Overview Born October 22, 1952 · Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA Birth name Jeffrey Lynn Goldblum Height 6′ 5″ (1.96 m) Mini Bio Jeffrey Lynn Goldblum was born October 22, 1952 in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, one of four children of Shirley (Temeles), a radio broadcaster who also ran an appliances firm, and Harold L. Goldblum, a doctor. Life Story (known as The Race for the Double Helix in the United States) is a 1987 television historical drama which depicts the progress toward, and the competition for, the discovery of the structure of DNA in the early 1950s.