Life, as Jeff Goldblum's Dr Ian Malcolm famously said, finds a way, and so does the money in the Jurassic Park universe. Since Steven Spielberg's 1993 blockbuster changed cinema forever, the extinction-defying juggernaut has grown into one of Hollywood's biggest franchises, spanning legacy stars, Oscar winners, sitcom favourites, action heroes and a new generation of Jurassic World names. But while the films have made billions, the cast's fortunes vary wildly.
Click or scroll on to discover where the stars of the film series rank, with wealth estimates courtesy of Celebrity Net Worth.
All dollar amounts in US dollars
Among the names lacking a reliable public wealth estimate are French comedy star Omar Sy (pictured), who appeared in 2015's Jurassic World and 2022's Jurassic World Dominion as velociraptor trainer Barry. DeWanda Wise, who featured in Dominion as pilot Kayla Watts, is also missing from reputable rich lists.
Other cast members without trustworthy figures include Manuel Garcia-Rulfo, Mamoudou Athie, Isabella Sermon, Daniella Pineda, Toby Jones, Dichen Lachman, David Iacono, Audrina Miranda, Bechir Sylvain and Philippine Velge.
A number of Jurassic Park franchise names fall below the $8 million (£6.1m) mark. Ariana Richards, who played Lex Murphy in the original 1993 classic, is listed at $500,000 (£379k), while Joseph Mazzello, her on-screen brother Tim, is reportedly worth $2 million (£1.5m).
At the higher end of this group, Ed Skrein (pictured), who joined 2025's Jurassic World Rebirth as Duncan Kincaid, has an estimated fortune of $7 million (£5.3m). Other cast members in this bracket include Lauren Lapkus, Campbell Scott, Justice Smith, Peter Stormare, Nick Robinson, Judy Greer, Richard Schiff and Ted Levine.
Alessandro Nivola entered the franchise in 2001's Jurassic Park III as Billy Brennan, Alan Grant's younger colleague and dig-site manager, whose reckless theft of velociraptor eggs helped turn the island trip into a full-blown nightmare. Celebrity Net Worth puts Nivola's fortune at $8 million (£6.1m), a combined estimate with his wife Emily Mortimer.
Away from dinosaurs, the accomplished actor has built a respected screen and stage career, with credits including Face/Off, American Hustle and The Many Saints of Newark, while his Broadway stint in The Elephant Man earned him a Tony Award nomination.
Corporate greed had a very human face in 1997's The Lost World: Jurassic Park, thanks to Arliss Howard's turn as Peter Ludlow, the InGen executive determined to ship dinosaurs from Isla Sorna to San Diego.
Howard's acting CV encompasses everything from Full Metal Jacket to Succession, and he's also worked behind the camera as a director and writer. His net worth estimate also covers his wife Debra Winger.
Dr Henry Wu began as a brief lab presence in Jurassic Park, then became one of the franchise's most important figures across the Jurassic World era. BD Wong has seen the character evolve from dinosaur-maker to morally compromised mastermind and eventual would-be fixer.
A Tony-winning stage actor for M. Butterfly, Wong has also scored plaudits through Oz, Law & Order: Special Victims Unit and Mr. Robot, plus voice work as Captain Li Shang in Disney's Mulan.
Jake Johnson lent his dry comic timing to Jurassic World as Lowery Cruthers, the control-room employee who seemed more impressed by the original park than the polished corporate reboot around him.
Away from Isla Nublar, the Illinois-born actor made his name as Nick Miller in New Girl and went on to add film credits including 21 Jump Street, Drinking Buddies and The Lego Movie.
By the time James Cromwell appeared in 2018's Jurassic World: Fallen Kingdom, he already had one of Hollywood's most recognisable character-actor faces. The veteran performer played Sir Benjamin Lockwood, John Hammond's former business partner and a key figure in the franchise's cloning backstory.
