This Season... Have Love/Have Faith by Tamara Philip

He is the Co-Artistic Director of the LAByrinth Theater Company in New York, for which he directed 'Our Lady of 121st Street' by Stephen Adly Guirgis. His other acting credits in the New York theater include 'The Seagull' (directed by Mike Nichols for The New York Shakespeare Festival), 'Defying Gravity', 'The Merchant of Venice' (directed by Peter Sellars), 'Shopping and and 'The Author's Voice' (Drama Desk nomination). On Broadway, he has earned two Tony nominations, 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 (I)'s 'Long Day's Journey into Night'. Hoffman was also quite active on the stage.

He also appeared in supporting roles in such mainstream, big-budget features as Red Dragon (2002), Cold Mountain (2003) and Mission: Impossible III (2006). Ripley (1999), Paul Thomas Anderson's Magnolia (1999), Almost Famous (2000) and State and Main (2000).

He quickly became an icon of indie cinema, establishing a reputation as one of the screen's finest actors, in a variety of supporting and second leads in indie and major features, including Todd Solondz's Happiness (1998), Flawless (1999), The Talented Mr. While he had supporting roles in some other major productions like Scent of a Woman (1992) and Twister (1996), his breakthrough role came in Paul Thomas Anderson's Boogie Nights (1997). He made his feature film debut in the indie production Triple Bogey on a Par Five Hole (1991) as Phil Hoffman, and his first role in a major release came the next year in My New Gun (1992). After becoming involved in high school theatrics, he attended New York University's Tisch School of the Arts, He was the son of Marilyn (Loucks), a lawyer and judge, and Gordon Stowell Hoffman, a Xerox employee, and was mostly of German, Irish,Įnglish and Dutch ancestry. Film and stage actor and theater director Philip Seymour Hoffman was born in the Rochester, New York, suburb of Fairport on July 23, 1967.

This Season... Have Love/Have Faith by Tamara Philip