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Hoffmann and Hofmann are German surnames (meaning man of the yard, court or peasant) which in American English or Eastern European languages are often rendered as Hoffman, Hofman, Hofmann and also Huffman and Gofman.

Hoffman[link]

• Abbie Hoffman (1936–1989), social activist of prominence in the 1960s and 1970s
• Al Hoffman (1902–1960), songwriter
• Alice Hoffman (born 1952), American author
• Andreas Hoffman, German Martial Artist
• Barbara Hoffman (born 1931), All-American Girls Professional Baseball League player
• Bill Hoffman (baseball) (1918–2004), professional baseball player
• Calvin Hoffman (died 1987), American theater press agent and writer
• Charles E. Hoffman (born 1949), Chief Executive Officer
• Carl von Hoffman (1889–1982), adventurer
• Charles Fenno Hoffman (1806–1884), American author and poet
• David Zvi Hoffman (1843–1921), rabbi in Germany
• Doug Hoffman (born 1953), politician, congressional candidate
• Dustin Hoffman (born 1937), actor
• Edward J. Hoffman (1942–2004), professor and co-inventor of the PET scanner
• Elaine Hoffman-Watts, American klezmer drummer
• Glenn Hoffman (born 1958), former shortstop
• Guy Hoffman (born 1954), drummer and vocalist
• H. Lawrence Hoffman, illustrator
• Harold G. Hoffman (1896–1954), American politician and governor of New Jersey
• Jackie Hoffman (born 1960), American actress and stand-up comedian
• Jay Hoffman (rugby league) (born 1958), Australian rugby league footballer
• Jeffrey A. Hoffman (born 1944), astronaut
• Jerzy Hoffman (born 1932), Polish film director and screenwriter
• John Thompson Hoffman (1828–1888), governor of New York state and mayor of New York City
• Josh Hoffman (born 1988), Australian rugby league footballer
• Joshua Hoffman, American philosopher
• Josiah Ogden Hoffman, Sr. (1766–1837), New York State Attorney General 1795–1802
• Julius Hoffman (1895–1983), presiding judge in the Chicago Eight trial
• Lauren Hoffman (born 1977), American singer
• Lyman Hoffman (born 1950), member of the Alaska Senate
• Malvina Hoffman (1887–1966), sculptor
• Mark González Hoffman (born 1984), Chilean footballer
• Mat Hoffman (born 1972), American BMX rider
• Max Hoffman (1904–1981), Austrian-born importer of European automobiles into the United States
• Melchior Hoffman (c. 1490 – 1543), 16th-century German religious leader
• Michael Hoffman (American director) (born 1956), American movie director
• Michael A. Hoffman (1944–1990), American archaeologist
• Michael A. Hoffman II (born 1954), American historical revisionist author
• Nicholas von Hoffman (born 1929), American journalist
• Nina Kiriki Hoffman (born 1955), American fantasy author
• Ogden Hoffman (1794–1856), New York State Attorney General 1854–1855
• Philip Seymour Hoffman (born 1967), actor
• Rachel Hoffman (1984–2008), murder victim in botched drug sting
• Reid Hoffman (born 1967), American entrepreneur
• Richard Hoffman (disambiguation)
• Richard A. Hoffman (born 1971), U.S. congressional candidate
• Robert Hoffman (disambiguation)
• Toni Hoffman, Australian of the Year Local Hero
• Trevor Hoffman (born 1967), Major League Baseball pitcher
• Steve Hoffman (disambiguation)
• Wilhelm Hoffman, German 6th Army soldier during World War II who chronicled the Battle of Stalingrad
• William Hoffman (U.S. Army) (1807–1884), Career officer who was in charge of POWs for the Union in the American Civil War

Hofman[link]

• Adam Hofman (born 1980), Polish politician
• Bobby Hofman (1925–1994), Major League Baseball player
• David Hofman (1908–2003), member of the Universal House of Justice
• Jan Cornelis Hofman (1889–1966), also named Jean Hofman,, Dutch art painter
• René Hofman (born 1961), retired Dutch footballer
• Robin Hofman (born 1986), Dutch footballer
• Solly Hofman (1882–1956), Major League Baseball outfield player
• Wlastimil Hofman (1881–1970), Polish painter

Hofmans[link]

• David Hofmans (born 1943), horse trainer
• Greet Hofmans (1894–1968), faith healer and hand layer

Hoffmann[link]

