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.
Filmography
all 199
Movies 160
self 91
TV Shows 39
Voice 9
Narrator 4
Producer 2
Director 1
Megalopolis (2024)
Kung Fu Panda 4 (2024)
Reinventing Elvis: The 68' Comeback (2023)
Desperate Souls, Dark City and the Legend of Midnight Cowboy (2023)
Sam & Kate (2022)
Homeward Bound: A Grammy Salute to the Songs of Paul Simon (2022)
Kung Fu Panda: The Dragon Knight (2022)
PRIDE: To Be Seen - A Soul of a Nation Presentation (2022)
As They Made Us (2022)
Becoming Al Pacino (2022)
Mr. Saturday Night (2021)
Billy Connolly: It’s Been a Pleasure... (2020)
Into the Labyrinth (2019)
Alan Pakula: Going for Truth (2019)
Hal (2019)
And the Winners Are! (2019)
The Newspaperman: The Life and Times of Ben Bradlee (2017)
The Meyerowitz Stories (New and Selected) (2017)
Spielberg (2017)
Steve McQueen: American Icon (2017)
All Governments Lie: Truth, Deception, and the Spirit of I.F. Stone (2016)
Medici: Masters of Florence (2016)
Mike Nichols: An American Master (2016)
Becoming Mike Nichols (2016)
Kung Fu Panda 3 (2016)
Kung Fu Panda: Secrets of the Scroll (2016)
Brooklyn (2015)
Arthur Miller: A Man of His Century (2015)
Warren Beatty - Mister Hollywood (2015)
The Program (2015)
Roald Dahl's Esio Trot (2015)
Variety Studio: Actors on Actors (2014)
Led Zeppelin Played Here (2014)
The Cobbler (2014)
Boychoir (2014)
Chef (2014)
And the Oscar Goes To... (2014)
All the President's Men Revisited (2013)
Quartet (2012)
Casting By (2012)
La Classe américaine (2012)
Close Up (2012)
Finding Your Roots (2012)
Luck (2012)
Kung Fu Panda: Secrets of the Masters (2011)
Paul Williams Still Alive (2011)
Kung Fu Panda 2 (2011)
Little Fockers (2010)
Kung Fu Panda Holiday (2010)
Who Is Harry Nilsson (And Why Is Everybody Talkin' About Him?) (2010)
Barney's Version (2010)
Cameraman: The Life and Work of Jack Cardiff (2010)
Jews and Baseball: An American Love Story (2010)
Against the Tide (2009)
Dustin! (2009)
Last Chance Harvey (2008)
The Tale of Despereaux (2008)
Michael Ballhaus - Eine Reise durch mein Leben (2008)
Kung Fu Panda: Secrets of the Furious Five (2008)
Visual Acoustics (2008)
Kung Fu Panda (2008)
Constantine's Sword (2008)
A Better Man: The Making of 'Tootsie' (2008)
Belonging (2008)
Mr. Magorium's Wonder Emporium (2007)
Trumbo (2007)
The Graham Norton Show (2007)
The Holiday (2006)
Rachael Ray (2006)
Perfume: The Story of a Murderer (2006)
Stranger Than Fiction (2006)
Telling the Truth About Lies: The Making of "All the President's Men" (2006)
Controversy and Acclaim: The Timelessness of a Groundbreaking Film (2006)
Earth to America (2005)
The Reichen Show (2005)
The Lost City (2005)
Nos Bastidores de Hollywood (2005)
Racing Stripes (2005)
Meet the Fockers (2004)
Lemony Snicket's A Series of Unfortunate Events (2004)
Finding Neverland (2004)
I ♥ Huckabees (2004)
Freedom2speak v2.0 (2004)
Now Showing: Unforgettable Moments from the Movies (2003)
The Ellen DeGeneres Show (2003)
Confidence (2003)
Mantrap – Straw Dogs: The Final Cut (2003)
Runaway Jury (2003)
The Shakespeare Sessions (2003)
Moonlight Mile (2002)
Liberty's Kids (2002)
The Kid Stays in the Picture (2002)
There's Only One Paul McCartney (2002)
V Graham Norton (2002)
Goldwyn: The Man and His Movies (2001)
Come Together: A Night for John Lennon's Words & Music (2001)
Tuesday (2001)
Going the Distance: Remembering 'Marathon Man' (2001)
Big Brother's Little Brother (2001)
Finding the Truth: The Making of 'Kramer vs. Kramer' (2001)
Curb Your Enthusiasm (2000)
The Messenger: The Story of Joan of Arc (1999)
Tato's Argentina (1999)
