Sam Neill

“He was 78.”

“In April, Neill told Australia’s 7 News that he was cancer-free five years after being diagnosed with angioimmunoblastic T-cell lymphoma.”

“Neill played the paleontologist in Grant in three of Steven Spielberg’s Jurassic franchise films: Jurassic Park in 1993, Jurassic Park III in 2001 and Jurassic Park: Dominion in 2022.”

“Neill’s last screen role was in the Australian TV series The Twelve, where he played Brett Colby QC over three seasons from 2022 to 2025.”

“Born Nigel John Dermot Neill on Sept. 14, 1947, in Omagh, County Tyrone, Northern Ireland”

“In 1988, Neill starred opposite Meryl Streep in biographical legal drama A Cry in the Dark, which earned Streep a Best Actress Oscar nomination.”

“In 2023, Neill disclosed he had been diagnosed with angioimmunoblastic T-cell lymphoma, a rare type of non-Hodgkin lymphoma.”

“Born in 1947 in Northern Ireland, Neill emigrated to New Zealand at the age of 7.”