Acting
Oct 18, 1999
Johannesburg, South Africa
Dean Goldblum
Acting
Biography
Dean Ricky Goldblum is a South African stage, screen and voice actor working across American, South African and European studio, streaming and theatrical productions. Dean made his American Feature Film debut in Hulu/20th Century’s, Darby and the Dead (2022) and has since played parts in multiple projects across various theatrical and streaming platforms. Most recently, playing principle parts in U.S theatrical releases like Muzzle: City of Wolves (2025), as well as streaming originals such as Global Hits No One Saw Us Leave (2025) for Netflix, and Tubi Original Feature Match (2025). Dean has also played roles in originals for Fox, National Geographic, BBC, Syfy, CNN and AMC+. In addition to his U.S. work, Dean has led and supported projects across South Africa’s theatrical, film & television landscape, including cinema releases such as ‘Pretty How Town’ (2026) and ‘What About The Boys’ (2022), as well as multiple award-winning TV shows. His screen work spans projects such as Netflix’s The Kingdom (2022), South Africa’s longest running TV Show, Scandal (2026) and Amazon Prime originals, The Shakedown (2024) and The Morning After (2024). Originally from Johannesburg, Dean started his stage career as a six year old child actor, and transitioned to screen at the age of 13 on SABC’s Little Stars (2013). Dean trained as an Actor in Theatre and Performance at the University of Cape Town while still working in some of the most beloved TV shows in the country, such as Generations: The Legacy (2019) and Rhythm City (2019). Alongside his screen career, Dean has performed in principal stage roles across South Africa. Projects including the African Premiere of Agatha Christies', The Murder of Roger Ackroyd (2026), A Midsummer Night’s Dream (2023), Big Fish: The Musical (2016) and Grease (2014). Dean continues to work internationally across film, television and theatre.
Feature Films (8)
Dana, daughter of the only survivor of a massacre in 1993, is going on a weekend trip with her friends. After their car breaks down in the very same town where her mother once fought the Driller Killer, Dana and her friends must come face-to-face with the man who has haunted her mother’s life for the past 30 years.
Slumber Party Massacre
After Darby Harper suffered a near-death experience as a child, she gained the ability to see ghosts. To combat the existential boredom of high school, she runs a side business counseling local spirits in her spare time. When an unexpected occurrence happens between Darby and Capri, the most popular girl at her high school, Darby reluctantly agrees to help her and in the process learns how to fit in with the living world again.
Darby and the Dead
When five ex-band-mates come together for their annual reunion, a dead body stirs up suspicion and violence among the friends.
Die Onderonsie
LAPD officer Jake Rosser endeavors to lead a peaceful life with his family and retired K-9 officer, Socks. However, tranquility dissolves into chaos when a gang targets them in a brutal attack. Alongside his new K-9 partner Argos, Jake launches into a relentless pursuit of justice, determined to protect his loved ones.
Muzzle: City of Wolves
When his mistress threatens to expose the secret of their affair, a respected insurance broker seeks the help of his underworld brother to save his reputation.
The Shakedown
Television & Series (6)
Tali’s Wedding Diary follows a self-obsessed Sandton princess who’s moved to Cape Town and is filming the build-up to her wedding to her property-agent fiancé Darren.
Tali's Wedding Diary
An angel named Josephine arrives in a rural town to help residents find faith and their truest selves.
The Kingdom
Documentary series where viewers are taken inside accounts of capture, incarceration, and terror far away from home with intimate personal interviews and dramatic reenactments.
Banged Up Abroad
Revisit the extraordinary story of a girl who sprang from nowhere to become the most famous woman in the world. Narrated by Golden Globe-winning actress Jessica Chastain and featuring a star-studded cast of female voices, this series re-examines Monroe’s story to uncover themes of feminism, sexuality and power that continue to drive the cultural conversation today.
Reframed: Marilyn Monroe
Follows the biblical King David through his journey marked by courage, violence, passion, failure, and redemption.
David: King of Israel
Scandal! is a South African television soap opera produced by Ochre Media about the people who work for the fictitious Johannesburg-based newspaper The Voice, with their pressurized deadlines, the chaos of breaking news, the fight for increased circulation and ad spend to their (no longer) private lives and personal angst.
