The Successful Career: Start Out as a Fly, End Up As a Star

Jeff Goldblum has had a great career as an actor, comedian and Jazz musician (in 2014, Goldbum's group, the Mildred Snitzer Orchestra, did a run at the Carlyle Hotel in New York). His latest appearance was this great "Enhance Your Lighting" commercial from GE above. In the video, Goldblum plays a nauseating super star with a full mane of perfect hair, a perfect house with combined music room/hot tub, and the perfect reactions to his collection of toadys. It's a great send up of our star-struck culture and obsession with success.



In 1986, Golblum received the Saturn Award for Best Actor in The Fly. In the movie, he plays a brilliant scientists who conducts an experiment on human teleportation which goes wrong when a fly gets into his teleportation chamber.


In 1993, Goldbum received another Saturn Award for Best Supporting Actor when he played another scientist studying Chaos Theory (a Chaotician) in Jurrasic Park.