After High School he studied acting at New York City's Neighborhood Playhouse and the Carnegie Mellon University summer drama program.

Jeff is rumored to have studied piano with a Pittsburgh jazz pianist by the name of Frank Cunimondo.

Big Move: He moved to New York to study acting at age 17, working with the legendary Sanford Meisner.

Roots in acting: Jeff's first notable stage role was as a guard in Joe Papp's New York production of Two Gentlemen of Verona.

While performing in the comic review El Grande de Coca Cola, Goldblum was spotted by director Robert Altman, who cast him in small roles in California Split (1974) and in the ensemble movie Nashville (1975). From then he on, he was cast in many comedy films before his big films, Jurassic and Independence Day.

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