Movie Credits
Charlie Wilson's War	(2008)
[ Tom Hanks ][ Aaron Sorkin ]
Synecdoche	(2007)
[ Spike Jonze ]
Before the Devil Knows You're Dead	(2007)
[ Albert Finney ][ Ethan Hawke ][ Sidney Lumet ]
The Savages	(2007)
Mission: Impossible III	(2006)
[ Billy Crudup ][ Tom Cruise ][ Jonathan Rhys Meyers ][ Laurence Fishburne ][ Ving Rhames ]
Capote	(2005)
[ Chris Cooper ][ Clifton Collins Jr. ][ Bruce Greenwood ][ Bob Balaban ]
Empire Falls	(2005)
[ William Fichtner ][ Ed Harris ][ Paul Newman ][ Aidan Quinn ][ Josh Lucas ]
Strangers with Candy	(2005)
[ Matthew Broderick ][ Dan Hedaya ][ Ian Holm ][ Justin Theroux ][ Stephen Colbert ]
Along Came Polly	(2004)
[ Alec Baldwin ][ Bryan Brown ][ Bob Marley ][ Bruce Nozick ][ Ben Stiller ]
Cold Mountain	(2003)
[ Charlie Hunnam ][ Jude Law ][ Giovanni Ribisi ][ Donald Sutherland ][ Cillian Murphy ]
Mattress Man Commercial	(2003)
Owning Mahowny	(2003)
[ John Hurt ]
Love Liza	(2002)
[ Stephen Tobolowsky ]
25th Hour	(2002)
[ Brian Cox ][ Edward Norton ][ Rosario Dawson ][ Spike Lee ][ Barry Pepper ]
Red Dragon	(2002)
[ Ralph Fiennes ][ Anthony Hopkins ][ Harvey Keitel ][ Frank Langella ][ Edward Norton ]
Punch-Drunk Love	(2002)
[ Adam Sandler ]
Almost Famous	(2000)
[ Eion Bailey ][ David Bowie ][ Billy Crudup ][ Elton John ][ Iggy Pop ]
State and Main	(2000)
[ Alec Baldwin ][ Clark Gregg ][ William H Macy ][ William H. Macy ][ Charles Durning ]
The Talented Mr. Ripley	(1999)
[ Matt Damon ][ Jack Davenport ][ Jude Law ][ Bing Crosby ][ Sydney Pollack ]
Magnolia	(1999)
[ Tom Cruise ][ Clark Gregg ][ Thomas Jane ][ William H Macy ][ John C. Reilly ]
Flawless	(1999)
[ Christian Boeving ][ Robert De Niro ][ Rory Cochrane ][ Jude Ciccolella ][ Wilson Jermaine Heredia ]
Patch Adams	(1998)
[ Peter Coyote ][ Rod Stewart ][ Robin Williams ][ Alan Tudyk ][ Ryan Hurst ]
Happiness	(1998)
[ Ben Gazzara ][ Jon Lovitz ][ Jared Harris ][ Dylan Baker ][ Todd Solondz ]
The Big Lebowski	(1998)
[ Jeff Bridges ][ Steve Buscemi ][ Ben Gazzara ][ Mick Jagger ][ David Thewlis ]
Next Stop Wonderland	(1998)
[ Jason Lewis ][ Roger Rees ]
Montana	(1998)
[ Ethan Embry ][ John Ritter ][ Robbie Coltrane ][ Liam Aiken ][ Stanley Tucci ]
Culture	(1998)
[ Greg Germann ]
Boogie Nights	(1997)
[ Thomas Jane ][ Jamie Kennedy ][ William H Macy ][ Burt Reynolds ][ Mark Wahlberg ]
Twister	(1996)
[ Jake Busey ][ Jeremy Davies ][ Cary Elwes ][ Anthony Kiedis ][ Bill Paxton ]
Sydney	(1996)
[ Samuel L. Jackson ][ John C. Reilly ][ Philip Baker Hall ]
The Fifteen Minute Hamlet	(1995)
[ Xander Berkeley ][ Todd Louiso ][ Austin Pendleton ]
Nobody's Fool	(1994)
[ Paul Newman ][ Dylan Walsh ][ Bruce Willis ][ Leslie Howard ]
When a Man Loves a Woman	(1994)
[ James Jude Courtney ][ Andy Garcia ]
The Yearling	(1994)
[ Peter Strauss ]
The Getaway	(1994)
[ Alec Baldwin ][ Michael Madsen ][ James Woods ][ David Morse ][ William Moseley ]
Money for Nothing	(1993)
[ Christien Anholt ][ James Gandolfini ][ Michael Madsen ][ John Cusack ][ Benicio Del Toro ]
My Boyfriend's Back	(1993)
[ Matthew Fox ][ Matthew McConaughey ][ Edward Herrmann ][ Matthew Davis ][ Austin Pendleton ]
Joey Breaker	(1993)
[ Michael Imperioli ][ Lewis Black ][ Bill Bellamy ]
Scent of a Woman	(1992)
[ Chris O'Donnell ][ Al Pacino ][ Ron Eldard ][ Bradley Whitford ][ Todd Louiso ]
Leap of Faith	(1992)
[ Liam Neeson ][ Steve Martin ][ Lukas Haas ][ M.C. Gainey ]
My New Gun	(1992)
[ Stephen Collins ][ James LeGros ][ Frank John Hughes ]
Szuler	(1992)
Triple Bogey on a Par Five Hole	(1991)
[ Robbie Coltrane ]

Film and stage actor and theater director Philip Seymour Hoffman was born in the Rochester, New York, suburb of Fairport on July 23, 1967. After becoming involved in high school theatrics, he attended New York University's Tisch School of the Arts, graduating with a B.F.A. degree in Drama in 1989. 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). While he had supporting roles in some other major productions, his breakthrough role came in Paul Thomas Anderson's Boogie Nights (1997). 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. Ripley (1999), Paul Thomas Anderson's Magnolia (1999), Almost Famous (2000) and State and Main (2000). He also appeared in supporting roles in such mainstream, big-budget features as Red Dragon (2002), Cold Mountain (2003) and the upcoming Mission: Impossible III (2006).Hoffman is also quite active on the stage. 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". 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 F*@%ing" and "The Author's Voice" (Drama Desk nomination). 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. He also has directed "In Arabia, We'd All Be Kings" and "Jesus Hopped the A Train" by Guirgis for LAByrinth, and "The Glory of Living" by Rebecca Gilman at the Manhattan Class Company.Hoffman consolidated his reputation as one of the finest actors under the age of 40 with his turn in the title role of Capote (2005), for which he won the Los Angeles Film Critics Award as Best Actor. In 2006, he was awarded the Best Actor Oscar for the same role.