The Devil's Arithmetic (1999)
A Walk on the Moon (1999)
The Directors (1999)
Billy Connolly: Erect for 30 Years (1999)
Tarzan and the Lost City (1998)
Sphere (1998)
Warner Bros. 75th Anniversary: No Guts, No Glory (1998)
Wag the Dog (1997)
Mad City (1997)
Sleepers (1996)
American Buffalo (1996)
The Daily Show (1996)
MADtv (1995)
The First 100 Years: A Celebration of American Movies (1995)
Outbreak (1995)
Jonas in the Desert (1994)
La Classe américaine (1993)
Aretha Franklin: Duets (1993)
Hero (1992)
Earth and the American Dream (1992)
Coucou c'est nous ! (1992)
HBO First Look (1992)
The Tonight Show with Jay Leno (1992)
'The Graduate' at 25 (1992)
A Wish for Wings That Work (1991)
Billy Bathgate (1991)
Hook (1991)
The Earth Day Special (1990)
Dick Tracy (1990)
Waldo Salt: A Screenwriter's Journey (1990)
The Simpsons (1989)
Family Business (1989)
Common Threads: Stories from the Quilt (1989)
Rain Man (1988)
This Morning (1988)
LIVE with Kelly and Mark (1988)
Ishtar (1987)
The Ultimate Stuntman: A Tribute to Dar Robinson (1987)
Private Conversations: On the Set of ‘Death of a Salesman’ (1986)
American Masters (1986)
Death of a Salesman (1985)
Night of 100 Stars II (1985)
Terror in the Aisles (1984)
Tootsie (1982)
Night of 100 Stars (1982)
Champs-Elysées (1982)
The Making of 'Tootsie' (1982)
Wetten, dass..? (1981)
The Sensational Shocking Wonderful Wacky 70's (1980)
Kramer vs. Kramer (1979)
Agatha (1979)
The Kennedy Center Honors (1978)
Straight Time (1978)
Bette Midler: Ol' Red Hair Is Back (1977)
Marathon Man (1976)
The Magic of Hollywood... Is the Magic of People (1976)
All the President's Men (1976)
Pressure and the Press: The Making of 'All the President's Men' (1976)
Lost in the Garden of the World (1975)
Lenny (1974)
Spécial cinéma (1974)
Free to Be… You and Me (1974)
Papillon (1973)
The Magnificent Rebel (1973)
Alfredo, Alfredo (1972)
On Location: Dustin Hoffman (1971)
Straw Dogs (1971)
Who Is Harry Kellerman and Why Is He Saying Those Terrible Things About Me? (1971)
V.I.P. Schaukel (1971)
The Point (1971)
Little Big Man (1970)
Treffpunkte (1970)
Arthur Penn, 1922-: Themes and Variants (1970)
Arthur Penn: The Director (1970)
John and Mary (1969)
Midnight Cowboy (1969)
The Crowd Around the Cowboy (1969)
Madigan's Millions (1968)
The New Cinema (1968)
The Graduate (1967)
The Tiger Makes Out (1967)
The Star Wagon (1966)
The Journey of the Fifth Horse (1966)
ABC Stage 67 (1966)
Goldene Kamera Verleihung (1966)
The Nurses (1965)
The Nurses (1962)
The Mike Douglas Show (1961)
The Defenders (1961)
Naked City (1958)
Tony Awards (1956)
The Oscars (1953)
Today (1952)
Lucca Mortis
The Many Faces of Dustin Hoffman
Riff Raff
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Known ForActing
GenderMale
Birthday1937-08-08 (86 years old)
Birth PlaceLos Angeles, United States of America
SpouseLisa Hoffman
ChildrenJake Hoffman
CitizenshipsUnited States of America
Also Known Asداستين هوفمان, 더스틴 호프먼, ダスティン・ホフマン, Дастин Хоффман, ดัสติน ฮอฟแมน, 德斯汀·荷夫曼, Dustin Lee Hoffman, Ντάστιν Λι Χόφμαν, Ντάστιν Χόφμαν, Дастін Гоффман
AwardsDonostia Award, Golden Globe Cecil B. DeMille Award, Commandeur des Arts et des Lettres, Kennedy Center Honors, Theatre World Award, Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Lead Actor in a Limited Series or Movie, Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Lead Actor in a Miniseries or a Movie, AFI Life Achievement Award, Academy Award for Best Actor, Annie Award, BAFTA Award for Best Actor in a Leading Role
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