Ariana Richards

Acting

Ariana Richards

Born September 11, 1979 · Healdsburg, California, USA (age 47)

Ariana Clarice Richards is an American award-winning painter and actress. She is best known for her role as Lex Murphy in the blockbuster film Jurassic Park. She won several Young Artist Awards for her acting as a child, but as an adult has focused primarily on her art career.

Known For

Jurassic ParkJurassic Park · 1993
Jurassic Park
★ 8.01993
MovieAdventureScience Fiction
A wealthy entrepreneur secretly creates a theme park featuring living dinosaurs drawn from prehistoric DNA. Before opening day, he invites a team of experts and his two eager grandchildren to experience the park and help calm anxious investors. However, the park is anything but amusing as the security systems go off-line and the dinosaurs escape.
TremorsTremors · 1990
Tremors
★ 7.01990
MovieComedyHorror
Val McKee and Earl Bassett are in a fight for their lives when they discover that their desolate town has been infested with gigantic, man-eating creatures that live below the ground.
The Pixar StoryThe Pixar Story · 2007
The Pixar Story
★ 7.52007
MovieDocumentary
A look at the first years of Pixar Animation Studios - from the success of "Toy Story" and Pixar's promotion of talented people, to the building of its East Bay campus, the company's relationship with Disney, and its remarkable initial string of eight hits. The contributions of John Lasseter, Ed Catmull and Steve Jobs are profiled. The decline of two-dimensional animation is chronicled as three-dimensional animation rises. Hard work and creativity seem to share the screen in equal proportions.
Tremors 3: Back to PerfectionTremors 3: Back to Perfection · 2001
Tremors 3: Back to Perfection
★ 5.82001
MovieComedyHorror
Survivalist Burt Gummer returns home to Perfection, to find that the little town has been shaken up again by morphing, man-eating Graboids.
I'm Gonna Git You SuckaI'm Gonna Git You Sucka · 1988
I'm Gonna Git You Sucka
★ 6.41988
MovieComedyAction
Jack Spade returns from the army in his old ghetto neighbourhood when his brother, June Bug, dies. Jack declares war on Mr. Big, powerful local crimelord. His army is led by John Slade, his childhood idol who used to fight bad guys in the 70s.
TimescapeTimescape · 1992
Timescape
★ 6.41992
MovieScience FictionAdventure
Before they can complete renovations on their new country inn, a widowed father and his young daughter are visited by a strange group of tourists. He soon makes a chilling discovery: they are disaster junkies from the future who visit the past to witness history's greatest catastrophes—and his small town is their next stop.
Spaced InvadersSpaced Invaders · 1990
Spaced Invaders
★ 4.81990
MovieComedyFamily
A crew of Martians overhears a radio broadcast of Orson Welles' "War of the Worlds" coming from Earth, and, thinking the Martian fleet is attacking Earth, they land their broken-down ship in a backwater mid-American town. As luck would have it, they land on Halloween and get mistaken for trick-or-treaters. Comedy ensues as the Martians try to get taken seriously.
PrancerPrancer · 1989
Prancer
★ 6.21989
MovieFamilyDrama
Jessica, the daughter of an impoverished apple farmer, still believes in Santa Claus. So when she comes across a reindeer with an injured leg, it makes perfect sense to her to assume that it is Prancer, who had fallen from a Christmas display in town. She hides the reindeer in her barn and feeds it cookies, until she can return it to Santa. Her father finds the reindeer and decides to sell it to the butcher, not for venison chops, but as an advertising display.

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Island SonIsland Son · 1989
Island Son
★ 7.51989
SeriesDrama
Island Son is a CBS television medical drama during its 1989-90 schedule. Island Son marked the return to regular weekly series television of Richard Chamberlain, who had not so appeared since his Dr. Kildare series almost 25 years earlier. In the interim he had enjoyed a somewhat successful career in feature films, and had become widely known as "The King of the Miniseries" due to his success in that format. Chamberlain once again portrayed a dedicated medical doctor, Dr. Daniel Kulani. Kulani was born in Hawaii and practiced on the mainland for many years prior to his return to work at the fictional Kamehameha Medical Center in Honolulu. Kulani's complicated life involved his stressful work environment; his adoptive parents, Tutu and Nana; his 18-year-old son, Sam; and his love interest, high school drama teacher Nina Delaney. Dr. Kulani's complicated life was never resolved to the satisfaction of the viewers because the program was canceled in March 1990.