Jeff Goldblum is a renowned actor and jazz musician. He is well known for his work in high-grossing movies from the 1990's to present day and has starred in such movies as Jurrassic Park (1993), Independence Day (1996) and . His movie career really began in the 1980's but he has continued to pursue his other interests such as performing with his Jazz band The Mildred Snitzer Orchestra who tour to this day. He has said that he has always been passionate about becoming an actor and if he had not pursued the interest he would have turned to the Jazz piano or even become a teacher. He said he kept his passion for acting a secret until moving from Pitsborough to New York when he was 17 where he began to learn at the neighbourhood playhouse a prestigious acting academy who the likes of Sandra Bullock, Steve McQueen and Naomi Watts studied at.
Goldblum later went on to open an acting school of his own in collaboration with, Robert Carnegie in 1981-they opened the Playhouse West. Goldblum later started teaching there having Jim Carrey among some of his famous pupils. Jeff has become synonymous with his acting style and delivery of lines in his roles with his personality bleeding through into a lot of the roles he portrays, this has lead to a lot of his roles since rising to fame becomming quite unique to him, with Taiti Wailiti, the director of Thor: Ragnarok, stating that the role of Grandmaster in the movie was made with Goldblum in mind with one quote stating that "I want Jeff Goldblum in makeup for that role." This delivery was said to be found when filming 1978's Invasion of the Body Snatchers where a Jeff distorted one of the lines which the director appreciated and Jeff took on as his rhythm.
With all of this in mind its hard to deny Jeff Goldblum is a stand-up guy who has a lot of talent for acting taking into account he has had over 123 (and counting) credits as an actor, and here's to hoping there's many more roles with Jeff in mind still to come!
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