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Jeff Goldblum

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Biography

Jeffrey Lynn Goldblum (born October 22, 1952) is an American actor and musician. He has starred in some of the highest-grossing films of his era, such as Jurassic Park (1993) and Independence Day (1996), as well as their respective sequels, The Lost World: Jurassic Park (1997) and Jurassic World: Fallen Kingdom (2018), and Independence Day: Resurgence (2016). Goldblum also starred in films including Invasion of the Body Snatchers (1978), The Big Chill (1983), and Into the Night (1985), before coming to wider attention as Seth Brundle in The Fly (1986), which earned him a Saturn Award for Best Actor. His other films include The Adventures of Buckaroo Banzai Across the 8th Dimension (1984), The Tall Guy (1989), Deep Cover (1992), Powder (1995), The Prince of Egypt (1998), Cats & Dogs (2001), Igby Goes Down (2002), The Life Aquatic with Steve Zissou (2004), Adam Resurrected (2008), Le Week-End (2013), The Grand Budapest Hotel (2014), and Thor: Ragnarok (2017).

Notable films

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Highlights from credits and KinoChain journeys.

Wicked

Appears in a KinoChain journey

The Fly

Appears in a KinoChain journey

Thor: Ragnarok

As Grandmaster

Nashville

Appears in a KinoChain journey

The Right Stuff

Appears in a KinoChain journey

Wicked: For Good

As The Wonderful Wizard of Oz

Jurassic World: Fallen Kingdom

As Ian Malcolm

The Grand Budapest Hotel

As Deputy Kovacs

Chains

KinoChain journeys

Public chains that pass through their films — or name them as a bridge.

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The Reckless Edge - Talent as a Double-Edged Sword

Forty years after Top Gun roared into cinemas, Maverick's need for speed still feels as exhilarating as ever. But Pete Mitchell is part of a much bigger movie t...

7 films

Dolly Parton and the Art of the Country Star Turn

From Rhinestone to Dumplin', a chain of films where country music royalty carries the picture, each in a key uniquely their own.

8 films

The Body's Unmaking

From Cronenberg's flesh to Claire Denis's restless bodies, these eight films chart a cinema of transformation that questions where the self ends and the body be...

8 films

Metamorphosis: Bodies in Flux

From Kafka's insect to Cronenberg's flesh, a journey through cinema's most profound transformations, where identity itself is the shape-shifter.

7 films

The Path to La La Land & Its Legacy

A decade on from its 2016 debut, La La Land remains a landmark achievement in modern cinema: a dazzling, bittersweet love letter to big dreams and hard choices....

7 films

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