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Philip Seymour Hoffman

Birth date: 23.07.1967

Hoffman was born in Rochester, New York, the son of Marilyn L. O'Connor, a family court judge, lawyer and civil rights activist, and Gordon S. Hoffman, a former Xerox executive. He has two sisters, Jill and Emily, and a brother, Gordy Hoffman, who scripted the 2002 film Love Liza, in which Philip starred. His father was a Protestant of German ancestry and his mother was of Irish Catholic background, and Hoffman was not raised with a deep commitment to either religious tradition. Hoffman's parents divorced when he was nine years old.[5] His first acting role was as Radar O'Reilly in Fairport High School's production of M*A*S*H in 1982. Hoffman attended the 1984 Theater School at the New York State Summer School for the Arts. He received a BFA in drama in 1989 from New York University's Tisch School of the Arts. At NYU, he was a founding member of the notoriously short-lived and volatile theater company the Bullstoi Ensemble with actor Steven Schub and director Bennett Miller. He was college roommates at NYU's Tisch School of the Arts with actor Steven Schub (lead singer of ska band The Fenwicks) and Jimmie Corrieri (guitarist of The Fenwicks). Soon after graduating, he went to rehab for drug and alcohol addiction and has since remained sober. Film and television career Hoffman's first role was as a defendant in a 1991 episode of the television series Law & Order. He made his film breakthrough in 1992 when he appeared in four feature films, with the most successful film being Scent of a Woman, in which he played a backstabbing classmate of Chris O'Donnell's character. He had been stocking shelves at a city grocery store at the time before landing the role and credits the film to kickstarting his career. Hoffman has established a successful and respected film career playing diverse and idiosyncratic characters in supporting roles, working with a wide variety of noted directors, including Paul Thomas Anderson, The Coen Brothers, Cameron Crowe, Spike Lee, David Mamet, Robert Benton, Todd Solondz and Anthony Minghella; notably, he has appeared in four out of five of Anderson's feature films to date (Hard Eight, Boogie Nights, Magnolia, and Punch-Drunk Love). He appeared in Last Party 2000, a documentary about the 2000 U.S. elections. Throughout his career he has rarely been given a chance to play the lead role. In 2002, however, Hoffman starred as a widower coping with his wife's suicide in Love Liza, for which his brother, Gordy Hoffman, wrote the screenplay. In 2003, he played the lead role in Owning Mahowny as a bank employee who embezzles money to feed his gambling addiction. Hoffman has continued to play supporting roles in such films as Cold Mountain, as a carnally obsessed preacher, Along Came Polly, as Ben Stiller's crude has-been actor buddy, and Mission: Impossible III, as villainous arms dealer Owen Davian out to kill Ethan Hunt. Hoffman has played a wide range of roles such as: gay characters (Boogie Nights, Flawless and Capote), a lonely computer geek (Happiness), over-indulgent rich folk (Scent of a Woman, Patch Adams and The Talented Mr. Ripley), caring and nurturing figures (Magnolia and Almost Famous), vicious thugs (Punch-Drunk Love and Mission: Impossible III), sensitive artists (State and Main, Synecdoche, New York), and an outlandish CIA officer (Charlie Wilson's War). He received his first Emmy Award nomination for the HBO miniseries Empire Falls, but lost to castmate and personal idol Paul Newman. One of Hoffman's earliest roles was as a police deputy who gets punched in the face by Newman in 1994's Nobody's Fool. In 2005, Hoffman won widespread acclaim for his portrayal of writer Truman Capote in the film Capote. His performance received numerous high-profile accolades and awards, including the Academy Award for Best Actor, the Golden Globe Award for Best Actor - Motion Picture Drama, the Screen Actors Guild Award for Best Actor - Motion Picture, and the BAFTA Award for Best Actor in a Leading Role. In addition, he was also awarded Best Actor by at least ten film critic associations, including the National Board of Review, Toronto Film Critics, and Los Angeles Film Critics. In 2007, Hoffman was nominated for the Golden Globe for Best Actor in a Supporting Role for playing Gust Avrakotos, a CIA officer who helps Congressman Charlie Wilson support a covert war in Afghanistan in the movie Charlie Wilson's War. In 2008, he was also nominated for Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor for the same role. In 2008, he appeared in Synecdoche, New York, in which he played Caden Cotard, a man who attempts to build a full-scale replica of New York inside a warehouse for a play, and Doubt, in which he played Father Brendan Flynn, a priest accused of abusing a black student. He received Academy Award, Golden Globe and Screen Actors Guild nominations for the latter. Stage career In addition to his television and film career, Hoffman has been recognized for his work in theater. He has twice been nominated for a Tony Award: as Best Actor (Play) in 2000 for a Broadway revival of Sam Shepard's True West opposite John C. Reilly, and for Best Actor (Featured Role - Play) in 2003 for a revival of Eugene O'Neill's Long Day's Journey into Night. In 1999, he also starred in Richard Greenberg's one-act play, The Author's Voice, in New York. Hoffman has also distinguished himself as a director with off-Broadway projects such as Rebecca Gilman's The Glory of Living at the MCC Theater, and Stephen Adly Guirgis's Jesus Hopped the A Train, The Last Days of Judas Iscariot, and The Little Flower of East Orange. Hoffman is co-artistic director of New York City's LAByrinth Theater Company, along with actor John Ortiz. He made his directorial debut in 2007 for the Sydney Theatre Company when he directed Hugo Weaving in Andrew Upton's Riflemind. Personal life Hoffman is in a relationship with costume designer Mimi O'Donnell. They met while working on the 1999 play In Arabia We'd All Be Kings, which Hoffman directed. They have a son, Cooper Alexander, born in March 2003, and a daughter, Tallulah, born in November 2006.[8] In late October 2008, they welcomed a second daughter, Willa.[9] Hoffman is a fan of the New York Mets and the Buffalo Bills.

