his death at age 78<\/a>.<\/p>\n\u201cSam was my beloved lifetime friend\u2026 He showed me the depths of loyalty, protectiveness and love always with the driest of wit,\u201d Dern said in a statement to Page Six on Monday.<\/p>\n
She called Neill \u201ca true and noble gentleman\u201d who was \u201cwrapped up in my dream leading man.\u201d<\/p>\nLaura Dern paid tribute to Sam Neill in a statement to Page Six after his death at age 78 (Dern and Neill are seen above in 1995). FilmMagic, Inc<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\nDern (pictured above with Neill, Joseph Mazello and Ariana Richards in \u201cJurassic Park\u201d) called Neill her \u201cbeloved lifetime friend.\u201d INSTARimages<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\u201cI will love you forever, Dr. Alan Grant,\u201d Dern, 59, concluded her statement. <\/p>\n\n<\/aside>\nDern and Neill played love interests Dr. Ellie Sattler and Dr. Alan Grant, respectively, in 1993\u2019s \u201cJurassic Park.\u201d<\/p>\n
They reprised their roles in 2001\u2019s \u201cJurassic Park III\u201d and 2022\u2019s \u201cJurassic World Dominion.\u201d <\/p>\n
This story is developing\u2026<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n \u2018 The preceding article may include information circulated by third parties \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n \u2018 Some details of this article were extracted from the following source pagesix.com \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Laura Dern is mourning her \u201cJurassic Park\u201d co-star Sam Neill after his death at age 78. \u201cSam was my beloved lifetime friend\u2026 He showed me the depths of loyalty, protectiveness and love always with the driest of wit,\u201d Dern said in a statement to Page Six on Monday. She called Neill \u201ca true and noble […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2500196,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_social_meta":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[25177],"tags":[22062,24003,25404,36101,366206],"class_list":["post-2500195","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-celebrities","tag-celebrity-deaths","tag-celebrity-news","tag-exclusive","tag-laura-dern","tag-sam-neill"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/Laura-Dern-pays-tribute-to-Jurassic-Park-co-star-Sam-Neill.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2500195","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2500195"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2500195\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2500197,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2500195\/revisions\/2500197"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2500196"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2500195"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2500195"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2500195"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}