Jeff Goldblum
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).
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Acting History
2025
Wicked: For Good as The Wonderful Wizard of Oz
2025Wicked: For Good - A Sneak Peek as Self
2025Wicked: One Wonderful Night as Self
2025Meister der Apokalypse - Roland Emmerich as Self
2024Making Wicked as Self
2024Wicked as The Wonderful Wizard of Oz
2024Defying Gravity: The Curtain Rises on Wicked as Self
2024KAOS as Zeus
2023They Shot the Piano Player as Jeff Harris (voice)
2023Asteroid City as The Alien
2022Sunday with Laura Kuenssberg as Self
2022Jurassic Greatest Moments: Jurassic Park to Jurassic World as Self
2022Jurassic World Dominion as Ian Malcolm
2022Fiddler's Journey to the Big Screen as Narrator
2022De Avondshow met Arjen Lubach as Self
2021Beauty and the Beast: A Comic Relief Pantomime for Christmas as A Table
2021What If...? as Grandmaster (voice)
2021The Boss Baby: Family Business as Dr. Armstrong (voice)
2020Time Warp Vol. 2: Horror and Sci-Fi as Self
2020Time Warp Vol. 1: Midnight Madness as Self
2020LEGO Masters as Self
2019The World According to Jeff Goldblum as Self
2019The Kelly Clarkson Show as Self
2019#NoJoke as Self
2019The Mountain as Dr. Wallace Fiennes
2019Peanuts in Space: Secrets of Apollo 10 as Self
2019Jenny Lewis' On The Line Online as Self
2018A Place We Call Reality as Self (uncredited)
2018Fallen Kingdom: The Conversation as Self
2018Fallen Kingdom: Malcolm's Return as Self
2018Hotel Artemis as Orian "Wolf King" Franklin / Niagara
2018Jurassic World: Fallen Kingdom as Ian Malcolm
2018Always at The Carlyle as Self
2018James Cameron's Story of Science Fiction as Self
2018Seth Rogen's Hilarity for Charity as Self
2018Isle of Dogs as Duke (voice)
2018Team Darryl as En Dwi Gast / Grandmaster
2017Broadway: The Next Generation as Self
2017Spielberg as Self
2017Thor: Ragnarok as Grandmaster
2017Big Mouth as The Apple Brooch
2017Tour de Pharmacy as Marty Hass Present Day
2017Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 2 as En Dwi Gast / Grandmaster (uncredited)
2017Miyubi as The Creator
2016Search Party as Tunnel
2016Stephen Colbert's Live Election Night Democracy's Series Finale as Self
2016The War of 1996: A United World News Special as David Levinson
2016Independence Day: Resurgence as David Levinson
2016Another Day: The Making of 'Independence Day: Resurgence' as Self
2016Resurgence: It's Early Albuquerque as David Levinson
2015The Late Show with Stephen Colbert as Self
2015The Late Show with Stephen Colbert as Self - Guest
2015Unity as Narrator (voice)
2015StarTalk with Neil deGrasse Tyson as Self
2015The Late Late Show with James Corden as Self
2015The Late Late Show with James Corden as Self - Guest
2015Hot Ones as Self
2015Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt as Dr. Dave
2015Mortdecai as Milton Krampf
2014Last Week Tonight with John Oliver as Detective Zach Nichols
2014The Grand Budapest Hotel as Deputy Kovacs
2014Late Night with Seth Meyers as Self
2014Late Night with Seth Meyers as Self - Guest
2014The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon as Self
2013Le Week-End as Morgan
2012Zambezia as Ajax (voice)
2012Finding Your Roots as Self
2012Tim and Eric's Billion Dollar Movie as Chef Goldblum
