Jeff Goldblum

He married actress Patricia Gaul in on July 4, 1980 but the couple got divorced in 1986. They had starred in the film ‘Silverado (1985)

On November 1, 1987 he got married for the second time to actress Geena Davis, his co-star of two films - ‘Transylvania 6-5000’ (1985) and ‘The Fly’ (1986). After their marriage, the couple did the 1988 film ‘Earth Girls Are Easy’ together. The couple took divorce on October 17, 1990.

From 1995 to 1997 he was engaged to Laura Dern.

Jeffrey Lynn Goldblum was born on October 22, 1952, in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania in a Jewish family to Harold L. Goldblum and Shirlee as one of their four children. His father was a doctor while his mother was a radio broadcaster and an entrepreneur of a kitchen appliances firm.

He was a member of an orthodox synagogue in his childhood. He attended the ‘Taylor Allderdice High School’ in Pittsburgh. He had a passion for acting from young age and toop up drama at the ‘Carnegie Mellon University’ during summer sessions.

At seventeen he moved to New York to pursue acting. He joined the famous ‘Neighbourhood Playhouse’ and attended acting lessons under Sanford Meisner while working on stage.

He is a skilled piano player and according to him he would have been a musician if not an actor.

His first stage performance in ‘Broadway’ was in the musical ‘Two Gentlemen of Verona’.

He made his film debut in 1974 with the brutal revenge story of ‘Death Wish’ where he essayed the role of a rapist ‘Freak # 1’. Moving further, he did small roles in films such as ‘California Split’ (1974), ‘Special Delivery’ (1976), ‘Next Stop, Greenwich Village’ (1976), ‘Annie Hall’ (1977) and in the remake ‘Invasion of the Body Snatchers’ (1978) .

At the same time, he made appearances in television featuring in each episode of ‘Columbo’ (1975), ‘The Blue Knight’ (1976) and ‘Starsky & Hutch” (1977).

His first television movie was ‘The Legend of Sleepy Hollow’ (released in 1980). In the same year he played Lionel Whitney in the television detective series ‘Tenspeed and Brown Shoe’.

His film career started taking off in the 1980s. In 1983, he received favourable reviews for his role Michael Gold in the film ‘The Big Chill’ which was followed by the classic cult film ‘The Adventures of Buckaroo Banzai Across the 8th Dimension’ in 1984. In 1985, he earned lead roles in two films - ‘Silverado’ and ‘Into The Night’.

This popular Hollywood actor has an unusual talent of wiggling his ears one at a time.