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Hoffman is also an accomplished theater actor and director. He joined the [[LAByrinth Theater Company]] in 1995, and has directed and performed in numerous [[Off-Broadway]] productions. His performances in two [[Broadway theatre|Broadway]] plays led to two [[Tony Award]] nominations: one for [[Tony Award for Best Performance by a Leading Actor in a Play|Best Leading Actor]] in ''[[True West (play)|True West]]'' (2000), and another for [[Tony Award for Best Performance by a Featured Actor in a Play|Best Featured Actor]] in ''[[Long Day's Journey into Night]]'' (2003). |
Hoffman is also an accomplished theater actor and director. He joined the [[LAByrinth Theater Company]] in 1995, and has directed and performed in numerous [[Off-Broadway]] productions. His performances in two [[Broadway theatre|Broadway]] plays led to two [[Tony Award]] nominations: one for [[Tony Award for Best Performance by a Leading Actor in a Play|Best Leading Actor]] in ''[[True West (play)|True West]]'' (2000), and another for [[Tony Award for Best Performance by a Featured Actor in a Play|Best Featured Actor]] in ''[[Long Day's Journey into Night]]'' (2003). |
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== Early life == |
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Hoffman was born in [[Fairport, New York]], the son of Marilyn L. O'Connor, a [[family court]] judge, lawyer and [[civil rights]] activist, and Gordon S. Hoffman, a former [[Xerox]] executive.<ref name="filmrefbio" /> He has two sisters, Jill and Emily, and a brother, [[Gordy Hoffman]], who scripted the 2002 film ''[[Love Liza]]'', in which Philip starred. His father was a [[Protestantism|Protestant]] of German ancestry and his mother was of [[Irish Catholic]] background; Hoffman was not raised with a deep commitment to either religion.<ref name="whitty" /><ref name="faq" /><ref name="actorsstudio" /> Hoffman's parents divorced when he was nine years old.<ref name="yahoo" /> |
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Hoffman attended the 1984 Theater School at the [[New York State Summer School of the Arts]]. After high school, Hoffman attended the [[Circle in the Square Theatre]]'s summer program, continuing his acting training with the acting teacher Alan Langdon.<ref name="hoffman.net" /> He received a [[Bachelor of Fine Arts|BFA]] in drama in 1989 from [[New York University]]'s [[Tisch School of the Arts]]. At NYU, he was a founding member of the notoriously short-lived and volatile{{clarify|date=April 2011}} theater company the Bullstoi Ensemble with actor [[Steven Schub]] and director [[Bennett Miller]].<ref name="seymour1" /> Soon after graduating, he went to [[Drug rehabilitation|rehab]] for [[drug addiction|drug]] and [[alcoholism|alcohol addiction]] and has since remained sober.<ref name="drugs" /> |
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== Film and television work == |
== Film and television work == |
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Revision as of 13:01, 25 June 2011
Philip Seymour Hoffman | |
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 Hoffman at the 81st Academy Awards in February 2009 | |
| Born | July 23, 1967 Fairport, New York, U.S. |
| Occupation(s) | Actor, director |
| Years active | 1991–present |
| Partner | Mimi O'Donnell (1999–present) |
Philip Seymour Hoffman (born July 23, 1967) is an American actor and director. Hoffman began acting in television in 1991, and the following year started to appear in films. He gradually gained recognition for his supporting work in a series of notable films, including Scent of a Woman (1992), Twister (1996), Boogie Nights (1997), Happiness (1998), The Big Lebowski (1998), Magnolia (1999), The Talented Mr. Ripley (1999), Almost Famous (2000), 25th Hour (2002), Punch-Drunk Love (2002), Cold Mountain (2003), and Along Came Polly (2004).
In 2005, Hoffman played the title role in the biographical film Capote (2005), for which he won multiple acting awards including an Academy Award for Best Actor. He received another two Academy Award nominations for his supporting work in Charlie Wilson's War (2007) and Doubt (2008). Other critically acclaimed films in recent years have included Before the Devil Knows You're Dead (2007) and The Savages (2007). In 2010, Hoffman made his feature film directorial debut with Jack Goes Boating.
Hoffman is also an accomplished theater actor and director. He joined the LAByrinth Theater Company in 1995, and has directed and performed in numerous Off-Broadway productions. His performances in two Broadway plays led to two Tony Award nominations: one for Best Leading Actor in True West (2000), and another for Best Featured Actor in Long Day's Journey into Night (2003).
