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From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Dustin Hoffman Dustin Hoffman Dustin Hoffman Respected for his versatility, Hoffman has won two Academy Awards, six Golden Globes, three BAFTAs, three Drama Desk Awards, and an Emmy Award. Early life Hoffman was born in Los Angeles, California,[1] the son of Lillian (née Gold), a jazz pianist, and Harry Hoffman, who worked as a prop supervisor/set decorator at Columbia Pictures before becoming a furniture salesman.[2][3] His brother, Ronald, is a lawyer and economist. Hoffman’s family was Jewish, and although he did not have a religious upbringing he is now religious.[4][5] He graduated from Los Angeles High School in 1955. He enrolled at Santa Monica College with the intention of studying medicine but left after a year to join the Pasadena Playhouse.[6] during the filming of Last Chance Harvey (2007) Born Dustin Lee Hoffman August 8, 1937 (1937-08-08) Los Angeles, California, U.S. Actor 1967 – present Anne Byrne (1969 – 1980) Lisa Gottsegen (1980 – present) Career Early career Hoffman began acting at the Pasadena Playhouse with Gene Hackman. After two years at the playhouse, Hackman headed for New York City, and Hoffman soon followed. He worked a series of odd jobs, including coat checking at restaurants, working in the typing department of the city Yellow Pages directory, and stringing Hawaiian leis, while getting the occasional bit television role. To support himself, he left acting briefly to teach. He worked as a professional fragrance tester for Maxwell House. He also did the occasional television commercial. An often-replayed segment on programs that explore actors’ early work is a clip showing Hoffman touting the Volkswagen Fastback. In 1960, Hoffman landed a role in an offBroadway production and followed with a walk-on role in a Broadway production in 1961. Hoffman then studied at the famed Actors Studio and became a dedicated method actor. His first critical success was in Eh? by Henry Livings which had its US premiere OffBroadway at the Circle in the Square Downtown on October 16, 1966. Occupation Years active Spouse(s) Dustin Lee Hoffman[1] (born August 8, 1937)[1] is an American actor who has had an active career in film, television, and theatre since 1960. He first drew critical praise for the 1966 Off-Broadway play Eh? for which he won a Theatre World Award and a Drama Desk Award. This was soon followed by his breakout movie role as Ben Braddock in the 1967 film The Graduate. After the success of this film, Hoffman’s career has largely been focused in cinema with only sporadic returns to television and the stage. Some of his more important films are Midnight Cowboy (1969), Little Big Man (1970), Lenny (1974), All the President’s Men (1976), Kramer vs. Kramer (1979), Tootsie (1982), Rain Man (1988), Hook (1991), Sleepers (1996), Wag the Dog (1997), and Last Chance Harvey (2008). 1 From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Through the early and mid-1960s, Hoffman made appearances in television shows and movies, including Naked City, The Defenders and Hallmark Hall of Fame. Hoffman made his theatrical film debut in The Tiger Makes Out in 1967, alongside Eli Wallach. Between acting jobs, Hoffman also made ends meet by teaching acting at a community college night school, and by directing offbroadway and community theater productions. In 1967, immediately after wrapping up principal filming on The Tiger Makes Out, Hoffman flew from New York City to Fargo, North Dakota, where he directed a production of William Saroyan’s The Time of Your Life for the Emma Herbst Community Theatre. The $1,000 he received for the eight-week contract was all he had to hold him over until the funds from the movie materialized. Dustin Hoffman playwright Franz Liebkind in Mel Brooks’ 1968 movie The Producers, but dropped out when he landed the role of Benjamin Braddock, opposite Anne Bancroft, Brooks’ wife. The film