American actor of the New Hollywood era, two-time Academy Award winner whose career spans Kramer vs. Kramer, Rain Man, and decades of stage work.
Background
Born in Los Angeles, California, Hoffman studied at the Pasadena Playhouse and trained at the Actors Studio under Lee Strasberg.
Career
He broke through at thirty as Benjamin Braddock in Mike Nichols’s “The Graduate” and went on to lead “Midnight Cowboy,” “Lenny,” and “All the President’s Men.” He won Best Actor for “Kramer vs. Kramer” and “Rain Man” and reinvented himself comedically in “Tootsie” and “Wag the Dog.”
Style
Hoffman’s New York-stage training, willingness to play physical or character extremes, and refusal of conventional leading-man looks made him a defining figure of late-1960s and 1970s American film.
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