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Philip Seymour Hoffman, who was born on 23rd of July in 1967, and died on 2nd of February in 2014 also known as Phil Hoffman or Philip S Hoffman was a brilliant American actor and also a director, who estimated net worth of $35 million. Hoffman established himself as strongest actors of his generation, but not just of the stage but also film actors, and he was right. He became known to a movie industry through first major role in Scent of a Woman in 1992, where he played the character of George Willis, he was playing together with Chirs O`Donnell.

And a very reputable career in theatre, as director he became known with some plays as, Jesus Hopped the `A` Train in 2001 and Our Lady of 121st Street in 2003, for which Philip received a Drama Desk Award nomination for Outstanding Director for a Play.

Phil Hoffman was born in New York in working class family. In his family Phil has mixture of German and Irish Catholic backgrounds. While being young boy of nine years old, Philip had to overcome some bitter moments, the divorce of his parents. Phil has two sisters and one brother, and all of them work in the movie industry. Philip grew up in Fairport, in New York, started to study acting at Summer School based on Arts and later continued studying arts at Tisch School. His first debut in TV screen was in 1991, while playing a respondent in one episode of serial Law & Oder, and later, he started to appear more in films.

American actor and director was known for his workaholic way and that most of his time had to be divided between New York and Hollywood. No doubts, why Philip could own net worth of $35 million. When in a year of 1991 Hoffman started his acting career, he started to appear in films as Boogie Nights in 1997, he played a loyal handyman in The Big Lebowski in 1997, Magnolia in 1999, and in The Talented Mr. Ripley in 1999, a screenwriter in State and Main in 2000, Almost Famous in 2000, 25 th Hour in 2002 and a phone-sex cheater in Punch-Drunk Love in 2002, Cold Mountan in 2003, a hopeless child Along Came Polly in 2004. In 2005 he proudly approved that he deserves an Oscar, with winning as a famous writer Truman Capote in movie Capote, directed by Bennett Miller. Hoffman was very flexible and hardworking person, what helped him to become a strong and good actor, he liked to try himself in different roles in blockbusters like Mission: Impossible III in 2006, a challenged college professor in The Savages in 2007, in the same year, he received three more nominations of Academy Award for his great job in Charlie Wilson`s War, for the work Doubt in 2008 and for The Master in 2012 as well. The challenging roles in films Hoffman seems was making very easily, as it would super comfortable for an actor, and of course it always helps to all working team, one of these challenges appears in movie Before The Devil Knows You`re Dead in 2007, also Synecdoche, New York in 2008, and of course his standout support for movie Moneyball and also The Ides of March in 2011.

While earning big salary and a fame as a unique actor, Phil, as director, made successful career as well, in 1995 he became a member of the Theatre Company LAByrinth. In idea of Hoffman, that being as director helps him to be a better actor, and being as an actor, it helps him to be a better director. Phil received nominations of Tony Award for his Broadway performances, even two nominations for the Best Leading Actor and one more as Best Featured Actor. In all this entire hard working years Philip S. Hoffman managed to reach net worth of $35 million and to have a luxurious life, what maybe he didn`t have while being a child. Many acted movies and directed plays shows how rich was Philip Hoffman!

Even Phil Hoffman was very busy person, but all his free time he was spending with his life partner and children. It is not a secret that Hoffman had problems with drug and alcohol addiction. Unfortunately in February of 2014, Hoffman died of accidental overdose of combined drug, nevertheless The New York Times declared Philip as probably the most ambitious American actor.

