Jeff Goldblum Biography

MARITAL STATUS
Professions Actor , Producer , Executive Producer more
Birth name Jeffrey Lynn Goldblum
Nationality American
Birth October 22, 1952 (Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania – United States)

BIOGRAPHY
Born in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, Jeffrey Lynn Goldblum has Belarusian origins on his paternal grandfather’s side and Ukrainian origins on his maternal grandfather’s side. He grew up in a Jewish family, with a sister and two brothers, one of whom (Rick) died at the age of 23. His mother worked in the radio world before running a company selling kitchen equipment and household appliances. As for his father, he was a physicist and major in the American army during the Second World War and then became a doctor.

At age 17, Jeff Goldblum moved to New York to become an actor. He trained at the Neighborhood Playhouse and made his stage debut less than a year later in the Broadway hit The Two Gentlemen of Verona . His career on the big screen began in 1974 as a thug rapist battling Charles Bronson in A Vigilante in the City . He then made two appearances with Robert Altman in Les Flambeurs (1974) and Nashville (1975). We also come across him in an episode of Columbo , Annie Hall , Sentinel of the Doomed or even Starsky and Hutch .

In 1977, he landed a larger role in Between the Lines , which followed an editorial team attempting to maintain its independence from a large press corporation. The following year he approached a genre that would make him popular, science fiction, by finding himself confronted with The Invasion of the Defilers by Philip Kaufman , a filmmaker with whom he would work again on the space fresco The Fabric of Heroes ( 1983). In 1980, he was one of the members of the duo in the series Shy and Uninhibited , which follows a conman and an accountant team up to open a private detective agency.

With Threshold (1981), he played an offbeat scientist opposite Donald Sutherland , a figure that he would regularly embody during his career. Between two collaborations with Lawrence Kasdan ( Les Copains d’abord in 1983 and Silverado in 1985), the actor played in the SF comedy The Adventures of Buckaroo Banzaï through the 8th dimension and embarked on a nocturnal trip alongside Michelle Pfeiffer in Série noire for a sleepless night .

Jeff Goldblum found fame by transforming himself into Fly for David Cronenbergin 1986. A role that paradoxically followed several lean years for the actor, who only really reappeared in 1992 in Robert Altman’s The Player . In 1993, the immense success of Jurassic Park definitively established his star status and further popularized the image of the crazy scientist to whom he would again lend his features in Independence Day (1996), The Lost World (1997) and Like Dogs and cats (2001), three great box office successes.

In the meantime, the actor worked in comedy ( Nine Months Too by Chris Columbus , 1995), fantasy ( Powder by Victor Salva , 1995) and cartoons ( The Prince of Egypt , where he lent his voice to the character of Aaron). Unable to find a leading role, he joined the oceanographic team led by Bill Murray in The Life Aquatic (2005) by Wes Anderson , and obtained several roles in television series, whether appearances ( Friends , Will & Grace , Portlandia ) or recurring roles ( Raines , New York Criminal Section ). Confined to supporting roles in the cinema, he briefly opposite Rachel McAdams in the fast-paced comedy Morning Glory in 2011, then returned to dubbing in the very lively Funny Birds (2013).

Goldblum then gradually returned to the forefront; he shared the poster with Ralph Fiennes and Willem Dafoe in The Grand Budapest Hotel in 2014 before rubbing shoulders with Johnny Depp in Charlie Mortdecai the following year. But it was in 2016 that the unforgettable interpreter of The Fly and Jurassic Park relaunched his career by reconnecting with an emblematic character, David Levinson. Indeed, the actor reprises this role for Independence Day: Resurgence , a sequel to the successful action blockbuster released in 1996.

It was in another blockbuster that the actor then landed a role: Jeff Goldblum joined the Marvel Cinematic Universe in 2017 with Thor: Ragnarok , where he is the Grandmaster. He then provided voice in Isle of Dogs , which marked his third collaboration with Wes Anderson, and was the owner of the Hotel Artemis(2018), an establishment intended for the most dangerous criminals in a dystopian Los Angeles.

The actor’s popularity is not limited only to cinema and television: at the end of the 2010s he became the object of a real parodic fascination on the Internet and the incarnation of a certain idea of ​​” cool”. To the point of being since 2019 the hero of his own documentary series on Disney+: The World According to Jeff Goldblum where he reveals the secrets behind a seemingly familiar object.

Nostalgia being in fashion, after Independence Day, it is another of his cult characters that the actor finds again: he once again dons Ian Malcolm’s glasses in Jurassic World: Fallen Kingdom (2018) and Jurassic World: Le Monde according to (2022). This latest feature film marks his reunion with Laura Dern and Sam Neill , almost thirty years after Jurassic Park.