began production in March 1967. Hoffman received an Academy Award nomination for his performance. After the success of this film, another Hoffman film, Madigan’s Millions, shot before The Graduate, was released on the tail of the actor’s newfound success. It was considered a failure at the box office. In December 1968 Hoffman returned to Broadway to appear in the title role of Murray Schisgal and John Sebastian’s musical Jimmy Shine. For his performance in the production Hoffman won a Drama Desk Award for Outstanding Performance. Just a few weeks after leaving the production, Hoffman’s next major film Midnight Cowboy premiered in theatres across the United States on 25 May 1969. For his role as Ratso Rizzo in the film, Hoffman received his second Oscar nomination and the film won the Best Picture honor. This was followed by his role in Little Big Man, where he played Jack Crabb, who ages from teenager to a 121-year-old man in the film. The film was widely praised by critics, but was overlooked for an award except for a supporting nomination for Chief Dan George. Hoffman continued to appear in major films over the next few years. Who Is Harry Kellerman and Why Is He Saying Those Terrible Things About Me?, Straw Dogs, and Papillon were followed by Lenny in 1974, for which Hoffman received his third nomination for Best Actor in seven years. Less than two years after the Watergate scandal, Hoffman and Robert Redford starred as Carl Bernstein and Bob Woodward, respectively, in All the President’s Men. Hoffman next starred in Marathon Man, a film based on William Goldman’s novel of the same name, opposite Laurence Olivier. Hoffman’s next roles were not as successful. He opted out of directing Straight Time but starred as a thief. His next film, Michael Apted’s Agatha, was opposite Vanessa Redgrave starring as Agatha Christie. Hoffman’s next starred in Robert Benton’s Kramer vs. Kramer as workaholic Ted Kramer whose wife unexpectedly leaves him and he must raise their son alone. Hoffman starred alongside Meryl Streep in the film, which earned Hoffman his first Academy Major roles Hoffman in France (1985) In 1966, Mike Nichols began casting The Graduate. Negotiations with Warren Beatty and Robert Redford fell through, and Hoffman auditioned for the role. Before Hoffman, Charles Grodin had also been in consideration for the role but, according to one anecdote, refused to work for the amount offered. Hoffman had been set to play the role of Nazi 2 From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Dustin Hoffman because "I didn’t vote for you guys either." After Rain Man, Hoffman appeared with Sean Connery and Matthew Broderick in Family Business. The film did relatively poorly with the critics and at the box office. In 1991, Hoffman voiced substitute teacher Mr. Bergstrom in the The Simpsons episode "Lisa’s Substitute", under the pseudonym Sam Etic. As a reference to this episode, on the episode portraying the Itchy & Scratchy movie, Lisa says that Dustin Hoffman has a cameo but doesn’t use his real name. Throughout the 1990s, Hoffman appeared in many large, studio films, such as Dick Tracy, Hero and the ill-fated Billy Bathgate. Hoffman also played the title role of Captain Hook in Steven Spielberg’s Hook, earning a Golden Globe nomination; in this movie, Hoffman’s costume was so heavy that he had to wear an air-conditioned suit under it. Hoffman played the lead role in Outbreak, alongside Rene Russo, Kevin Spacey, Morgan Freeman, Cuba Gooding Jr. and Donald Sutherland. Following that, he appeared in Sleepers with Brad Pitt, Jason Patric, and Kevin Bacon. He starred opposite John Travolta in the Costa Gavras vehicle Mad City. It was in the mid-1990s that Hoffman starred in — and was deeply involved in the production of — David Mamet’s American Buffalo, one of the very few "pure art projects" he is known for, and an early effort of film editor Kate Sanford. Hoffman gained his seventh Academy Award nomination for his role in Wag The