Philip Seymour Hoffman in 2006
by J McCombie
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Philip Seymour Hoffman in 2006
Artist
J McCombie
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Drawing
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This piece has been featured in the FAA Group, "Famous Faces Portraits".
This piece can be made available in the other formats and colours you find in my Mixed Media Gallery.
Philip Seymour Hoffman (July 23, 1967 -- February 2, 2014) was an American actor and director. Cited as "perhaps the most ambitious and widely admired American actor of his generation", Hoffman won the Academy Award for Best Actor for the 2005 biographical film Capote and was thrice nominated for Best Supporting Actor. He also received three Tony Award nominations for his work in theater.
Raised in Fairport, New York, Hoffman graduated from the New York State Summer School of the Arts and the Tisch School of the Arts. He began his acting career in 1991 as a defendant in a rape case in the Law & Order episode "The Violence of Summer", and the following year he began to appear in films. He gained recognition for his supporting work throughout the 1990s and early 2000s in minor but seminal roles in which he typically played losers or degenerates, including the portrayal of a conceited student in Scent of a Woman (1992), a hyperactive storm-chaser in Twister (1996), a 1970s pornography clerk in Boogie Nights (1997), a smug assistant in The Big Lebowski (1998), a male nurse in Magnolia (1999), a music critic in Almost Famous (2000), a phone-sex conman in Punch-Drunk Love (2002), and an immoral priest in Cold Mountain (2003).
In 2005, Hoffman portrayed American author Truman Capote in Capote, for which he won multiple acting awards, including the Academy Award for Best Actor, the BAFTA Award for Best Actor in a Leading Role, and the Screen Actors Guild Award for Outstanding Performance by a Male Actor in a Leading Role. His three other Academy Award nominations came for his supporting work playing a brutally frank CIA officer in Charlie Wilson's War (2007), a priest accused of pedophilia in Doubt (2008), and the charismatic leader of a nascent Scientology-type movement in The Master (2012). He also received critical acclaim for roles in Owning Mahowny (2003), Before the Devil Knows You're Dead (2007), The Savages (2007), Synecdoche, New York (2008), Moneyball (2011), and The Ides of March (2011). In 2010, Hoffman directed his first feature film, Jack Goes Boating.
Hoffman was also an accomplished theater actor and director. He joined the LAByrinth Theater Company in 1995, and directed and performed in numerous stage productions. His performances in three Broadway plays led to three Tony Award nominations: two for Best Leading Actor, in True West (2000) and Death of a Salesman (2012), and one for Best Featured Actor in Long Day's Journey into Night (2003).
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