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).

Filmography

• 2026Henry David Thoreau — Henry David Thoreau (voice)
• Henry David Thoreau — Henry David Thoreau (voice)
• 2025Wicked: For Good — The Wonderful Wizard of Oz
• KAOS — Zeus
• 2024Wicked — The Wonderful Wizard of Oz
• 2023Asteroid City — The Alien
• 2023They Shot the Piano Player — Jeff Harris (voice)
• 2022Fiddler's Journey to the Big Screen — Narrator
• 2022Jurassic World Dominion — Ian Malcolm
• 2021Beauty and the Beast: A Comic Relief Pantomime for Christmas — A Table
• 2021The Boss Baby: Family Business — Dr. Armstrong (voice)
• What If...? — Grandmaster (voice)
• 2019Sesame Street: 50 Years and Counting — Minneapolis Johnson (archive footage)
• 2019The Mountain — Dr. Wallace Fiennes
• The World According to Jeff Goldblum — Self, Executive Producer
• 2018Hotel Artemis — Orian "Wolf King" Franklin / Niagara
• 2018Isle of Dogs — Duke (voice)
• 2018Jurassic World: Fallen Kingdom — Ian Malcolm
• 2018Team Darryl — En Dwi Gast / Grandmaster
• Big Mouth — The Apple Brooch
• 2017Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 2 — En Dwi Gast / Grandmaster (uncredited)
• 2017Jeff Goldblum: Basic Bro
• 2017Miyubi — The Creator
• 2017Thor: Ragnarok — Grandmaster
• 2017Tour de Pharmacy — Marty Hass Present Day
• 2016Independence Day: Resurgence — David Levinson
• 2016Resurgence: It's Early Albuquerque — David Levinson
• Search Party — Tunnel
• 2016The War of 1996: A United World News Special — David Levinson
• 2015Mortdecai — Milton Krampf
• Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt — Dr. Dave
• 2015Unity — Narrator (voice)
• Last Week Tonight with John Oliver — Detective Zach Nichols
• 2014The Grand Budapest Hotel — Deputy Kovacs
• 2013Le Week-End — Morgan
• 2012The Savoy King: Chick Webb & the Music That Changed America — Artie Shaw (voice)
• 2012Tim and Eric's Billion Dollar Movie — Chef Goldblum
• 2012Zambezia — Ajax (voice)
• NTSF:SD:SUV:: — Gunnar Geirhart
• Portlandia — Vocal Coach, The Pull-Out King, The Doily Shoppe Proprietor, Beet Accident Man
• 2010Morning Glory — Jerry Barnes
• 2010The Switch — Leonard
• Glee — Hiram Berry
• The League — Rupert Ruxin
• 2008Adam Resurrected — Adam Stein
• 2007Fay Grim — Agent Fulbright
• Raines — Michael Raines
• 2006Man of the Year — Stewart
• 2006Mini's First Time — Mike Rudell
• 2006Pittsburgh — Producer
• 2005Dallas 362 — Bob
• Movies That Shook the World
• 2004The Life Aquatic with Steve Zissou — Alistair Hennessey
• Tom Goes to the Mayor — Bill Joel (voice)
• 2003Abby Singer — Jeff Goldblum (uncredited)
• DNA — Narrator
• 2003Spinning Boris — George Gorton
• 2003War Stories — Ben Dansmore
• 2002Igby Goes Down — D.H.
