Born in Pittsburgh, PA; trained at the Neighborhood Playhouse, New York, under Sanford Meisner. Tall, gangly, stage-trained character lead best known for playing quirky neurotics and likeable oddballs often too smart or too innocent for their own good. Goldblum made his film debut as a rapist in DEATH WISH (1974) and followed up with a bit part as a frustrated actor in Robert Altman's CALIFORNIA SPLIT (1974). In Altman's NASHVILLE (1975), he played the more substantial role of a silent motorcyclist/magician. Goldblum did an indelible bit in Woody Allen's ANNIE HALL (1977) as a nervous LA party guest overheard fretting on the telephone that he'd forgotten his mantra. Goldblum detoured to TV with "Tenspeed and Brown Shoe" (ABC, 1980), a superior detective comedy co-starring Ben Vereen. The show presented Goldblum as a hopelessly square stockbroker-turned-PI who narrated each episode with hilariously maladroit hardboiled voiceovers. A busy actor, Goldblum circulated among TV, theater and features throughout the 80s. He stood out as the somewhat sleazy People journalist in Lawrence Kasdan's THE BIG CHILL (1983). Goldblum's varied gifts for conveying intelligence, wide-eyed superciliousness, glib disingenuousness and dark intensity have served him well in roles ranging from the treacherous frontier cardshark in Kasdan's SILVERADO (1985) to his heartbreaking and critically acclaimed portrayal of a scientist-turned-insect in David Cronenberg's remake of THE FLY (1986). The intense rapport between Goldblum and co-star Geena Davis transformed the horror film into a deeply moving romance. Goldblum appeared in several eccentric British features and French co-productions in the late 80s and early 90s, including the engaging British comedy, THE TALL GUY (1989), wherein he played an insecure American actor struggling in the London theater. He returned to Hollywood features in 1992 with a showy turn as a Jewish yuppie lawyer turned bigtime drug dealer in Bill Duke's DEEP COVER (1992), a cameo as himself in Altman's THE PLAYER (1992), and a sober change-of-pace performance as a father raising an adolescent son in FATHERS AND SONS. Goldblum was perfectly cast as the eccentric black-clad mathematician Ian Malcolm in Steven Spielberg's adaptation of JURASSIC PARK (1993), a role he reprised in THE LOST WORLD: JURASSIC PARK (1997). He and Will Smith saved the planet in INDEPENDENCE DAY (1996). Other notable screen credits include HOLY MAN and THE PRINCE OF EGYPT (voice of Aaron) (both 1998), AUGGIE ROSE, CHAIN OF FOOLS and ONE OF THE HOLLYWOOD TEN (all 2000), PERFUME (also exec. producer), CATS & DOGS and DARKER SAINTS (all 2001), RUN RONNIE RUN! and IGBY GOES DOWN (both 2002), SPINNING BOOTS and DALLAS 362 (both 2003), INCIDENT AT LOCH NESS and THE LIFE AQUATIC WITH STEVE ZISSOU (both 2004), MINI'S FIRST TIME, FAY GRIM and MAN OF THE YEAR (all 2006), and ADAM RESURRECTED (2008). He directed "Little Surprises" (1995, TV), and he was a production executive on PERFUME (2001) and PITTSBURGH (2006). Goldblum performs in a jazz band called The Mildred Snitzer Orchestra with actor Peter Weller at local clubs in L.A. He was married to actress Patricia Gaul from 1980 until 1986. He was married to actress Geena Davis from 1987 until 1990, and was engaged to actress Laura Dern from 1995 until 1997.  Nominated for Achievement in Live Action Short Films 1995: LITTLE SURPRISES - Producer (w. Tikki Goldberg) 1 nomination