The Philip Seymour Hoffman Handbook - Everything you need to know about Philip Seymour Hoffman

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Philip Seymour Hoffman (born July 23, 1967) is an American actor and director. Hoffman began acting in television in 1991, and the following year started to appear in films. He gradually gained recognition for his supporting work in a series of notable films, including Scent of a Woman (1992), Twister (1996), Boogie Nights (1997), Happiness (1998), The Big Lebowski (1998), Magnolia (1999), The Talented Mr. Ripley (1999), Almost Famous (2000), 25th Hour (2002), Punch-Drunk Love (2002), Cold Mountain (2003), Along Came Polly (2004) and Mission: Impossible III (2006).

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Articles Philip Seymour Hoffman The Violence of Summer (Law & Order) Leap of Faith (film) Scent of a Woman Joey Breaker My Boyfriend's Back (film) Money for Nothing (1993 film) The Getaway (1994 film) When a Man Loves a Woman (film) Nobody's Fool (1994 film) Hard Eight (film) Twister (1996 film) Boogie Nights Liberty! Montana (film) Next Stop Wonderland The Big Lebowski Happiness (1998 film) Patch Adams (film) Flawless (1999 film) Magnolia (film) The Talented Mr. Ripley (film) State and Main Almost Famous Love Liza Punch-Drunk Love Red Dragon (film) 25th Hour Owning Mahowny Cold Mountain (film) Along Came Polly Strangers with Candy (film) Empire Falls (TV miniseries) Capote (film)

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Mission: Impossible III Before the Devil Knows You're Dead The Savages (film) Charlie Wilson's War Synecdoche, New York Doubt (2008 film) Mary and Max The Boat That Rocked The Invention of Lying Jack Goes Boating (film) Moneyball (film) The Ides of March (film) The Master (2012 film)

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Philip Seymour Hoffman

Philip Seymour Hoffman

Born

Philip Seymour Hoffman

Occupation

Years active

Partner

Hoffman in October 2011

July 23, 1967 Fairport, New York, U.S.

Actor, director

1991–present

Mimi O'Donnell (1999–present)

Philip Seymour Hoffman(born July 23, 1967) is an American actor and director. Hoffman began acting in television in 1991, and the following year started to appear in films. He gradually gained recognition for his supporting work in a series of notable films, includingScent of a Woman(1992),Twister(1996),Boogie Nights (1997),Happiness(1998),The Big Lebowski(1998),Magnolia(1999),The Talented Mr. Ripley(1999),Almost Famous(2000),25th Hour(2002),Punch-Drunk Love(2002),Cold Mountain(2003),Along Came Polly(2004) and Mission: Impossible III(2006). In 2005, Hoffman played the title role in the biographical filmCapote(2005), for which he won multiple acting awards including an Academy Award for Best Actor. He received another two Academy Award nominations for his supporting work inCharlie Wilson's War(2007) andDoubt(2008). Other critically acclaimed films in recent years have includedBefore the Devil Knows You're Dead(2007) andThe Savages(2007). In 2010, Hoffman made his feature film directorial debut withJack Goes Boating. Hoffman is also an accomplished theater actor and director. He joined the LAByrinth Theater Company in 1995, and has directed and performed in numerous Off-Broadway productions. His performances in two Broadway plays led to two Tony Award nominations: one for Best Leading Actor inTrue West(2000), and another for Best Featured Actor inLong Day's Journey into Night(2003).

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Early life Hoffman was born in Fairport, New York, the son of Marilyn L. O'Connor, a family court judge, lawyer, and civil [1] rights activist, and Gordon Stowell Hoffman, a former Xerox executive. He has two sisters, Jill and Emily, and a brother, Gordy Hoffman, who scripted the 2002 filmLove Liza, in which Philip starred. His father was a Protestant of part German ancestry and his mother was of Irish Catholic background; Hoffman was not raised with a deep [2] [3] [4] [5] commitment to either religion. Hoffman's parents divorced when he was nine years old. Hoffman attended the 1984 Theater School at the New York State Summer School of the Arts. After graduating from Fairport High School, Hoffman attended the Circle in the Square Theatre's summer program, continuing his acting [6] training with the acting teacher Alan Langdon. He received a BFA in drama in 1989 from New York University's Tisch School of the Arts. At NYU, he was a founding member of the notoriously short-lived and volatile theater [7] company the Bullstoi Ensemble with actor Steven Schub and director Bennett Miller. Soon after graduating, he [8] went to rehab for drug and alcohol addiction and has since remained sober. Hoffman has had success directing in the theater as well, putting on shows for LAByrinth Theater Company. Of the difference between acting and directing in a play, Hoffman has said that "the director’s experience is not the real experience...You are the most subjective person in the room. You have no objectivity. You have to take a couple of [9] weeks off and then come back to watch it without telling anyone, and you will see it with different eyes."

