Dean Goldblum
Acting
Biography
Dean Ricky Goldblum is a South African born Stage, Screen and Voice Actor raised in the City of Gold, Johannesburg. Dean is known for playing the parts of Todd on the Hulu Original feature 'Darby and the Dead' (2023), Sean on the SAFTA Award winning Netflix / SABC 1 mini-series 'The Kingdom' (2021), as well as Jason on the SAFTA award winning Showmax TV Comedy, 'Tali's Joburg Diary' (2023). In 2024, Dean featured in South Africa's first Amazon Prime Original Feature Film and Television Drama, playing the parts of Francois in 'The Morning After' (2024) as well as the young Dovi Diamond in 'The Shakedown' (2024). After acting in principle roles in a number of plays and musicals during his secondary and tertiary school years, Dean went on to study Theatre and Performance (acting) at The University of Cape Town (2021). Some of Dean's roles on stage include Badvoc in Boudica (2019), Will Bloom in Big Fish: The Musical (2016), Danny Zuko in Grease (2014) & Tom Snout/Faerie in A Midsummer Night's Dream at Maynardville (2023). Starting his screen career at the age of 13 on the South African Broadcasting Corporation's (SABC) 'Little Stars' (2013), Dean went on to perform as a contestant on South Africa's Got Talent (2015) in which his musical performance was described by Etv as "melting the hearts [of] the young at heart across the country".
Known For

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

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

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

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

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

Follows the biblical King David through his journey marked by courage, violence, passion, failure, and redemption.
David: King of Israel

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 Paola is matched with a handsome online suitor, she arrives for a first date to discover a house full of dark and terrifying secrets.
Match

An angel named Josephine arrives in a rural town to help residents find faith and their truest selves.
The Kingdom

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.
Scandal!

When five ex-band-mates come together for their annual reunion, a dead body stirs up suspicion and violence among the friends.
Die Onderonsie

A surreal drama weaving love, loss, and identity through a fractured small-town dreamscape.
Pretty How Town

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.