Dustin Hoffman
Biography
Dustin Lee Hoffman (born August 8, 1937) is an American actor and filmmaker. He is known for his versatile portrayals of antiheroes and emotionally vulnerable characters. Actor Robert De Niro described him as "an actor with the everyman's face who embodied the heartbreakingly human". At a young age Hoffman knew he wanted to study in the arts, and entered into the Los Angeles Conservatory of Music; later he decided to go into acting, for which he trained at the Pasadena Playhouse in Los Angeles. His first theatrical performance was 1961's A Cook for Mr. General as Ridzinski. During that time he appeared in several guest roles on television shows like Naked City and The Defenders. He then starred in the 1966 off-Broadway play Eh? where his performance garnered him both a Theatre World Award and Drama Desk Award.
His breakthrough role was as Benjamin Braddock in Mike Nichols' critically acclaimed and iconic film The Graduate (1967), for which he received his first Academy Award nomination. His next role was "Ratso" Rizzo in John Schlesinger's Midnight Cowboy (1969), in which he acted alongside Jon Voight; they both received Oscar nominations, and the film went on to win the Academy Award for Best Picture. He gained success in the 1970s playing roles that shaped the craft of his acting, crossing genres effortlessly in the western Little Big Man (1970), the prison drama Papillon (1973), playing a controversial and groundbreaking comedian in Bob Fosse's Lenny (1975), Marathon Man alongside Laurence Olivier (1976), and as Carl Bernstein investigating the Watergate scandal in All the President's Men (1976). In 1979, Hoffman starred in the family drama Kramer vs. Kramer alongside Meryl Streep. They both received Academy Awards for their performances.
After a three-year break from films, Hoffman returned in Sydney Pollack's show business comedy Tootsie (1982) about a struggling actor who pretends to be a woman in order to get an acting role. He returned to stage acting with a 1984 performance as Willy Loman in Death of a Salesman and reprised the role a year later in a television film earning a Primetime Emmy Award. In 1987 he starred alongside Warren Beatty in Elaine May's comedy Ishtar. He won his second Academy Award for Best Actor for his portrayal of the autistic savant Ray Babbitt in the 1988 film Rain Man, co-starring Tom Cruise. In 1989, he was nominated for a Tony Award and a Drama Desk Award for playing Shylock in a stage performance of The Merchant of Venice. In the 1990s, he made appearances in such films as Warren Beatty's action comedy adaptation Dick Tracy (1990), Steven Spielberg's Hook (1991) as Captain Hook, medical disaster Outbreak (1995), legal crime drama Sleepers (1996), and the satirical black comedy Wag the Dog (1997) alongside Robert De Niro.
Personal info
Gender
Male
Birthday
1937-08-08
Place of birth
Los Angeles, California, USA
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Cast
Finding Neverland
2004
7.32
Hook
1991
6.84
All the President's Men
1976
7.65
Rain Man
1988
7.75
Straw Dogs
1971
7.20
Stranger Than Fiction
2006
7.28
Wag the Dog
1997
7.00
Perfume: The Story of a Murderer
2006
7.37
Sphere
1998
6.12
Meet the Fockers
2004
6.25
I ♥ Huckabees
2004
6.30
The Tale of Despereaux
2008
6.10
Marathon Man
1976
7.18
Sleepers
1996
7.60
Family Business
1989
5.70
Mr. Magorium's Wonder Emporium
2007
6.24
Midnight Cowboy
1969
7.52
Madigan's Millions
1968
4.20
Mr. Saturday Night
2021
6.70
Hero
1992
6.30
Confidence
2003
6.26
Little Big Man
1970
7.50
There's Only One Paul McCartney
2002
0.00
Papillon
1973
7.83
Moonlight Mile
2002
6.33
Runaway Jury
2003
6.93
American Buffalo
1996
5.50
Agatha
1979
6.30
Straight Time
1978
7.20
Outbreak
1995
6.56
Kramer vs. Kramer
1979
7.58
Kung Fu Panda
2008
7.30
Death of a Salesman
1985
6.90
Mad City
1997
6.20
Tootsie
1982
7.22
Lenny
1974
7.30
Billy Bathgate
1991
5.80
Ishtar
1987
4.50
The Lost City
2005
6.10
The Graduate
1967
7.64
John and Mary
1969
6.00
La Classe américaine
1993
7.60
Last Chance Harvey
2008
6.30
Close Up
2012
9.00
Visual Acoustics
2008
7.40
Barney's Version
2010
7.02
Led Zeppelin Played Here
2014
8.00
Little Fockers
2010
5.64
Kung Fu Panda 2
2011
7.00
The Magnificent Rebel
1973
5.60
Kung Fu Panda Holiday
2010
6.99
A Wish for Wings That Work
1991
6.10
Casting By
2012
7.10
Aretha Franklin: Duets
1993
8.00
Alfredo, Alfredo
1972
6.24
Kung Fu Panda 3
2016
6.91
Against the Tide
2009
7.00
Chef
2014
7.11
The Cobbler
2014
5.90
The Shakespeare Sessions
2003
7.00
Tower Stories
0.00
The Program
2015
6.40
Free to Be… You and Me
1974
6.40
Kung Fu Panda 4
2024
7.07
Roald Dahl's Esio Trot
2015
6.70
Megalopolis
2024
5.30
Earth to America
2005
8.00
Dustin!
2009
0.00
Boychoir
2015
6.80
Nos Bastidores de Hollywood
2005
0.00
Racing Stripes
2005
5.88
Trumbo
2007
6.70
Night of 100 Stars II
1985
8.00
Goldwyn: The Man and His Movies
2001
8.00
Mike Nichols: An American Master
2016
6.30
The New Cinema
1968
0.00
The Earth Day Special
1990
8.00
The 50 Worst Movies Ever Made
2004
4.62
The Point
1971
7.02
Hal
2019
6.50
The Holiday
2006
7.09
Moonlight Mile: A Journey to Screen
2003
10.00
Arthur Penn: The Director
1970
0.00
Tuner
0.00
The Tiger Makes Out
1967
4.60
The Devil's Arithmetic
1999
6.82
The Star Wagon
1966
7.00
The Journey of the Fifth Horse
1966
0.00
Spielberg
2017
7.60
Tuesday
2001
5.50
'The Graduate' at 25
1992
6.00
Dick Tracy
1990
6.15
The Crowd Around the Cowboy
1969
0.00
The Making of 'Tootsie'
1982
6.00
On Location: Dustin Hoffman
1971
0.00
Into the Labyrinth
2019
6.30
Jonas in the Desert
1994
5.50
The Kid Stays in the Picture
2002
6.60
Warren Beatty - Mister Hollywood
2015
5.40
And the Oscar Goes To...
2014
7.00
Lost in the Garden of the World
1975
0.00
Earth and the American Dream
1992
6.70
Paul Williams Still Alive
2011
6.79
Tato's Argentina
1999
7.40
La Classe américaine
2012
5.80
Alan Pakula: Going for Truth
2019
6.50
As They Made Us
2022
5.40
Sam & Kate
2022
6.50
Night of 100 Stars
1982
6.50
Twiggy
2025
7.20
The Revisionist
0.00