Taken for GrantedDr. Alan Grant is our traditional archaeologist. You know the type—covered in dust from head to toe, tiny little pick in one hand, brush in the other. He digs in the dirt all day...

Solve for SeXyBefore Winnie Cooper grew up and made math hot, there was Dr. Ian Malcolm, the only mathematician in history to ever be described as a "rock star." While most mathematicians conjure u...

Deep Doo-DooEllie Sattler is a paleobotanist and Dr. Grant's love interest (or so we're told). She sticks her hand in a big pile of Triceratops poop to diagnose its illness, and she brings electric...

Money Can't Buy Happiness…But It Can Buy DinosaursJohn Hammond is a rich old man who wants a theme park filled with dinosaurs, and he doesn't care if anyone gets hurt in the process. He seems lik...

Great GrandchildrenTim and Lex are John Hammond's grandchildren. They're intelligent and well-behaved, making them appealing characters to children and adults alike. Tim is the precocious dinosaur...

Hello…NedryDennis Nedry believes he isn't getting paid enough, so he betrays John Hammond—and everyone in Jurassic Park—to steal dinosaur embryos and sell them to a man named Dodgson, who onl...

Fair GameRobert Muldoon is a game warden from Kenya, moving from lions and tigers to T. rexes and Velociraptors. And he's not happy about it. Muldoon is actually the first character we see, in the...

Dinosaur FoodMost of the film's other characters exist to feed the dinos, and we're not talking about the goats and cows, either. First is poor Jophery, the black guy who dies first. Then there's D...