Dustin Hoffman
Gender: Male
Born: 8th August 1937 (currently 74 years old)
Nationality: United States of America
TV programs: Luck, Liberty's Kids
Movies: All the President's Men, Billy Bathgate, Confidence, Dick Tracy, Family Business, Finding Neverland, Hook, I ♥ Huckabees, Ishtar, Kramer vs. Kramer, Lenny, Little Big Man, Meet the Fockers, Midnight Cowboy, Mr. Magorium's Wonder Emporium, Outbreak, Rain Man, Sleepers, Straight Time, Stranger Than Fiction, Straw Dogs, The Graduate, The Lost City, Tootsie, Wag the Dog, Common Threads: Stories from the Quilt, Marathon Man, The Messenger: The Story of Joan of Arc, Hero, Perfume: The Story of a Murderer, Runaway Jury, Who Is Harry Kellerman and Why Is He Saying Those Terrible Things About Me?, Agatha, Madigan's Millions, Moonlight Mile, Papillon, Alfredo, Alfredo, Mad City, Kung Fu Panda, American Buffalo, The Tale of Despereaux, Last Chance Harvey, A Wish for Wings That Work, Paul McCartney: The Music and Animation Collection, John and Mary, Racing Stripes, Secrets of the Furious Five, Death of a Salesman, La Classe américaine, The Holiday, Terror in the Aisles, Kung Fu Panda 2, Little Fockers, Sphere, The Star Wagon, The Journey of the Fifth Horse, Barney's Version, Little Big Man, Against the Tide, Festival Pass with Chris Gore, Directors: Wolfgang Petersen, Very Good Girls, The Song of Names, Kung Fu Panda Holiday Special, Belonging, Kung Fu Panda: Secrets of the Masters
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.
Hoffman was born in Los Angeles, the second son of Lillian (née Gold) and Harry Hoffman. His father worked as a prop supervisor/set decorator at Columbia Pictures before becoming a
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