Dog. He next appeared in Barry Levinson’s adaptation of Sphere, opposite Sharon Stone, Samuel L. Jackson, Peter Coyote, Queen Latifah and Liev Schreiber. Hoffman next appeared in Moonlight Mile, followed by Confidence opposite Edward Burns, Andy Garcia and Rachel Weisz. Hoffman would finally have a chance to work with Gene Hackman, in Gary Fleder’s Runaway Jury, an adaptation of John Grisham’s bestselling novel. More recently, Hoffman played theater owner Charles Frohman in the J. M. Barrie historical fantasia Finding Neverland, costarring Johnny Depp and Kate Winslet. In director David O. Russell’s I Heart Huckabees, Hoffman appeared opposite Lily Tomlin as an existential detective team. Hoffman co-starred with Barbra Streisand, Robert De Niro and Ben Stiller in 2004’s Meet the Fockers, the sequel to Meet the Parents. Hoffman won the 2005 MTV Movie Hoffman talks to extras on the set of Lenny in Fort Lauderdale, Florida (1974) Award. The film also received the Best Picture honor, as well as Supporting Actress (Streep) and Director. In Tootsie, Hoffman portrays Michael Dorsey, a struggling actor who finds himself dressing up as a woman to land a role on a soap opera. His co-star was Jessica Lange. Tootsie earned ten Academy Award nominations, including Hoffman’s fifth nomination. Hoffman then turned to television in the role of Willy Loman in Death of a Salesman, for which he won the 1985 Emmy Award for Outstanding lead actor in a TV movie or miniseries. He would also go on to win a Golden Globe for the same performance. Hoffman’s largest film failure was Elaine May’s Ishtar, with Warren Beatty. The film received almost completely negative reviews from critics and was nominated for three Razzie awards. James House, who later became a country music artist, served as Hoffman’s vocal coach in the film.[7] In director Barry Levinson’s Rain Man, Hoffman starred as an autistic savant, opposite Tom Cruise. Levinson, Hoffman and Cruise worked for two years on the film, and his performance garnered Hoffman his second Academy Award. Upon accepting, Hoffman stated softly to his fellow nominees that it was okay if they didn’t vote for him 3 From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Award for Best Comedic Performance. He was featured in cameo roles in Andy Garcia’s The Lost City and on the final episode of HBO sitcom Curb Your Enthusiasm’s fifth season. In 2006, Hoffman appeared in Stranger than Fiction, played the perfumer Giuseppe Baldini in Tom Tykwer’s film Perfume: The Story of a Murderer and had a cameo in the 2006 film The Holiday. In 2007, he was featured in an advertising campaign for Australian telecommunications company Telstra’s Next G network,[8] appeared in the 50 Cent video "Follow My Lead" as a psychiatrist, and played the title character in the family film Mr. Magorium’s Wonder Emporium. In 2008, although he was reluctant to perform in an animated film, Hoffman had a prominent role in the acclaimed film Kung Fu Panda, which was praised in part for his comedic chemistry with Jack Black and his character’s complex relationship with the story’s villain. He later won the Annie Award for Voice Acting in an Animated Feature for Kung Fu Panda. He next voiced Roscuro in The Tale of Despereaux and played the title character in Last Chance Harvey. Dustin Hoffman Personal life Hoffman married Anne Byrne in May 1969.[9] The couple had two children, Karina (b. 1966) and Jenna (b. 15 October 1970). Karina is adopted. They divorced in 1980.[9] He married attorney Lisa Gottsegen in October 1980; they have four children — Jacob Edward (b. 20 March 1981), Rebecca (b. 17 March 1983), Maxwell Geoffrey (b. 30 August 1984), and Alexandra Lydia (b. 27 October 1987). Hoffman also has two grandchildren. In an interview, he said that all of his children had bar or bat mitzvahs and that he is a more observant Jew now than when he was younger; he also lamented that he is not fluent in Hebrew. In 1970, Hoffman and Byrne were living in Greenwich Village in a building next door to the townhouse destroyed by members of The Weatherman when they detonated a bomb in the building’s basement, killing three people. In the 2002 documentary The Weather Underground, Hoffman can be seen standing in the street during the aftermath of the explosion.