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Date of Birth: Dustin Hoffman8 August 1937Dustin Lee Hoffman - born 8 Aug 1937, in Los Angeles, California - has amassed two Oscar wins and five other nominations in his 70 years. Not bad for a guy who was apparently voted 'least likely to succeed', along with , by his first acting school.
Hack & Hoff ditched the aforementioned Pasadena Playhouse for odd-job poverty in New York, where Hoffman became a dedicated method actor studying under Lee Strasberg. After some TV and off-Broadway work, Hoffman landed the Benjamin Braddock role in 1967's , when and said no. He landed his first Academy Award nomination too. ... The second Oscar nod arrived two years later with , and Hoffman was off to the races. Big movies like and followed, before Hoffman's first Oscar win in 1979, with . His second victory would follow with 1988's . Most recently seen in and Mr Magorium's Wonder Emporium, the ever-eclectic Hoffman will soon be heard as the voice of Shifu in ... Wise words: "We all believe what we read. I read how and I were two big egos holding up shooting. I know that isn't true - but if I wasn't making a movie with him and I just picked up the paper, I'd believe it. That's interesting, isn't it?"Read more |