• Arthur Hoffmann (politician) (1857–1927), Swiss politician and member of the Swiss Federal Council
• August Heinrich Hoffmann von Fallersleben (1798–1874), German poet
• Banesh Hoffmann (1906–1986), physicist and biographer of Einstein
• Bruno Hoffmann (1913–1991), German glass harp player
• E. T. A. Hoffmann (Ernst Theodor Amadeus Hoffmann; 1776–1822), German writer, eponym of The Tales of Hoffmann
• Ernst Hoffmann (conductor) (1899–1956), American symphony conductor
• Falk Hoffmann (born 1952), East German diver
• Felix Hoffmann (1868–1949), German chemist (aspirin)
• Felix Hoffmann (artist) (1911–1975), Swiss graphic designer and artist (de)
• François Benoît Hoffmann (1760–1828), French playwright and critic
• Frank Hoffmann (born 1944), Louisiana state representative
• Frederic de Hoffmann (1924–1989), nuclear physicist
• Friedrich Hoffmann (1660–1742), German physicist and chemist at Halle
• Fritz Hoffmann-La Roche (1868–1920), Swiss founder of chemical company
• Gaby Hoffmann (born 1982), American actress
• Gleisi Hoffmann, Brazilian politician and lawyer
• Heinrich Hoffmann (1885–1957), German photographer
• Heinrich Hoffmann (author) (1809–1894), German author
• Heinz Hoffmann (1910–1985), East German General and Defence Minister
• Ingo Hoffmann (born 1953), Formula One & Two racecar driver
• Jan Hoffmann (born 1955), German figure skater
• Jens Hoffmann (born 1974), writer and curator of exhibitions
• Joachim Hoffmann (1930–2002), German historian
• Johann Joseph Hoffmann (1805–1878), German scholar and Oriental philologist
• John-Baptist Hoffmann (1857–1928), German Jesuit, anthropologist and Munda scholar
• Jörg Hoffmann (swimmer) (born 1970), German swimmer
• Josef Hoffmann (1870–1956), Austrian architect and designer
• Jules A. Hoffmann (born 1941), Luxembourg-born French immunologist and Nobel laureate
• Karel Hoffmann (1872–1936), Czech violinist
• Leonard Hoffmann, Baron Hoffmann (born 1934), British Law Lord
• Max Hoffmann (1869–1927), German officer and military strategist during World War I
• Melanie Hoffmann (born 1974), German footballer
• Ralph Hoffmann (1870–1932), American ornithologist
• Roald Hoffmann (born 1937), Polish-American chemist and Nobel laureate
• Roy Hoffmann, US Navy Rear Admiral
• Zdzisław Hoffmann (born 1959), Polish triple jumper

Hofmann[link]

• Albert Hofmann (1906–2008), Swiss chemist, "father" of LSD
• Andreas Joseph Hofmann (1752–1849), German philosopher and revolutionary
• Armin Hofmann (born 1920), Swiss designer
• August Wilhelm von Hofmann (1818–1892), German chemist
• Fritz Hofmann (chemist) (1866–1956), German chemist
• Fritz Hofmann (athlete) (1871–1927), German athlete
• Gert Hofmann (1931–1993), German writer
• Gunther O. Hofmann (born 1957), a German surgeon, physicist and university teacher
• Hans Hofmann (1880–1966), German-born American painter
• Heinrich Hofmann (1824–1911), German painter
• Henner Hofmann (born 1950), director of photography
• Hofmann von Hofmannsthal
  • Hugo von Hofmannsthal (1874–1929), Austrian novelist, librettist, poet, dramatist, narrator, and essayist
  • Isaak Löw Hofmann, Edler von Hofmannsthal (1759–1849), Austrian merchant
• John Beck Hofmann (born 1969), Hollywood screenwriter and director
• Józef Hofmann (1876–1957), Polish pianist and composer
• Leopold Hofmann (1738–1793), Austrian classical composer
• Ludwig von Hofmann (1861–1945), German artist
• Mark Hofmann (born 1954), U.S. murderer and forger, antagonistic former LDS
• Markus Hofmann (born 1975), German memory trainer, keynote speaker and author
• Michael Hofmann (born 1957), German poet and translator
• Murad Wilfried Hofmann (born 1931), Muslim German diplomat and author
• Otto Hofmann (1896–1982), Nazi official
• Peter Hofmann (1944–2010), German tenor
• William Hofmann, illustrator

Places[link]

In the United States:

