Jeff Goldblum
- Actor
- Producer
- Writer
Jeffrey Lynn Goldblum was born October 22, 1952 in Pittsburgh,
Pennsylvania, one of four children of Shirley (Temeles), a radio
broadcaster who also ran an appliances firm, and Harold L. Goldblum, a
doctor. His father was of Russian Jewish descent and his mother was of
Austrian Jewish ancestry.
Goldblum began his career on the New York stage after moving to the
city at age seventeen. Possessing his own unique style of delivery,
Goldblum made an impression on moviegoers with little more than a
single line in Woody Allen's
Annie Hall (1977), when he fretted
about having forgotten his mantra. Goldblum went on to appear in the
remake
Invasion of the Body Snatchers (1978)
and co-starred with Ben Vereen in the
detective series
Tenspeed and Brown Shoe (1980)
before a high-profile turn in the classic ensemble film
The Big Chill (1983).
The quirky actor turned up in the suitably quirky film
The Adventures of Buckaroo Banzai Across the 8th Dimension (1984),
which became a 1980s cult classic, starred in the modern-day film noir
Into the Night (1985), then went
on to a breakthrough role in the
David Cronenberg remake
The Fly (1986), which also featured
actress Geena Davis, Goldblum's wife from
1987-1990 and co-star in two additional films:
Transylvania 6-5000 (1985)
and Julien Temple's
Earth Girls Are Easy (1988).
Goldblum was the rather unlikely star of some of the biggest
blockbusters of the 1990s:
Steven Spielberg's dinosaur adventure
Jurassic Park (1993) and its sequel
The Lost World: Jurassic Park (1997),
as well as the alien invasion film
Independence Day (1996). These
films saw Goldblum playing the type of intellectual characters he has
become associated with. More recently, roles have included critically
acclaimed turns in
Igby Goes Down (2002) and
Wes Anderson's
The Life Aquatic with Steve Zissou (2004).
In 2009, he returned to television to star in his second crime series
Law & Order: Criminal Intent (2001).
Pennsylvania, one of four children of Shirley (Temeles), a radio
broadcaster who also ran an appliances firm, and Harold L. Goldblum, a
doctor. His father was of Russian Jewish descent and his mother was of
Austrian Jewish ancestry.
Goldblum began his career on the New York stage after moving to the
city at age seventeen. Possessing his own unique style of delivery,
Goldblum made an impression on moviegoers with little more than a
single line in Woody Allen's
Annie Hall (1977), when he fretted
about having forgotten his mantra. Goldblum went on to appear in the
remake
Invasion of the Body Snatchers (1978)
and co-starred with Ben Vereen in the
detective series
Tenspeed and Brown Shoe (1980)
before a high-profile turn in the classic ensemble film
The Big Chill (1983).
The quirky actor turned up in the suitably quirky film
The Adventures of Buckaroo Banzai Across the 8th Dimension (1984),
which became a 1980s cult classic, starred in the modern-day film noir
Into the Night (1985), then went
on to a breakthrough role in the
David Cronenberg remake
The Fly (1986), which also featured
actress Geena Davis, Goldblum's wife from
1987-1990 and co-star in two additional films:
Transylvania 6-5000 (1985)
and Julien Temple's
Earth Girls Are Easy (1988).
Goldblum was the rather unlikely star of some of the biggest
blockbusters of the 1990s:
Steven Spielberg's dinosaur adventure
Jurassic Park (1993) and its sequel
The Lost World: Jurassic Park (1997),
as well as the alien invasion film
Independence Day (1996). These
films saw Goldblum playing the type of intellectual characters he has
become associated with. More recently, roles have included critically
acclaimed turns in
Igby Goes Down (2002) and
Wes Anderson's
The Life Aquatic with Steve Zissou (2004).
In 2009, he returned to television to star in his second crime series
Law & Order: Criminal Intent (2001).