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Philip Seymour Hoffman Trademarks

1. His sluggish, almost listless way of talking
2. His characters often ran through a wide range of emotions

Philip Seymour Hoffman Quotes

• [on being taken to a production of ‘All My Sons’ at age twelve] It’s a great play, and at the end of the play the father goes off-stage and kills himself. It’s a very sappy, corny memory but I remember thinking I had found something that no one knew about. I could just not get over the fact that these people in front of me were getting me to believe something that was not happening. I matured in those two hours, just experiencing that.
• I teach acting sometimes – not a lot, but once in a while – and what I really try to say to them – ’cause I know it’s true – is that if you’re doing a play or you’re shooting a film, the way you feel after a performance that night, or after a day of work, if you’ve done well, is the best it gets. You don’t need anyone to tell you. I always say it’s like when you can go home and fall asleep and wake up well-rested. That’s as good as it gets, because everything else is fleeting. It’s what keeps you going back to work.
• [on going to rehab] I went, I got sober when I was 22 years old. You get panicked and I got panicked for my life.
• [on quitting drinking at age 22] I think I would have drank myself to death, literally, if I didn’t just stop, once and for all when I did. I am not ever going to preach to anyone about drugs or drinking. But, for me, when they were around, I had no self control.
• [on The Master (2012)] L. Ron Hubbard is the reference, but it isn’t L. Ron Hubbard. There are things he does that are referenced in Hubbard’s life, but ultimately there is no adherence to that fact. We took liberties because he is a fictional character.
• [on Capote (2005)] I knew that it would be great, but I still took the role kicking and screaming. Playing Capote took a lot of concentration. I prepared for four and a half months. I read and listened to his voice and watched videos of him on TV. Sometimes being an actor is like being some kind of detective where you’re on the search for a secret that will unlock the character. With Capote, the part required me to be a little unbalanced, and that wasn’t really good for my mental health. It was also a technically difficult part. Because I was holding my body in a way it doesn’t want to be held and because I was speaking in a voice that my vocal cords did not want to do, I had to stay in character all day. Otherwise, I would give my body the chance to bail on me.
• My passion to develop as an actor didn’t have anything to do with people knowing me. I had no idea that would happen. To become famous, to become a celebrity is something that I thought happened to other people.
• Actors are responsible to the people we play.
• Film is a very uncomfortable medium for an actor. It’s just not conducive to doing what actors do. The first few days of shooting are like you just getting over the fact that your there. These people and the camera over the shoulder and the light and the boom – you’re just going crazy trying to find some kind of center of relaxation and then you can get into a rhythm and it can be very satisfying. If you do good work and it’s on film, that’s a very satisfying thing. – 2006.
• The stage can be more satisfying because you spend a lot of time rehearsing, and film is more technical. In the end it just depends on the work and the director. I do like the world of the theater though.
• [his advice to aspiring actors] Study, find all the good teachers and study with them, get involved in acting to act, not to be famous or for the money. Do plays. It’s not worth it if you are just in it for the money. You have to love it.
• Sometimes it’s hard to say no. Ultimately, if you stick to your guns, you have the career that you want. Don’t get me wrong. I love a good payday and I’ll do films for fun. But ultimately my main goal is to do good work. If it doesn’t pay well, so be it.
• [on The Talented Mr. Ripley (1999)] Playing Freddie Miles was really easy. It was one of those parts you know exactly what you’re doing. The character is not beating around the bush at all. His main action is to expose Tom Ripley as a phoney.
• On my down time I do a lot of nothing. I just kinda read, run and hang out with friends because I haven’t had a lot of it lately. I just try to do a lot of nothing. Go to some sports. I like to play tennis. I travel a lot with my work now so if you are travelling all the time you don’t want to travel you want to stay home. And when you stay home you really don’t want to do too much because you’ve been going out and getting up early and staying out late all the time. So you just do very little.
• 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.
