115 Facts About Lex Murphy

Lex Murphy briefly appears in Jurassic Park III, in which she and Grant have broken up, although they remain close friends.

Lex Murphy is married to Mark, an employee of the US State Department, and they have two young children.

Lex Murphy's character is based on Ivar Ekeland and James Gleick.

Lex Murphy is the main protagonist of the film adaptation, titled The Lost World: Jurassic Park.

Lex Murphy uses his position to help Alan Grant and Ellie Sattler in exposing the company's locust scheme.

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Lex Murphy has antagonistic traits in the novel which are removed for the film adaptation.

Lex Murphy eventually accepted the part after Spielberg pleaded for him to do so, stating "I can't see anyone else playing it but you".

Lex Murphy concludes that the people he selected as the park's senior staff have character flaws that prevent his vision from being realized.

Lex Murphy is unable to climb up the hill and is subsequently killed by a pack of Procompsognathus.

Lex Murphy notes that his first attraction was a motorized flea circus, but for the park he wants to show visitors something real rather than an illusion.

Lex Murphy has little regard for pure scientific research, being more interested in the applications of genetic engineering.

Lex Murphy is relieved of his position as CEO in a coup, which the board of directors gives to his nephew, Peter Ludlow, after an accident on Isla Sorna, Jurassic Park's "Site B".

Lex Murphy sends a small team to Isla Sorna to document the animals, so that he can garner enough public opinion to preserve them and the island.

Lex Murphy has experience working with dangerous predators and his attitude toward the dinosaurs is realistic and unromantic.

Lex Murphy believes that the Velociraptors should be destroyed, describing them as smart and potentially dangerous.

Lex Murphy recommended that the park be equipped with more military-grade weapons for use in emergencies, but was overruled.

Lex Murphy reminds Hammond of this when it dawns on them that they have no way of stopping the escaped T rex.

Lex Murphy is later attacked by a pack of Velociraptors, but survives by wedging himself into a pipe.

Lex Murphy manages to kill a few of them, and eventually escapes the island with the other survivors.

Lex Murphy remains in the control room with Hammond and Arnold, commenting on the many safety and security failures of the park.

Lex Murphy is initially the chief geneticist at Jurassic Park and head of the team that created the dinosaurs.

Lex Murphy has a greatly reduced role in the film adaptation, but returns in a larger role for the Jurassic World films.

Lex Murphy has created the genetically modified hybrid dinosaur Indominus rex, which eventually escapes and wreaks havoc.

Lex Murphy's quick thinking and encyclopedic knowledge of dinosaurs aid the group several times, and he is instrumental in discovering that dinosaurs have escaped the island, as well as regaining the means to warn the mainland.

Lex Murphy's expertise regarding dinosaurs rivals Grant's, and is superior to that of Dr Wu, the scientist who created the dinosaurs.

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In Spielberg's film, Tim and Lex Murphy's ages are swapped and some aspects of his personality and role in the story are given to Lex Murphy.

Alexis Murphy is Tim Murphy's sister and John Hammond's granddaughter.

Lex Murphy wears a baseball glove slung over her shoulder and a baseball cap just about everywhere.

Lex Murphy is shown to have the traits of a stereotypical child that often complains.

Lex Murphy's character was strengthened, like Ellie Sattler, to add strong female roles to the film.

Lex Murphy makes a cameo in the second film when Ian Malcolm comes to visit Hammond.

Lex Murphy briefly listens to Malcolm as he argues with Ludlow regarding what happened on Isla Nublar.

Lex Murphy is described as a thin chain-smoker and chronic worrier.

Lex Murphy is a grudgingly optimistic man, who maintains total faith in the computer systems and continues to believe that despite the setbacks, things will eventually work out.

Lex Murphy is promised $50,000 for each species he delivers, and an additional $50,000 for each embryo that proves viable, for a maximum payment of $1.

Lex Murphy accepted the job at Jurassic Park because he wanted to become famous for writing the first textbook on the care of dinosaurs.

Lex Murphy is attacked by a Velociraptor during the assault on the Visitor Center, but ultimately survives his time on the island.

Lex Murphy makes a brief appearance in the first film with a sick Triceratops.

Lex Murphy appears as one of the main characters in Jurassic Park: The Game, a 2011 film-inspired video game in which he has a daughter named Jess.

