reebok CrossFit Games. The victory was three years in the making, after he took back-to-back second-place finishes in 2014 and 2015. In 2014, Fraser’s debut Games appearance, he earned the Rookie of the Year award for his efforts. Known for his hatred of second place, Fraser was unsatisfied with his consecutive silver finishes, and though he won the worldwide Open in 2015 and swept his region (E...
In this week's episode Mat Fraser discusses personal sacrifice in preparation for The CrossFit Games. See how he narrows his focus on repeating as The Fittest Man On Earth.
What happens when the reigning Fittest Man and Woman on Earth do the same workout 1,000 miles away from one another? They pretty much stay neck-and-neck. "When I'm training by myself, I'm imagining training next to Katrin," Fraser says. "I'm telling myself, 'Katrin wouldn't be putting the bar down right now, Katrin would be taking shorter breaks than you.'" Watch Mat Fraser and Katrin Davidsdottir complete a workout with push jerks, pistols, GHD sit-ups, wall-ball shots, handstand-walking and rowing, while Davidsdottir is in Cookeville, Tennessee, and Fraser is in San Antonio, Texas. Video by Marston Sawyers. The CrossFit Journal -- (http://journal.crossfit.com) The CrossFit Games® - The Sport of Fitness™ The Fittest On Earth™
Cowards & champions have the same fears. The difference is how they attack them." Find out how Mat Fraser attacks those fears in Part 14 of our NF Sports The Making of a Champion.
In this entry of the series, Mat Fraser faces his one of his greatest challenges! Running and Swimming.
Watch part four of the Mat Fraser documentary series, and be sure to check out the Mat Fraser bundle on NFSports.com: https://nfsports.com/collections/perform/products/carnosyn-beta-alanine
"Who's Ready to Work?" - As Mat inches closer to the CrossFit Games, he pushes himself in the gym even harder to get ready for competition. Perform at your best like Mat with these supplements: https://nfsports.com/collections/perform
Ben Smith and Mat Fraser were in a tight race for the top of the podium at the 2015 Reebok CrossFit Games. Ultimately, Fraser took home the silver medal for the second consecutive year, and Smith stood on top of the podium at his seventh Games. This year, both Smith and Fraser have their sights set on the gold once again. The 2016 Reebok CrossFit Games take place July 19-24, at the StubHub Center in Carson, California. The CrossFit Games -- (http://games.crossfit.com) The CrossFit Games® - The Sport of Fitness™ The Fittest On Earth™
"Bleed For It" - Having the motivation and power to endure takes its toll on the body and mind. This is how Mat Fraser harnesses his pain and gain. Check out our recovery products at https://nfsports.com/collections/recover
Very Wiser
Parody of "Paralyzer" performed and written by Finger Eleven
(James 1:5-8)
I know lots of nerdy things
To me it might seem
That trivia's cool and neat
But most of that stuff's just good
For Jeopardy and a few crossword puzzle books
Chess club is not for me
I must pretend to think
Then I just move a piece
But I have a strategy
That I embrace
For the questions I face
Well, I'm not very wise
But I seek to be instructed by You
I'm gonna pray to You, because You said You will
If somebody lacks wisdom like I often do
You'll always give it to them when they pray to You
A whole lot of Harvard shrinks
Would surely think
I took it too lit'rally
They're so smart they've gotten dumb
I suggest they go
Just once and read in James 1
Wisdom will grow for me
And those who seek Thee
No Ivy League school competes
'Cause that's still a strategy
That's smartly based
On what James 1:5 says
CHORUS
James 1:5