• Hoffman, Illinois (village)
• Hoffman Estates, Illinois (village)
• Hoffman, Minnesota (city)
• Hoffman, North Carolina (town)
• Hoffman, Oklahoma (town)
• Hoffman Island, near Staten Island, New York

Animals[link]

• Hoffmann's Two-toed Sloth, a species of sloth from Central and South America
• Hoffmann's Titi
• Hoffmann's Woodpecker, a resident breeding bird from southern Honduras south to Costa Rica
• Hoffmanns's Woodcreeper, a species of bird in the Dendrocolaptinae subfamily
• Hoffmann's Pika, a species of mammal in the Ochotonidae family
• Hoffmann's Rat, a species of rodent in the family Muridae

Artistic works[link]

• Hoffman (film), 1970 comedy film by Alvin Rakoff starring Peter Sellers
• The Tales of Hoffmann, 1881 opera by Jacques Offenbach
• The Tales of Hoffmann (film), 1951 film
• "Lost Keys" (Blame Hofmann), song by Tool
• The Tragedy of Hoffmann, or a Revenge for a Father (played 1602; printed 1631) by Henry Chettle

Other[link]

• Hoffman Television, a manufacturer of television sets in the 1950s and 1960s
• Hoffman (Cleveland automobile)
• Hoffman (Detroit automobile)
• Hoffmann (motorcycle), a former German bicycle and motorcycle manufacturer
• Hoffmann–La Roche, a Swiss pharmaceutical company
• Hoffmann's anodyne, a drug used as a painkiller or hypnotic
• Hoffmann's sign, a reflex in the hand
• Hofmann elimination, a process where an amine is reacted to create a tertiary amine and an alkene
• Hofmann rearrangement, the organic reaction of a primary amide to a primary amine with one fewer carbon atom
• Hofmann voltameter, a piece of chemistry apparatus sometimes used to collect hydrogen and oxygen gas created in the electrolysis of water

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Reid Hoffman
Hoffman in 2011
Born	Reid Garrett Hoffman August 5, 1967 (1967-08-05) (age 44) Stanford, California, USA
Alma mater	Stanford University Oxford University
Occupation	Entrepreneur and investor
Known for	Executive VP of PayPal Founder of LinkedIn
Net worth	US $1.8 billion[1]
Spouse	Michelle Yee[2]
Children	None as of 2011[3]

Reid Garrett Hoffman^[4] (born August 5, 1967) is an American entrepreneur, venture capitalist and author. Hoffman is best known as the co-founder of LinkedIn, a social network used primarily for business connections and job searching.

Early education and career[link]

Hoffman was born in Stanford, California, the son of Deanna Ruth Rutter and William Parker Hoffman, Jr.,^[5][6] and grew up in Berkeley, California. His paternal great-great-great-grandfather was Presbyterian minister and Indiana University president pro tempore Theophilus Adam Wylie.^[6] He attended high school at The Putney School.^[7] He graduated from Stanford University in 1990 (where he won both a Marshall Scholarship and a Dinkelspiel Award) with a B.S. in Symbolic Systems and Cognitive Science.^[8] He went on to earn an M.A. in philosophy from Oxford University in 1993.

Hoffman says he saw academia as an opportunity to make an "impact", but later realized that an entrepreneurial career would provide him with a bigger platform. "When I graduated from Stanford my plan was to become a professor and public intellectual. That is not about quoting Kant. It's about holding up a lens to society and asking 'who are we?' and 'who should we be, as individuals and a society?' But I realised academics write books that 50 or 60 people read and I wanted more impact."^[9]

So Hoffman pursued a career in business and entrepreneurship. After working at Apple Computer and Fujitsu in product management, Hoffman co-founded his first company, SocialNet.com, an online dating service.

PayPal[link]

While at SocialNet, Hoffman was a member of the board of directors at the founding of PayPal, an electronic money transmission service, and later joined the firm as a full-time employee. At the time of PayPal's acquisition by eBay in 2002, he was Executive Vice President of PayPal. He was responsible for all external relationships for PayPal, including Payments Infrastructure (VISA, MasterCard, ACH, WellsFargo), Business Development (eBay, Intuit, others), Government (Regulatory, Judicial), and Legal.