Film and television work
Hoffman's first role was as a defendant in a 1991 episode of the television series Law & Order. He made his film breakthrough in 1992 when he appeared in four feature films, with the most successful film being Scent of a Woman, in which he played a rather unscrupulous classmate of Chris O'Donnell's character. He had been stocking shelves at a city grocery store at the time before landing the role and credits the film with kickstarting his career.
Hoffman has established a successful and respected film career playing diverse and idiosyncratic characters in supporting roles, working with a wide variety of noted directors, including Todd Solondz, The Coen Brothers, Spike Lee, Cameron Crowe, David Mamet, Robert Benton, Anthony Minghella and Paul Thomas Anderson; notably, he has appeared in four out of five of Anderson's feature films to date (Hard Eight, Boogie Nights, Magnolia, and Punch-Drunk Love).
He appeared in Last Party 2000, a documentary about the 2000 US elections. Throughout his career he has rarely been given a chance to play the lead role. In 2002, however, Hoffman starred as a widower coping with his wife's suicide in Love Liza, for which his brother, Gordy Hoffman, wrote the screenplay. In 2003, he played the lead role in Owning Mahowny as a bank employee who embezzles money to feed his gambling addiction.
Hoffman has continued to play supporting roles in such films as Cold Mountain, as a carnally obsessed preacher, Along Came Polly, as Ben Stiller's crude, has-been actor buddy, and Mission: Impossible III, as villainous arms dealer Owen Davian out to kill Ethan Hunt.
He received his first Emmy Award nomination for the HBO miniseries Empire Falls, but lost to castmate and personal idol Paul Newman. One of Hoffman's earliest roles was as a police deputy who gets punched in the face by Newman in 1994's Nobody's Fool. He received a second Emmy Award nomination for the Daytime Emmy Awards for his vocal work on the TV Series Arthur.
In 2005, Hoffman won widespread acclaim for his portrayal of writer Truman Capote in the film Capote. His performance received numerous high-profile accolades and awards, including the Academy Award for Best Actor, the Golden Globe Award for Best Actor - Motion Picture Drama, the Screen Actors Guild Award for Best Actor – Motion Picture, and the BAFTA Award for Best Actor in a Leading Role. In addition, he was also awarded Best Actor by at least ten film critic associations, including the National Board of Review, Toronto Film Critics, and Los Angeles Film Critics.
In 2007, Hoffman was nominated for the Golden Globe for Best Actor in a Supporting Role for playing Gust Avrakotos, a CIA officer who helps Congressman Charlie Wilson support a covert war in Afghanistan in the movie Charlie Wilson's War. In 2008, he was also nominated for Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor for the same role, which he lost to Javier Bardem for No Country for Old Men.
In 2008, he appeared in Synecdoche, New York, in which he played Caden Cotard, a man who attempts to build a full-scale replica of New York inside a warehouse for a play, and Doubt, in which he played Father Brendan Flynn, a priest accused of sexually abusing a student. He received Golden Globe and Screen Actors Guild nominations for the latter. He also received a second consecutive nomination for the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor for his performance in Doubt.
Personal life
Hoffman is in a relationship with costume designer Mimi O'Donnell. They met while working on the 1999 play In Arabia We'd All Be Kings, which Hoffman directed. They have a son, Cooper Alexander, born in March 2003, and two daughters, Tallulah, born in November 2006,[1] and Willa, born in October 2008.[2]
Filmography
References
- ^ Hancock, Noelle (June 22, 2006). "Philip Seymour Hoffman and Girlfriend Expecting Second Child". Us Weekly. Retrieved November 1, 2006.
- ^ Hirschberg, Lynn (December 19, 2008). "A Higher Calling". New York Times. Retrieved January 4, 2009.
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External links
- Philip Seymour Hoffman at IMDb
- Philip Seymour Hoffman at the Internet Broadway Database
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- Philip Seymour Hoffman Biography
- NPR Interview (09/2005)
- Philip Seymour Hoffman talks about his role in Capote on the Tavis Smiley show
- Brandt Tribute Lebowski Podcast's tribute to Hoffman's character in The Big Lebowski.
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- 1967 births
- Actors from New York
- American people of German descent
- American film actors
- American film directors
- American people of Irish descent
- American stage actors
- American television actors
- American theatre directors
- Best Actor BAFTA Award winners
- Best Actor Academy Award winners
- Best Drama Actor Golden Globe (film) winners
- Circle in the Square Theatre School alumni
- Independent Spirit Award for Best Male Lead winners
- Living people
- New York University alumni
- People from Rochester, New York
- People self-identifying as alcoholics