Cromwell's long screen career includes an Oscar-nominated turn in Babe, plus memorable work in The Green Mile, The Queen and Succession, while American Horror Story: Asylum earned him an Emmy.
Few bad employees have caused more chaos than Dennis Nedry, the disgruntled Jurassic Park programmer whose embryo-smuggling scheme brings the original park crashing down.
Beyond the dinosaur franchise, Knight became a sitcom favourite as Newman in Seinfeld, appeared in more than 100 episodes of 3rd Rock from the Sun and has forged a flourishing voice-acting career, with his top gigs including Toy Story 2 and Tarzan.
Mahershala Ali scooped two Oscars before entering the Jurassic Park universe, bagging Best Supporting Actor for 2016's Moonlight, and the same award for Green Book two years later. Ali has also wowed critics with his performances in shows like House of Cards and True Detective.
In 2025's Jurassic World Rebirth, the awards magnet brought gravitas to the role of Duncan Kincaid, a mercenary and covert-operations leader drawn into the hunt for dinosaur DNA.
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In Jurassic World, Vincent D'Onofrio gave the franchise one of its most ruthless human villains as Vic Hoskins, the InGen security boss convinced raptors could be turned into military assets.
A formidable character actor, D'Onofrio broke through in the late 1980s with his physically transformative role in Full Metal Jacket. His other standout credits include Men in Black, Law & Order: Criminal Intent and Marvel's Daredevil, where his portrayal of Wilson Fisk became a fan favourite.
The human anchor of the original movie, Sam Neill was the film's steady centre as wary palaeontologist Dr Alan Grant. The New Zealand actor returned for Jurassic Park III and later reunited with Laura Dern and Jeff Goldblum in Jurassic World: Dominion.
Neill's career outside the franchise ranged from Omen III: The Final Conflict and The Piano to Peaky Blinders. Sadly, the beloved actor died in July 2026.
A famous surname only starts the story with Geraldine Chaplin. The daughter of Charlie Chaplin and Oona O'Neill has spent decades cultivating a glittering screen career of her own, from Doctor Zhivago and Nashville to Spanish-language cinema and The Crown.
In Jurassic World: Fallen Kingdom, Chaplin stepped into the shoes of Iris Carroll, the Lockwood Manor housekeeper and former nanny guarding the family's secrets.
Laura Dern was already an acclaimed actor before Jurassic Park, but the role of Dr Ellie Sattler introduced her to a massive global audience. The paleobotanist is the movie's voice of reason, spotting the danger in Hammond's dream long before the park's owners are ready to admit it. Dern returned briefly in Jurassic Park III before taking a much larger legacy role in Jurassic World: Dominion.
In between the first movie and Dominion, Dern honed her craft to perfection, bagging an Emmy in 2017 for Big Little Lies and an Oscar for 2019's Marriage Story.
Richard Attenborough brought warmth, wonder and dangerous idealism to Jurassic Park as John Hammond, the InGen founder whose dream of living dinosaurs spirals into disaster. Celebrity Net Worth valued the late English actor and filmmaker at $20 million (£15.2m) at the time of his death in 2014.
Brother of revered broadcaster Sir David Attenborough, he was far more than Hammond: a celebrated director who won two Oscars for 1982's Gandhi, a former RAF serviceman and from 1993, Baron Attenborough.
Hollywood lineage is part of Bryce Dallas Howard's story, but the role of Claire Dearing made her a blockbuster lead in her own right. The eldest daughter of Oscar-winning filmmaker Ron Howard fronted the Jurassic World trilogy as the park executive who evolves from corporate manager to dinosaur-rights activist.
Howard's other screen work includes The Village, Spider-Man 3 and The Help, while behind the camera, she has directed Dads and episodes of The Mandalorian and The Book of Boba Fett.
One of the franchise's most iconic stars, Jeff Goldblum's Dr Ian Malcolm delivered its most famous warning in the first movie and also appeared in The Lost World, Fallen Kingdom and Dominion.
