
Dustin Hoffman
Known for ActingBorn 1937-08-08 (age 88)Los Angeles, California, USA
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.Read more
Movies & web series
Close Up
★ 10.0View details →
Close Up
2006 · Series
★ 10.0View details →
Nos Bastidores de Hollywood
2005 · Movie
★ 9.5View details →
Close Up
2012 · Movie
★ 9.5View details →
Spécial cinéma
1974 · Series
★ 8.8View details →
Moonlight Mile: A Journey to Screen
2003 · Movie
★ 9.0View details →
Arthur Penn: The Director
1970 · Movie
The Shakespeare Sessions
★ 8.5View details →
The Shakespeare Sessions
2003 · Movie
★ 8.5View details →
Goldwyn: The Man and His Movies
2001 · Movie
★ 8.5View details →
Bette Midler: Ol' Red Hair Is Back
1977 · Movie
★ 8.3View details →
Aretha Franklin: Duets
1993 · Movie
★ 8.0View details →
Led Zeppelin Played Here
2014 · Movie
★ 8.0View details →
Kung Fu Panda: The Awesome Secrets Collection
2013 · Movie
★ 8.0View details →
Curb Your Enthusiasm
2000 · Series
★ 8.0View details →
There's Only One Paul McCartney
2002 · Movie
Reel Radicals: The Sixties Revolution in Film
★ 8.0View details →
Reel Radicals: The Sixties Revolution in Film
2002 · Movie
★ 8.0View details →
The First 100 Years: A Celebration of American Movies
1995 · Movie
★ 7.7View details →
Twiggy
2025 · Movie
★ 7.7View details →
Medici: Masters of Florence
2016 · Series
★ 8.0View details →
The Simpsons
1989 · Series
★ 8.0View details →
Night of 100 Stars II
1985 · Movie
★ 7.5View details →
Kung Fu Panda: The Dragon Knight
2022 · Series
★ 7.7View details →
Liberty's Kids
2002 · Series
★ 7.6View details →
Spielberg
2017 · Movie
★ 7.5View details →
PRIDE: To Be Seen - A Soul of a Nation Presentation
2022 · Movie
★ 7.7View details →
Earth to America
2005 · Movie
★ 8.0View details →
On Location: Dustin Hoffman
1971 · Movie
★ 7.5View details →
Arthur Miller: A Man of His Century
2015 · Movie
★ 7.8View details →
Rain Man
1988 · Movie
★ 7.4View details →
Billy Connolly: It’s Been a Pleasure...
2020 · Movie
★ 7.6View details →
Sleepers
1996 · Movie
★ 7.8View details →
Papillon
1973 · Movie
★ 7.6View details →
La Classe américaine
1993 · Movie
★ 7.4View details →
Visual Acoustics
2008 · Movie
★ 7.3View details →
Brooklyn
2015 · Movie
★ 7.4View details →
Perfume: The Story of a Murderer
2006 · Movie
★ 7.7View details →
All the President's Men
1976 · Movie
★ 7.3View details →
Kung Fu Panda
2008 · Movie
★ 7.6View details →
Kramer vs. Kramer
1979 · Movie
V.I.P. Schaukel
★ 7.7View details →
V.I.P. Schaukel
1971 · Series
★ 7.3View details →
Finding Neverland
2004 · Movie
★ 7.2View details →
All Governments Lie: Truth, Deception, and the Spirit of I.F. Stone
2016 · Movie
★ 7.3View details →
Stranger Than Fiction
2006 · Movie
★ 7.3View details →
Going the Distance: Remembering 'Marathon Man'
2001 · Movie
★ 7.6View details →
The Graduate
1967 · Movie
★ 7.2View details →
The Graham Norton Show
2007 · Series
★ 7.0View details →
Tuner
2026 · Movie
★ 7.1View details →
Chef
2014 · Movie
★ 7.0View details →
Kung Fu Panda 4
2024 · Movie