2011Return to Jurassic Park as Self
2011Portlandia as Vocal Coach
2011Portlandia as The Pull-Out King
2011Portlandia as The Doily Shoppe Proprietor
2011Portlandia as Beet Accident Man
2010Morning Glory as Jerry Barnes
2010Conan as Self
2010The Switch as Leonard
2009The League as Rupert Ruxin
2009Watch What Happens Live with Andy Cohen as Self - Guest
2009Glee as Hiram Berry
2009Late Night with Jimmy Fallon as Self
2009RuPaul's Drag Race as Self - Guest Judge
2008Adam Resurrected as Adam Stein
2007The Making of 'Fay Grim' or: How Do You Spell Espionage? as Himself
2007Fay Grim as Agent Fulbright
2007Head Case as Self
2007Raines as Michael Raines
2007The Graham Norton Show as Self
2007The Graham Norton Show as Self - Guest
2007Tim and Eric Awesome Show, Great Job! as Self
2006Man of the Year as Stewart
2006Pittsburgh as Self
2006The One Show as Self
2006Mini's First Time as Mike Rudell
2005The Colbert Report as Self
2005Fear of the Flesh: The Making of The Fly as Self
2005Movies That Shook the World
2005This Is an Adventure as Self
2005Matthew Gray Gubler's Life Aquatic Intern Journal as Self
2005Dallas 362 as Bob
2005On the Set: 'The Life Aquatic with Steve Zissou' as Self / Alistair
2005The Late Late Show with Craig Ferguson as Self
2004Incident at Loch Ness as Self - Party Guest
2004The Life Aquatic with Steve Zissou as Alistair Hennessey
2004Tom Goes to the Mayor as Bill Joel (voice)
2004Stories of Lost Souls as Himself
2004Hollywood's Creepiest Creatures as Self
2003100 Greatest Sexy Moments as Self
2003Abby Singer as Jeff Goldblum (uncredited)
2003Spinning Boris as George Gorton
2003The Ellen DeGeneres Show as Self
2003Supermarket as Self
2003DNA as Narrator
2003War Stories as Ben Dansmore
2003Jimmy Kimmel Live! as Self
2003Jimmy Kimmel Live! as Self - Guest Host
2002Robbie the Reindeer: Legend of the Lost Tribe as White Rabbit (voice)
2002Top Gear as Self - Star in a Reasonably-Priced Car
2002Saturday Night Live: The Best of Will Ferrell as Dr. Ken Waller (archive footage)
2002Igby Goes Down as D.H.
2002Ant & Dec's Saturday Night Takeaway as Self
2002One of the Hollywood Ten as Herbert Biberman
2002Run Ronnie Run as Self
2002Buckaroo Banzai Declassified as Self
2001Festival in Cannes as Self (uncredited)
2001Law & Order: Criminal Intent as Zach Nichols
2001Cats & Dogs as Professor Brody
2001Primetime Glick
2001Playboy Mansion Parties Uncensored as Self
2001Perfume as Jamie
2001Chain of Fools as Avnet
2000Welcome to Hollywood as Jeff Goldblum
2000Auggie Rose as John Nolan
2000Altman on His Own Terms as Narrator / Self
1999The Prince of Egypt: From Dream to Screen as Self (archive footage)
1999When Dinosaurs Ruled
1999From Star Wars to Star Wars: The Story of Industrial Light & Magic as Self
1999The Big Chill: A Reunion as Self
1998The Prince of Egypt as Aaron (voice)
1998Holy Man as Ricky Hayman
1998Will & Grace as Scott Woolley
1998Roswell Top Secret as Self
1997Hollywood Dreamers as Self
1997Nachtstudio as Self
1997The View as Self
1997The Story of Bean as Self
1997The Lost World: Jurassic Park as Ian Malcolm
1997The Making of 'The Lost World' as Self
1997King of the Hill as Dr. Vayzosa (voice)
1996Mad Dog Time as Mickey Holliday
1996Independence Day: The ID4 Invasion as Self
