Ariana Richards

The actress who played Lex Murphy, now a painter.

Ariana Richards, born September 11, 1979 in Healdsburg, California, is an American actress and painter best known for playing Lex Murphy in the 1993 film Jurassic Park, a role she briefly reprised in The Lost World: Jurassic Park. She started acting in a 1987 episode of The Golden Girls and the same year made her film debut in the cable movie Into the Homeland; she also played Mindy Sterngood in Tremors and returned for Tremors 3: Back to Perfection, and appeared in Prancer and Angus. As a child she won several Young Artist Awards. As an adult she has concentrated on painting landscapes and figures in an impressionist manner, and in October 2005 her painting Lady of the Dahlias took first place in the National Professional Oil Painting Competition. In 2014 VH1 ranked her No. 98 among its 100 Greatest Child Stars.