Sam Neill, the New Zealand actor who played paleontologist Alan Grant in Jurassic Park, has died at the age of 78 in Sydney. According to his family, the death was “sudden and unexpected” and the interpreter “did not suffer from cancer”, although the causes of his death have not been made known.
Neill revealed in 2023 that he had been diagnosed with cancer, a disease that months later he announced he had overcome thanks to treatment with CAR-T cells.
Although he developed an extensive career with films such as ‘A Scream in the Dark’, ‘Total Calm’, ‘The Hunt for Red October’ or the Oscar-winning ‘The Piano’, Neill will be remembered above all for his iconic performance as Alan Grant in ‘Jurassic Park’ (1993), one of the most beloved characters in the saga created by Steven Spielberg, whom he played again in several sequels. Without a doubt, he was one of the most recognizable faces on the big screen for an entire generation that grew up in the 90s.
