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Philip Seymour Hoffman
Philip Seymour Hoffman was an American actor. He was known for his distinctive supporting character roles and his memorable leading roles in many films and theatrical productions from the early 1990s until his death in 2014. He was voted the greatest actor of the 21st century in a 2024 ranking by The Independent.
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entertainment · American actor (1967–2014) · film director · film producer · voice actor · character actor · stage actor · film actor · television actor · actor · theatre director · also Philip Seymour Hoffman, Philip Hoffman, Phil Hoffman, Hoffman
Born 23 July 1967 · Died 2 February 2014 · Q180560
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2026· 4 entries
“s speech, but he did feel a great duty to”
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Yahoo: Philip Seymour Hoffman Son Dating Thandiwe Newton Daughter
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Yahoo: Philip Seymour Hoffman’s ‘Hunger Games’ Role Won’t Stay in the Family
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2025· 1 entry
E!: Philip Seymour Hoffman's Son Cooper Hoffman Shares Challenges of Following in His Footsteps
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2024· 1 entry
The Guardian: Ten years on from his death, Philip Seymour Hoffman still shines bright
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2023· 1 entry
collider: Philip Seymour Hoffman's Last Completed Role Was One of His Best
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2022· 1 entry
A statue of Hoffman was unveiled in his hometown of Fairport, New York
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2015· 1 entry
The Guardian: Discretion, not CGI: how Philip Seymour Hoffman was kept in the Hunger Games
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2014· 5 entries
The Guardian: Philip Seymour Hoffman remembered by David Bar Katz
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The LAByrinth Theatre Company honored his memory by holding a candlelight vigil, and Broadway dimmed its lights for one minute
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Hoffman was found dead in the bathroom of his Manhattan apartment by his friend, playwright and screenwriter David Bar Katz
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Died 2014-02-02.
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Hoffman died from "acute mixed drug intoxication, including heroin, cocaine, benzodiazepines and amphetamine"
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2013· 2 entries
While some reports stated Hoffman and O'Donnell separated in late 2013, O'Donnell later said she and Hoffman were both committed to their relationship, but he had moved out of their longtime residence to a nearby apartment to protect their children from the effects of his relapse into substance abuse.
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Hoffman joined the popular Hunger Games series in its second film, The Hunger Games: Catching Fire, where he played gamemaker Plutarch Heavensbee
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2012· 4 entries
Won Volpi Cup for Best Actor for The Master (2012).
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Hoffman rarely mentioned his personal life in interviews, stating in 2012 that he would "rather not because my family doesn't have any choice.
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And admitted himself to drug rehabilitation for about 10 days in May 2013
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That he would "rather not because my family doesn't have any choice
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2011· 2 entries
Released ep “your loving brother”.
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Released album “Your Loving Brother / The Cowboy's Prayer”.
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2010· 1 entry
Hoffman also directed Brett C
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2009· 2 entries
Released album “the lighthouse itself is the rocket”.
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Hoffman played Iago in Peter Sellars' futuristic production of Othello (with the title role by John Ortiz), which received mixed reviews
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2008· 1 entry
"I was changed—permanently changed—by that experience
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2007· 1 entry
Hoffman began with a starring role in Tamara Jenkins's The Savages, where Laura Linney and he played siblings responsible for putting their dementia-ridden father (Philip Bosco) in a care home
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2006· 6 entries
Awarded BAFTA Award for Best Actor in a Leading Role for Capote (2006).
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Won Golden Globe Award for Best Actor – Motion Picture Drama for Capote (2006).
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Awarded Academy Award for Best Actor for Capote (2006).
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Appeared in the summer blockbuster Mission: Impossible III, playing the villainous arms dealer Owen Davian opposite Tom Cruise
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Premiere listed his role in Capote as the 35th-greatest movie performance of all time
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Why he undertook such roles, Hoffman responded, "I didn't go out looking for negative characters; I went out looking for people who have a struggle and a fight to tackle
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2004· 1 entry
Appeared as the crude, has-been actor friend of Ben Stiller's character in the box-office hit Along Came Polly
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2003· 1 entry
Awarded Drama Desk Award for Outstanding Director of a Play (2003).
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2002· 2 entries
Hoffman was given his first leading role (despite joking at the time "Even if I was hired into a leading-man part, I'd probably turn it into the non-leading-man part") in Todd Louiso's tragicomedy Love Liza (2002)
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Hoffman starred opposite Adam Sandler and Emily Watson in Anderson's critically acclaimed fourth picture, the surrealist romantic comedy-drama Punch-Drunk Love (2002), where he played an illegal phone-sex "supervisor"
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2001· 2 entries
Awarded Drama Desk Award for Outstanding Director of a Play (2001).
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And another for Our Lady of 121st Street in 2003
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2000· 2 entries
Awarded Theatre World Award (2000).
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"The bad news is that Philip won't be a $25-million star
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1999· 3 entries
Hoffman starred opposite Robert De Niro as drag queen Rusty Zimmerman in Joel Schumacher's drama Flawless
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When he received a Drama Desk Award nomination for Outstanding Featured Actor for the off-Broadway play The Author's Voice
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When they were both working on the Hoffman-directed play In Arabia We'd All Be Kings
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1994· 1 entry
Portrayed an inexperienced mobster in the crime thriller The Getaway, starring Alec Baldwin and Kim Basinger, and he subsequently appeared with Andy García and Meg Ryan in the romantic drama When a Man Loves a Woman
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1991· 1 entry
In a Law & Order episode called "The Violence of Summer", playing a man accused of rape
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1989· 1 entry
Entered a drug rehabilitation program and remained sober for 23 years
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1967· 2 entries
Born 1967-07-23.
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In the Rochester suburb of Fairport, New York
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