Dustin Hoffman
Personal Info
Known For
Acting
Known Credits
196
Gender
Male
Birthday
1937-08-08 (88 years old)
Place of Birth
Los Angeles, California, USA
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.
Known For
The Simpsons
The Daily Show
The Mike Douglas Show
Golden Globe Awards
Golden Globe Awards
Golden Globe Awards
Golden Globe Awards
Golden Globe Awards
The Graham Norton Show
Curb Your Enthusiasm
LIVE with Kelly and Mark
The Tonight Show with Jay Leno
Wetten, dass..?
Champs-Elysées
The Merv Griffin Show
Kung Fu Panda 4
Naked City
Naked City
Sacrée Soirée
The Ellen DeGeneres Show
The Oscars
Kung Fu Panda
The Defenders
The Defenders
Spécial cinéma
Medici: Masters of Florence
The Cobbler
Kung Fu Panda: The Dragon Knight
HBO First Look
Straight Time
The Reichen Show
Kung Fu Panda 2
American Masters
Tuner
Goldene Kamera
Finding Your Roots
Kung Fu Panda 3
Racing Stripes
Meet the Fockers
Billy Bathgate
Perfume: The Story of a Murderer
Hook
Coucou c'est nous !
Tuesday
V Graham Norton
Rain Man
Wag the Dog
Sleepers
The Holiday
Mr. Magorium's Wonder Emporium
Chef
Into the Labyrinth
Big Brother's Little Brother
The Graduate
I ♥ Huckabees
Megalopolis
V.I.P. Schaukel
Moonlight Mile
Liberty's Kids
Twiggy
Lemony Snicket's A Series of Unfortunate Events
Today
Rachael Ray
Led Zeppelin Played Here
Midnight Cowboy
Confidence
The Directors
Dick Tracy
Outbreak
Papillon
Agatha
Little Fockers
American Buffalo
The Messenger: The Story of Joan of Arc
Last Chance Harvey
Runaway Jury
Hal
All the President's Men
Kramer vs. Kramer
Finding Neverland
ABC Stage 67
Visual Acoustics
Stranger Than Fiction
Luck
The Nurses
Tootsie
Straw Dogs
Sphere
The Tale of Despereaux
Night of 100 Stars
Film '72
Aretha Franklin: Duets
Kung Fu Panda Holiday
Kung Fu Panda: Secrets of the Furious Five
Hero
Family Business
Kung Fu Panda: Secrets of the Masters
Marathon Man
The Program
Hollywood: No Sex, Please!
Diamond
Mad City
Kung Fu Panda: Secrets of the Scroll
Barney's Version
Treffpunkte
Spielberg
Stand-Up: The Laughing Therapy
Mike Nichols: An American Master
The Lost City
Little Big Man
Roald Dahl's Esio Trot
John and Mary
MADtv
The Meyerowitz Stories (New and Selected)
Megadoc
Nos Bastidores de Hollywood
This Morning
Ishtar
Night of 100 Stars II
Death of a Salesman
The Devil's Arithmetic
La Classe américaine
Sam & Kate
Boychoir
The New Cinema
The Earth Day Special
Close Up
Lenny
Close Up
Earth to America
Alfredo, Alfredo
The Sensational Shocking Wonderful Wacky 70's
Cameraman: The Life and Work of Jack Cardiff
The Point
Kung Fu Panda: The Awesome Secrets Collection
The Crowd Around the Cowboy
Reel Radicals: The Sixties Revolution in Film
As They Made Us
Trumbo
The First 100 Years: A Celebration of American Movies
The Making of 'Tootsie'
All Governments Lie: Truth, Deception, and the Spirit of I.F. Stone
Billy Connolly: Erect for 30 Years
Strokes of Genius: de Kooning on de Kooning
Alan Pakula: Going for Truth
All the President's Men Revisited
Heart of the Festival
Tower Stories
Warner Bros. 75th Anniversary: No Guts, No Glory
La Classe américaine
Free to Be… You and Me
After Midnight: Reflecting on a Classic 35 Years Later
Common Threads: Stories from the Quilt
Earth and the American Dream
A Better Man: The Making of 'Tootsie'
The Shakespeare Sessions
The Magnificent Rebel
Billy Connolly: It’s Been a Pleasure...
Controversy and Acclaim: The Timelessness of a Groundbreaking Film
Steve McQueen: American Icon
PRIDE: To Be Seen - A Soul of a Nation Presentation
A Wish for Wings That Work
Jonas in the Desert
On Location: Dustin Hoffman
Arthur Penn: The Director
Who Is Harry Kellerman and Why Is He Saying Those Terrible Things About Me?
Madigan's Millions
The Tiger Makes Out
The Star Wagon
Reinventing Elvis: The 68' Comeback
Telling the Truth About Lies: The Making of "All the President's Men"
Moonlight Mile: A Journey to Screen
Bette Midler: Ol' Red Hair Is Back
Goldwyn: The Man and His Movies
Jews and Baseball: An American Love Story
Mantrap – Straw Dogs: The Final Cut
The Revisionist
Pressure and the Press: The Making of 'All the President's Men'
Private Conversations: On the Set of ‘Death of a Salesman’
Against the Tide
Franz Kline - Remembered
Arthur Miller: A Man of His Century
Dustin!
'The Graduate' at 25
The Journey of the Fifth Horse
Lost in the Garden of the World
Michael Ballhaus - Eine Reise durch mein Leben
Homeward Bound: A Grammy Salute to the Songs of Paul Simon
Strokes of Genius: Arshile Gorky
Finding the Truth: The Making of 'Kramer vs. Kramer'
Waldo Salt: A Screenwriter's Journey
There's Only One Paul McCartney
Going the Distance: Remembering 'Marathon Man'
The Magic of Hollywood... Is the Magic of People
Now Showing: Unforgettable Moments from the Movies
The Many Faces of Dustin Hoffman
