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Main Movie Roles 2010 - Jack Goes Boating 2009 - Mary and Max 2009 - I Knew It Was You: Rediscovering John Cazale 2009 - The Invention of Lying 2009 - The Boat That Rocked 2008 - Synecdoche, New York 2008 - Doubt 2007 - The Savages 2007 - Charlie Wilson's War 2007 - Before the Devil Knows You're Dead 2006 - Mission: Impossible III 2005 - Capote 2004 - Along Came Polly 2003 - Owning Mahowny 2003 - Cold Mountain 2002 - Red Dragon 2002 - Punch-Drunk Love 2002 - 25th Hour 2002 - Love Liza 2000 - Almost Famous 1999 - Flawless 1999 - Magnolia 1999 - The Talented Mr. Ripley 1998 - Patch Adams 1998 - Next Stop Wonderland 1998 - Happiness 1998 - The Big Lebowski 1998 - Montana 1997 - Boogie Nights 1996 - Twister 1994 - When a Man Loves a Woman 1994 - Nobody's Fool 1993 - My Boyfriend's Back 1992 - Leap of Faith 1992 - Scent of a Woman

BIOGRAPHY:

Film and stage actor and theater director Philip Seymour Hoffman was born in the Rochester, New York, suburb of Fairport on July 23, 1967. After becoming involved in high school theatrics, he attended New York University's Tisch School of the Arts, graduating with a B.F.A. degree in Drama in 1989. He made his feature film debut in the indie production Triple Bogey on a Par Five Hole (1991) as Phil Hoffman, and his first role in a major release came the next year in My New Gun (1992). While he had supporting roles in some other major productions, his breakthrough role came in Paul Thomas Anderson's Boogie Nights (1997). He quickly became an icon of indie cinema, establishing a reputation as one of the screen's finest actors, in a variety of supporting and second leads in indie and major features, including Todd Solondz's Happiness (1998), Flawless (1999), The Talented Mr. Ripley (1999), Paul Thomas Anderson's Magnolia (1999), Almost Famous (2000) and State and Main (2000). He also appeared in supporting roles in such mainstream, big-budget features as Red Dragon (2002), Cold Mountain (2003) and the upcoming Mission: Impossible III (2006).

Hoffman is also quite active on the stage. On Broadway, he has earned two Tony nominations, as Best Actor (Play) in 2000 for a revival of Sam Shepard's "True West" and as Best Actor (Featured Role - Play) in 2003 for a revival of Eugene O'Neill (I)'s "Long Day's Journey into Night". His other acting credits in the New York theater include "The Seagull" (directed by Mike Nichols (I) for The New York Shakespeare Festival), "Defying Gravity", "The Merchant of Venice" (directed by Peter Sellars), "Shopping and F*@%ing" and "The Author's Voice" (Drama Desk nomination). He is the Co-Artistic Director of the LAByrinth Theater Company in New York, for which he directed "Our Lady of 121st Street" by Stephen Adly Guirgis. He also has directed "In Arabia, We'd All Be Kings" and "Jesus Hopped the A Train" by Guirgis for LAByrinth, and "The Glory of Living" by Rebecca Gilman at the Manhattan Class Company.

Hoffman consolidated his reputation as one of the finest actors under the age of 40 with his turn in the title role of Capote (2005), for which he won the Los Angeles Film Critics Award as Best Actor. In 2006, he was awarded the Best Actor Oscar for the same role.


TRIVIA:

• Appears in _The Talented Mr. Ripley (1999)_ (qv) and _Red Dragon (2002)_ (qv). Both are remakes of earlier films (_Plein soleil (1960)_ (qv) and _Manhunter (1986)_ (qv)), and both feature him as a character named Freddie who is killed by the villain/title character.
• BFA in Drama - New York University, Tisch School of the Arts (1989)
• Taught an advanced "Directing the Actor" class for one semester at Columbia University School of the Arts Graduate Film Division during 2003.
• Has appeared in three films with 'Julianne Moore (I)' (qv): _Boogie Nights (1997)_ (qv), _The Big Lebowski (1998)_ (qv), and _Magnolia (1999)_ (qv). They each then went on to appear in separate film in the Hannibal Lecter series. Moore played Clarice Starling in _Hannibal (2001)_ (qv), and Hoffman played Freddie Lounds in _Red Dragon (2002)_ (qv).
• At NYU was a founding member of the notoriously short-lived and volatile theater company the Bullstoi Ensemble with actor Steven Schub and director Bennett Miller.
• Has a younger sister named Emily Hoffman and an older sister named Jill Hoffman.
• In his sophomore year of high school, he suffered an injury that prevented him from playing multiple sports.
• Grew up in upstate New York, outside of Rochester, in the village of Fairport.