Film and television work

Hoffman's first role was as a defendant in a 1991 episode of the television series Law & Order. He made his film breakthrough in 1992 when he appeared in four feature films, with the most successful film beingScent of a Woman, in which he played a rather unscrupulous classmate of Chris O'Donnell's character. He had been stocking shelves at a city grocery store at the time before landing the role and credits the film with kickstarting his career.

Hoffman has 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 has appeared in four out of five of Anderson's feature films to date Hoffman in 2002 Promoting (Hard Eight,Boogie Nights,Magnolia, andPunch-Drunk Love). Punch Drunk Love He appeared inLast Party 2000, a documentary about the 2000 US elections. Throughout his career he has rarely been given a chance to play the lead role. In 2002, however, Hoffman starred as a widower coping with his wife's suicide inLove Liza, for which his brother, Gordy Hoffman, wrote the screenplay. In 2003, he played the lead role inOwning Mahownyas a bank employee who embezzles money to feed his gambling addiction.

Hoffman has continued to play supporting roles in such films asCold Mountain, as a carnally obsessed preacher, Along Came Polly, as Ben Stiller's crude, has-been actor buddy, andMission: Impossible III, as villainous arms dealer Owen Davian out to kill Ethan Hunt.

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He received his first Emmy Award nomination for the HBO miniseries Empire Falls, but lost to castmate and personal idol Paul Newman. One of Hoffman's earliest roles was as a police deputy who gets punched in the face by Newman in 1994'sNobody's Fool. He received a second Emmy Award nomination for the Daytime Emmy Awards for his vocal work on the TV SeriesArthur.

In 2005, Hoffman won widespread acclaim for his portrayal of writer Truman Capote in the filmCapote. His performance received numerous high-profile accolades and awards, including the Academy Hoffman in September 2010. Award for Best Actor, the Golden Globe Award for Best Actor - Motion Picture Drama, the Screen Actors Guild Award for Best Actor –Motion Picture, and the BAFTA Award for Best Actor in a Leading Role. In addition, he was also awarded Best Actor by at least ten film critic associations, including the National Board of Review, Toronto Film Critics, and Los Angeles Film Critics.

In 2007, Hoffman was nominated for the Golden Globe for Best Actor in a Supporting Role for playing Gust Avrakotos, a CIA officer who helps Congressman Charlie Wilson support a covert war in Afghanistan in the movie Charlie Wilson's War. In 2008, he was also nominated for Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor for the same role, which he lost to Javier Bardem forNo Country for Old Men. In 2008, he appeared inSynecdoche, New York, in which he played Caden Cotard, a man who attempts to build a scale replica of New York inside a warehouse for a play, andDoubt, in which he played Father Brendan Flynn, a priest accused of sexually abusing a student. He received Golden Globe and Screen Actors Guild nominations for the latter. He also received a second consecutive nomination for the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor for his performance inDoubt.

Personal life Hoffman is in a relationship with costume designer Mimi O'Donnell. They met while working on the 1999 play In Arabia We'd All Be Kings, which Hoffman directed. They have a son, Cooper Alexander, born in March 2003, and [10] [11] two daughters, Tallulah, born in November 2006, and Willa, born in October 2008.

Filmography Year 1991 1991 1992 1992 1992 1992 1993 1993 1993 1994 1994 1994 1994 1995 1996 1996 1997 1997 1998 1998 1998 1998 1998 1998 1999 1999 1999 2000 2000 2000 2002 2002 2002 2002 2003 2003 2004 2005 2005 2005 2006 2007 2007 2007 2008 2008 2009 2009 2009 2010 2011 2011 2012 TitleLaw & OrderTriple Bogey on a Par Five HoleSzulerMy New GunLeap of FaithScent of a WomanJoey BreakerMy Boyfriend's BackMoney for NothingThe GetawayThe YearlingWhen a Man Loves a WomanNobody's FoolThe Fifteen Minute HamletHard EightTwisterBoogie NightsLiberty! The American RevolutionCultureMontanaNext Stop WonderlandThe Big LebowskiHappinessPatch AdamsFlawlessMagnoliaThe Talented Mr. RipleyTitanic 2000State and MainAlmost FamousLove LizaPunch-Drunk LoveRed Dragon25th HourOwning MahownyCold MountainAlong Came PollyStrangers with CandyEmpire FallsCapoteMission: Impossible IIIBefore the Devil Knows You're DeadThe SavagesCharlie Wilson's WarSynecdoche, New YorkDoubtMary and MaxThe Boat That RockedThe Invention of LyingJack Goes BoatingMoneyballThe Ides of MarchThe MasterRole Steven Hanauer Klutch Chris Matt George Willis, Jr. Wiley McCall Chuck Bronski Cochran Frank Hansen Buck Gary Officer Raymer Bernardo, Horatio & Laertes Young Craps Player Dustin "Dusty" Davis Scotty J. Joseph Plumb Martin Bill Duncan Sean Brandt Allen Mitch Roman Rusty Zimmerman Phil Parma Freddie Miles Himself Joseph Turner White Lester Bangs Wilson Joel Dean Trumbell Freddy Lounds Jacob Elinsky Dan Mahowny Reverend Veasey Sandy Lyle Henry, Board Of

