Philip Seymour Hoffman
Highest Rated: 95% Mary and Max (2009)
Lowest Rated: 14% My Boyfriend's Back (1993)
Birthday: Jul 23, 1967
Birthplace: Fairport, New York, USA
One of the most original, versatile, and steadily employed actors in Hollywood, Philip Seymour Hoffman 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 c

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Filmography

MOVIES

CREDIT
70% The Hunger Games: Mockingjay - Part 2 Plutarch Heavensbee $254.7M 2015
68% The Hunger Games: Mockingjay - Part 1 Plutarch Heavensbee $295.5M 2014
87% A Most Wanted Man Gunter Bachmann $14.1M 2014
31% Lullaby Uncle Percy — 2014
36% God's Pocket Mickey Scarpato Producer $97.5K 2014
89% The Hunger Games: Catching Fire Plutarch Heavensbee $336.7M 2013
36% Salinger Actor $0.6M 2013
No Score Yet Ezekiel Moss Director — 2013
76% A Late Quartet Robert Gelbart (Violin) $1.5M 2012
85% The Master Lancaster Dodd $15.9M 2012
84% The Ides of March Paul Zara Philip $41M 2011
94% Moneyball Art Howe $75.7M 2011
68% Jack Goes Boating Executive Producer Director Jack $0.4M 2010
62% Pirate Radio (The Boat That Rocked) The Count $8.1M 2009
56% The Invention of Lying Jim the Bartender $18.5M 2009
80% I Knew It Was You: Rediscovering John Cazale Actor — 2009
95% Mary and Max Max Jerry Horowitz — 2009
80% Doubt Father Brendan Flynn $33.5M 2008
68% Synecdoche, New York Caden Cotard $3.1M 2008
82% Charlie Wilson's War Gust $66.7M 2007
89% The Savages Jon Savage $6.5M 2007
88% Before the Devil Knows You're Dead Andy $7M 2007
70% Mission: Impossible III Owen Davian $133.5M 2006
No Score Yet Making Capote: Concept to Script Actor — 2006
No Score Yet Truman Capote: Answered Prayers Actor — 2006
90% Capote Truman Capote Executive Producer $28.4M 2005
No Score Yet Empire Falls C.B. Whiting/Charlie Mayne — 2005
52% Strangers with Candy Henry $2M 2005
26% Along Came Polly Sandy Lyle $87.9M 2004
71% Cold Mountain Veasey — 2003
79% Owning Mahowny Dan Mahowny $0.8M 2003
78% 25th Hour Jakob Elinsky — 2003
80% Punch-Drunk Love Dean Trumbell $17.9M 2002
68% Red Dragon Freddy Lounds $93M 2002
53% Love Liza Wilson Joel — 2002
56% The Party's Over Actor — 2001
86% State and Main Joseph $5.8M 2000
89% Almost Famous Lester Bangs $31.8M 2000
83% The Talented Mr. Ripley Freddie Miles — 1999
83% Magnolia Phil Parma — 1999
43% Flawless Rusty Zimmerman — 1999
22% Patch Adams Mitch — 1998
81% Happiness Allen — 1998
75% Next Stop Wonderland Sean — 1998
No Score Yet Montana Duncan — 1998
83% The Big Lebowski Brandt — 1998
No Score Yet Culture Actor — 1998
93% Boogie Nights Scotty — 1997
57% Twister Dusty — 1996
83% Hard Eight Young Craps Player — 1996
No Score Yet The Fifteen Minute Hamlet Actor — 1995
91% Nobody's Fool Officer Raymer — 1994
71% When a Man Loves a Woman Gary — 1994
No Score Yet The Yearling Buck Forrester — 1994
No Score Yet Szuler (Cheat) Actor — 1994
33% The Getaway Frank Hansen — 1994
No Score Yet Money for Nothing Cochran — 1993
14% My Boyfriend's Back Chuck Bronski — 1993
No Score Yet Joey Breaker McCall — 1993
88% Scent of a Woman George Willis Jr. — 1992
60% Leap of Faith Matt — 1992
50% My New Gun Chris — 1992
No Score Yet Triple Bogey on a Par Five Hole Actor — 1991

TV

CREDIT
57% 666 Park Avenue
2012-2013
Roger Easton
  • 2012
No Score Yet Sunday Morning
2011-2018
Appearing
  • 2012
No Score Yet Blue Bloods
2010
Lawyer
  • 2010
No Score Yet Arthur
1996
Voice
  • 2009
No Score Yet The Daily Show With Jon Stewart
1999-2015
Guest
  • 2008
  • 2005
No Score Yet The Tonight Show With Jay Leno
1992-2014
Guest
  • 2006
No Score Yet Law & Order
1990-2010
Eddie Feldman Steven B. Hanauer, hypnotherapist
  • 1993
  • 1991

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