Philip Seymour Hoffman

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Philip Seymour Hoffman (born July 23, 1967 in Fairport , Monroe County, New York , † February 2, 2014 in New York City ) was an American theater and film actor . Hoffman was considered one of the best character actors of his generation. As the leading actor in the film biography Capote , he was awarded an Oscar in 2006.

Life

Philip Seymour Hoffman was born in Fairport, a suburb of Rochester , in 1967 . He was the third of four children of German-born Xerox employee Gordon S. Hoffman and his wife Marilyn L. O'Connor. When Hoffman was nine years old, his parents divorced. The children grew up with their mother.

In high school, Hoffman stood out for excellence in wrestling and baseball before turning to acting after an injury. In the school theater production of Arthur Miller's Death of a Salesman , he played the lead role of the over 60-year-old Willy Loman and impressed audiences and theater experts with his performance. From 1984 he attended the theater school of the New York State Summer School of the Arts and after graduating from high school the summer program of the Circle in the Square Theater School .

In 1992 Hoffman played his first film role in the Polish independent film Szuler and appeared in the same year alongside Al Pacino in the multi-award-winning Hollywood film The Scent of Women . His career was built on a number of impressive supporting roles in independent films . He appeared in all of Paul Thomas Anderson's films with the exception of There Will Be Blood . He appeared regularly in Hollywood films such as B. Getaway , Twister and Patch Adams . In 2003 he took on his first leading role in Owning Mahowny .

Philip S. Hoffman in Cannes , 2002

In 2005 Hoffman played the film role of his life: Truman Capote in Bennett Miller's drama Capote . His portrayal was consistently praised by the critics and was awarded the Oscar for best leading actor . Also in 2005, he made his first action film Mission: Impossible III .

In 2010, Hoffman made his debut as a film director with the romantic comedy Jack Goes Boating . He also played one of the main roles in the story of two couples from New York. Three years later he was in the science fiction film The Hunger Games - Catching Fire in the role of Plutarch Heavensbee. In 1999 Hoffman met costume designer Mimi O'Donnell while directing his play In Arabia We'd All Be Kings . The relationship has a son (* March 2003) and two daughters. Hoffman and O'Donnell had lived separately since the fall of 2013, but O'Donnell said he stayed with him.

From March to June 2012, Hoffman appeared again on Broadway in Miller's play Death of a Salesman . In 2013 the shooting of The Hunger Games - Mockingjay Part 1 (2014) and Part 2 (2015) began, in which Hoffman again played Plutarch Heavensbee. As a result of his sudden death shortly before the end of the shooting, the script of the last part of the tetralogy was changed so that Woody Harrelson in the role of Haymitch Abernathy spoke a text originally intended for Hoffman.

Hoffman was a drug addict as a young man until he was withdrawn in 1989. At the beginning of 2013, after years of abstinence, he suffered a severe relapse, which is why he sought treatment. On February 2, 2014, he was found dead in his New York apartment. The autopsy found a mixture of heroin , cocaine , amphetamine and benzodiazepines to be the cause of death . The prosecutor's office assumes an accidental overdose.

From 2013 until his death, the actor lived at 35 Bethune Street in the West Village .

Awards

Hoffman has acted in 53 films. He has won numerous film awards for his work, the most prestigious of which were the Golden Globe for best actor in a drama and the Oscar for best actor , both in 2006 for Capote . In 2004 and 2006 he received the Chlotrudis Award for Best Actor for Owning Mahowny and Capote .

He received other Oscar nominations in 2008 for his supporting role in Mike Nichols ' Charlie Wilson's War and in 2009 for the drama Faith . For his Broadway appearances, Hoffman was nominated for a Tony Award in 2000. In 2013 he was nominated again for an Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor for his role in The Master .

Filmography (selection)

As an actor

From 1999 onwards, Hoffmann's regular speaker was Oliver Stritzel .

As a director

documentary

  • Too young to die: Philip Seymour Hoffman - Quite an actor. Documentary, Germany, 2015, 51 min., Written and directed: Matthias Schmidt, production: broadcast.tv, arte , ZDF , first broadcast: December 5, 2015 on arte.

Web links

Commons : Philip Seymour Hoffman  - Collection of Images, Videos and Audio Files

Press article

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ dpa , nsc: Philip Seymour Hofman is dead. In: Time online . February 2, 2014, accessed February 2, 2014 .
  2. ^ A b Bruce Weber: Philip Seymour Hoffman, Actor of Depth, Dies at 46. In: The New York Times . 2nd February 2014.
  3. ↑ Verena Lueken : The man from the background. In: FAZ . February 4, 2014, p. 25, beginning of article.
  4. ^ A b Gregor Wossilus: On the death of Phillip Seymour Hoffman - one of the best of his generation. ( Memento from April 11, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) In: Bayerisches Fernsehen . 3rd February 2014.
  5. ↑ a b c d e mf: Philip Seymour Hoffman . at Munzinger-Archiv , accessed on December 8, 2015.
  6. ^ Matthias Schmidt: Too young to die: Philip Seymour Hoffman - Absolutely an actor. ( Memento of the original from December 10, 2015 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.arte.tv archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. In: arte . 5th December 2015.
  7. ↑ Courtney Idasetima: The Cast of 'Scent of a Woman,' Then and Now. In: The Hollywood Reporter . 23 December 2017
  8. ↑ Philip Seymor Hofmann is the new game master in Catching Fire. In: MovieJones. Retrieved July 10, 2012.
  9. ↑ Jenn Selby: Philip Seymour Hoffman dead: Last months of actor's life paint a private struggle to cope with the breakdown of his personal life. In: The Independent . February 23, 2014.
  10. ^ Adam Green: Mimi O'Donnell Reflects on the Loss of Philip Seymour Hoffman and the Devastation of Addiction. In: Vogue. December 13, 2017, accessed October 14, 2019 .
  11. ↑ Ben Brantley: Review "Death of a Salesman" In: New York Times. March 15, 2012.
  12. ^ Mark Daniell: How Philip Seymour Hoffman's death changed 'Mockingjay - Part 2'. In: Toronto Sun . November 18, 2015, accessed December 2, 2015 .
  13. ↑ Sven von Reden: US actor and director Philip Seymour Hoffman has died. In: The Standard . 2nd February 2014.
  14. ↑ Larry Celona, ​​Bruce Golding, Mara Siegler, Emily Smith: OD eyed in Philip Seymour Hoffman death. In: New York Post . 2nd February 2014.
  15. ↑ hpi / dpa / AFP : Autopsy : Seymour Hoffman died of a mix of drugs and medication. In: Spiegel Online . March 1, 2014, accessed March 1, 2014 .
  16. ^ Zachary Kussin, Rent the Manhattan home where Philip Seymour Hoffman lived - and died , in: New York Post , July 22, 2016
  17. ^ Philip Seymour Hoffman in the German dubbing index .
  18. ↑ Table of contents ( Memento of the original from December 10, 2015 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. from arte @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.arte.tv
personal data
SURNAME Hoffman, Philip Seymour
BRIEF DESCRIPTION US-American actor
DATE OF BIRTH July 23, 1967
PLACE OF BIRTH Fairport , New York
DATE OF DEATH 2nd February 2014
Place of death New York City