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Education Charlie Mayne Truman Capote Owen Davian Andy Hanson Jon Savage Gust Avrakotos Caden Cotard Father Brendan Flynn Max Jerry Horovitz The Count Bartender Jack Art Howe Paul Zara Lancaster Dodd Notes Television series; Episode: "The Violence of Summer" Television film  Florida Film Critics Circle Award for Best Cast  Nominated—Screen Actors Guild Award for Outstanding Performance by a Cast in a Motion Picture Nominated—Chlotrudis Award for Best Supporting Actor  National Board of Review Award for Best Cast  Nominated—Chlotrudis Award for Best Supporting Actor  Nominated—Independent Spirit Award for Best Supporting Male  San Diego Film Critics Society Award for Best Actor  Satellite Award for Best Actor–Motion Picture Musical or Comedy  Best Actor Award at the Verona Love Screens Film Festival  Nominated—London Film Critics' Circle Award for Actor of the Year  Nominated—Screen Actors Guild Award for Outstanding Performance by a Male Actor in a Leading Role - Motion Picture  Chlotrudis Award for Best Supporting Actor  Florida Film Critics Circle Award for Best Cast  National Board of Review Award for Best Cast  National Board of Review Award for Best Supporting Actor  Nominated—Screen Actors Guild Award for Outstanding Performance by a Cast in a Motion Picture  Chlotrudis Award for Best Supporting Actor  National Board of Review Award for Best Supporting Actor  Florida Film Critics Circle Award for Best Cast  National Board of Review Award for Best Cast  Online Film Critics Society Award for Best Cast  Online Film Critics Society Award for Best Supporting Actor  Online Film Critics Society Award for Best Cast  Nominated—Chicago Film Critics Association Award for Best Supporting Actor  Nominated—London Film Critics' Circle Award for Actor of the Year  Nominated—Satellite Award for Best Supporting Actor–Motion Picture  Nominated—Screen Actors Guild Award for Outstanding Performance by a Cast in a Motion Picture Nominated—Satellite Award for Best Supporting Actor - Motion Picture  Chlotrudis Award for Best Actor  Vancouver Film Critics Circle Award for Best Actor  Nominated—Genie Award for Best Performance by an Actor in a Leading Role  Television miniseries  Nominated—Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Supporting Actor–Miniseries or a Movie  Academy Award for Best Actor  Austin Film Critics Association Award for Best Actor  BAFTA Award for Best Actor in a Leading Role  Boston Society of Film Critics Award for Best Actor  Broadcast Film Critics Association Award for Best Actor  Central Ohio Film Critics Association Award for Best Actor  Chicago Film Critics Association Award for Best Actor  Chlotrudis Award for Best Actor

