Actor (United States)
At the age of seventeen, he moved to New York to study acting with Sanford Meisner at the Neighbourhood Playhouse. In less than a year, Joe Papp cast him in the Broadway hit, Two Gentlemen of Verona.
Robert Altman cast him as the twenty year-old boy wonder in California Split, and also asked him to play the mysterious biker/magician in Nashville. Thus begun his feature film acting career.
His long list of feature credits include Holy Man, Chris Columbus' Nine Months, Woody Allen's Annie Hall, Paul Mazursky's Next Stop Greenwich Village, Remember My Name, The Right Stuff, Between the Lines, Invasion of the Body Snatchers, Mr. Frost, Into the Night, The Tall Guy and Fathers and Sons.
A favourite of audiences and critics alike for his starring roles in films such as The Big Chill, Lawrence Kasdan's Silverado, David Cronenberg's The Fly, Deep Cover, Steven Spielberg's Jurassic Park and The Lost World: Jurassic Park II. In 1996, he starred in science fiction thriller Independence Day.
Most recently, he provided the voice of Aaron in the animated feature The Prince of Egypt.
Aside from acting, he was nominated as a director for an Academy Award for his short film Little Surprises.
Jeff Goldblum resides in Los Angeles.
Jury attendance
- Member Feature films, 1999
