Philip Seymour Hoffman

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"My favorite thing about acting is being alone and going through the scripts and working on it and getting ideas and asking myself questions, looking outside myself for them and researching and getting to the bottom of something and being creative with it as an actor and how to express it in a creative fashion. That's my favorite part. And,the actual acting of it."

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Philip Seymour Hoffman (born July 23, 1967) is an American stage and film actor and director.Hoffman began his professional acting career in television in 1991, and the following year began appearing in films.

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Hoffman's profile has increased immensely since his multiple award-winning portrayal of author Truman Capote in 2005's Capote. The New York-based actor has also appeared in Boogie Nights, Happiness, The Big Lebowski, Magnolia, Almost Famous, Cold Mountain, and Mission: Impossible III.

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Philip Seymour Hoffman was born on July 23, 1967, in Fairport, a suburb of Rochester in upstate New York. He dabbled in acting during high school, where he appeared in several drama productions. Following graduation, he enrolled in New York University's Tisch School of the Arts. In 2003, he received strong reviews for his portrayal of the real-life Dan Mahowny in Owning Mahowny, based on a true story about the greatest bank fraud in Canadian history. Hoffman played Reverend Veasey in the acclaimed drama Cold Mountain (2003), co-starring Jude Law and Nicole Kidman, and received a second Tony nod for Long Day's Journey into Night. In March of 2003, his relationship with costume designer Mimi O'Donnell produced a son, Cooper Alexander.

Hoffman's career-defining portrayal of Truman Capote in 2005's Capote earned him his strongest reviews to date, and the acclaim translated into his triumphant winning of top industry honors including the Golden Globe, SAG, L.A. Film Critics, BAFTA, and Academy Awards. He also earned an Executive Producer credit for the film. The actor followed up with a starring role in Mission: Impossible III (2006), in which he was cast as the villain, opposite Tom Cruise. His performance as Truman Capote in Capote (2005) earned him an Academy Award, a BAFTA Award, a Golden Globe and a Screen Actors Guild Award. Subsequent roles in The Savages (2007) and Charlie Wilson's War (2007) were well received, and he was nominated for several acting awards for his work in Doubt (2008).

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Philip Seymour Hoffman has risen from the ranks of small-part actor, to secondary-role actor, to Oscar-winning lead actor. He takes the craft of acting very seriously, yet avoids the trappings of fame and success with almost as much passion as he devotes to his chosen profession.