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.
