Dustin Hoffman
Personal Info
Known For
Acting
Gender
Male
Birthday
1937-08-08
Place of Birth
Los Angeles, California, USA
Dustin Hoffman
Biography
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.
Also Known For
Finding Neverland
Oct 17, 2004
Hook
Apr 10, 1991
All the President's Men
Apr 09, 1976
Rain Man
Dec 12, 1988
Straw Dogs
Nov 25, 1971
Stranger Than Fiction
Sep 09, 2006
Wag the Dog
Dec 25, 1997
Perfume: The Story of a Murderer
Sep 13, 2006
Sphere
Feb 13, 1998
Meet the Fockers
Dec 22, 2004
I ♥ Huckabees
Sep 10, 2004
The Tale of Despereaux
Dec 18, 2008
Marathon Man
Oct 08, 1976
Sleepers
Oct 18, 1996
The Messenger: The Story of Joan of Arc
Oct 27, 1999
Mr. Magorium's Wonder Emporium
Nov 16, 2007
Family Business
Dec 06, 1989
Midnight Cowboy
May 25, 1969
Madigan's Millions
May 30, 1968
Mr. Saturday Night
Nov 13, 2021
Hero
Oct 02, 1992
Confidence
Apr 25, 2003
Little Big Man
Dec 23, 1970
There's Only One Paul McCartney
Jun 02, 2002
Papillon
Dec 16, 1973
Moonlight Mile
Sep 09, 2002
Runaway Jury
Jan 16, 2003
American Buffalo
Sep 13, 1996
Agatha
Feb 09, 1979
Straight Time
Mar 18, 1978
Outbreak
Mar 10, 1995
Mantrap – Straw Dogs: The Final Cut
Mar 08, 2003
Kramer vs. Kramer
Dec 07, 1979
Kung Fu Panda
Jun 04, 2008
Death of a Salesman
Aug 16, 1985
Mad City
Nov 07, 1997
Tootsie
Dec 17, 1982
Lenny
Nov 10, 1974
Billy Bathgate
Nov 01, 1991
Ishtar
May 15, 1987
The Lost City
Sep 03, 2005
The Sensational Shocking Wonderful Wacky 70's
Jan 04, 1980
The Graduate
Dec 21, 1967
John and Mary
Dec 14, 1969
Kung Fu Panda: Secrets of the Furious Five
Nov 08, 2008
La Classe américaine
Dec 31, 1993
Last Chance Harvey
Dec 25, 2008
Close Up
Sep 30, 2012
Visual Acoustics
Jun 22, 2008
Barney's Version
Oct 26, 2010
Led Zeppelin Played Here
Oct 11, 2014
Little Fockers
Dec 21, 2010
Kung Fu Panda 2
May 25, 2011
Billy Connolly: Erect for 30 Years
Jan 01, 1999
The Magnificent Rebel
Jan 01, 1973
Kung Fu Panda Holiday
Nov 26, 2010
A Wish for Wings That Work
Dec 18, 1991
Kung Fu Panda: Secrets of the Masters
Dec 12, 2011
Casting By
Nov 01, 2012
Who Is Harry Kellerman and Why Is He Saying Those Terrible Things About Me?
Jun 15, 1971
Aretha Franklin: Duets
May 09, 1993
Jews and Baseball: An American Love Story
Jul 25, 2010
Alfredo, Alfredo
Sep 22, 1972
Kung Fu Panda 3
Jan 23, 2016
Pressure and the Press: The Making of 'All the President's Men'
Jan 01, 1976
Against the Tide
Sep 09, 2009
Reinventing Elvis: The 68' Comeback
Jul 30, 2023
All the President's Men Revisited
Apr 21, 2013
Chef
May 08, 2014
The Cobbler
Sep 11, 2014
The Shakespeare Sessions
Jan 01, 2003
The First 100 Years: A Celebration of American Movies
Jun 05, 1995
PRIDE: To Be Seen - A Soul of a Nation Presentation
Jun 09, 2022
The Many Faces of Dustin Hoffman
Dec 30, 1970
Tower Stories
The Program
Sep 16, 2015
The Newspaperman: The Life and Times of Ben Bradlee
Dec 04, 2017
Free to Be… You and Me
Mar 11, 1974
Kung Fu Panda 4
Mar 02, 2024
Now Showing: Unforgettable Moments from the Movies
Oct 01, 2003
Roald Dahl's Esio Trot
Jan 02, 2015
Megalopolis
Sep 25, 2024
Earth to America
Nov 20, 2005
Dustin!