[10] A political liberal, Hoffman has long supported the Democratic Party and Ralph With Gottsegen (left), and Jake Hoffman (right), at Los Angeles Fashion Week (2007) Nader.[11] In 1997, he was one of a number of Hollywood stars and executives to sign an open letter to then-German Chancellor Helmut Kohl, published as a newspaper advertisement in the International Herald Tribune, which protested the treatment of Scientologists in Germany.[12] Robert Duvall was a roommate of Hoffman’s during their struggling actor years in New York City. Duvall and Hoffman tease each other on the matter of acting training, as Duvall was trained by Sanford Meisner whereas Hoffman was brought up on Lee Strasberg’s method acting. Hoffman is still good friends with actor Gene Hackman, who was also friends with Duvall during their years as starving actors. Filmography and awards Year Film Role Other notes 4 From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia 1967 The Tiger Makes Out The Graduate Hap Benjamin Braddock BAFTA 1976 The Magic of Award; Hollywood... Is Golden the Magic of Globe; People Nominated All the PresidAcademy ent’s Men Award for Best Actor Marathon Man short subject BAFTA Award; Nominated Golden Globe; Nominated -1978 Straight Time Academy Award for 1979 Agatha Best Actor BAFTA Award (combined with Midnight Cowboy) Nominated Golden Globe Kramer vs. Kramer Dustin Hoffman Golden Globe Himself short subject Carl Bernstein 1968 Madigan’s Millions 1969 Sunday Father Midnight Cowboy Jason Fister A ’Sunday Father’ ’Ratso’ Rizzo Nominated BAFTA Award (with Marathon Man) Nominated BAFTA Award (with All the President’s Men) Nominated Golden Globe also producer Babe Levy Max Dembo Wally Stanton Ted Kramer John and Mary John Academy Award for Best Actor; Golden Globe; Nominated BAFTA Award BAFTA Award; Golden Globe; Nominated Academy Award for Best Actor Emmy Award; Golden Globe documentary 1970 Little Big Man Jack Crabb Nominated -1982 Tootsie BAFTA Award short subject 1971 On Location: Himself Dustin Hoffman Who Is Harry Kellerman and Why Is He Saying Those Terrible Things About Me? Straw Dogs Georgie Soloway Michael Dorsey / Dorothy Michaels 1985 Death of a Salesman David Sumner Willy Loman 1972 Alfredo, Alfredo Alfredo Sbisà 1973 Papillon 1974 Lenny Louis Dega Lenny Bruce 1986 Private Conversations 1987 Ishtar Nominated -1988 Rain Man Academy Award for Best Actor; Nominated - Himself Chuck Clarke Raymond Babbitt Academy Award for Best Actor; Golden Globe; 5 From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Nominated -1999 The MessenBAFTA ger: The Story Award of Joan of Arc 1989 Common Threads: Stories from the Quilt Family Business 1990 Dick Tracy 1991 Billy Bathgate Hook Narrator documentary 2001 Tuesday Goldwyn 2002 Moonlight Mile Vito McMullen Mumbles Dutch Schultz 2003 The Shakespeare Sessions Confidence Dustin Hoffman The Conscience Narrator Narrator Ben Floss Himself documentary short subject documentary Winston King Wendell Rohr Himself documentary Actor, USA Charles Frohman Bernard Bernie Focker The Critic uncredited 1992 Hero 1992 Horton Hears a Who! 1993 La Classe américaine 1994 Jonas in the Desert 1995 Outbreak Runaway Jury Capt. Hook Nominated Golden 2004 Freedom2speak Globe v2.0 Bernard Finding ’Bernie’ Neverland Laplante I Heart Narrator Huckabees Peter Himself Colonel Sam Daniels Walt ’Teach’ Teacher Danny Snyder in archive footage only documentary Meet the Fockers Lemony Snicket’s A Series of Unfortunate Events The Lost City 2006 Perfume: The Story of a Murderer Stranger than Golden Fiction Globes - Cecil B. The Holiday DeMille Award 2007 Mr. Magorium’s Wonder Emporium Nominated Academy Award for 2008 Best