-Carrie

I created this page because I think that the talent of this man deserves an exceptional place in our world. I have been slightly disappointed on the lack of websites devoted to Jeff..

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Jeff's Bio

Name: Jeff Lynn Goldblum

Age: 46 Years Old (soon to be 47)

Birthday: October 22nd, 1952

Sign: Sun in Libra, Moon in Sagittarius

Home: Hollywood Hills in Los Angeles, California

Hometown: Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania

Height: 6'4" - some reports say 6'5"

Education: High School, New York City's Neighborhood Playhouse, Carnegie Mellon Universitydrama program

Start: He moved to New York to study acting at age 17,studied in New York at the Neighborhood Playhouse under the famed Sanford Meisner..

Stage: Jeff's first notable stage role was as a guard in Joe Papp's New York production of Two Gentlemen of Verona.

While performing in the comic review El Grande de Coca Cola, Goldblum was spotted by director Robert Altman, who cast him in small roles in California Split (1974) and in the ensemble movie Nashville (1975).

From then he on, he was cast in many comedy films before his big films, Jurassic Park and Independence Day.

Awards:

1983: Star of Tomorrow Award. Presented by the National Association of Theater Owners.

1987: Saturn Award for Best Actor in "The Fly"

Nominated for an Academy Award: Best director in a live action short for his film "Little Surprises."

Significant Others:

Patricia Gaul: An actress who was in "The Big Chill". Married 1980; divorced.

Geena Davis: Met during the filming of Transylvania 6-5000 (1985); costarred in The Fly(1986); married November 1, 1987; costarred in Earth Girls Are Easy (1989); filed for divorce October 1990.

Laura Dern: Actress. Met during 1992 filming of Steven Spielberg's Jurassic Park (1993); engaged on December 25, 1994; reportedly separated by December 1996. They were never married.

Parents: Doctor Harold Goldblum (deceased)& Shirley. Jeff was the third of four children.

Siblings: Jeff has two brothers Rick,who died at the age of 23 of kidney failure when Jeff was 19, and a brother, Lee who is a real estate agent in Pittsburgh. His sister, Pamela Goldblum, is an artist and an actress.

Other employment: Jeff occasionally teaches acting at a school in Los Angeles, Jeff and other Meisner alumni founded a workshop where they continued to perfect their acting skills. Called Playhouse West, it's now a formal acting school in North Hollywood. Schedule permitting, Goldblum teached as many as three sessions a week of improv exercises and scene-study classes.

Hobbies: Jeff enjoys Jazz Music (as do I). He and some of his friends (one being Peter Weller from the movie "Buckaroo Banzai"and "Leviathan") have their own informal band. Jeff plays the piano and sings on occasion. You won't find them touring near you. They can be found on Monday nights at an exclusive club in Los Angeles.

Jeff began playing piano at age 10, and still spends an hour or two a day on the ivories....

"I was always musical, but I progressed in an average way until I discovered jazz - then I'd play. It was so free." (InStyle Mag.7/96)

Charitable Work:End Hunger Network

An organization that helps America's hungry children. Jeff is on the board of directors.

Jeff designed T-shirts and a blockbuster gift card recently to help support this organization. The T-shirts can be purchased at Angelwear.com