Ariana Richards

Ariana Richards is one of those people whose face is burned into pop culture history whether she gets full credit for it or not — she's Lex Murphy, the kid hacking the park systems while T. rexes and velociraptors are actively trying to eat her in Jurassic Park, and she absolutely nailed it at thirteen years old. That bathroom scene alone is iconic. What I genuinely find interesting about her story, though, is the path she took after: she stepped back from Hollywood, went to Skidmore College, and rebuilt herself as a fine artist. She's not coasting on nostalgia — she paints, she shows work, she runs her own gallery site. It's a quietly confident move, and I respect it more than another decade of chasing the child-star spotlight would have been.

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Name (English)

Ariana Richards

Name (Japanese)

アリアナ・リチャーズ

Reading

ありあな・りちゃーず

Born

December 11, 1979 (age 46)

Zodiac / Chinese zodiac

Sagittarius / Goat

Origin

Healdsburg, California, United States

Occupation

actor / painter / television actor / film actor

University

Skidmore College

• Official sitehttps://www.galleryariana.com/
• Instagramhttps://www.instagram.com/arianarichards/
• Xhttps://x.com/galleryariana
• Wikipedia (English)https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ariana%20Richards
• Wikipedia (Japanese)https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E3%82%A2%E3%83%AA%E3%82%A2%E3%83%8A%E3%83%BB%E3%83%AA%E3%83%81%E3%83%A3%E3%83%BC%E3%82%BA
• Wikidatahttps://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q264559

Tags

• California
• actor
• painter
• television actor

Last updated

2026-06-02

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