American Success Story: From Coney Island USA to the Big Time on FX!

If you can make it there you can make it anywhere. There is Coney Island’s Sideshows by the Seashore.

According to the NYPost:

“In 2000, British-born Mat Fraser ignored the advice of his friends and bought a plane ticket to New York City. He planned to visit Coney Island’s famous Circus Sideshow to study the cultural heritage of disabled performers.
His interest was personal: he was born with phocomelia, a deformation that gave him stunted arms, after his mother was prescribed the dangerous chemical thalidomide during pregnancy.
But seeing those Coney Island freaks in action opened up a whole new world of performing: 15 years later, Fraser is one of the most recognizable freak performers in the world after starring as Paul the Illustrated Seal on “American Horror Story: Freak Show,” which wraps its season Wednesday night.
“I got hooked into the way of the carny, the sideshow and the grind show with [sideshow founder] Dick Zigun down there,” says Fraser, 52, who started performing at Coney Island. “I just kept coming back.”
This season’s “AHS” storyline revolves around a ’50s-era freak show in Jupiter, Fla. beset by murder, deceit and social stigma.”

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