This block contains the information about Philip Seymour Hoffman and provides an insight into the life of the celebrity. From here you can also learn when, how and why the profession of an actor was chosen. Some interesting facts are waiting for you here.

Philip Seymour Hoffman was born in July 1967 in Rochester. He graduated the school in Fairport. And during summer time he was studying in different teenage summer camps of art which were subject to the New York Academy of Arts. In 1989 he graduated New York’s Academy of Art. Since 1989 he was an actor of a few theater groups, and since nineties on the Broadway stage, while producing a few plays. He was nominated for the “Tony” award in 2000. And since 2001, he started directing the artistic theater “Labyrinth” in New York. He debuts with the movie “The Thief” in 1991, and also he debuts the same year in a TV show called “Law and Justice”. Since 1992-till 2003 he is actively performing in the minor roles. The actor performed in five different movies by the producer Paul Thomas Anderson, between them we may distinguish: “The Eight’, “Night in the Buggy Style”, “Magnolia”. And in 2003 he performed his first main role in the movie “Obsession”. He becomes famous after performing the role of Freddy Miles in the movie by Anthony Minnelli “The Talented Mister Ripley”. For his works on the television he got an “Emmy” award, was nominated for Oscar a few times, and also was nominated for the Golden Globe award.

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Here you can learn about the movies Philip Seymour Hoffman acted in. You can see the names of the movies, their budget, years of release and the money gained from the screening of the certain movie. It is always interesting to know.

Movies & Videos	Budget	Year	Opening weekend	US box Office
Mission: Impossible III - Owen Davian	$150M	2006	$47.7M	$133M
Red Dragon - Freddy Lounds	$90M	2002	$36.5M	$92.9M
Cold Mountain - Reverend Veasey	$83M	2003	$14.6M	$95.6M
Charlie Wilson's War - Gust Avrakotos	$75M	2007	$16M	$66.6M
Twister - Dustin Davis	$70M	1996	$1.07M	$242M
Almost Famous - Lester Bangs	$60M	2000	$2.31M	$32.5M
Patch Adams - Mitch	$50M	1998	$25.3M	$135M
Along Came Polly - Sandy Lyle	$42M	2004	$32.5M	$87.9M
The Talented Mr. Ripley - Freddie Miles	$40M	1999	$12.7M	$81.3M
Magnolia - Phil Parma	$37M	1999	$194K	$22.5M
Punch-Drunk Love - Dean Trumbell	$25M	2002	$367K	$17.8M
Synecdoche, New York - Caden Cotard	$21M	2008	$172K	$3.08M
Doubt - Father Brendan Flynn	$20M	2008	$507K	$33.4M
The Invention of Lying - Jim the Bartender	$18.5M	2009	$7.03M	$18.4M
Before the Devil Knows You're Dead - Andy Hanson	$18M	2007	$73.8K	$7.08M
Boogie Nights - Scotty J.	$15M	1997	$50.2K	$26.4M
The Big Lebowski - Brandt	$15M	1998	$5.53M	$17.4M
Flawless - Rusty	$15M	1999	$1.59M	$4.49M
25th Hour - Jacob Elinsky	$15M	2002	$109K	$13.1M
Money for Nothing - Cochran (as Philip S. Hoffman)	$11M	1993		$1.04M