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 Dallas-Fort Worth Film Critics Association Award for Best Actor  Florida Film Critics Circle Award for Best Actor  Golden Globe Award for Best Actor - Motion Picture Drama  Independent Spirit Award for Best Male Lead  Kansas City Film Critics Circle Award for Best Actor  Los Angeles Film Critics Association Award for Best Actor  National Board of Review Award for Best Actor  National Society of Film Critics Award for Best Actor  Online Film Critics Society Award for Best Actor  San Diego Film Critics Society Award for Best Actor  Satellite Award for Best Actor–Motion Picture Drama  Screen Actors Guild Award for Outstanding Performance by a Male Actor in a Leading Role - Motion Picture  Southeastern Film Critics Association Award for Best Actor  Toronto Film Critics Association Award for Best Actor  Vancouver Film Critics Circle Award for Best Actor  Washington D.C. Area Film Critics Association for Best Actor  Nominated—London Film Critics' Circle Award for Actor of the Year  Nominated–Screen Actors Guild Award for Outstanding Performance by a Cast in a Motion Picture Nominated–Saturn Award for Best Supporting Actor  Central Ohio Film Critics Association Award for Actor of the Year  Gotham Award for Best Ensemble Cast  Sant Jordi Award for Best Foreign Actor (Mejor Actor Extranjero)  Nominated—Chlotrudis Award for Best Actor  Central Ohio Film Critics Association Award for Actor of the Year  Jury Award for Best Actor at the Ft. Lauderdale International Film Festival  Independent Spirit Award for Best Male Lead  Sant Jordi Award for Best Foreign Actor (Mejor Actor Extranjero)  Nominated—Golden Globe Award for Best Actor - Motion Picture Musical or Comedy  Nominated—Gotham Award for Best Ensemble Cast  Central Ohio Film Critics Association Award for Actor of the Year  Sant Jordi Award for Best Foreign Actor (Mejor Actor Extranjero)  Nominated—Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor  Nominated—BAFTA Award for Best Actor in a Supporting Role  Nominated—Broadcast Film Critics Association Award for Best Supporting Actor  Nominated—Chicago Film Critics Association Award for Best Supporting Actor  Nominated—Golden Globe Award for Best Supporting Actor - Motion Picture  Nominated—Online Film Critics Society Award for Best Supporting Actor  Gotham Award for Best Ensemble Cast  Robert Altman Award  Nominated—Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor  Nominated—BAFTA Award for Best Actor in a Supporting Role  Nominated—Broadcast Film Critics Association Award for Best Supporting Actor  Nominated—Broadcast Film Critics Association Award for Best Cast  Nominated—Chicago Film Critics Association Award for Best Supporting Actor  Nominated—Golden Globe Award for Best Supporting Actor - Motion Picture  Nominated—Online Film Critics Society Award for Best Supporting Actor

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 Nominated—Satellite Award for Best Supporting Actor–Motion Picture  Nominated—Screen Actors Guild Award for Outstanding Performance by a Male Actor in a Supporting Role - Motion Picture  Nominated—Screen Actors Guild Award for Outstanding Performance by a Cast in a Motion Picture Released asPirate Radioin the United States  Also director and executive producer  Chlotrudis Award for Best Actor  Comedy Film Award for Best Actor post-production

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External links  Philip Seymour Hoffman (http://www.imdb.com/name/nm450/) at the Internet Movie Database  Philip Seymour Hoffman (http://www.ibdb.com/person.asp?ID=70743) at the Internet Broadway Database  Philip Seymour Hoffman (http://www.lortel.org/LLA_archive/index.cfm?search_by=people&first=Philip& last=Hoffman&middle=Seymour) at the Internet Off-Broadway Database  Philip Seymour Hoffman Biography (http://manhattan.about.com/od/famousnewyorkers/p/philipseymourho. htm/)  NPR Interview (09/2005) (http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=4864379)  Philip Seymour Hoffman talks about his role inCapote(http://www.pbs.org/kcet/tavissmiley/archive/ 200601/20060103.html) on the Tavis Smiley show  Brandt Tribute (http://lebowskipodcast.com/index.php/Episodes/Episode-21-Brandt-Tribute.html) Lebowski Podcast's tribute to Hoffman's character in The Big Lebowski.

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The Violence of Summer (Law & Order)

The Violence of Summer (Law & Order)

"The Violence of Summer" Law & Orderepisode Episode no.osaeS1an Episode 14

Directed by

Written by

Original air date

Don Scardino

Michael Duggan

February 5, 1991

"The Violence of Summer"is the fourteenth episode of NBC's legal dramaLaw & Order. It originally aired on February 5, 1991.

Plot A television news reporter is gang-raped, and the defendants begin accusing each other. Stone and Robinette try to persuade the victim to testify even though she doesn't remember the details of the attack. Meanwhile, Logan and Greevey discover evidence that reveals a fourth suspect.

Cast

Law  George Dzundza - Sgt. Max Greevey  Chris Noth - Det. Mike Logan  Dann Florek - Capt. Don Cragen

Order  Michael Moriarty - Exec. A.D.A. Benjamin Stone  Richard Brooks–A.D.A. Paul Robinette  Steven Hill - D.A. Adam Schiff

Guest Stars  Megan Gallagher - Monica Devries  Samuel L. Jackson - Louis Taggert  Randy Danson - Diane Manso  Sandy Baron - Mike Lucia  Al Shannon - Tim Pruiting  Gil Bellows - Howard Metzler  Philip Seymour Hoffman - Steven Hanauer (as Philip Hoffman)  Kenny Johnston - Ryan Cutrona (as Ken Johnston)  Mike Hodge - Judge  David Green - Dr. Kornfeld  Robert Heller - Silva  Phil Hoffman - Hypnotherapist

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