Ariana Richards

Ariana Clarice Richards (born April 15, 1970) is an American former actress and painter. She is known best for her character on Jurassic Park as Lex Murphy. Richards received several Young Artist Awards in her early acting career, but currently she's focusing on her art career. Ariana Richards was a well-known American actor, painter and singer who rose to fame after playing the part as Lex Murphy on Jurrasic Park. Numerous awards and accolades were bestowed to her, such as that of the Bambi Award as well as names like Favorite Youngcomer United Kingdom Australia. However after 2013 Ariana started to concentrate more on the artistic side of her lifestyle. As time passed, she's accumulated an enormous fan base on Instagram that has more than 50 thousand people following her. Skidmore College, where she graduated in 2001 with distinctions in both Drama and Fine Art, gave her the opportunity to study art. The art school she attended was Art Center College of Design Pasadena California. Ariana got married to Mark Aaron Bolton a former soldier from the Irish Defence Forces turned stunt entertainer in the month of January, 2013. In 2015, they welcomed their first child. Names were not announced to the couple until after the year 2019. She was raised in California. Her sister Bethany is an actor too. Darielle Garrison, her father, is a producer of films. In a TV commercial, she was seen as a young ballerina when she was just seven. Ariana's Italian heritage on her maternal grandmother's side are traceable all the way into Carlo Crivelli a well known Renaissance painter. Also, she is a distant descendant to boxer John L. Sullivan. In October 2005 she became an National Professional Oil Painting Contest winner, which was organized by American Artist magazine. The first self-portrait that Ariana created was a watercolor painting of her in an episode of the hit movie Jurassic Park (1993) while being held by a spoon filled with Jello as a raptor scurries ahead of her. GalleryAriana is a channel on YouTube, where she uploads her portraits. It was established by her in the month of April, 2012. In addition, she has appeared in other movies such as Tremors, Spaced Invaders, Locked Up A Mother's Rage and Switched At Birth. Ariana is known as her horse Kindred Spirit.