LinkedIn[link]

Hoffman co-founded LinkedIn in December 2002. It was one of the first business-oriented online social networks. He was LinkedIn’s founding CEO for the first four years before becoming Chairman and President, Products in February 2007. Currently he is Executive Chairman. LinkedIn currently has over 135 million members in over 200 countries.^[10] With the IPO of LinkedIn on May 19, 2011, Hoffman owns a stake worth an estimated $2.34 billion dollars, not including any potential benefits from Greylock Partners, where he was named a Partner in 2009.^[11]

Investing[link]

After the PayPal sale to eBay, Hoffman became one of Silicon Valley's most prolific and successful angel investors. According to venture capitalist David Sze, Hoffman "is arguably the most successful angel investor in the past decade."^[12] He made 80 angel investments in technology companies. In 2010 Hoffman joined Greylock Partners and runs their $20 million Discovery Fund.^[13]

Facebook[link]

According to David Kirkpatrick's book The Facebook Effect, Hoffman arranged the first meeting between Mark Zuckerberg and Peter Thiel, which led to Thiel's initial $500,000 angel investment in the company. Hoffman invested alongside Thiel in Facebook's very first financing round.^[14][15]

Zynga[link]

Hoffman personally invested and joined the board of directors in Zynga's first round of funding. Hoffman and Zynga CEO Mark Pincus co-own the Six Degrees Patent.^[16] Zynga is now a publicly traded company with a market capitalization of $8.43 billion as of February 2012. ^[17]

Other investments[link]

His other investments include Wikia, Permuto, SixApart, thesixtyone, Tagged, IronPort, Flickr, Digg, Ping.fm, Nanosolar, Care.com, Knewton, Kongregate, Last.fm, Technetto, OneKingsLane, Wrapp, Edmodo and shopkick.^[18]

Book: The Start-Up of You[link]

Hoffman is co-author, with Ben Casnocha, of a book titled The Start-Up of You: Adapt to the Future, Invest in Yourself, and Transform your Career.

The book was released in the United States on February 14, 2012. It argues that individuals should think of themselves as businesses-of-one - the “CEO of their own career” - and draws many parallels between lessons learned from the stories of successful Silicon Valley technology companies and an individual’s career.^[19]

Philanthropy[link]

He serves on the boards of Do Something (organization for young people taking action), Kiva.org (a micro-finance organization), Mozilla (creator of Firefox), and Endeavor Global an international non-profit development organization that finds and supports high-impact entrepreneurs in emerging markets.

References[link]

External links[link]

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• LinkedIn management page including a brief biography of Hoffman
• Hoffman's resume on LinkedIn
• Podcast and videos of Reid Hoffman, speaking at Stanford University
• The Start-Up of You book website
• WSJ: Venture Capitalist's New Frontier: Where Cellphones Meet Retailing
• Profile of Reid Hoffman on Endeavor's Board of Directors

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'Eva Hoffman (born Ewa Wydra', [Cracow]], Poland) is a writer and academic.

She was born in Poland after her Jewish parents survived the Holocaust by hiding in the Ukraine. In 1959, she emigrated to Vancouver, Canada, with her parents and sister to Vancouver, Canada, where her name was changed to Eva. Upon graduating from high school she received a scholarship and studied English literature at Rice University, Texas, the Yale School of Music, and Harvard University, where she received a Ph.D. in English and American literature in 1975.^[1]

Eva Hoffmann has been a professor of literature and creative writing at various institutions, such as Columbia University, the University of Minnesota, Tufts, and CUNY's Hunter College. From 1979 to 1990, she worked as an editor and writer at The New York Times, serving as senior editor of “The Book Review” from 1987 to 1990.^[2] In 1990, she received the Jean Stein Award from the American Academy of Arts and Letters and in 1992, the Guggenheim Fellowship for General Nonfiction^[3], as well as the Whiting Writers' Award. In 2000, Eva Hoffman was the Year 2000 Una Lecturer at the Townsend Center for the Humanities at the University of California, Berkeley. In 2008, she was awarded an honorary DLitt by the University of Warwick. She has presented radio programmes and is the recipient of the Prix Italia for radio.

