One of the most original, versatile, and steadily employed actors in Hollywood, Philip Seymour Hoffman has made a name for himself playing some of the most dysfunctional characters in movie history. Although he had been acting for years, most audiences were first introduced to the actor in the award-winning Boogie Nights, where he played a nebbishy soundman with a jones for Mark Wahlberg's Dirk Diggler. Imbuing his character with both humor and poignant complexity, Hoffman was one of the more memorable aspects of an unforgettable film.Born in Fairport, NY, in 1968, Hoffman trained at New York's Tisch School of Drama. Before breaking into film, he did a host of theater work, performing in New York, Chicago, and on a European tour. He made his film debut in the 1992 film Scent of a Woman, a critically acclaimed picture starring Al Pacino and Chris O'Donnell. Roles in a number of films of varying quality followed, including My New Gun (1992) and When a Man Loves a Woman (1994). The actor then nabbed a sizable role in Jan de Bont's 1996 tornado thriller Twister and the same year began an ongoing working relationship with Paul Thomas Anderson by appearing in his directorial debut Hard Eight. The crime drama, which also starred Gwyneth Paltrow and Samuel L. Jackson, received positive critical attention, although it didn't create more than a minor blip at the box office. However, Hoffman's next feature and second collaboration with Anderson, Boogie Nights (1997), was both a critical and financial success, scoring a host of Academy Award nominations and simultaneously reviving the careers of some of its stars, such as Burt Reynolds and Mark Wahlberg, while providing a breakthrough for others, such as Heather Graham and Hoffman himself. He next appeared in the Robin Williams comedy Patch Adams (1998), and the same year starred in two critically acclaimed independent films, Todd Solondz's Happiness and Brad Anderson's Next Stop Wonderland. The prolific actor added an appearance in The Big Lebowski (also 1998) to his already impressive resumé. In addition to his burgeoning acting career, Hoffman won favorable notices for his directing debut with the off-Broadway +In Arabia, We'd All Be Kings. Hoffman came into his own with three notable performances in 1999. He reunited with Paul Thomas Anderson to play empathic hospice nurse Phil Parma, one of the emotional anchors in Magnolia. His portrayal of upper-crust snob Freddie Miles in The Talented Mr. Ripley earned him strong notices from many critics. Hoffman's peers awarded him with a Screen Actors Guild nomination for his role as a cross dresser in Flawless opposite Robert De Niro. He returned to the Broadway stage with fellow Anderson regular John C. Reilly to play very different brothers in Sam Shepard's True West. They took a risk by switching the lead roles every three days. Their hard work earned critical raves, and each was nominated for a Tony award. In 2000, Cameron Crowe cast Hoffman as Crowe's childhood hero Lester Bangs in Almost Famous, and David Mamet tapped him to be part of the impressive ensemble in State and Main.Hoffman maintained his status as one of the most respected and hardest-working actors in the new decade by delivering an excellent supporting turn in Red Dragon as an unctuous tabloid reporter. That same year he co-starred in Spike Lee's 25th Hour, and played the bad guy for old collaborator Paul Thomas Anderson in the offbeat romantic comedy Punch-Drunk Love. 2002 also saw the release of Love Liza, a very low-budget film scripted by Hoffman's brother and directed by actor Todd Louiso that starred Phil as a grieving husband addicted to huffing gas fumes. The next year found Hoffman starring as a gambling addict in the small scale Canadian drama Owning Mahowny, and turning in a memorable supporting performance as an amoral preacher in the big screen adaptation of Cold Mountain. Hoffman was in theaters again at the beginning of 2004 as the best friend in the Ben Stiller comedy Along Came Polly. He was also part of yet another outstanding ensemble in the small s ~ Rovi
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Les Marches du pouvoir
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Paul Zara |
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Moneyball
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Art Howe |
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Moneyball: L'art de gagner
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Art Howe |
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Moneyball
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Jack Goes Boating
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Jack |
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Jack Goes Boating
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Director |
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Pirate Radio
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The Boat That Rocked
(2009)
The Count |
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Radio Pirate
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The Count |
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Pirate Radio
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The Count |
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Doute
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Father Flynn |
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Doubt
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Synecdoche, New York
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Synecdoque, New York (f.s.t.)
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Caden Cotard |
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Le combat de Charlie Wilson
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Gust Avrakotos |
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Charlie Wilson's War
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Gust Avrakotos |
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Charlie Wilson's War
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The Savages
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Jon Savage |
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The Savages
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Before the Devil Knows You're Dead
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7h58 ce samedi-la
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Andy Hanson |
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Mission: Impossible III
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Owen Davian |
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Capote
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Executive Producer Truman Capote |
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Cold Mountain
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Reverend Veasey |
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Owning Mahowny
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Dan Mahowny |
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25th Hour
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25th Hour
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Jacob Elinsky |
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Punch-Drunk Love
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Daryl Fitzsimmons |
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Punch-Drunk Love
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Almost Famous
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Lester Bangs |
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Magnolia
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The Talented Mr. Ripley
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Freddie Miles |
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Magnolia
(1999)
Phil Parma |
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Flawless
(1999)
Rusty Zimmerman |
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Patch Adams
(1998)
Mitch Roman |
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Patch Adams
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Happiness
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Allen |
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The Big Lebowski
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Brandt |
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Boogie Nights
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Twister
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Dustin Davis |
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Hard Eight
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Young Craps Player (as Phillip Seymour Hoffman) |
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Nobody's Fool
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Officer Raymer |
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Scent of A Woman
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Mary et Max
Max Jerry Horovitz |
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I Knew It Was You: Rediscovering John Cazale
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Mary et Max
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Mary and Max
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My Boyfriend's Back
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Before the Devil Knows You're Dead
Andy Hanson |
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Doubt
Father Flynn |
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Caden Cotard |
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