Dustin Hoffman

Known for ActingBorn 1937-08-08 (age 88)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.Read more

Movies & web series

Close Up

Nos Bastidores de Hollywood

Close Up

Spécial cinéma

Moonlight Mile: A Journey to Screen

Arthur Penn: The Director

The Shakespeare Sessions

Goldwyn: The Man and His Movies

Bette Midler: Ol' Red Hair Is Back

Aretha Franklin: Duets

Led Zeppelin Played Here

Kung Fu Panda: The Awesome Secrets Collection

Curb Your Enthusiasm

There's Only One Paul McCartney

Reel Radicals: The Sixties Revolution in Film

The First 100 Years: A Celebration of American Movies

Twiggy

The Simpsons

Medici: Masters of Florence

Night of 100 Stars II

Liberty's Kids

Spielberg

PRIDE: To Be Seen - A Soul of a Nation Presentation

Earth to America

Kung Fu Panda: The Dragon Knight

On Location: Dustin Hoffman

Arthur Miller: A Man of His Century

Rain Man

Billy Connolly: It’s Been a Pleasure...

Sleepers

All Governments Lie: Truth, Deception, and the Spirit of I.F. Stone

Papillon

La Classe américaine

Visual Acoustics

Brooklyn

All the President's Men

Perfume: The Story of a Murderer

Kung Fu Panda

Kramer vs. Kramer

V.I.P. Schaukel

Finding Neverland

Stranger Than Fiction

Going the Distance: Remembering 'Marathon Man'

The Graduate

The Graham Norton Show

Diamond

Chef

Kung Fu Panda 4