Dustin Hoffman
Personal Info
Known For
Acting
Known Credits
197
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 Graham Norton Show
Curb Your Enthusiasm
The Mike Douglas Show
Runaway Jury
Golden Globe Awards
Golden Globe Awards
Golden Globe Awards
Golden Globe Awards
Golden Globe Awards
Tony Awards
Tony Awards
Tony Awards
Kung Fu Panda 4
LIVE with Kelly and Mark
Kung Fu Panda
The Merv Griffin Show
Champs-Elysées
The Ellen DeGeneres Show
The Holiday
Naked City
Naked City
Sacrée Soirée
The Tonight Show with Jay Leno
Kung Fu Panda: The Dragon Knight
Wetten, dass..?
Spécial cinéma
Who Is Harry Kellerman and Why Is He Saying Those Terrible Things About Me?
American Masters
Kung Fu Panda 2
Finding Your Roots
Big Brother's Little Brother
Medici: Masters of Florence
Kung Fu Panda 3
The Reichen Show
Telling the Truth About Lies: The Making of "All the President's Men"
The Defenders
The Defenders
The Oscars
Rain Man
Goldene Kamera
Cameraman: The Life and Work of Jack Cardiff
Pressure and the Press: The Making of 'All the President's Men'
PRIDE: To Be Seen - A Soul of a Nation Presentation
Lemony Snicket's A Series of Unfortunate Events
HBO First Look
Perfume: The Story of a Murderer
The Graduate
The First 100 Years: A Celebration of American Movies
Waldo Salt: A Screenwriter's Journey
Sleepers
The Point
Meet the Fockers
Hook
After Midnight: Reflecting on a Classic 35 Years Later
Homeward Bound: A Grammy Salute to the Songs of Paul Simon
Sphere
V Graham Norton
Chef
Coucou c'est nous !
Racing Stripes
Papillon
The Program
The Messenger: The Story of Joan of Arc
Megalopolis
Finding the Truth: The Making of 'Kramer vs. Kramer'
Twiggy
Tootsie
Kung Fu Panda: Secrets of the Masters
Rachael Ray
Kramer vs. Kramer
Outbreak
V.I.P. Schaukel
Straight Time
Tuner
Kung Fu Panda Holiday
Little Fockers
Little Big Man
Moonlight Mile
Hal
Liberty's Kids
The Nurses
Family Business
The Tale of Despereaux
Kung Fu Panda: Secrets of the Scroll
The Cobbler
Today
Finding Neverland
Agatha
American Buffalo
All the President's Men
ABC Stage 67
Midnight Cowboy
Death of a Salesman
Luck
Dick Tracy
Kung Fu Panda: Secrets of the Furious Five
Mr. Magorium's Wonder Emporium
Billy Bathgate
Straw Dogs
I ♥ Huckabees
Film '72
Tuesday
Stranger Than Fiction
The Directors
Wag the Dog
Lenny
The Devil's Arithmetic
The Lost City
The Revisionist
Hero
Moonlight Mile: A Journey to Screen
Last Chance Harvey
La Classe américaine
Free to Be… You and Me
The Meyerowitz Stories (New and Selected)
Spielberg
Jews and Baseball: An American Love Story
The Many Faces of Dustin Hoffman
The Tiger Makes Out
Earth to America
As They Made Us
Barney's Version
Marathon Man
Lost in the Garden of the World
'The Graduate' at 25
Into the Labyrinth
A Wish for Wings That Work
Megadoc
Visual Acoustics
All the President's Men Revisited
Night of 100 Stars
Bette Midler: Ol' Red Hair Is Back
Roald Dahl's Esio Trot
Led Zeppelin Played Here
Reinventing Elvis: The 68' Comeback
Earth and the American Dream
Common Threads: Stories from the Quilt
The Sensational Shocking Wonderful Wacky 70's
Stand-Up: The Laughing Therapy
Controversy and Acclaim: The Timelessness of a Groundbreaking Film
Jonas in the Desert
Private Conversations: On the Set of ‘Death of a Salesman’
MADtv
Diamond
Sam & Kate
Mantrap – Straw Dogs: The Final Cut
John and Mary
La Classe américaine
All Governments Lie: Truth, Deception, and the Spirit of I.F. Stone
Confidence
Boychoir
Warner Bros. 75th Anniversary: No Guts, No Glory
Strokes of Genius: Arshile Gorky
Kung Fu Panda: The Awesome Secrets Collection
Ishtar
Aretha Franklin: Duets
This Morning
Mike Nichols: An American Master
Mad City
Treffpunkte
Trumbo
Against the Tide
Michael Ballhaus - Eine Reise durch mein Leben
Nos Bastidores de Hollywood
The Earth Day Special
Madigan's Millions
Arthur Penn: The Director
A Better Man: The Making of 'Tootsie'
The Magnificent Rebel
The New Cinema
Close Up
Billy Connolly: It’s Been a Pleasure...
Alfredo, Alfredo
Close Up
The Making of 'Tootsie'
Night of 100 Stars II
The Shakespeare Sessions
The Star Wagon
Steve McQueen: American Icon
Alan Pakula: Going for Truth
There's Only One Paul McCartney
On Location: Dustin Hoffman
Tower Stories
Billy Connolly: Erect for 30 Years
Goldwyn: The Man and His Movies
The Journey of the Fifth Horse
Arthur Miller: A Man of His Century
Reel Radicals: The Sixties Revolution in Film
The Magic of Hollywood... Is the Magic of People
Going the Distance: Remembering 'Marathon Man'
Dustin!
Franz Kline - Remembered
Now Showing: Unforgettable Moments from the Movies
The Crowd Around the Cowboy
Strokes of Genius: de Kooning on de Kooning
