Dustin Hoffman

Acting

Dustin Hoffman

Overview

Known for
Acting
Gender
Male
Birthday
Aug 08, 1937 (88 years old)

Dustin Hoffman

Known For

Twiggy
1h 30m
DOLBY
Movie 2025

Twiggy

Twiggy takes a comprehensive look at the life story of...

Megalopolis
2h 18m
DOLBY
Movie 2024

Megalopolis

Genius artist Cesar Catilina seeks to leap the City of...

Kung Fu Panda 4
1h 34m
DOLBY
Movie 2024

Kung Fu Panda 4

Po is gearing up to become the spiritual leader of...

Reinventing Elvis: The 68' Comeback
1h 50m
DOLBY
Movie 2023

Reinventing Elvis: The 68' Comeback

The making of Elvis Presley's famous live TV concert and...

Sam & Kate
1h 50m
DOLBY
Movie 2022

Sam & Kate

Bill is an ailing larger-than-life father being taken care of...

Homeward Bound: A Grammy Salute to the Songs of Paul Simon
2h
DOLBY
Movie 2022

Homeward Bound: A Grammy Salute to the Songs of Paul Simon

A special tribute concert honoring 16-time Grammy winner Paul Simon...

Kung Fu Panda: The Dragon Knight
42 Episodes
DOLBY
TV Show 2022

Kung Fu Panda: The Dragon Knight

Follow the adventures of Po, who partners up with a...

PRIDE: To Be Seen - A Soul of a Nation Presentation
41min
DOLBY
Movie 2022

PRIDE: To Be Seen - A Soul of a Nation Presentation

It’s the resilience and love that keeps this community marching...

As They Made Us
1h 36m
DOLBY
Movie 2022

As They Made Us

Abigail, a divorced mother of two, is struggling to balance...

Mr. Saturday Night
1h 23m
DOLBY
Movie 2021

Mr. Saturday Night

The untold story of Robert Stigwood, the impresario behind “Saturday...

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.

Acting

2025
Twiggy
2024
Megalopolis
2024
Kung Fu Panda 4
2023
Reinventing Elvis: The 68' Comeback
2022
Sam & Kate
2022
Homeward Bound: A Grammy Salute to the Songs of Paul Simon
2022
Kung Fu Panda: The Dragon Knight
2022
PRIDE: To Be Seen - A Soul of a Nation Presentation
2022
As They Made Us
2021
Mr. Saturday Night
2020
Billy Connolly: It’s Been a Pleasure...
2019
Into the Labyrinth
2019
Alan Pakula: Going for Truth
2019
Hal
2017
The Newspaperman: The Life and Times of Ben Bradlee
2017
The Meyerowitz Stories (New and Selected)
2017
Spielberg
2016
All Governments Lie: Truth, Deception, and the Spirit of I.F. Stone
2016
Mike Nichols: An American Master
2016
Kung Fu Panda 3
2016
Kung Fu Panda: Secrets of the Scroll
2015
Arthur Miller: A Man of His Century
2015
Warren Beatty - Mister Hollywood
2015
Roald Dahl's Esio Trot
2014
Led Zeppelin Played Here
2013
All the President's Men Revisited
2012
La Classe américaine
2012
Luck
2011
Paul Williams Still Alive
2011
Kung Fu Panda 2
2010
Jews and Baseball: An American Love Story
2009
Against the Tide
2009
Dustin!
2008
Last Chance Harvey
2008
Michael Ballhaus - Eine Reise durch mein Leben
2008
Kung Fu Panda: Secrets of the Furious Five
2008
Visual Acoustics
2008
Kung Fu Panda
2008
A Better Man: The Making of 'Tootsie'
2007
Trumbo
2006
Stranger Than Fiction
2006
Telling the Truth About Lies: The Making of "All the President's Men"
2006
Controversy and Acclaim: The Timelessness of a Groundbreaking Film
2005
Earth to America
2005
The Lost City
2005
Racing Stripes
2004
Finding Neverland
2004
I ♥ Huckabees
2004
The 50 Worst Movies Ever Made
2004
After Midnight: Reflecting on a Classic 35 Years Later
2003
Now Showing: Unforgettable Moments from the Movies
2003
Moonlight Mile: A Journey to Screen
2003
Mantrap – Straw Dogs: The Final Cut
2003
Runaway Jury
2003
The Shakespeare Sessions
2002
Moonlight Mile
2002
Liberty's Kids
2002
The Kid Stays in the Picture
2002
There's Only One Paul McCartney
2002
Reel Radicals: The Sixties Revolution in Film
2001
Goldwyn: The Man and His Movies
2001
Tuesday
2001
Going the Distance: Remembering 'Marathon Man'
1999
The Messenger: The Story of Joan of Arc
1999
Tato's Argentina
1999
The Devil's Arithmetic
1999
Billy Connolly: Erect for 30 Years
1998
Warner Bros. 75th Anniversary: No Guts, No Glory
1997
Mad City
1995
The First 100 Years: A Celebration of American Movies
1995
Outbreak
1994
Jonas in the Desert
1993
Aretha Franklin: Duets
1992
Hero
1992
Earth and the American Dream
1992
'The Graduate' at 25
1991
A Wish for Wings That Work
1991
Hook
1990
The Earth Day Special
1990
Waldo Salt: A Screenwriter's Journey
1989
Common Threads: Stories from the Quilt
1986
Private Conversations: On the Set of ‘Death of a Salesman’
1985
Death of a Salesman
1985
Night of 100 Stars II