• 2002One of the Hollywood Ten — Herbert Biberman
• 2002Robbie the Reindeer: Legend of the Lost Tribe — White Rabbit (voice)
• 2002Saturday Night Live: The Best of Will Ferrell — Dr. Ken Waller (archive footage)
• 2001Cats & Dogs — Professor Brody
• 2001Chain of Fools — Avnet
• Law & Order: Criminal Intent — Zach Nichols
• 2001Perfume — Jamie, Executive Producer
• Primetime Glick
• 2000Altman on His Own Terms — Narrator / Self
• 2000Auggie Rose — John Nolan
• 2000Welcome to Hollywood — Jeff Goldblum
• 1999Playboy: Playmate Pajama Party
• When Dinosaurs Ruled
• 1998Holy Man — Ricky Hayman
• 1998The Prince of Egypt — Aaron (voice)
• Will & Grace — Scott Woolley
• King of the Hill — Dr. Vayzosa (voice)
• 1997The Lost World: Jurassic Park — Ian Malcolm
• 1996Independence Day — David Levinson
• 1996Little Surprises — Director
• 1996Mad Dog Time — Mickey Holliday
• 1996The Great White Hype — Mitchell Kane
• Dr. Katz, Professional Therapist — Jeff (voice), Additional Writing
• 1995Hideaway — Hatch Harrison
• Mr. Show with Bob and David — Civil War Narrator
• 1995Nine Months — Sean Fletcher
• 1995Powder — Donald Ripley
• Friends — Leonard Hayes
• The Stand — Radio Announcer (uncredited)
• 1993Jurassic Park — Malcolm
• 1993Lush Life — Al gorky
• 1993The Real Jurassic Park — Narrator
• 1992Deep Cover — David Jason
• 1992Fathers & Sons — Max
• 1992Shooting Elizabeth — Howard Pigeon
• The Larry Sanders Show — Jeff Goldblum
• 1992The Player — Jeff Goldblum
• 1991The Favour, the Watch and the Very Big Fish — Pianist
• Captain Planet and the Planeteers — Verminous Skumm (voice)
• 1990Framed — Wiley
• 1990Mr. Frost — Mr. Frost
• The Word
• 1989The Fly II — Seth Brundle (archive footage) (uncredited)
• The Simpsons — MacArthur Parker (voice)
• 1989The Tall Guy — Dexter King
• 1989Twisted Obsession — Daniel Gillis
• 1988Earth Girls Are Easy — Mac
• 1988Vibes — Nick Deezy
• 1987Beyond Therapy — Bruce
• 1987Life Story — Jim Watson
• It's Garry Shandling's Show — Jeff Goldblum
• 1986The Fly — Seth Brundle
• 1986The Town Where No One Got Off — Cogswell
• 1985Into the Night — Ed Okin
• 1985Silverado — Slick
• The Ray Bradbury Theater — Cogswell
• 1985Transylvania 6-5000 — Jack Harrison
• 1984Ernie Kovacs: Between the Laughter — Ernie Kovacs
• 1984The Adventures of Buckaroo Banzai Across the 8th Dimension — New Jersey
• 1983The Big Chill — Michael Gold
• 1983The Right Stuff — NASA Recruiter
• American Playhouse — Murray
• Faerie Tale Theatre — Buck Wolf
• 1982Rehearsal for Murder — Leo Gibbs
• The Devlin Connection
• 1981Threshold — Dr. Aldo Gehring
• Tenspeed and Brown Shoe — Lionel Whitney
• 1980The Legend of Sleepy Hollow — Ichabod Crane
• 1978Invasion of the Body Snatchers — Jack Bellicec
• 1978Remember My Name — Mr. Lee Nudd
• 1978Thank God It's Friday — Toni Di Marco
• 1977Annie Hall — Lacey Party Guest
• 1977Between the Lines — Max
• 1977The Sentinel — Jack
• Laverne & Shirley — Jeffery
• 1976Next Stop, Greenwich Village — Clyde Baxter
• 1976Special Delivery — Snake
• 1976St. Ives — Hood
• 1975Nashville — Tricycle Man
• Starsky & Hutch
• 1974California Split — Lloyd Harris
• 1974Death Wish — Freak #1
• Columbo — Protester (uncredited)
• Sesame Street — Minneapolis Johnson
• Monster Maker — Self, Writer
• The Liar — Donald Trefusis
• The Price of Admission — Alexander Taft

Appearances as themselves (100)

• Saturday Night Live UK — Self - Host
• The Claudia Winkleman Show — Self
• 2025Making Wicked: For Good — Self
• 2025Meister der Apokalypse - Roland Emmerich — Self
• 2025Wicked: For Good - A Sneak Peek — Self
• 2025Wicked: One Wonderful Night — Self
• 2024Defying Gravity: The Curtain Rises on Wicked — Self
• 2024Henry Mancini: 100 at the Hollywood Bowl — Self - Host
• 2024Making Wicked — Self
• De Avondshow met Arjen Lubach — Self
• 2022Jurassic Greatest Moments: Jurassic Park to Jurassic World — Self
• Sunday with Laura Kuenssberg — Self