Lex Murphy is referred to as Dr Gerry Harding in the game, and is portrayed as being significantly younger than in the film.

Lex Murphy is portrayed as cold and ruthless, yet patient and practical, preferring to operate in the shadows with no one suspecting him.

Lex Murphy is depicted as a far more villainous and antagonistic character, at one point attempting to murder Sarah Harding.

Lex Murphy conducts research on the dinosaurs to potentially advance medical research.

Lex Murphy is stunned to learn that Ramsay has been working to expose him.

Lex Murphy described Dodgson as someone who "is a mentor to others and yet is betraying all of them by betraying their values".

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Lex Murphy found that the books sometimes portray Dodgson as "just a plain sociopath", which he wanted to avoid in Dominion, stating, "It's much more interesting to play a sociopath who has a lot of depth and has interesting intentions behind their actions".

Lex Murphy is the mascot for the theme parks Jurassic Park and Jurassic World.

Lex Murphy is aware of InGen's political dealings and will inform the player of them, yet always presents such in a positive way.

Lex Murphy's severed leg is later discovered by Gennaro and Muldoon as they investigate the attack.

Lex Murphy is initially unhappy with this identification because the lizard was more venomous than expected and had three toes.

Lex Murphy appears at the end of the novel, when the survivors are being held back for questioning by the Costa Rican government.

Lex Murphy tells Dr Grant that the survivors, with the exception of the children, will not be leaving any time soon.

Lex Murphy informs Levine that no one knows where these creatures are coming from, and the two argue about whether or not these are dinosaur remains.

Lex Murphy is intelligent, feisty and rugged, and employs common sense and practicality in dangerous situations, putting the safety of her colleagues first.

Lex Murphy is idolized by Kelly Curtis who sees her as tough and smart.

Lex Murphy is intelligent and feisty as well as kind and jolly, but impulsive and too eager to interact with the animals, often placing herself and others in danger.

Lex Murphy is shown to be compassionate towards the dinosaurs, in such situations as petting a baby Stegosaurus, freeing dinosaurs from InGen, and casting a baby T rexs broken leg.

Lex Murphy attained this position after convincing InGen's board of directors to oust Hammond following an accident on Isla Sorna, in which a group of Compsognathus attacked a girl who was visiting the island with her family.

Lex Murphy's character is ruthless, selfish, greedy and condescending toward those who work for him or those he dislikes.

Lex Murphy is an experienced field photographer who has covered wildlife and combat situations, and began volunteering with Greenpeace to meet women.

Lex Murphy is the only member of his team to be warned by Hammond about InGen's expedition, and sneaks into their camp to release captured animals and disrupt their harvesting operation.

Lex Murphy later helps Sarah rescue their motorcycle from another raptor and locate a service tunnel, allowing the survivors to escape from the attacking raptors.

Lex Murphy uses her gymnastics skills to rescue her father from a Velociraptor, by swinging on a pipe and eventually kicking the dinosaur out a window.

Lex Murphy later suggested that Kelly be written as Ian's daughter, although he and Spielberg initially doubted this due to differing skin colors, but they eventually proceeded with the idea.

Lex Murphy gets lost in the forest while looking for a spot to urinate, and is attacked and killed by a group of Compsognathus, similar to Hammond in the first novel.

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Lex Murphy accompanies Roland during his attempt to capture the T rex.

Lex Murphy is added to the team because the vehicles he help designed have not been field-tested.

Lex Murphy's wealth comes from a series of dolls produced by a company that he inherited.

Lex Murphy is bitten twice by Procompsognathus, but ultimately escapes the island without major harm.

Lex Murphy is easily frightened, and tends to be quiet and shy, but is very intelligent and an expert with computers.

Lex Murphy skipped two school grades and is in seventh grade with Kelly.

Lex Murphy is divorced and has one child, who he sees only on weekends.

Lex Murphy accompanies Dodgson to the island, and eventually begins to disagree with Dodgson's dark desires such as the attempted drowning of Sarah Harding.

Lex Murphy is a young and enthusiastic Costa Rican who visited the island several times as a boy and knows it well.

Lex Murphy seems to annoy Levine many times, not only with his insistence that only birds live on the island, but by disobeying his orders to refrain from using items like cigarettes and making noise.

Lex Murphy has a cousin named Gandoca who takes Dodgson, King, Baselton, and Harding on a boat trip to Isla Sorna.

