Philip Seymour Hoffman (1967 - 2014) فيليب سيمور هوفمان

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An American actor and director, born in Fairport, New York, in 1967. At a young age, he had to give up wrestling because of a neck injury and was later chosen to attend the New York State Summer School of the Arts when he was 17. He was nominated four times for an Academy Award,...Read more won it once for Capote, and was nominated several times for the Golden Globe Award. Among his most notable films are Before the Devil Knows You're Dead, Charlie Wilson's War, and The Master. Hoffman passed away in February 2014, at the age of 46.

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  • An American actor and director, born in Fairport, New York, in 1967. At a young age, he had to give up wrestling because of a neck injury and was later chosen to attend the New...Read more York State Summer School of the Arts when he was 17. He was nominated four times for an Academy Award, won it once for Capote, and was nominated several times for the Golden Globe Award. Among his most notable films are Before the Devil Knows You're Dead, Charlie Wilson's War, and The Master. Hoffman passed away in February 2014, at the age of 46.

  • Philip Seymour Hoffman was an American actor and director. He earned a BFA in drama in 1989 from New York University's Tisch School of the Arts. He made his film breakthrough in...Read more 1992 when he appeared in four feature films, with the most successful film being "Scent of a Woman." Hoffman established a successful and respected film career playing diverse and idiosyncratic characters in supporting roles, working with a wide variety of noted directors, including Todd Solondz, the Coen Brothers, Spike Lee, Cameron Crowe, David Mamet, Robert Benton, Anthony Minghella and Paul Thomas Anderson; notably, he appeared in five out of six of Anderson's feature films to date (Hard Eight, Boogie Nights, Magnolia, Punch-Drunk Love and The Master). Hoffman also received acclaim for his work in the theater. He won the Academy Award for Best Actor for the 2005 biographical film Capote, and received three Academy Award nominations as Best Supporting Actor as well as three Tony Award nominations for his work in the theater.

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  • Hoffman suffered from drug and alcohol abuse after graduating from college, and went to rehab for drug and alcohol addiction, recovering at age 22. He said he had abused "anything I could get my hands on. I liked it all.
  • Hoffman began acting in high school after a neck injury forced him to give up wrestling.
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