• [on getting his part in The Big Lebowski (1998)] It’s the Coen brothers, and you never think you’re going to get to work with people like that. I thought I’d never get the part. So I wanted to do something very weird. I went in and started ranting and raving and they were laughing their asses off. I was petrified but, I figured, at least they laughed a lot.
• It’s not by going into ‘the business,’. The business can’t be a thought. You get a foothold because you want to get a foothold as an artist. Your desire, your intensity, has to be about being a great actor or a great painter or a great musician. If that’s strong enough, it’ll lead you to good teachers and to places where you’ll learn. For me, the business wasn’t a thought. I was doing a play, and a friend in the play said, ‘My manager is here tonight and she wants to meet you.’ And I said, ‘Oh.’ And that’s how I got a manager.
• “It was an incredibly honest, unique, specific and personal story of addiction. He lives to feed the beast and it gets him farther away from reality, intimacy and life.To me, it’s not even about gambling. It’s about a man and how he behaves in this pressurized world he has created for himself. There is no relief for this guy. It’s about a man who cuts off his feelings at the same time his girlfriend [Minnie Driver] comes at him harder. Life comes at him harder, too, but he can only think about his addiction.” – On his role in Owning Mahowny.
• I think Magnolia (1999) is one of the best films I’ve ever seen and I can say that straight and out and anybody that disagrees with me I’ll fight you to the death. I just think it is one of the greatest films I’ve ever been in and ever seen.
• Doing a play is good for me because it’s a nice change from being on a movie set. I try to do a play every year because it just invigorates me.
• Acting is so difficult for me that, unless the work is of a certain stature in my mind, unless I reach the expectations I have of myself, I’m unhappy. Then it’s a miserable existence. I’m putting a piece of myself out there. If it doesn’t do anything, I feel so ashamed. I’m afraid I’ll be the kind of actor who thought he would make a difference and didn’t. Right now, though, I feel like I made a little bit of difference.
• I’m probably more personal when I’m acting than at any other time. More open, more direct. Because it allows me to be something that I can’t always feel comfortable with when I’m living my own life, you know? Because it’s make- believe.
• Sometimes I’m working on a film and someone will ask me if I’m having fun. And I’m tempted to tell them the truth: No, absolutely not. Having no fun here at all. You know what’s going to be fun? When it’s done, and I’ve done a fuckin’ good job, and I know people are getting something out of that. I’ll have a lot of fun then. A ton of it.
• Success isn’t what makes you happy. It really isn’t. Success is doing what makes you happy and doing good work and hopefully having a fruitful life. If I’ve felt like I’ve done good work, that makes me happy. The success part of it is all gravy.
• “Other people disagree with me, but Scent of a Woman really was my breakthrough. I was working in the prepared foods section of a deli when I was cast in that movie, and I’ve never had a non-acting job since. That’s amazing”.
• To have that concentration to act well is like lugging things up staircases in your brain. I think that’s a thing people don’t understand. It is that exhausting. If you’re doing it well, if you’re concentrating the way you need to, if your will and your concentration and emotional and imagination and emotional life are all in tune, concentrated and working together in that role, that is just like lugging weights upstairs with your head..And I don’t think that should get any easier”. — On acting.
• Actors are responsible to the people we play. I don’t label or judge. I just play them as honestly and expressively and creatively as I can, in the hope that people who ordinarily turn their heads in disgust instead think, ‘What I thought I’d feel about that guy, I don’t totally feel right now’ “. — On his responsibility as an actor.
• “Not only couldn’t I get a job as an actor, I couldn’t hold down the temporary non- acting jobs I managed to get. I got fired as a waiter in restaurants and as a lifeguard at a spa” –On his life before films “If I hadn’t gotten into Scent of a Woman (1992), I wouldn’t be where I am today. It’s been a domino effect ever since”.
• “Being unemployed is not good for any actor, no matter how successful you are. You always remember what it feels like to go to the unemployment office, what it feels like to be fired from all those restaurants”.
• A lot of people describe me as chubby, which seems so easy, so first-choice. Or stocky. Fair-skinned. Tow-headed. There are so many other choices. How about dense? I mean, I’m a thick kind of guy. But I’m never described in attractive ways. I’m waiting for somebody to say I’m at least cute. But nobody has.

