16 Interesting Facts About Jeff Goldblum

1. #001

   Jeff Goldblum is a skilled pianist who plays most Wednesday nights with his band, The Mildred Snitzer Orchestra, at the Rockwell Club in Los Angeles.

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2. #003

   He was engaged to Laura Dern (1995-1997).

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3. #004

   He is the voice behind the iMac/iBook commercials for Apple Computer.

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4. #005

   His surname is often mispronounced because of its spelling; on a talk show he noted that it is pronounced Gold - 'bloom,' not Gold - 'blum.'.

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5. #008

   He can wiggle his ears one at a time. He demonstrated this ability on Late Night with Conan O'Brien (1993).

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6. #009

   He trained as an actor at New York City's prestigious Neighborhood Playhouse under the guidance of legendary acting coach Sanford Meisner.

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7. #012

   During the filming of Earth Girls Are Easy (1988), it took about two hours for him and his co-stars Damon Wayans and Jim Carrey to be made up as aliens. The trio also provided voices for some scenes.

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8. #015

   He appeared in The Fly (1986) with his then-girlfriend Geena Davis and in Jurassic Park (1993) with his future girlfriend Laura Dern. In both films, each actor's character says that "Something went wrong."

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9. #018

   He appeared with Laurence Fishburne in Deep Cover (1992). Early in their careers, both played thugs in the Death Wish series; Goldblum appeared in Death Wish (1974) and Fishburne in Death Wish II (1982).

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10. #019

    In 1983, Jeff Goldblum played comic relief in two films, each directed by the writer of Raiders of the Lost Ark (1981), and in each film his character, out of his element in a rural area, carefully asks whether there are any snakes around. The films are Philip Kaufman's The Right Stuff (1983) and Lawrence Kasdan's The Big Chill (1983).

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11. #021

    He was engaged to Catherine Wreford, a 23-year-old dancer from Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada.

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12. #022

    He nearly landed the role of Dr. David Blume in Blue Sunshine (1977), but lost it to Robert Walden because the director thought Goldblum and Zalman King looked too similar.

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13. #023

    He and his friend Peter Weller appeared in films by Woody Allen (Annie Hall (1977) and Mighty Aphrodite (1995)) and David Cronenberg (The Fly (1986) and Naked Lunch (1991)). He also played a member of a trio of outlaws in two Charles Bronson films: Death Wish (1974) and St. Ives (1976).

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14. #024

    Jeff Goldblum is friends with Ben Vereen.

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15. #025

    In the early 1990s, he appeared in several well-remembered advertisements for Holsten Pils beer in the United Kingdom.

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16. #026

    Jeff Goldblum was born at 23:00 EST.

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