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Dustin Lee Hoffman is an American actor. As one of the key leading man actors in the formation of New Hollywood, Hoffman is known for his versatile portrayals of antiheroes and emotionally vulnerable characters. Among his numerous accolades are two Academy Awards, four BAFTA Awards, five Golden Globe Awards, and two Emmy Awards as well as a nomination for a Tony Award. He was honored with the Ceci…
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“Giving myself permission not only to be present but to be a father was a kind of epiphany for me at that time, that I could get to through my work. ... I got closer to being a father by playing a father. That”
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The Guardian: Tuner review – Leo Woodall and Dustin Hoffman in sweet harmony in safe-cracking thriller
The Guardian: Into the Labyrinth review – Dustin Hoffman psycho-thriller goes down a rabbit hole
It was announced that Hoffman would make his return to the Broadway stage in Scott Rudin's revival of Our Town as the Stage Manager
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Where it received a four-minute standing ovation
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That Meryl Streep had differences with Hoffman which include him slapping her in a scene and him groping her breast
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Seven women accused Hoffman of sexual misconduct or assault
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Hoffman was honored with the Gotham Awards Tribute alongside Sofia Coppola, Nicole Kidman, Edward Lachman
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The Gotham Awards announced that they would recognize Hoffman for his lifetime achievement in film
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Hoffman starred in Noah Baumbach's Netflix film The Meyerowitz Stories alongside Adam Sandler, Ben Stiller, Elizabeth Marvel and Emma Thompson
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Once again lent his voice to Master Shifu in the animated feature Kung Fu Panda 3
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Hoffman starred in Roald Dahl's Esio Trot, a BBC television film adaptation of Roald Dahl's classic novel, adapted by Richard Curtis and co-starring Judi Dench
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Awarded Donostia Award (2012).
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Hoffman made his directorial debut with Quartet, starring Maggie Smith, Tom Courtenay, Pauline Collins, Billy Connolly, and Michael Gambon
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Dustin Hoffman received Kennedy Center Honors, with the following commendation: "Dustin Hoffman's unyielding commitment to the wide variety of roles he plays has made him one of the most versatile and iconoclastic actors
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Hoffman's audiobook recording of Jerzy Kosinski's Being There was released at Audible
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Made his directorial debut with Quartet
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Hoffman reprised his role as Master Shifu in the commercially and critically successful animated film Kung Fu Panda 2
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Hoffman received an Honorary Cesar Medal at the César Awards
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Although he was reluctant to perform in an animated feature film (despite previously performing voices in a version of The Point
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Hoffman was featured in an advertising campaign for Australian telecommunications company Telstra's Next G network, appeared in the 50 Cent video "Follow My Lead" as a psychiatrist, and played the title character in the
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Voiced a horse in Racing Stripes, and appeared in cameo roles in Andy García's The Lost City and on the final episode of HBO sitcom Curb Your Enthusiasm's fifth season
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His Punch Productions company went to a first look deal with The Walt Disney Studios
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Awarded AFI Life Achievement Award (1999).
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Hoffman was honored by the American Film Institute, who celebrated him with the 27th Life Achievement Award
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Hoffman received the AFI Life Achievement Award and recalls the emotional impact that receiving the award had on him, "There was this reel of pictures, me playing all these different roles
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Won Golden Globe Cecil B. DeMille Award (1997).
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Was one of a number of Hollywood stars and executives to sign an open letter to the German chancellor Helmut Kohl protesting against the treatment of Scientologists in Germany, which was published as a newspaper adver
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The AFI Life Achievement Award in 1999, and the Kennedy Center Honors Award in 2012
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Hoffman starred opposite John Travolta in the Costa Gavras film Mad City
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The film was deemed "culturally, historically, or aesthetically significant" by the Library of Congress and selected for preservation in the United States National Film Registry
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Hoffman voiced substitute teacher Mr
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Awarded Academy Award for Best Actor for Rain Man (1989).
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Received a Tony Award for Best Actor in a Play nomination for his role as Shylock in The Merchant of Venice
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Awarded Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Lead Actor in a Miniseries or a Movie for Death of a Salesman (1986).
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Hoffman starred as Willy Loman in the Broadway revival of Arthur Miller's play Death of a Salesman
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Hoffman became a Major Donor for The Mirror Theater Ltd, alongside Paul Newman and Al Pacino, matching a grant from Laurance Rockefeller
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Hoffman signed on to star in The Yellow Jersey, which was to be a bicycle-racing drama set during the Tour de France
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Awarded Academy Award for Best Actor for Kramer vs. Kramer (1980).
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“The plight of the actor, even if he's a star, is the plight of the women's movement. They're saying the same thing to us: get into bed, give me a good time, then give me something to eat, go get the laundry, be a good girl.”
Hoffman and Byrne were living in Greenwich Village in a building next door to a townhouse occupied at the time by members of the Weathermen, when a bomb was accidentally detonated in the townhouse's basement, killing thr
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Hoffman co-starred with Mia Farrow in the Peter Yates's romantic drama film John and Mary
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Awarded Theatre World Award (1967).
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Immediately after wrapping up principal filming on The Tiger Makes Out, Hoffman flew from New York City to Fargo, North Dakota, where he directed productions of William Gibson's Two for the Seesaw and William Saroyan's T
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For a lead role in the Broadway musical The Apple Tree but rejected him because he could not sing well enough, and gave Alan Alda the part
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Played Mendy in a practice run of Philip Roth's abandoned off-Broadway play The Nice Jewish Boy, directed by Gene Saks and co-starring Melinda Dillon
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Hoffman appeared in Three Men on a Horse at Princeton's McCarter Theatre and in 1965, in off-Broadway's Harry, Noon and Night with Joel Grey
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Hoffman married Anne Byrne in May 1969
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Appeared in Rabbit Run Theatre's summer stock production of Write Me a Murder in Madison, Ohio and served as an assistant director to Ulu Grosbard on The Days and Nights of BeeBee Fenstermaker at off-Broadway's Sherid
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Hoffman was cast in a role in an off-Broadway production and followed with a bit part in his Broadway debut in production, A Cook for Mr
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And enrolled at Santa Monica College with the intention of studying medicine
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Born 1937-08-08.
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In Los Angeles, California, the younger of two sons of Harry Hoffman (1907–1990) and Lillian (née Gold; 1909–1982)
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