Fan Casting Dr. Alan Grant in Jurassic Park

Alan Grant is described as a bearded, forty-year-old chief paleontologist from Montana. Earlier, many years before the events of the novel, Grant had a wife; however, she died, leaving him widowed. Grant had uncovered a Velociraptor skeleton in Montana when he was invited to Jurassic Park. It was there that he met Tim Murphy and supposedly becomes good friends with him.