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Dustin Lee Hoffman was born on August 8, 1937, in Los Angeles, California, the younger of two sons of Harry Hoffman (1908–1987) and Lillian (née Gold; 1909–1982). [9] His father worked as a prop supervisor (set decorator) at Columbia Pictures before becoming a furniture salesman.[10]Hoffman was named after stage and silent screen actor Dustin Farnum. [11] He has an elder brother Ronald, who is a lawyer and economist.
Dec 18, 2023 · Dustin Hoffman is married to businesswoman Lisa Gottsegen, whose families knew each other when they were growing up. They married in 1980 and share four children together, actor Jacob Hoffman (born 1981), Rebecca Lillian (1983), Maxwell Geoffrey (1984) and Alexandra Lydia (1987). They also have two grandchildren.
Dustin Hoffman. Actor: Tootsie. Dustin Lee Hoffman was born in Los Angeles, California, to Lillian (Gold) and Harry Hoffman, who was a furniture salesman and prop supervisor for Columbia Pictures. He was raised in a Jewish family (from Ukraine, Russia-Poland, and Romania). Hoffman graduated from Los Angeles High School in 1955, and went to Santa Monica City College, where he dropped out after a year due to bad grades. But...
Feb 22, 2024 · Dustin Hoffman proved he still had what it took to come out with performances to match his greatest work from the 1970s as Harold Meyerowitz in Noah Baumbach’s The Meyerowitz Stories.Harold was a retired Bard College art professor whose sons, played by Ben Stiller and Adam Sandler, were both damaged by his neglectful parenting and ego-driven inflating sense of pride.
Dustin Hoffman. Actor: Tootsie. Dustin Lee Hoffman was born in Los Angeles, California, to Lillian (Gold) and Harry Hoffman, who was a furniture salesman and prop supervisor for Columbia Pictures. He was raised in a Jewish family (from Ukraine, Russia-Poland, and Romania). Hoffman graduated from Los Angeles High School in 1955, and went to Santa Monica City College, where he dropped out after a year due to bad grades. But...
Sep 11, 2024 · Dustin Hoffman (born August 8, 1937, Los Angeles, California, U.S.) is an acclaimed American actor known for his versatile portrayals of antiheroes and vulnerable types. Short in stature and not typically handsome, he helped to usher in a new Hollywood tradition of average-looking but emotionally explosive leading men. Hoffman began acting at age 19 after dropping out of music studies at California’s Santa Monica City College.
Aug 7, 2022 · Although many aspiring actors move to Los Angeles hoping to make it big, Dustin Hoffman, who was born there on August 8, 1937, preferred to move to New York City at the age of 20 to find acting gigs.
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.
Nov 20, 2012 · Dustin Hoffman's Career in Film. Conventional wisdom dictates that film actors traditionally fall into two key archetypes: one is the often anonymous but highly-regarded character actor; the other is the movie star, who can sell a film on the strength of their name and sheer force of their charisma. Dustin Hoffman has disproved this distinction.
Dustin Hoffman made his first impact on Hollywood and American moviegoers just over 30 years ago in Mike Nichols’ THE GRADUATE. Even though the actor at first didn’t see himself as right for the role of the tentative and easily seducible young Benjamin Braddock, his performance is among the most precisely shaded acting jobs of its era.
