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  1. Dustin Lee Hoffman (born August 8, 1937) is an American actor. As one of the key actors in the formation of New Hollywood , Hoffman is known for his versatile portrayals of antiheroes and emotionally vulnerable characters.

  2. Dustin Hoffman. Actor: Tootsie. Dustin Lee Hoffman was born in Los Angeles, California, to Lillian (Gold) and Harry Hoffman, who was a furniture salesman and prop supervisor for Columbia Pictures. He was raised in a Jewish family (from Ukraine, Russia-Poland, and Romania). Hoffman graduated from Los Angeles High School in 1955, and went to ...

  3. Dustin Hoffman filmography. American actor Dustin Hoffman began his career by appearing in an episode of Naked City in 1961. His first theatrical performance was 1961's Shmem needs a shink as Ridzinski. Following several guest appearances on television, he starred in the 1966 play Eh?; his performance garnered him both a Theatre World Award and ...

  4. Dustin Hoffman. Actor: Tootsie. Dustin Lee Hoffman was born in Los Angeles, California, to Lillian (Gold) and Harry Hoffman, who was a furniture salesman and prop supervisor for Columbia Pictures. He was raised in a Jewish family (from Ukraine, Russia-Poland, and Romania). Hoffman graduated from Los Angeles High School in 1955, and went to Santa Monica City College, where he dropped out after ...

  5. Dec 18, 2023 · Dustin Hoffman has supported and spoken out on issues such as environmentalism, human rights, and political activism throughout his career, and is a politically liberal. He is trained as a classical pianist and loves playing the instrument in his spare time.

  6. Feb 22, 2024 · Dustin Hoffman proved he still had what it took to come out with performances to match his greatest work from the 1970s as Harold Meyerowitz in Noah Baumbach’s The Meyerowitz Stories. Harold was a retired Bard College art professor whose sons, played by Ben Stiller and Adam Sandler, were both damaged by his neglectful parenting and ego-driven inflating sense of pride.

  7. May 17, 2024 · Dustin Hoffman (born August 8, 1937, Los Angeles, California, U.S.) is an acclaimed American actor known for his versatile portrayals of antiheroes and vulnerable types. Short in stature and not typically handsome, he helped to usher in a new Hollywood tradition of average-looking but emotionally explosive leading men.

  8. Mar 4, 2024 · Dustin Hoffman and wife Lisa. Allen Berezovsky/Getty The actor was photographed in the stands wearing a black windbreaker-style coat over a blue collared shirt, while his wife wore a gray blazer ...

  9. Nov 20, 2012 · Dustin Hoffman's Career in Film. Conventional wisdom dictates that film actors traditionally fall into two key archetypes: one is the often anonymous but highly-regarded character actor; the other is the movie star, who can sell a film on the strength of their name and sheer force of their charisma. Dustin Hoffman has disproved this distinction.

  10. 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 ...

  11. Birthday: Aug 8, 1937. Birthplace: Los Angeles, California, USA. Dustin Hoffman emerged as a key figure in the Hollywood Renaissance period of the 1960s and 1970s, personifying identifiable ...

  12. Dec 11, 2023 · Oscar winners Dustin Hoffman and Helen Hunt are attached to star in Peter Greenaway ‘s drama “Lucca Mortis,” which has started filming in the Tuscan city of Lucca. The new film by the 81 ...

  13. An actor's actor, a perfectionist, and wildly talented, Dustin Hoffman is rightly regarded as one of the greatest film actors of all time. Along with several other 70's acting greats (see my list, "the actors of the 70's); Nicholson, Pacino, De Niro and Hoffman affected acting and movie making in a new and profound way, elevating the acting craft to a new level of realism and excellence. Here ...

  14. May 31, 2017 · In this epic adventure story, Steve McQueen and Dustin Hoffman co-star as a pair of prisoners who forge an ironclad friendship over their many years of incarceration. Thrown into a notoriously brutal French penal colony in Guiana, the pair initially seem at odds: Papillon (McQueen) is a tough, steely-nerved safecracker, while Hoffman’s Louis Dega is a white-collar criminal guilty of forging ...

  15. Apr 26, 2022 · Dustin Hoffman (The Graduate, Kramer vs. Kramer, Rain Man, As They Made Us) opens up about his childhood, his time working as an attendant in a psychiatric f...

  16. Aug 7, 2022 · Although many aspiring actors move to Los Angeles hoping to make it big, Dustin Hoffman, who was born there on August 8, 1937, preferred to move to New York City at the age of 20 to find acting gigs.

  17. Jun 11, 2024 · Dustin Hoffman as Benjamin Braddock. CHARACTER PLAYED: Benjamin Braddock, the aimless graduate at the center of the film. BORN: August 8, 1937, in Los Angeles, California. BEST KNOWN FOR:Midnight ...

  18. May 2, 2022 · Dustin Hoffman stars as Colonel Sam Daniels, the virologist called in to stop the disease from spreading. Hoffman does a great job treating the medical profession with respect. Amidst a chaotic ...

  19. Dustin Hoffman used to deny he was Jewish. But success and the influence of his second wife have enabled him to come to terms with his roots. Dustin Hoffman vividly recalls one afternoon, sitting ...

  20. Jun 16, 2024 · Dustin Hoffman is a proud dad to six children: Karina, Jenna, Jake, Rebecca, Maxwell and Ali. Dustin and his first wife, ballerina-turned-actress Anne Byrne, married in 1969 and are parents to ...

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