Dustin Hoffman
American actor (born 1937) · United States · Actors
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Something wrong?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.
A life in dates
TunerFilm, Harry Horowitz2022
Kung Fu Panda: The Dragon KnightSeries, Shifu (voice)2017
The Meyerowitz Stories (New and Selected)Film, Harold Meyerowitz2014
ChefFilm, Riva2012Donostia AwardAward2010
Kung Fu Panda HolidayFilm, Shifu (voice)2006
Perfume: The Story of a MurdererFilm, Giuseppe Baldini2005The Reichen ShowSeries2004
Finding NeverlandFilm, Charles Frohman2000
Curb Your EnthusiasmSeries, Guide #11999AFI Life Achievement AwardAward
The Messenger: The Story of Joan of ArcFilm, 1999Joan's conscience1997Golden Globe Cecil B. DeMille AwardAward
Wag the DogFilm, 1997Stanley Motss1995
OutbreakFilm, Sam Daniels1992
The Tonight Show with Jay LenoSeries1991
HookFilm, Captain Hook1989Academy Award for Best ActorAward1987
Sacrée soiréeSeries1986Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Lead Actor in a Miniseries or a MovieAward1982
TootsieFilm, Michael Dorsey / Dorothy Michaels1981
Wetten, dass..?Series1980“The plight of the actor, even if he's a star, is the plight of the women's movement.”In their wordsJune 1980Interview, Films Illustrated (May-June 1980).Academy Award for Best ActorAward1976
All the President's MenFilm, Carl Bernstein1971“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.”In their words13 May 1971On ; in "Sam Peckinpah Breaks a Bottle" by Chris Hodenfield, Rolling Stone (May 13, 1971), p. 18.Film '72Series
Straw DogsFilm, 1971David Sumner1967Theatre World AwardAward
The GraduateFilm, 1967Ben Braddock1961
The DefendersSeries, Robert Burke1953
The OscarsSeries1944
Golden Globe AwardsSeries1937Born8 August 1937Also in Deutsch
Photos 9
Hoffman on the set of Midnight Cowboy (1969)
Hoffman with Mia Farrow on the set of John and Mary (1969)
Hoffman (left) on the set of Lenny in 1974
Hoffman at the 61st Academy Awards, 1989
Hoffman during the filming of Last Chance Harvey in 2008
Hoffman in 2013
Hoffman, Noah Baumbach, Emma Thompson, Ben Stiller, and Adam Sandler at the Cannes Film Festival screening of The Meyerowitz Stories in 2017In their own words 2
, The plight of the actor, even if he's a star, is the plight of the women's movement.
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.
Filmography 40
TUTuner
KPKung Fu Panda 4
MEMegalopolisTSThe Meyerowitz Stories (New and Selected)
KPKung Fu Panda 3CHChef
TCThe Cobbler
KPKung Fu Panda 2
LFLittle FockersKHKung Fu Panda Holiday
KPKung Fu Panda
TDThe Tale of Despereaux
KFKung Fu Panda: Secrets of the Furious Five
LHLast Chance Harvey
MEMr. Magorium's Wonder Emporium
THThe HolidayPMPerfume: The Story of a Murderer
SFStranger Than Fiction
RSRacing Stripes
MFMeet the Fockers
LELemony Snicket's A Series of Unfortunate EventsFNFinding Neverland
RJRunaway JuryTAThe Messenger: The Story of Joan of Arc
SPSphereWDWag the Dog
SLSleepersOUOutbreak
HEHeroHOHook
DTDick Tracy
RMRain ManTOTootsie
KKKramer vs. KramerAMAll the President's Men
MMMarathon Man
PAPapillonSDStraw Dogs
MCMidnight CowboyTGThe Graduate216 credits on file
Television 24
KKKung Fu Panda: The Dragon Knight
TSThe Graham Norton Show
TSThe Ellen DeGeneres Show
BBBig Brother's Little BrotherCECurb Your Enthusiasm
TSThe Daily ShowTLThe Tonight Show with Jay Leno
TSThe Simpsons
LMLIVE with Kelly and MarkSSSacrée soirée
CEChamps-ElyséesWDWetten, dass..?
TSThe South Bank Show
SCSpécial cinéma
TSThe Merv Griffin Show
TSThe Mike Douglas ShowTDThe Defenders
NCNaked City
TATony AwardsTOThe Oscars
TOTodayGAGolden Globe AwardsAwards
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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 Stories - and voiced Master Shifu in the Kung Fu Panda series. On stage he played Willy Loman in the 1984 Death of a Salesman revival, earning an Emmy when he reprised it for television a year later.
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