Jeff Goldblum: biography, news, photos and videos

Born in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, Jeff Goldblum has been showing off his devastating smile, his long, six-foot-four frame, and his intellectual airs on movie sets for over thirty years. However, it was not on the big screen that this grandson of a Russian émigré began his acting career, but on the Broadway stage in 1971, in the musical comedy The Two Gentlemen of Verona, based on Shakespeare. He made his film debut in Michael Winner's The City of the Dead in 1974. He is part of the gang of thugs who savagely attack Charles Bronson's wife and daughter at the beginning of the film. In quick succession, he appeared in Robert Altman's and then Woody Allen's (in Annie Hall), before having a major first role in Invasion of the Body Snatchers, by Philip Kaufman, alongside Donald Sutherland. But it was not until 1980 that the public finally became familiar with Jeff Goldblum, thanks to his role in the astonishing television series Bashful and Uninhibited. From then on, the actor was able to truly launch his career in cinema. He appeared in two feature films by Lawrence Kasdan, The Buddies in 1983, and Silverado in 1985, played opposite Michelle Pfeiffer in The Black Series for a Sleepless Night, by John Landis, before playing The Fly, by David Cronenberg, in 1986. A role that had a profound impact on his career and regularly oriented him towards fantasy cinema. Thus, in 1993, he was the eccentric scientist in Jurassic Park and its sequel. Three years later, he played a similar role in Roland Emmerich's Independence Day. In the 2000s, Jeff Goldblum tried his hand at all genres: comedy with Cats and Dogs in 2001, independent films for Igby in 2002, and the historical drama about Adam resurrected by Paul Schrader, released in theaters in France in February 2010. In 2009-2010, he participated in Dick Wolf's series Law & Order: Crime Scene Investigation, before returning to film sets with Josh Gordon's A Very Modern Family. Sylvain Mazars