• LEGO Masters — Self
• 2020Time Warp Vol. 1: Midnight Madness — Self
• 2020Time Warp Vol. 2: Horror and Sci-Fi — Self
• Time Warp: The Greatest Cult Films of All Time — Self
• 2019#NoJoke — Self
• 2019Jenny Lewis' On The Line Online — Self
• 2019Peanuts in Space: Secrets of Apollo 10 — Self
• The Kelly Clarkson Show — Self
• 2018A Place We Call Reality — Self (uncredited)
• 2018Always at The Carlyle — Self
• 2018Fallen Kingdom: Malcolm's Return — Self
• 2018Fallen Kingdom: The Conversation — Self
• James Cameron's Story of Science Fiction — Self
• 2018Seth Rogen's Hilarity for Charity — Self
• 2017Spielberg — Self
• 2017The Fabulous Allan Carr — Self (archive footage)
• 2016Another Day: The Making of 'Independence Day: Resurgence' — Self
• 2016Stephen Colbert's Live Election Night Democracy's Series Finale — Self
• Hot Ones — Self
• StarTalk with Neil deGrasse Tyson — Self
• The Late Late Show with James Corden — Self, Self - Guest
• The Late Show with Stephen Colbert — Self, Self - Guest
• Late Night with Seth Meyers — Self - Guest/Musical Guest
• The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon — Self - Guest
• Finding Your Roots — Self
• 2011Return to Jurassic Park — Self
• Conan — Self, Self - Guest
• Late Night with Jimmy Fallon — Self
• RuPaul's Drag Race — Self - Guest Judge
• Watch What Happens Live with Andy Cohen — Self - Guest
• Head Case — Self
• The Graham Norton Show — Self, Self - Guest
• 2007The Making of 'Fay Grim' or: How Do You Spell Espionage? — Himself
• Tim and Eric Awesome Show, Great Job! — Self
• The One Show — Self
• 2005Fear of the Flesh: The Making of The Fly — Self
• 2005Matthew Gray Gubler's Life Aquatic Intern Journal — Self
• 2005On the Set: 'The Life Aquatic with Steve Zissou' — Self / Alistair
• The Colbert Report — Self, Self - Guest
• The Late Late Show with Craig Ferguson — Self
• 2005This Is an Adventure — Self
• 2004Hollywood's Creepiest Creatures — Self
• 2004Incident at Loch Ness — Self - Party Guest
• 2004Stories of Lost Souls — Himself
• 2003100 Greatest Sexy Moments — Self
• Jimmy Kimmel Live! — Self, Self - Guest Host/Musical Guest
• 2003Realizing The Right Stuff — Self
• 2003Supermarket — Self
• The Ellen DeGeneres Show — Self
• Ant & Dec's Saturday Night Takeaway — Self
• 2002Buckaroo Banzai Declassified — Self
• 2002Run Ronnie Run — Self
• Top Gear — Self - Star in a Reasonably-Priced Car
• 2001Festival in Cannes — Self (uncredited)
• 2001Playboy Mansion Parties Uncensored — Self
• 1999From Star Wars to Star Wars: The Story of Industrial Light & Magic — Self
• 1999Playmate Pajama Party — self
• 1999The Big Chill: A Reunion — Self
• 1999The Prince of Egypt: From Dream to Screen — Self (archive footage)
• 1998Roswell Top Secret — Self
• Glastonbury — Self
• 1997Hollywood Dreamers — Self
• Nachtstudio — Self
• 1997The Making of 'The Lost World' — Self
• 1997The Story of Bean — Self
• The View — Self
• 1996Independence Day: The ID4 Invasion — Self
• 1996The Making of 'Independence Day' — Self - Host
• Die Harald Schmidt Show — Self
• 1995The Making of 'Jurassic Park' — Self / Ian Malcolm
• Future Quest — Himself (Host)
• GMTV — Self
• Late Night with Conan O'Brien — Self - Guest
• Late Show with David Letterman — Self - Guest
• 1993Sesame Street's 25th Birthday: A Musical Celebration — Self (segment "Monster in the Mirror")
• 1992Robert Altman's Players — Self
• Terry Wogan's Friday Night — Self
• 1990Sing! Sesame Street Remembers Joe Raposo and His Music — Self
• LIVE with Kelly and Mark — Self, Self - Guest
• 1987Long Live the New Flesh: The Films of David Cronenberg — Self (archive footage)
• 1986Looney Tunes 50th Anniversary — Self
• 1985B.B. King: Into the Night — Self
• Saturday Night Live — Self - Host
• The Dick Cavett Show — Self - Guest
• The Grammys — Self
• Today — Self
• Golden Globe Awards — Self - Presenter
• Broadway: The Next Generation — Self