Sam Neill, Jurassic Park Star and New Zealand Icon, Dies at 78
NZ-born actor Sam Neill, famed for Jurassic Park and The Piano, has died in Sydney at 78 in a death described as sudden and unexpected. He had been diagnosed with a rare lymphoma in 2023 but was cancer-free at his passing. Tributes poured in from New Zealand and Australia, honoring his five-decade career that ranged from art films to blockbusters, and noting his later-life vineyard work in Central Otago.