Filmography

# Jack Goes Boating (2011) .... Jack # The Boat That Rocked movie download page (2009) .... The Count # Mary and Max (2009) (voice) .... Max Jerry Horovitz # Doubt movie download page (2008/I) .... Father Brendan Flynn # Synecdoche, New York movie download page (2008) .... Caden Cotard # Charlie Wilsons War movie download page (2007) .... Gust Avrakotos # Before the Devil Knows Youre Dead movie download page (2007) .... Andy Hanson # The Savages movie download page (2007) .... Jon Savage # Mission: Impossible III movie download page (2006) .... Owen Davian ... aka M:i:III (International: English title: promotional abbreviation) (UK: promotional abbreviation) (USA: promotional abbreviation) ... aka Mission: Impossible III movie download page (Germany) # Capote (2005) .... Truman Capote # Empire Falls (2005) (TV) .... Charlie Mayne # Strangers with Candy (2005) .... Henry # Along Came Polly movie download page (2004) .... Sandy Lyle # Cold Mountain (2003) .... Reverend Veasey # Mattress Man Commercial (2003) (V) .... Dean Trumbell # Owning Mahowny (2003) .... Dan Mahowny ... aka Double vie de Mahowny, La (Canada: French title) # 25th Hour movie download page (2002) .... Jacob Elinsky # Red Dragon movie download page (2002) .... Freddy Lounds ... aka Roter Drache (Germany) # Punch-Drunk Love (2002) .... Dean Trumbell # Love Liza (2002) .... Wilson Joel # Almost Famous movie download page (2000) .... Lester Bangs ... aka Untitled: Almost Famous movie download page the Bootleg Cut (USA: director's cut (DVD title)) # State and Main (2000) .... Joseph Turner White ... aka Séquences et conséquences (France) # The Talented Mr. Ripley (1999) .... Freddie Miles ... aka The Mysterious Yearning Secretive Sad Lonely Troubled Confused Loving Musical Gifted Intelligent Beautiful Tender Sensitive Haunted Passionate Talented Mr. Ripley (USA: complete title) # Magnolia movie download page (1999) .... Phil Parma ... aka mag-no'li-a (USA: promotional title) # Flawless movie download page (1999) .... Rusty # Patch Adams movie download page (1998) .... Mitch # Happiness (1998) .... Allen # The Big Lebowski movie download page (1998) .... Brandt # Next Stop Wonderland (1998) .... Sean # Montana (1998) .... Duncan ... aka Nothing Personal (Australia: video title) # Culture (1998) .... Bill # Boogie Nights movie download page (1997) .... Scotty J. # "Liberty! The American Revolution" .... Joseph Plumb Martin (4 episodes, 1997) - Blows Must Decide: 1774-1776 (1997) TV episode .... Joseph Plumb Martin - Oh, Fatal Ambition: 1777-1778 (1997) TV episode .... Joseph Plumb Martin - The Reluctant Revolutionaries: 1763-1774 (1997) TV episode .... Joseph Plumb Martin - The Times That Try Men's Souls: 1776-1777 (1997) TV episode .... Joseph Plumb Martin # Twister (1996) .... Dustin Davis # Sydney (1996) (as Phillip Seymour Hoffman) .... Young Craps Player ... aka Hard Eight (USA: new title) # The Fifteen Minute Hamlet (1995) (as Philip S. Hoffman) .... Bernardo / Horatio / Laertes # Nobody's Fool (1994) .... Officer Raymer # When a Man Loves a Woman (1994) .... Gary ... aka To Have and to Hold # The Yearling (1994) (TV) .... Buck # Szuler (1994) .... Martin ... aka Cheat # The Getaway (1994) (as Philip Hoffman) .... Frank Hansen # Money for Nothing (1993) (as Philip S. Hoffman) .... Cochran # My Boyfriend's Back (1993) (as Philip Hoffman) .... Chuck Bronski # Joey Breaker (1993) .... Wiley McCall ... aka Agent Breaker (USA) # Scent of a Woman movie download page (1992) (as Philip S. Hoffman) .... George Willis, Jr. # Leap of Faith (1992) .... Matt # My New Gun (1992) .... Chris # Triple Bogey on a Par Five Hole (1991) (as Phil Hoffman) .... Klutch # "Law & Order" .... Steven Hanauer (1 episode, 1991) ... aka Law & Order Prime (USA: informal title) - The Violence of Summer (1991) TV episode (as Philip Hoffman) .... Steven Hanauer