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Philip Seymour Hoffman

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Philip Seymour Hoffman
Hoffman at the Paris premiere of The Ides of March in October 2011
Born	Philip Hoffman July 23, 1967 Fairport, New York, U.S.
Died	February 2, 2014 (aged 46) Manhattan, New York, U.S.
Cause of death	Acute mixed drug intoxication
Alma mater	Tisch School of the Arts, New York University
Occupation	Actor producer director
Years active	1991–2014
Partner(s)	Mimi O'Donnell (1999–2013)
Relatives	Gordy Hoffman (brother)

Philip Seymour Hoffman (July 23, 1967 – February 2, 2014) was an American actor, director, and producer. He was a regular presence in films from the early 1990s until his death at the age of 46, after which The New York Times declared him "perhaps the most ambitious and widely admired American actor of his generation".^[1]

Drawn to theater as a teenager, Hoffman studied acting at New York University's Tisch School of the Arts. He began his career in a 1991 episode of Law & Order and began to appear in films in 1992. He gained recognition for his supporting work throughout the decade and early 2000s, typically playing losers or degenerates in small but significant roles; notably a conceited student in Scent of a Woman (1992), a hyperactive storm-chaser in Twister (1996), a 1970s pornographic film boom operator in Boogie Nights (1997), a smug assistant in The Big Lebowski (1998), a hospice nurse in Magnolia (1999), a music critic in Almost Famous (2000), a phone-sex conman in Punch-Drunk Love(2002), and an immoral preacher in Cold Mountain (2003).

For his portrayal of the author Truman Capote in Capote (2005), Hoffman won multiple acting awards including the Academy Award for Best Actor. His profile continued to grow, and he received three more Oscar nominations for his supporting work playing a brutally frank CIA officer inCharlie 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 Before the Devil Knows You're Dead (2007), The Savages (2007),Synecdoche, New York (2008), and The Ides of March (2011). One of his final roles was Plutarch Heavensbee in the blockbuster series The Hunger Games (from 2013–2015). The feature Jack Goes Boating (2010) marked Hoffman's debut as a filmmaker.

Hoffman was also an accomplished theater actor and director. He joined the off-Broadway LAByrinth Theater Company in 1995, where he directed, produced, and appeared in numerous stage productions. His performances in three Broadway plays – True West (2000), Long Day's Journey into Night (2003), and Death of a Salesman (2012) – all led to Tony Award nominations. Hoffman struggled with drug addiction as a young adult, and relapsed in 2013 after many years of sobriety. In February 2014, he died of combined drug intoxication – an unexpected event that was widely lamented by the film and theater industries.