1996The Making of 'Independence Day' as Self - Host
1996Independence Day as David Levinson
1996The Great White Hype as Mitchell Kane
1995Die Harald Schmidt Show as Self
1995Mr. Show with Bob and David as Civil War Narrator
1995Powder as Donald Ripley
1995Nine Months as Sean Fletcher
1995Dr. Katz, Professional Therapist as Jeff (voice)
1995The Making of 'Jurassic Park' as Self / Ian Malcolm
1995Hideaway as Hatch Harrison
1994Future Quest as Himself (Host)
1994Friends as Leonard Hayes
1994The Stand as Radio Announcer (uncredited)
1993The Real Jurassic Park as Narrator
1993Sesame Street Jam: A Musical Celebration as Self(segment "Monster in the Mirror")
1993Lush Life as Al gorky
1993Late Night with Conan O'Brien as Self - Guest
1993Jurassic Park as Malcolm
1993GMTV as Self
1992Shooting Elizabeth as Howard Pigeon
1992Fathers & Sons as Max
1992Terry Wogan's Friday Night as Self
1992The Larry Sanders Show as Jeff Goldblum
1992The Player as Jeff Goldblum
1992Deep Cover as David Jason
1992Robert Altman's Players as Self
1991The Favour, the Watch and the Very Big Fish as Pianist
1990Captain Planet and the Planeteers as Verminous Skumm (voice)
1990Framed as Wiley
1990Sing! Sesame Street Remembers Joe Raposo and His Music as Self
1990Mister Frost as Mr. Frost
1989The Simpsons as MacArthur Parker (voice)
1989Twisted Obsession as Daniel Gillis
1989The Fly II as Seth Brundle (archive footage) (uncredited)
1989The Tall Guy as Dexter King
1988Earth Girls Are Easy as Mac
1988LIVE with Kelly and Mark as Self
1988LIVE with Kelly and Mark as Self - Guest
1988Vibes as Nick Deezy
1987Life Story as Jim Watson
1987Beyond Therapy as Bruce
1987Long Live the New Flesh: The Films of David Cronenberg as Self (archive footage)
1986It's Garry Shandling's Show as Jeff Goldblum
1986The Fly as Seth Brundle
1986The Town Where No One Got Off as Cogswell
1986Bugs Bunny/Looney Tunes All-Star 50th Anniversary as Self
1985Transylvania 6-5000 as Jack Harrison
1985Silverado as Slick
1985The Ray Bradbury Theater as Cogswell
1985Into the Night as Ed Okin
1985B.B. King: Into the Night as Self
1984The Adventures of Buckaroo Banzai Across the 8th Dimension as New Jersey
1984Ernie Kovacs: Between the Laughter as Ernie Kovacs
1983The Right Stuff as NASA Recruiter
1983The Big Chill as Michael Gold
1982The Devlin Connection
1982Faerie Tale Theatre as Buck Wolf
1982Rehearsal for Murder as Leo Gibbs
1982American Playhouse
1981Threshold as Dr. Aldo Gehring
1980The Legend of Sleepy Hollow as Ichabod Crane
1980Tenspeed and Brown Shoe as Lionel Whitney
1978Invasion of the Body Snatchers as Jack Bellicec
1978Thank God It's Friday as Toni Di Marco
1978Remember My Name as Mr. Lee Nudd
1977Between the Lines as Max
1977Annie Hall as Lacey Party Guest
1977The Sentinel as Jack
1976Special Delivery as Snake
1976St. Ives as Hood
1976Next Stop, Greenwich Village as Clyde Baxter
1976Laverne & Shirley
1975Saturday Night Live as Self - Host
1975Starsky & Hutch
1975Nashville as Tricycle Man
1974California Split as Lloyd Harris
1974Death Wish as Freak #1
1971Columbo as Protester (uncredited)
1968The Dick Cavett Show as Self - Guest
1952Today as Self
1944Golden Globe Awards as Self - Presenter
—The Liar as Donald Trefusis
—The Price of Admission as Alexander Taft