StatsBirth Name: Dustin Lee Hoffman Age: 75, born 8 August 1937 Born and residing in: United States Height: 5' 6" Relationship Status: Married Partner: Lisa Gottsegen
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Dustin Lee Hoffman (born August 8, 1937) is an American actor with a career in film, television, and theatre since 1960. He has been known for his versatile portrayals of antiheroes and vulnerable characters.
He first drew critical praise for the play Eh?, for which he won a Theatre World Award and a Drama Desk Award. This was soon followed by his breakthrough movie role as the good-looking but troubled Benjamin Braddock in The Graduate (1967). Since then Hoffman's career has largely been
Dustin Lee Hoffman (born August 8, 1937) is an American actor with a career in film, television, and theatre since 1960. He has been known for his versatile portrayals of antiheroes and vulnerable characters.
He first drew critical praise for the play Eh?, for which he won a Theatre World Award and a Drama Desk Award. This was soon followed by his breakthrough movie role as the good-looking but troubled Benjamin Braddock in The Graduate (1967). Since then Hoffman's career has largely been focused on cinema, with only sporadic returns to television and the stage. Some of his most notable films are Papillon, Marathon Man, Midnight Cowboy, Little Big Man, Lenny, All the President's Men, Kramer vs. Kramer, Tootsie, Rain Man, Wag the Dog, and Meet the Fockers.
Hoffman has won two Academy Awards (for his performances in Kramer vs. Kramer and Rain Man), five Golden Globes, three BAFTAs, three Drama Desk Awards, a Genie Award, and an Emmy Award. Dustin Hoffman received the AFI Life Achievement Award in 1999.
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-Tootsie
-Perfume: The Story of a Murderer
-Mr. Magorium's Wonder Emporium
-Kramer vs. Kramer
-Papillon
-Lemony Snicket's A Series of Unfortunate Events
-Sleepers
-Stranger Than Fiction
-Finding Neverland
-The Messenger: The Story of Joan of Arc
-The Graduate
-Meet the Fockers
-Hook
-Rain Man
-Little Fockers
-The Holiday
-All the President's Men
-Being John Malkovich
-Confidence
-Rumor Has It...
-I Heart Huckabees
-Kung Fu Panda
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Most Mentioned Actors (23 person items)"Born in 1937
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Famous for taking a wide range of difficult roles, such as a crippled street hustler in Midnight Cowboy (1969); an actor pretending to be a woman in Tootsie (1982) and an autistic in Rain Man (1988).
Has a reputation for being difficult to work with
Deep nasal voice, which has a unique "honking" timbre
The Graduate (1967)
Rain Man (1988)
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2-Rain Man (1988)
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1-The Graduate (1967)
2-Midnight Cowboy (1969)
3-Lenny (1974)
4-Tootsie (1982)
5-Wag the Dog (1997)
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