Lex Murphy is uncomfortable around Dodgson due to his temper and reputation.

Lex Murphy's divorced parents, Paul and Amanda Kirby, pose as a wealthy couple and offer to finance Dr Alan Grant's dig site if he accompanies them to the island and provides an aerial tour of its dinosaurs.

Lex Murphy frequently ignores Grant's warning to stay quiet and avoid attracting animals.

Lex Murphy's daughter had recently been ill, although she withheld her emotions to get through the event.

Lex Murphy is rescued by the military, and reunited with Grant on a helicopter.

Lex Murphy speculated that his character was brought back at the end of the film because of younger audiences' potential reactions.

Lex Murphy describes himself as a booking agent, taking the place of another man who became ill.

Lex Murphy is hired to take Ben and Eric to the island; however, Enrique and his boat driver are killed offscreen when they enter a fog bank, causing the vessel to crash and the tourists to become stranded on Site B His cause of death is not explained in the film.

Lex Murphy is initially the park operations manager at the dinosaur theme park Jurassic World, and becomes a dinosaur rights activist in the later films, as well as adoptive mother to Maisie Lockwood.

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Lex Murphy is enthusiastic about dinosaurs and the theme park, to the annoyance of older brother Zach.

Lex Murphy is annoyed and embarrassed by Gray's enthusiasm for the dinosaur exhibits, and mostly ignores him.

Lex Murphy is a fan of the first theme park and wears a vintage Jurassic Park T-shirt.

Lex Murphy tries to kiss his beloved friend and coworker, Vivian, before she leaves.

Lex Murphy is later pursued by the raptor Blue and takes cover inside a hollow log.

Lex Murphy helps Owen and Claire take down a dinosaur black market in search of their missing adopted daughter Maisie Lockwood.

Lex Murphy tries to persuade Claire to start a family of her own.

Lex Murphy appears to be close to her coworker Lowery, and they are shown having personal conversations.

Lex Murphy's picture appears on Franklin's tablet briefly while he is paging through the former Jurassic World employees who have now joined intelligence agencies.

Lex Murphy is assigned to escort Zach and Gray during their visit to Jurassic World, although she is unenthusiastic.

Lex Murphy is then captured by another Pteranodon, which attempts to fly off with her, but the Mosasaurus emerges from the water and grabs the Pteranodon, swallowing Zara in the process.

Lex Murphy becomes Maisie's guardian and tells her, Owen, and Claire of what he thinks about Maisie, revealed later was a lie formulated by Lockwood to hid Maisie's true origin.

Lex Murphy has been entrusted with pushing Lockwood's fortune into the future and making it survive after he dies.

Lex Murphy has a passive personality and is forced into circumstances far outside his comfort zone throughout the film.

Lex Murphy's wealth is managed by a foundation, which is operated by his assistant Eli Mills.

Lex Murphy is totally morally neutral about whatever he is selling.

Lex Murphy just wanted to portray the most hateable character possible.

Lex Murphy has a passion for dinosaurs and likes to imitate them as a play activity.

Lex Murphy then discovers Mills's plan to auction Isla Nublar's dinosaurs, and is distraught when she discovers her grandfather's dead body.

Lex Murphy informs them that Maisie is actually a clone of Lockwood's deceased daughter.

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Lex Murphy is then pursued throughout Lockwood's mansion by the Indoraptor after it escapes.

Lex Murphy is having an existential crisis over being a clone, and is curious to learn more about Charlotte.

Lex Murphy wants to study Maisie and Beta's altered DNA to find a solution to Biosyn's giant locusts, which threaten the world food supply.

Lex Murphy raised Benjamin Lockwood's daughter Charlotte, who later died after asexually giving birth to her daughter Maisie.

Lex Murphy said "He gives me little bits in every film; he thinks I'm his good luck charm".

Lex Murphy helps Owen Grady and Claire Dearing rescue their adopted daughter Maisie Lockwood from Biosyn, having witnessed her being turned over to the company.

Lex Murphy is subsequently shown happily purchasing a new plane.

Lex Murphy offered her the role of Kayla during their first meeting, without having her audition.

Lex Murphy raises a pack of Atrociraptors originally from Biosyn which are trained to kill any target, as designated by a laser pointer, for Rainn Delacourt to deliver to Riyadh.

Lex Murphy developed a lengthy backstory for the character which is absent from the film.