Which actor played Ian Malcolm in the 1993 film Jurassic Park?

Which actor played Ian Malcolm in the 1993 film Jurassic Park? Jeff Goldblum played him.

Ian Malcolm is a mathematician and chaos-theory specialist invited to evaluate John Hammond’s dinosaur park. His skepticism makes him the film’s sharpest critic of Hammond’s belief that complex living systems can be completely controlled.

Goldblum’s performance helped make Malcolm one of the franchise’s most recognizable characters. The role combines dry humor, rapid-fire observations, and visible fear once the park’s systems begin to fail. The character originated in Michael Crichton’s 1990 novel, but the film version became especially associated with Goldblum.

A common mix-up is confusing Malcolm with Alan Grant, the paleontologist played by Sam Neill, or with Richard Attenborough’s John Hammond. Goldblum returned as Malcolm in The Lost World: Jurassic Park and later reprised the role in Jurassic World: Fallen Kingdom and Jurassic World Dominion.