Actor; Nominated Golden Globe 2005 Racing Stripes Tucker Meyer Lansky Giuseppe Baldini Professor Jules Hilbert Himself Mr. Edward Magorium, Avid ShoeWearer Master Shifu Roscuro Harvey Shine voice 1996 American Buffalo Sleepers 1997 uncredited Mad City Wag the Dog Max Brackett Stanley Motss Kung Fu Panda The Tale of Despereaux Last Chance Harvey voice, Won Annie Award voice Nominated Golden Globe 1998 Sphere Dr. Norman Goodman 6 From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Awards and achievements Preceded by Jon Voight for Coming Home Preceded by Dudley Moore for Arthur Golden Globe Award for Best Actor - Motion Picture Drama 1980 for Kramer vs. Kramer Golden Globe Award for Best Actor - Motion Picture Musical or Comedy 1983 for Tootsie Drama Desk Award for Outstanding Actor in a Play 1983-1984 for Death of a Salesman Golden Globe Award for Best Actor - Motion Picture Drama 1989 for Rain Man AFI Life Achievement Award 1999 Master Shifu (voice) Dustin Hoffman Succeeded by Robert De Niro for Raging Bull Succeeded by Michael Caine for Educating Rita Preceded by Harvey Fierstein for Torch Song Trilogy Preceded by Michael Douglas for Wall Street Preceded by Robert Wise 2010 Kung Fu Panda 2 Succeeded by John Lithgow for Requiem for a Heavyweight Succeeded by Tom Cruise for Born on the Fourth of July Succeeded by Harrison Ford References [1] [2] [3] [4] [5] [6] [7] [8] [9] [10] Paglia, Camille (November 12, 2008), pre"Obama surfs through", Salon, production http://www.salon.com/opinion/paglia/ 2008/11/12/palin/index1.html, "..the The Giver Giver pre2002 documentary "The Weather production Underground"... the news footage of the Greenwich Village townhouse destroyed in 1970 by bomb-making gone wrong in the basement still has enormous impact. ^ According to the State of California Standing in the chaotic street, actor (CA Birth Index). At Family Tree Dustin Hoffman, who lived next door, Legends. Retrieved 2008-01-23. seems like Everyman at the Yahoo movies biography. apocalypse.". Film Reference.com biography. [11] "Dustin Hoffman’s Federal Campaign Bernard, Sarah (2007-11-18), "The Contribution Report", Newsmeat, Tortoise and the Whoopee Cushion", http://www.newsmeat.com/ New York Magazine, http://nymag.com/ celebrity_political_donations/ guides/holidays/gifts/2007/40990/, Dustin_Hoffman.php, retrieved on retrieved on 2007-11-22. January 23, 2008. Hoffman’s Jewish return. Ynet.com. 19 [12] Bonfante, Jordan; van Voorst, Bruce November 2006. (1997-02-10). "Does Germany Have "The Moonchild and the Fifth Beatle", Something Against These Guys?", Time Time Magazine, Time Inc., February 7, 1969, http://www.time.com/time/ magazine/article/0,9171,838938,00.html, retrieved on 2009-04-04. • Dustin Hoffman at the Internet Movie James House Biography: OLDIES.Com Database O’Sullivan, Matt. 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Broadway Database Retrieved 2008-01-23. • Dustin Hoffman video interview at stv.tv, External links December 2007 7 From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Persondata NAME ALTERNATIVE NAMES SHORT DESCRIPTION DATE OF BIRTH Actor August 8, 1937 Hoffman, Dustin PLACE OF BIRTH DATE OF DEATH PLACE OF DEATH Dustin Hoffman Los Angeles, California, United States Retrieved from "http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dustin_Hoffman" Categories: 1937 births, Living people, Actors Studio alumni, American film actors, American Jews, American stage actors, BAFTA winners (people), BAFTA Award for Best Actor, Best Actor Academy Award winners, Best Drama Actor Golden Globe (film) winners, Best Musical or Comedy Actor Golden Globe (film) winners, Best Miniseries or Television Movie Actor Golden Globe winners, Actors from California, California Democrats, Drama Desk Award winners, Jewish actors, Obie Award recipients, Royal Shakespeare Company members, Theatre World Award winners This page was last modified on 23 May 2009, at 04:46 (UTC). 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