Dustin Hoffman
Personal Info
Known For
Acting
Known Credits
195
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
The Graham Norton Show
Curb Your Enthusiasm
Tony Awards
Tony Awards
Tony Awards
Golden Globe Awards
Golden Globe Awards
Golden Globe Awards
LIVE with Kelly and Mark
Kung Fu Panda 4
Wetten, dass..?
Champs-Elysées
Sacrée Soirée
The Ellen DeGeneres Show
The Tonight Show with Jay Leno
Naked City
Naked City
Spécial cinéma
The Defenders
The Defenders
Kung Fu Panda
American Masters
Big Brother's Little Brother
Perfume: The Story of a Murderer
The Reichen Show
V Graham Norton
Finding Your Roots
Kung Fu Panda: The Dragon Knight
Medici: Masters of Florence
Kung Fu Panda 2
The Oscars
Kung Fu Panda 3
The Graduate
Today
The Holiday
HBO First Look
Hook
Rachael Ray
Meet the Fockers
Goldene Kamera
Liberty's Kids
V.I.P. Schaukel
Megalopolis
Sphere
Lemony Snicket's A Series of Unfortunate Events
Rain Man
Who Is Harry Kellerman and Why Is He Saying Those Terrible Things About Me?
The Tale of Despereaux
Coucou c'est nous !
All the President's Men Revisited
The Nurses
Sleepers
ABC Stage 67
Runaway Jury
Finding Neverland
The Messenger: The Story of Joan of Arc
Barney's Version
Outbreak
Chef
Kung Fu Panda: Secrets of the Masters
Jews and Baseball: An American Love Story
Racing Stripes
Death of a Salesman
The Tiger Makes Out
The Many Faces of Dustin Hoffman
Confidence
Little Fockers
Homeward Bound: A Grammy Salute to the Songs of Paul Simon
The First 100 Years: A Celebration of American Movies
The Directors
Marathon Man
Reinventing Elvis: The 68' Comeback
Moonlight Mile
Midnight Cowboy
The Cobbler
Kramer vs. Kramer
Hero
Last Chance Harvey
Sam & Kate
The Journey of the Fifth Horse
Kung Fu Panda Holiday
Strokes of Genius: Arshile Gorky
Treffpunkte
Wag the Dog
Papillon
Earth to America
Spielberg
Family Business
Kung Fu Panda: Secrets of the Scroll
Tower Stories
After Midnight: Reflecting on a Classic 35 Years Later
As They Made Us
The New Cinema
Common Threads: Stories from the Quilt
The Lost City
Tato's Argentina
The Devil's Arithmetic
I ♥ Huckabees
A Wish for Wings That Work
Film '72
Jonas in the Desert
The Program
Reel Radicals: The Sixties Revolution in Film
The Point
Kung Fu Panda: Secrets of the Furious Five
Luck
Straight Time
The Meyerowitz Stories (New and Selected)
Lenny
Moonlight Mile: A Journey to Screen
Ishtar
Free to Be… You and Me
All the President's Men
Nos Bastidores de Hollywood
Mr. Magorium's Wonder Emporium
Billy Connolly: Erect for 30 Years
Little Big Man
Telling the Truth About Lies: The Making of "All the President's Men"
'The Graduate' at 25
Billy Bathgate
Twiggy
Alfredo, Alfredo
Earth and the American Dream
American Buffalo
All Governments Lie: Truth, Deception, and the Spirit of I.F. Stone
Private Conversations: On the Set of ‘Death of a Salesman’
Tuner
Tootsie
La Classe américaine
Hal
La Classe américaine
Stand-Up: The Laughing Therapy
Led Zeppelin Played Here
Stranger Than Fiction
This Morning
Straw Dogs
Close Up
Kung Fu Panda: The Awesome Secrets Collection
Agatha
The Revisionist
Into the Labyrinth
PRIDE: To Be Seen - A Soul of a Nation Presentation
Night of 100 Stars
Boychoir
Dick Tracy
Mad City
MADtv
Arthur Penn: The Director
Against the Tide
Tuesday
Megadoc
Mantrap – Straw Dogs: The Final Cut
Waldo Salt: A Screenwriter's Journey
Aretha Franklin: Duets
The Sensational Shocking Wonderful Wacky 70's
John and Mary
Controversy and Acclaim: The Timelessness of a Groundbreaking Film
The Earth Day Special
Steve McQueen: American Icon
Madigan's Millions
Cameraman: The Life and Work of Jack Cardiff
Visual Acoustics
Pressure and the Press: The Making of 'All the President's Men'
Mike Nichols: An American Master
Warner Bros. 75th Anniversary: No Guts, No Glory
Night of 100 Stars II
Roald Dahl's Esio Trot
Alan Pakula: Going for Truth
Bette Midler: Ol' Red Hair Is Back
Lost in the Garden of the World
Close Up
The Magnificent Rebel
Goldwyn: The Man and His Movies
Trumbo
Billy Connolly: It’s Been a Pleasure...
The Shakespeare Sessions
Franz Kline - Remembered
On Location: Dustin Hoffman
Arthur Miller: A Man of His Century
Finding the Truth: The Making of 'Kramer vs. Kramer'
Michael Ballhaus - Eine Reise durch mein Leben
Dustin!
The Magic of Hollywood... Is the Magic of People
There's Only One Paul McCartney
The Making of 'Tootsie'
A Better Man: The Making of 'Tootsie'
Diamond
The Crowd Around the Cowboy
Strokes of Genius: de Kooning on de Kooning
Now Showing: Unforgettable Moments from the Movies
The Star Wagon
Going the Distance: Remembering 'Marathon Man'