Goldblum's offbeat charisma has carried him through The Fly, Independence Day and Thor: Ragnarok, while his jazz career and Disney+ series The World According to Jeff Goldblum have added to his singular screen persona.
William H. Macy joined Jurassic Park III as Paul Kirby, a father who lies about being a wealthy businessman to get Alan Grant onto Isla Sorna and search for his missing son. Celebrity Net Worth estimates Macy's fortune at $45 million (£34.1m), combined with his wife Felicity Huffman.
Outside the dinosaur sequel, he earned an Oscar nomination for Fargo, appeared in Boogie Nights and Magnolia, and later became a TV staple as Frank Gallagher in Shameless.
In Jurassic World, Irrfan Khan portrayed Simon Masrani, the well-intentioned but naive billionaire owner of the rebuilt dinosaur park.
Khan's illustrious career ranged from Indian cinema to major international roles in Slumdog Millionaire, Life of Pi and The Amazing Spider-Man. He was worth an estimated $50 million (£37.9m) when he died in 2020 at the age of 53 following a prolonged battle with cancer.
Amanda Kirby drives much of the plot in Jurassic Park III, with Téa Leoni playing the mother searching for her missing son Eric on Isla Sorna.
Away from the franchise, Leoni has starred in Bad Boys and Fun with Dick and Jane, and later led all 120 episodes of the political drama Madam Secretary. She's even had an asteroid named in her honour, a nod to her leading role in the 1998 smash Deep Impact.
Julianne Moore starred in The Lost World as Dr Sarah Harding, an animal behaviourist sent to Isla Sorna as part of John Hammond's research team. She's shown here in a precarious situation along with Jeff Goldblum's character.
The sequel helped cement her move into major Hollywood films, and Moore's career soon went far beyond dinosaurs, with Oscar-nominated roles in Boogie Nights, The End of the Affair, Far from Heaven and The Hours, followed by a Best Actress win in 2015 for Still Alice.
After 1996's Swingers made him one to watch, Steven Spielberg cast Vince Vaughn as Nick Van Owen in The Lost World. The role put him in a major blockbuster before laughs became his real money-maker.
Vaughn went on to become one of the defining comedy stars of the noughties, fronting a string of movies such as Dodgeball, Wedding Crashers and Fred Claus and earning up to $20 million (£15.2m) per flick. He's also landed numerous plum TV roles, including a stint on Curb Your Enthusiasm from 2020 to 2024.
Chris Pratt's leap from sitcom favourite to blockbuster frontman was blisteringly fast. Parks and Recreation made him a TV name in the early 2010s; Guardians of the Galaxy turned him into Star-Lord in 2014; then Jurassic World followed a year later with the role of Owen Grady, the raptor trainer who became the face of the revived dinosaur franchise.
Pratt reportedly earned $5 million (£3.8m) for the first Jurassic World, $10 million (£7.6m) for Fallen Kingdom, and between $12 million (£9.1m) and $14 million (£10.6m) for Dominion.
Scarlett Johansson arrived in the Jurassic Park franchise carrying one of modern Hollywood's biggest box-office records. In Jurassic World Rebirth, she leads the new chapter as Zora Bennett, a covert operations expert hired for a dangerous mission involving dinosaur genetic material.
Johansson ranks among the world's highest-paid actresses and is also one of the most critically acclaimed. Marvel made her a global box-office force as Black Widow, while 2019's Marriage Story and Jojo Rabbit earned her two Oscar nominations in the same year.
Samuel L. Jackson tops the Jurassic Park money list with room to spare. In the 1993 original, he portrayed Ray Arnold, the park's chief engineer, whose "hold onto your butts" line became one of the film's most quoted lines.
Jackson's estimated $250 million (£189m) fortune reflects one of the most prolific careers in Hollywood. Pulp Fiction made him a star in the 1990s, Star Wars introduced him to a new generation as Mace Windu and Marvel turned Nick Fury into another long-running blockbuster role.
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