Philip Seymour Hoffman biography and movies
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 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.

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Rate: 8.3 Mary And Max

Year: 2009

Genres: Drama, Animation, Comedy

Director: Adam Elliot

Artists: Bethany Whitmore, Julie Forsyth, Philip Seymour Hoffman, Eric Bana, Toni Collette


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Rate: 7.7 Doubt

Year: 2008

Genres: Drama, Mystery

Director: John Patrick Shanley

Artists: Frank Shanley, Haklar Dezso, Mike Roukis, Joseph Foster, Lloyd Clay Brown, John Costelloe, Carrie Preston, Susan Blommaert, Robert Ridgell, Alice Drummond, Viola Davis, Amy Adams, Philip Seymour Hoffman, Meryl Streep, Audrie Neenan


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Rate: 9.7 Doubt

Year: 2008

Genres: Drama, Mystery

Director: John Patrick Shanley

Artists: Alice Drummond, Viola Davis, Amy Adams, Philip Seymour Hoffman, Meryl Streep


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Rate: 9.7 Synecdoche New York

Year: 2008

Genres: Drama

Director: Charlie Kaufman

Artists: Peter Friedman, Tom Noonan, Sadie Goldstein, Catherine Keener, Philip Seymour Hoffman


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Rate: 7.4 Before The Devil Knows You're Dead

Year: 2007

Genres: Crime, Drama, Thriller

Director: Sidney Lumet

Artists: Albert Finney, Hank Hanson, Ethan Hawke, Andy Hanson, Philip Seymour Hoffman


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Rate: 7.3 Charlie Wilsons War

Year: 2007

Genres: Biography, Drama

Director: Mike Nichols

Artists: Terry Bozeman, Philip Seymour Hoffman, Amy Adams, Julia Roberts, Tom Hanks


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Rate: 9.7 Charlie Wilsons War

Year: 2007

Genres: Biography, Drama, Comedy

Director: Mike Nichols

Artists: Terry Bozeman, Philip Seymour Hoffman, Julia Roberts, Amy Adams, Tom Hanks


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Rate: 7.4 The Savages

Year: 2007

Genres: Drama, Comedy

Director: Tamara Jenkins

Artists: Gbenga Akinnagbe, Cara Seymour, Philip Seymour Hoffman, Tonye Patano, Laura Linney


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Rate: 6.9 Mission: Impossible III

Year: 2006

Genres: Thriller, Adventure, Action

Director: J.J. Abrams

Artists: Eddie Marsan, Keri Russell, Maggie Q, Carla Gallo, Jeff Chase, Bahar Soomekh, Theodore Brassel, Laurence Fishburne, Jonathan Rhys Meyers, Benji, Simon Pegg, Tom Cruise, Philip Seymour Hoffman, Ving Rhames, Billy Crudup, Michelle Monaghan


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Rate: 7.6 Capote

Year: 2005

Genres: Drama, Crime, Biography

Director: Bennett Miller

Artists: Kwesi Ameyaw, Philip Seymour Hoffman, Truman Capote, Chris Cooper, Catherine Keener


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Rate: 5.8 Along Came Polly

Year: 2004

Genres: Comedy, Romance

Director: John Hamburg

Artists: Kevin Hart, Judah Friedlander, Missi Pyle, Bob Dishy, Kym Whitley, Michele Lee, Masi Oka, Jsu Garcia, Bryan Brown, Hank Azaria, Ben Stiller, Jennifer Aniston, Philip Seymour Hoffman, Debra Messing, Alec Baldwin


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Rate: 7.3 Cold Mountain

Year: 2003

Genres: Drama, Romance, War

Director: Anthony Minghella

Artists: Philip Seymour Hoffman, Brendan Gleeson, Eileen Atkins, Nicole Kidman, Jude Law


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Rate: 7.7 Scent Of A Woman

Year: 1992

Genres: Drama

Director: Martin Brest

Artists: Matt Smith, James Rebhorn, Rochelle Oliver, Gabrielle Anwar, Philip Seymour Hoffman, Bradley Whitford, Nicholas Sadler, Al Pacino, Gene Canfield, Richard Venture, Todd Louiso, Margaret Eginton, Tom Riis Farrell, Frances Conroy


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