Ariana Richards

Ariana Richards is an American painter and actress best known as Lex Murphy in Jurassic Park, a role she briefly reprised in The Lost World: Jurassic Park.

Her other work includes Mindy Sterngood in Tremors and Tremors 3: Back to Perfection, and Carol Wetherby in Prancer. As a painter, she won first place in the National Professional Oil Painting Competition, sponsored by American Artist magazine, in 2005 for Lady of the Dahlias.

Born in Healdsburg, California in 1979, she made her acting debut in an episode of The Golden Girls in 1987.