---
name: "Ariana Richards"
canonical: "https://film.one/person/ariana-richards"
fi1m_id: "ariana-richards"
imdb_id: "nm0000611"
tmdb_id: 4788
wikidata_id: "Q264559"
roles: ["Actor"]
born: "11 September 1979"
reviewed_on_fi1m: 4
average_fi1m_score: 81
average_as: "actor"
average_over: 4
updated: "2026-09-19T16:21:32.486033+00:00"
licence: "© Fi1m Ltd. Written by AI under a human editor; checked against sources before publication. Quote with attribution and a link to the canonical URL."
---

# Ariana Richards

## Identity

Ariana Richards

- **Canonical:** https://film.one/person/ariana-richards
- **Type:** Person
- **Fi1m ID:** ariana-richards
- **IMDb ID:** nm0000611
- **TMDB ID:** 4788
- **Wikidata ID:** Q264559
- **Same entity:** https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ariana_Richards, https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q264559, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0000611/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/4788

Actor. Born 11 September 1979 in Healdsburg, California, USA.

## Details

- **Work:** Actor
- **Born:** 11 September 1979, Healdsburg, California, USA
- **Active:** 1985–1997
- **Also known as:** Ariana Clarice Richards, آریانا ریچاردز
- **Average Fi1m score:** 81, as actor, over 4 titles
- **Fi1m score by decade:** 1980s 88 (1), 1990s 79 (3)
- **Fi1m against the critics:** 79 to 72 across 3 titles
- **Score spread:** 3 at 80+, 1 at 60–79, 0 under 60
- **Lead roles:** 0 of 2 acting credits billed first or second
- **Genres:** Science Fiction 3, Adventure 2, Comedy 2, Action 1, Horror 1
- **Screen time:** 6 hours of reviewed films
- **Box office:** $1,726m across 3 films with figures
- **Elsewhere:** https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ariana_Richards, https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q264559, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0000611/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/4788

## Streaming the US now

- **AMC+:** [*Jurassic Park*](https://film.one/film/jurassic-park.md) (91)
- **Peacock:** [*Tremors*](https://film.one/film/tremors.md) (82)

For United States; add `?region=XX` for another country.

## Biography

Ariana Richards is an American actress and painter. Born on 11 September 1979 in Healdsburg, California, she began acting as a child and appeared in films including *Tremors* (1990) as Mindy Sterngood and *Jurassic Park* (1993) as Lex Murphy.

She reprised the role of Lex briefly in *The Lost World: Jurassic Park* (1997) and returned to the character in *Tremors 3: Back to Perfection* (2001). Richards won several Young Artist Awards for her performances as a child actor.

As an adult she has focused primarily on her painting career, producing landscapes and figures in an impressionist style.

*Sources: en.wikipedia.org, imdb.com.*

## On Fi1m (4)

- *The Lost World: Jurassic Park* (1997), Fi1m 64, as Lex — [page](https://film.one/film/the-lost-world-jurassic-park.md)
- *Jurassic Park* (1993), Fi1m 91, as Lex — [page](https://film.one/film/jurassic-park.md)
- *Tremors* (1990), Fi1m 82, as Mindy Sterngood — [page](https://film.one/film/tremors.md)
- *The Golden Girls* (1985), Fi1m 88, as Lisa — [page](https://film.one/tv/the-golden-girls.md)

## Complete filmography (24)

Every credit, newest first. Titles without a page can be requested for review on the HTML page.

- *Battledogs* (2013), as Donna Voorhees
- *The Pixar Story* (2007), as Lex Murphy (archive footage)
- *Tremors 3: Back to Perfection* (2001), as Mindy Sterngood
- *Race Against Fear* (1998), as Mickey Carlyle
- *The Princess Stallion* (1997), as Sarah Stewart
- *Total Security* (1997), series, as Karen Dieboldt
- *The Lost World: Jurassic Park* (1997), as Lex — Fi1m 64, [page](https://film.one/film/the-lost-world-jurassic-park.md)
- *Born Free: A New Adventure* (1996), as Valerie 'Val' Porter
- *Angus* (1995), as Melissa Lefevre
- *Boy Meets World* (1993), series, as Claire Ferguson
- *Jurassic Park* (1993), as Lex — Fi1m 91, [page](https://film.one/film/jurassic-park.md)
- *Against Her Will: An Incident in Baltimore* (1992), as Nancy Cobb
- *Timescape* (1992), as Hillary Wilson
- *Locked Up: A Mother’s Rage* (1991), as Kelly Gallagher
- *Switched at Birth* (1991), series, as Kimberly Mays, Age 9-11
- *Spaced Invaders* (1990), as Kathy
- *The Incident* (1990), as Nancy
- *Tremors* (1990), as Mindy Sterngood — Fi1m 82, [page](https://film.one/film/tremors.md)
- *Prancer* (1989), as Carol Wetherby
- *Island Son* (1989), series, Actor
- *Face of the Enemy* (1989), as Voice Over (voice)
- *I'm Gonna Git You Sucka* (1988), as Little Girl
- *Into the Homeland* (1987), as Ember Swallow (age 5 & 7)
- *The Golden Girls* (1985), series, as Lisa — Fi1m 88, [page](https://film.one/tv/the-golden-girls.md)

## Gallery

- ![Ariana Richards](https://film.one/media/person/78142/gallery-feb4be4e840e.jpg) Ariana Richards — John Manard, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons (https://thumb.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/b0/Ariana_Richards_%2854854620765%29.jpg/1280px-Ariana_Richards_%2854854620765%29.jpg?utm_source=commons.wikimedia.org&utm_campaign=imageinfo&utm_content=thumbnail)
- ![Ariana Richards](https://film.one/media/person/78142/gallery-9b0fdabaf2d4.jpg) Ariana Richards — Image via TMDB
- ![Ariana Richards](https://film.one/media/person/78142/gallery-ffa8ed19f9bd.jpg) Ariana Richards — Image via TMDB
- ![Ariana Richards](https://film.one/media/person/78142/gallery-ee7ad6cd7674.jpg) Ariana Richards — Image via TMDB
- ![Ariana Richards](https://film.one/media/person/78142/gallery-94e206cb899c.jpg) Ariana Richards — Image via TMDB
- ![Ariana Richards](https://film.one/media/person/78142/gallery-950f6d15e315.jpg) Ariana Richards — Image via TMDB
- ![Ariana Richards](https://film.one/media/person/78142/gallery-b7aeef207404.jpg) Ariana Richards — Image via TMDB

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