Jan 01, 2009
Boychoir
Mar 27, 2015
Nos Bastidores de Hollywood
Mar 01, 2005
Racing Stripes
Jan 06, 2005
Trumbo
Sep 10, 2007
Homeward Bound: A Grammy Salute to the Songs of Paul Simon
Sep 06, 2022
Night of 100 Stars II
Mar 10, 1985
Bette Midler: Ol' Red Hair Is Back
Dec 07, 1977
Goldwyn: The Man and His Movies
Oct 07, 2001
Mike Nichols: An American Master
Jan 29, 2016
Kung Fu Panda: Secrets of the Scroll
Jan 05, 2016
The Meyerowitz Stories (New and Selected)
Oct 13, 2017
The New Cinema
Jan 01, 1968
The Earth Day Special
Apr 22, 1990
The 50 Worst Movies Ever Made
Jul 13, 2004
Telling the Truth About Lies: The Making of "All the President's Men"
Feb 28, 2006
The Point
Feb 02, 1971
Hal
Mar 28, 2019
The Holiday
Dec 05, 2006
Moonlight Mile: A Journey to Screen
Mar 11, 2003
Arthur Penn: The Director
Jan 18, 1970
Tuner
The Tiger Makes Out
Aug 18, 1967
Common Threads: Stories from the Quilt
Dec 01, 1989
Michael Ballhaus - Eine Reise durch mein Leben
Dec 16, 2008
The Devil's Arithmetic
Mar 28, 1999
The Star Wagon
Oct 20, 1966
The Journey of the Fifth Horse
Oct 14, 1966
All Governments Lie: Truth, Deception, and the Spirit of I.F. Stone
Nov 04, 2016
Spielberg
Oct 05, 2017
A Better Man: The Making of 'Tootsie'
Feb 05, 2008
Tuesday
Sep 04, 2001
'The Graduate' at 25
Jan 01, 1992
Dick Tracy
Apr 05, 1990
The Crowd Around the Cowboy
Jan 01, 1969
Controversy and Acclaim: The Timelessness of a Groundbreaking Film
Feb 21, 2006
Waldo Salt: A Screenwriter's Journey
Jan 19, 1990
The Making of 'Tootsie'
Jan 01, 1982
On Location: Dustin Hoffman
Dec 31, 1971
Arthur Miller: A Man of His Century
Oct 17, 2015
Into the Labyrinth
Oct 30, 2019
Jonas in the Desert
Jan 01, 1994
Going the Distance: Remembering 'Marathon Man'
Aug 28, 2001
The Magic of Hollywood... Is the Magic of People
Oct 06, 1976
The Kid Stays in the Picture
Aug 16, 2002
Warren Beatty - Mister Hollywood
Oct 04, 2015
And the Oscar Goes To...
Feb 01, 2014
Warner Bros. 75th Anniversary: No Guts, No Glory
Jan 01, 1998
Lost in the Garden of the World
Jun 02, 1975
Lemony Snicket's A Series of Unfortunate Events
Dec 16, 2004
Earth and the American Dream
Oct 01, 1992
Paul Williams Still Alive
Sep 11, 2011
Finding the Truth: The Making of 'Kramer vs. Kramer'
Feb 20, 2001
Tato's Argentina
Apr 07, 1999
La Classe américaine
Oct 05, 2012
Alan Pakula: Going for Truth
Oct 12, 2019
Billy Connolly: It’s Been a Pleasure...
Dec 28, 2020
Cameraman: The Life and Work of Jack Cardiff
May 05, 2010
Private Conversations: On the Set of ‘Death of a Salesman’
Jun 23, 1986
As They Made Us
Apr 08, 2022
Sam & Kate
Nov 11, 2022
Night of 100 Stars
Mar 08, 1982
After Midnight: Reflecting on a Classic 35 Years Later
Jan 01, 2004
Twiggy
Mar 07, 2025
Kung Fu Panda: The Awesome Secrets Collection
Aug 27, 2013
The Revisionist
Reel Radicals: The Sixties Revolution in Film
Apr 02, 2002
Strokes of Genius: de Kooning on de Kooning
Nov 29, 1982
Franz Kline - Remembered
Strokes of Genius: Arshile Gorky
Jan 01, 1982
Steve McQueen: American Icon
Sep 29, 2017
I Could Never Be Your Woman
May 11, 2007
This Morning
Oct 03, 1988
The Simpsons
Dec 17, 1989
The Ellen DeGeneres Show
Sep 08, 2003
The Daily Show
Jul 22, 1996
Today
Jan 14, 1952
LIVE with Kelly and Mark
Sep 05, 1988
The Tonight Show with Jay Leno
May 25, 1992
Naked City
Sep 30, 1958
Curb Your Enthusiasm
Oct 15, 2000
MADtv
Oct 14, 1995
Liberty's Kids
Sep 02, 2002
ABC Stage 67
Sep 14, 1966
The Nurses
Sep 27, 1962
The Directors
Jan 01, 1999
V Graham Norton
May 06, 2002
The Defenders
Sep 16, 1961
The Defenders
Sep 16, 1961
The Oscars
Mar 19, 1953
Big Brother's Little Brother
May 29, 2001
Luck
Jan 29, 2012
American Masters
Jun 23, 1986
Naked City
Sep 30, 1958
Wetten, dass..?
Feb 14, 1981
The Mike Douglas Show
Dec 11, 1961
Finding Your Roots
Mar 24, 2012
Medici: Masters of Florence
Oct 18, 2016
Tony Awards
Apr 01, 1956
The Graham Norton Show
Feb 22, 2007
V.I.P. Schaukel
May 09, 1971
The Reichen Show
Nov 11, 2005
Rachael Ray
Sep 18, 2006
Spécial cinéma
Sep 25, 1974
Goldene Kamera Verleihung
Feb 03, 1984
Kung Fu Panda: The Dragon Knight
Jul 14, 2022
Tony Awards
Apr 01, 1956
Coucou c'est nous !
Sep 22, 1992
Champs-Elysées
Jan 16, 1982
Treffpunkte
May 26, 1970
HBO First Look
Jun 12, 1992
Tony Awards
Apr 01, 1956
Golden Globe Awards
Jan 20, 1944
Golden Globe Awards
Jan 20, 1944
Golden Globe Awards
Jan 20, 1944
Stand-Up: The Laughing Therapy
Nov 20, 2024
Golden Globe Awards
Jan 20, 1944
Golden Globe Awards
Jan 20, 1944
Sacrée soirée
Sep 02, 1987