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He returned to stage acting with a 1984 performance as Willy Loman in Death of a Salesman and reprised the role a year later in a television film earning a Primetime Emmy Award. Īfter a three-year break from films, Hoffman returned in Sydney Pollack's show business comedy Tootsie (1982) about a struggling actor who pretends to be a woman in order to get an acting role. They both received Academy Awards for their performances. In 1979, Hoffman starred in the family drama Kramer vs. He gained success in the 1970s playing roles that shaped the craft of his acting, crossing genres effortlessly in the western Little Big Man (1971), the prison drama Papillon (1973), playing a controversial and groundbreaking comedian in Bob Fosse's Lenny (1975), Marathon Man alongside Laurence Olivier (1976), and as Carl Bernstein investigating the Watergate scandal in All the President's Men (1976). His next role was "Ratso" Rizzo in John Schlesinger's Midnight Cowboy (1969), in which he acted alongside Jon Voight they both received Oscar nominations, and the film went on to win the Academy Award for Best Picture. His breakthrough role was as Benjamin Braddock in Mike Nichols' critically acclaimed and iconic film The Graduate (1967), for which he received his first Academy Award nomination. He then starred in the 1966 off-Broadway play Eh? where his performance garnered him both a Theatre World Award and Drama Desk Award. During that time he appeared in several guest roles on television shows like Naked City and The Defenders. His first theatrical performance was 1961's A Cook for Mr. At a young age Hoffman knew he wanted to study in the arts, and entered into the Los Angeles Conservatory of Music later he decided to go into acting, for which he trained at the Pasadena Playhouse in Los Angeles. Actor Robert De Niro described him as "an actor with the everyman's face who embodied the heartbreakingly human". He is known for his versatile portrayals of antiheroes and emotionally vulnerable characters. From the BBC programme Desert Island Discs Decemĭustin Lee Hoffman (born August 8, 1937) is an American actor and filmmaker.