1937-08-08 ( 87 years old ) in Los Angeles, California, USA
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.
Movies
Twiggy
2025-03-07
Megalopolis
2024-09-25
Kung Fu Panda 4
2024-03-02
Reinventing Elvis: The 68' Comeback
2023-07-30
Sam & Kate
2022-11-11
As They Made Us
2022-04-08
Mr. Saturday Night
2021-11-13
Billy Connolly: It’s Been a Pleasure...
2020-12-28
Into the Labyrinth
2019-10-30
Alan Pakula: Going for Truth
2019-10-12
Hal
2019-03-28
The Meyerowitz Stories (New and Selected)
2017-10-13
Spielberg
2017-10-05
Mike Nichols: An American Master
2016-01-29
Kung Fu Panda 3
2016-01-23
Kung Fu Panda: Secrets of the Scroll
2016-01-05
Arthur Miller: A Man of His Century
2015-10-17
Warren Beatty - Mister Hollywood
2015-10-04
The Program
2015-09-16
Boychoir
2015-03-27
Roald Dahl's Esio Trot
2015-01-02
Led Zeppelin Played Here
2014-10-11
The Cobbler
2014-09-11
Chef
2014-05-08
And the Oscar Goes To...
2014-02-01
All the President's Men Revisited
2013-04-21
Casting By
2012-11-01
La Classe américaine
2012-10-05
Close Up
2012-09-30
Kung Fu Panda: Secrets of the Masters
2011-12-12
Paul Williams Still Alive
2011-09-11
Kung Fu Panda 2
2011-05-25
Little Fockers
2010-12-21
Kung Fu Panda Holiday
2010-11-26
Barney's Version
2010-10-26
Jews and Baseball: An American Love Story
2010-07-25
Cameraman: The Life and Work of Jack Cardiff
2010-05-05
Against the Tide
2009-09-09
Dustin!
2009-01-01
Last Chance Harvey
2008-12-25
The Tale of Despereaux
2008-12-18
Kung Fu Panda: Secrets of the Furious Five
2008-11-08
Visual Acoustics
2008-06-22
Kung Fu Panda
2008-06-04
A Better Man: The Making of 'Tootsie'
2008-02-05
Mr. Magorium's Wonder Emporium
2007-11-16
Trumbo
2007-09-10
The Holiday
2006-12-05
Perfume: The Story of a Murderer
2006-09-13
Stranger Than Fiction
2006-09-09
Earth to America
2005-11-20
The Lost City
2005-09-03
Nos Bastidores de Hollywood
2005-03-01
Racing Stripes
2005-01-06
Meet the Fockers
2004-12-22
Finding Neverland
2004-10-17
I ♥ Huckabees
2004-09-10
The 50 Worst Movies Ever Made
2004-07-13
Confidence
2003-04-25
Moonlight Mile: A Journey to Screen
2003-03-11
Mantrap – Straw Dogs: The Final Cut
2003-03-08
Runaway Jury
2003-01-16
The Shakespeare Sessions
2003-01-01
Moonlight Mile
2002-09-09
The Kid Stays in the Picture
2002-08-16
There's Only One Paul McCartney
2002-06-02
Goldwyn: The Man and His Movies
2001-10-07
Tuesday
2001-09-04
The Messenger: The Story of Joan of Arc
1999-10-27
Tato's Argentina
1999-04-07
The Devil's Arithmetic
1999-03-28
Billy Connolly: Erect for 30 Years
1999-01-01
Sphere
1998-02-13
Wag the Dog
1997-12-25
Mad City
1997-11-07
Sleepers
1996-10-18
American Buffalo
1996-09-13
Outbreak
1995-03-10
Jonas in the Desert
1994-01-01
La Classe américaine
1993-12-31
Aretha Franklin: Duets
1993-05-09
Hero
1992-10-02
Earth and the American Dream
1992-10-01
'The Graduate' at 25
1992-01-01
A Wish for Wings That Work
1991-12-18
Billy Bathgate
1991-11-01
Hook
1991-04-10
The Earth Day Special
1990-04-22
Dick Tracy
1990-04-05
Waldo Salt: A Screenwriter's Journey
1990-01-19
Family Business
1989-12-06
Common Threads: Stories from the Quilt
1989-12-01
Rain Man
1988-12-12
Ishtar
1987-05-15
Death of a Salesman
1985-08-16
Night of 100 Stars II
1985-03-10
Tootsie
1982-12-17
Night of 100 Stars
1982-03-08
The Making of 'Tootsie'
1982-01-01
Kramer vs. Kramer
1979-12-07
Agatha
1979-02-09
Straight Time
1978-03-18
Bette Midler: Ol' Red Hair Is Back
1977-12-07
Marathon Man
1976-10-08
All the President's Men
1976-04-09
Lost in the Garden of the World
1975-06-02
Lenny
1974-11-10
Free to Be… You and Me
1974-03-11
Papillon
1973-12-16
The Magnificent Rebel
1973-01-01
Alfredo, Alfredo
1972-09-22
On Location: Dustin Hoffman
1971-12-31
Straw Dogs
1971-11-25
The Point
1971-02-02
Little Big Man
1970-12-23
Arthur Penn: The Director
1970-01-18
John and Mary
1969-12-14
Midnight Cowboy
1969-05-25
The Crowd Around the Cowboy
1969-01-01
Madigan's Millions
1968-05-30
The New Cinema
1968-01-01
The Graduate
1967-12-21
The Tiger Makes Out
1967-08-18
The Star Wagon
1966-10-20
The Journey of the Fifth Horse
1966-10-14
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