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Ariana Richards

Ariana Richards is perhaps best known as the young female lead of Steven Spielberg's mega-blockbuster Jurassic Park.

Born in the Sonoma Valley town of Healdsburg, California, Richards began her career as a child model, and quickly landed her first acting role in the long running television series The Golden Girls.

She went on to star in a number of series, including a regular role opposite Richard Chamberlain in Island Son. She starred with Walter Matthau in the Emmy Award winning telefilm The Incident, and with Bonnie Bedelia in the riveting mini-series Switched at Birth, for which she won acclaim for her portrayal of a child who discovers she belongs, biologically, to another family.

Additional screen credits include starring roles in Tremors, Disaster in Time, Prancer and Spaced Invaders, which was directed by Patrick Read Johnson.

On stage, she appeared opposite Alan Alda and Kathy Bates in the West Coast production of Neil Simon's Jake's Women.At fifteen, she's a professional graphic artist when she's not filming and spends free time in competitive jumping with her Hanovarian Thoroughbred, Sundancer. She is a sponsor for the Starlight Foundation for children.


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Ariana Richards Facts

Birth NameAriana Clarice Richards
OccupationActress
BirthdaySeptember 11, 1979 (30)
SignVirgo
BirthplaceHealdsburg, California, USA
Height5' 5" (1m65)

Selected Filmography

Prancer
Jurassic Park
Princess Stallion
Tremors
The Girls Next Door
The Lost World
Spaced Invaders
Random Hearts
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