Philip Seymour Hoffman movies

Hoffman, a former Xerox executive, and Marilyn OConnor, a family court judge. He has two sisters, Jill and Emily, and a brother, Gordy Hoffman, who scripted the 2002 film Love Liza, in which Philip starred.

Hoffman has Irish ancestry; his father was Protestant and his mother was Catholic, but he was not raised with a deep commitment to either religious tradition. Hoffmans parents divorced when he was nine years old.Hoffman received a BFA in drama in 1989 from New York Universitys Tisch School of the Arts. Soon after graduating, he went to rehab for drug and alcohol addiction and has since remained sober.Film & television careerOne of Hoffmans earliest major roles was as a defendant in a 1990 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 being Scent of a Woman, in which he played a backstabbing classmate of Chris ODonnells character. He had been stocking shelves at a city grocery at the time before landing the role and credits the film to 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 Paul Thomas Anderson, The Coen Brothers, Cameron Crowe, Spike Lee, David Mamet, Robert Benton, Todd Solondz and Anthony Minghella; notably, he has appeared in all four of Andersons feature films to date (Hard Eight, Boogie Nights, Magnolia, and Punch-Drunk Love).He appeared in Last Party 2000, a documentary about the 2000 U.S. elections.

Philip Seymour Hoffman Movies

All movies starring Philip Seymour Hoffman.

• 25th Hour
• Almost Famous
• Along Came Polly
• Boogie Nights
• Capote
• Charlie Wilson's War
• Cold Mountain
• Empire Falls
• Happiness
• Magnolia
• Mission: Impossible III
• Patch Adams
• Punch-Drunk Love
• Red Dragon
• Scent of a Woman
• Twister
• Synecdoche, New York
• Doubt
• The Big Lebowski