Philip Seymour Hoffman Important Facts

• No relation to Dustin Hoffman, although both have played Willy Loman in “Death of a Salesman.” In addition, in the production with Dustin Hoffman, one of his sons was played by Stephen Lang, who also played Freddie Lounds in Manhunter (1986). Philip Seymour Hoffman played that same role in Red Dragon (2002).
• His funeral was held in the Church of St Ignatius Loyola in New York.
• As of 2014, has appeared in three films that were nominated for the Best Picture Oscar: Scent of a Woman (1992), Capote (2005) and Moneyball (2011).
• Was found dead on the bathroom floor, dressed in a T-shirt and shorts with a hypodermic needle still stuck in his arm and 70 baggies of heroin inside his Greenwich Village apartment.
• Split from longtime companion Mimi O’Donnell in 2013.
• His three Oscar nominations in the Best Supporting Actor category came from films in which he appeared along Amy Adams: Charlie Wilson’s War (2007), Doubt (2008) and The Master (2012). Adams was nominated for the two latter films.
• Along with Vanessa Redgrave (for Julia (1977)), Kate Winslet (for Iris (2000)), Mare Winningham (for Georgia (1995)), Terence Stamp (for Billy Budd (1962)), Roland Young (for Topper (1937)) and Claude Rains (for Mr. Skeffington (1944)), he is one of the few performers to be nominated for a Supporting Oscar for playing the title role in a movie (for The Master (2012)). As of 2013, Redgrave is the only one to win.
• Hoffman was found dead, reportedly from a drug overdose, in his Manhattan apartment on February 2, 2014, exactly one day after the death (from pneumonia) of another Best Actor Oscar winner, 83-year-old Maximilian Schell (for Judgment at Nuremberg (1961)).
• In May 2013, Hoffman announced that he checked into substance abuse treatment center because he had started snorting heroin.
• Attended the premiere of Pirate Radio (2009) in Amsterdam, Netherlands. [April 2009]
• Attended the Cannes 2002 Film Festival in France. [May 2002]
• Attended the 2008 Cannes Film Festival in France. [May 2008]
• Attended the 56th Berlinale International Film Festival in Berlin, Germany. [February 2006]
• Became a father for the 3rd time at age 41 when his girlfriend Mimi O’Donnell gave birth to their daughter Willa Hoffman on October 17, 2008.
• Became a father for the 2nd time at age 39 when his girlfriend Mimi O’Donnell gave birth to their daughter Tallulah Hoffman in November 2006.
• Became a father for the 1st time at age 35 when his girlfriend Mimi O’Donnell gave birth to their son Cooper Alexander Hoffman in March 2003.
• Had Dutch, English, German, Irish, and remote Polish, ancestry. His paternal great-grandfather, Orville Hoffman, was the son of German immigrants, Johann Adam Hoffman and Barbara Kleinhans.
• Was one of 8 actors who have received an Oscar nomination for their performance as a priest. The others, in chronological order, are: Spencer Tracy for San Francisco (1936) and Boys Town (1938); Charles Bickford for The Song of Bernadette (1943); Bing Crosby for Going My Way (1944) and The Bells of St. Mary’s (1945); Barry Fitzgerald for Going My Way (1944); Gregory Peck for The Keys of the Kingdom (1944); Karl Malden for On the Waterfront (1954); and Jason Miller for The Exorcist (1973). Tracy, Crosby and Fitzgerald all won Oscars for their performances.
• Was a huge fan of the crime drama series Breaking Bad (2008).
• Since earning his first nomination in 2005, the longest he had gone without an Oscar nomination was 4 years, between Doubt (2008) and The Master (2012).
• Was a huge fan of the New York Jets.
• Was one of 11 actors to have won the Academy Award, BAFTA Award, Critics’ Choice Award, Golden Globe Award and SAG Award for the same performance. The others in chronological order are Geoffrey Rush for Shine (1996), Jamie Foxx for Ray (2004), Forest Whitaker The Last King of Scotland (2006), Javier Bardem for No Country for Old Men (2007), Daniel Day-Lewis for There Will Be Blood (2007), Heath Ledger for The Dark Knight (2008), Christoph Waltz for Inglourious Basterds (2009), Colin Firth for The King’s Speech (2010), Christopher Plummer for Beginners (2010), Daniel Day-Lewis again for Lincoln (2012) and J.K. Simmons for Whiplash (2014).
