Philip Seymour Hoffman

The actor Philip Seymour Hoffman

Actor Philip Seymour Hoffman was born in Fairport, NY on July 23, 1967. Local news channels make much of this fact.

He is widely known as being the best character actor of his generation. After only a handful of minor screen appearances, his break through feature film performance was in Scent of a Woman in 1992. As of summer 2005 he has two Tony Award nominations for his work on the stage.

Hoffman won the Academy Award for Best Actor for Capote and was nominated for the Best Supporting Actor Oscar for Charlie Wilson's War. Kickass.

Hoffman is the son of Marilyn L. O'Connor¹, a former Monroe County Family Court Judge; he was in the Rochester area to help her (unsuccessful) reelection campaign.

Mr. Hoffman's Partial Filmography:

• Jack Goes Boating (2010)
  

• The Invention of Lying (2009)
  

• The Boat That Rocked (2009)
  

• Doubt (2008)
  

• Charlie Wilson's War (December 2007)
  

• The Savages (November 2007)
  

• Before the Devil Knows You're Dead (September 2007)
  

• Mission Impossible III (May 2006)
  

• Capote (September 2005)
  

• Along Came Polly (January 2004)
  

• Cold Mountain (December 2003)
  

• Owning Mahowny (January 2003)
  

• 25th Hour (December 2002)
  

• Love Liza (January 2002) (written by Philip's brother Gordy)
  

• Punch-Drunk Love (May 2002)
  

• Red Dragon (September 2002)
  

• Almost Famous (September 2000)
  

• State and Main (August 2000)
  

• Flawless (November 1999)
  

• Magnolia (December 1999)
  

• The Talented Mr. Ripley (December 1999)
  

• Happiness (May 1998)
  

• Montana (January 1998)
  

• Next Stop Wonderland (January 1998)
  

• Patch Adams (October 1998)
  

• The Big Lebowski (Febuary 1998)
  

• Boogie Nights (October 1997)
  

• Hard Eight (January 1996)
  

• Twister (May 1996)
  

• Nobody's Fool (December 1994)
  

• The Getaway (Febuary 1994)
  

• When a Man Loves a Woman (April 1994)
  

• Money for Nothing (September 1993)
  

• My Boyfriend's Back (August 1993)
  

• Scent of a Woman (December 1992)
  

• Leap of Faith (December 1992)
  

• My New Gun (September 1992)

See Philip's IMDB entry and Wikipedia Article for complete information and 2008/2009 awaiting release titles.

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2005-11-21 15:21:39   cool , I thought he was born in toronto... great in Big Lebowski and amazing in Owning Mahowny —RossHattori

2005-11-22 02:37:42   He'll always be Scotty from Boogie Nights to me —JohnGormly

2006-03-06 10:25:52   Does he publically and, most importantly, proudly say he's from Rochester/Fairport? —RichardSarkis

2006-09-07 23:22:43   Whoa, he's that guy that insists on playing Judas and Jesus in Along Came Polly?! Color me surprised. —CatherineConnolly

2008-04-11 19:17:41   It took me a while to even realize it was him in Charlie Wilson's war. I'm used to him being in comedic roles —RocWikiUser

2008-05-30 13:43:52   He refers to his origins as a "small town in Western New York" —JoyceBritton