Ariana Richards

Ariana Clarice Richards (born April 15th 1970) is an American former actress and painter. She's best known as Lex Murphy from the mega-hit film Jurassic Park. Richards has won numerous Young Artist Awards for her acting as a child but as an adult has been focusing on her art career. Ariana Richards represents a highly well-known American actress. Her name has gained a lot of attention in 1993, when she portrayed Lex Murphy, the main role in Jurrasic. She has been accoladed with various awards including Favorite Newcomer-Japan, United Kingdom Australia, the Bambi Award and a Young Artist Award. Ariana started to devote more time and effort to her creative lifestyle after 2013. In the years since, she's built an enormous fan base on Instagram which has more than 50 thousand followers. Skidmore College, where she was a 2001 graduate with distinctions in both Drama and Fine Art provided her with the chance to pursue art studies. Her art studies continued at Art Center College of Design Pasadena California. Ariana got engaged to Mark Aaron Bolton who is an former Irish Defence Forces stuntman turned soldier. In the month of January, 2015, the couple welcomed their baby. The couple did not reveal the baby's name until 2019. Ariana was born and raised in California. Ariana also has an acting sister, Bethany. Darielle is her film producer father. She was 7 years old at the time she made her first public appearance as a ballerina in commercial. Ariana has Italian heritage from her maternal side that go all the way back to Carlo Crivelli who was a popular Renaissance artist. Besides that she is also a descendant to fighter John L. Sullivan. In October 2005 she was named the finalist of the National Professional Oil Painting Competition which was organized by the American Artist publication. The first self-portrait Ariana created was a watercolor painting of her from scenes from the cult film Jurassic Park (1993) while she was holding a spoon and Jello, while a raptor crawls ahead of her. She started her YouTube channel GalleryAriana on the 16th of April 2012, where she posts portraits. In addition to Jurassic Park (1996), Ariana has appeared in numerous films that are notable, including Tremors(1990) as well as Spaced Invaders(1990) and Locked Up A Mother's Rage[1992] and Switched At Birth[1991and Switched At Birth[1991]. Ariana has one of her ponies named Kindred.