• Beat Heath Ledger for an Academy Award for Best Actor in 2005 for his title role in Capote (2005), and then lost to the late actor for the Best Supporting Actor in 2008 to Ledger’s performance in The Dark Knight (2008).
• Upon accepting his Oscar for Capote (2005), Hoffman asked everyone to congratulate his mother, because “She brought up four kids alone, and she deserves a congratulations for that.”.
• College roommates at New York University’s Tisch School of the Arts with actor ‘Steven Schub’ (lead singer of ska band The Fenwicks) and Jimmie Corrieri (guitarist of The Fenwicks).
• At New York University, he was a founding member of the notoriously short-lived and volatile theater company the Bullstoi Ensemble with actor Steven Schub and director Bennett Miller.
• As of 2008, he and Dustin Hoffman are the only two winners of a Best Actor in a Leading Role Oscar to share a last name. Philip won for Capote (2005) and Dustin won for Kramer vs. Kramer (1979) and Rain Man (1988).
• Law & Order: The Violence of Summer (1991), in which he appeared, also featured another actor named Philip Hoffman.
• Auditioned for the role of Cubby Barnes in Ransom (1996), which went to Donnie Wahlberg.
• Met his girlfriend Mimi (a costumer designer) in 1999 while they were working on the play “In Arabia We’d All Be Kings”.
• Parents were Gordon S. Hoffman and Marilyn Hoffman Connor.
• Had a younger sister named Emily Hoffman and an older sister named Jill Hoffman.
• His parents divorced when he was 9.
• He won 23 awards for his performance in Capote (2005), including the coveted Oscar.
• Goodfellas (1990) was one of his favorite films.
• After winning his Oscar for Capote (2005), he had been working with a filmmaker from his former high school in Fairport, New York, helping him with his project.
• His mother, Marilyn Hoffman Connor, is a judge in Rochester, New York.
• His performance as Truman Capote in Capote (2005) is ranked #35 on Premiere Magazine’s 100 Greatest Performances of All Time (2006).
• While working as a lifeguard, he once met musician Miles Davis. Davis appeared in an episode of the television series Crime Story (1986), and shared a scene with Stephen Lang. Lang appeared in Manhunter (1986) as Freddy Lounds, the character Hoffman played in Red Dragon (2002).
• Had appeared in The Talented Mr. Ripley (1999) and Red Dragon (2002). Both are remakes of earlier films (Purple Noon (1960) and Manhunter (1986)), and both feature him as a character named Freddie who is killed by the villain/title character.
• Did not drink alcohol. He became sober when he was 22 years old and said that he quit because, “I was 22 and I was panicked for my life.”.
• When asked who his acting idols were, he named Daniel Day-Lewis, Paul Newman, Meryl Streep and Christopher Walken.
• Grew up in upstate New York, outside of Rochester, in the village of Fairport.
• In 2002, he appeared in 25th Hour (2002), opposite Edward Norton and Brian Cox; and in Punch-Drunk Love (2002), opposite Emily Watson. That same year, he appeared with both Norton and Watson in Red Dragon (2002), which was a remake of Manhunter (1986), in which Cox had appeared.
• In his sophomore year of high school, he suffered an injury that prevented him from playing multiple sports.
• Had appeared in four films with Julianne Moore: Boogie Nights (1997), The Big Lebowski (1998) Magnolia (1999) and The Hunger Games: Mockingjay – Part 1 (2014). They each then went on to appear in separate film in the Hannibal Lecter series. Moore played Clarice Starling in Hannibal (2001), and Hoffman played Freddie Lounds in Red Dragon (2002).
• Received his Bachelor’s degree in Drama from New York University, Tisch School of the Arts (1989).
• Taught an advanced “Directing the Actor” class for one semester at Columbia University School of the Arts Graduate Film Division during 2003.
• Younger brother of Gordy Hoffman.
• With the exception of There Will Be Blood (2007), he appeared in all of Paul Thomas Anderson’s films.
• Had the flu the entire time he appeared in Almost Famous (2000).
• Had twice been nominated for Broadway’s Tony Award: as Best Actor (Play) in 2000 for a revival of Sam Shepard’s “True West”; and as Best Actor (Featured Role – Play) in 2003 for a revival of Eugene O’Neill’s “Long Day’s Journey into Night”.

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