Dustin Hoffman

American actor (born 1937)

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Born 1937
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2024

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Updated 2026-08-29

He turned awkwardness into leading-man material when Hollywood still wanted square jaws. Two Oscars, seven nominations, and a forty-year argument about what a star could look like.

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Hoffman left the Los Angeles Conservatory of Music for acting training at the Pasadena Playhouse, making his film debut in The Tiger Makes Out in 1967. That same year The Graduate gave him his first Oscar nomination and redrew the boundaries of movie stardom. He won Best Actor twice: for Kramer vs. Kramer in 1979, playing a man navigating divorce, and for Rain Man in 1988 as an autistic savant. Five more nominations followed across Midnight Cowboy, Lenny, Tootsie, and Wag the Dog. In the 21st century he mostly shifted to supporting work — Meet the Fockers, Finding Neverland, The Meyerowitz Sto…

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Dustin Hoffman

saidJun 1980

The plight of the actor, even if he's a star, is the plight of the women's movement.

— Interview, Films Illustrated (May-June 1980).

Dustin Hoffman

said13 May 1971

Sam's like a fight trainer. He shapes you up, he psyches you, he draws everything out of you. He's subtle, though, yet baroque, and I want to get into that baroqueness.

— On ; in "Sam Peckinpah Breaks a Bottle" by Chris Hodenfield, Rolling Stone (May 13, 1971), p. 18.

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