She now lives in London.^[4]

Works[link]

• Lost in Translation: Life in a New Language (1989)
• Exit into History: A Journey Through the New Eastern Europe (1993)
• Shtetl: The Life and Death of a Small Town and the World of Polish Jews (1997)
• The Secret (2002)
• After Such Knowledge: Memory, History and the Legacy of the Holocaust (2004)
• Illuminations. A Novel (2008), US: Appassionata (2009)
• Time: Big Ideas, Small Books (2009)

References[link]

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External links[link]

• Conversation with Eva Hoffman
• Hoffman's Tale
• Eva Hoffman, Una’s Lecturer 2000-2001

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Dustin Hoffman
Hoffman at the 2008 Cannes Film Festival
Born	Dustin Lee Hoffman (1937-08-08) August 8, 1937 (age 74) Los Angeles, California, U.S.
Other names	Sam Etic
Occupation	Actor
Years active	1960–present
Spouse	Anne Byrne (1969–80) Lisa Gottsegen (1980–present)
Children	6

Dustin Lee Hoffman^[1] (born August 8, 1937)^[1] is an American actor with a career in film, television, and theatre since 1960. He has been known for his versatile portrayals of antiheroes and vulnerable characters.^[2]

He first drew critical praise for the play Eh?, for which he won a Theatre World Award and a Drama Desk Award. This was soon followed by his breakthrough movie role as the good-looking but troubled Benjamin Braddock in The Graduate (1967). Since then Hoffman's career has largely been focused on cinema, with only sporadic returns to television and the stage. Some of his most notable films are Papillon, Marathon Man, Midnight Cowboy, Little Big Man, Lenny, All the President's Men, Kramer vs. Kramer, Tootsie, Rain Man, Wag the Dog, and Meet the Fockers.

Hoffman has won two Academy Awards (for his performances in Kramer vs. Kramer and Rain Man), five Golden Globes, four BAFTAs, three Drama Desk Awards, a Genie Award, and an Emmy Award. Dustin Hoffman received the AFI Life Achievement Award in 1999.

Early life[link]

Hoffman was born in Los Angeles,^[1] the second son of Lillian (née Gold) and Harry Hoffman. His father worked as a prop supervisor/set decorator at Columbia Pictures before becoming a furniture salesman.^[3][4] Hoffman was named after stage and silent screen actor Dustin Farnum. His older brother, Ronald, is a lawyer and economist. Hoffman is from an Ashkenazi Jewish family of immigrants from Ukraine^[5] and Romania.^[6][7] His upbringing was not religious or observant.^[8][9] He graduated from Los Angeles High School in 1955 and enrolled at Santa Monica College with the intention of studying medicine, leaving after a year to join the Pasadena Playhouse.^[10]

Career[link]

Early work[link]

Hoffman began his acting career at the Pasadena Playhouse, alongside future Academy Award-winner Gene Hackman.^[11] After two years there, Hackman headed for New York City, with Hoffman soon following. Having considerable difficulty getting roles, he took a series of odd jobs, including working as a restaurant coat checker, working in the typing department of the city Yellow Pages directory, and stringing Hawaiian leis.^{[citation needed]} During this time period he got an occasional bit television role, but left acting briefly to teach in order to support himself. Hoffman also occasionally performed television commercials; an oft-replayed segment on programs that explore actors' early work is a clip showing Hoffman touting the Volkswagen Fastback.

In 1960, Hoffman was cast in a role in an Off-Broadway production and followed with a walk-on role in a Broadway production in 1961. Hoffman then studied at the famed Actors Studio and became a dedicated method actor. Sidney W. Pink, a producer and 3D-movie pioneer, discovered him in one of his Off-Broadway roles and cast him in Madigan's Millions. His first critical success was in Eh? by Henry Livings, which had its US premiere off-Broadway at the Circle in the Square Downtown on October 16, 1966.

Through the early and mid-1960s, Hoffman made appearances in television shows and movies, including Naked City, The Defenders and Hallmark Hall of Fame. Hoffman made his theatrical film debut in The Tiger Makes Out in 1967, alongside Eli Wallach.

In 1967, immediately after wrapping up principal filming on The Tiger Makes Out, Hoffman flew from New York City to Fargo, North Dakota, where he directed a production of William Saroyan's The Time of Your Life for the Emma Herbst Community Theatre. The $1,000 he received for the eight-week contract was all he had to hold him over until the funds from the movie materialized.

Major roles[link]

Hoffman talks to extras on the set of Lenny in Fort Lauderdale, Florida (1974)

In 1966, Mike Nichols cast Hoffman in The Graduate, which prevented him from appearing in the acclaimed Mel Brooks film, The Producers, as Franz Liebkind. The film began production in March 1967. Hoffman received an Academy Award nomination for his performance and became a major star. After the success of this film, another Hoffman film, Madigan's Millions, shot before The Graduate, was released on the tail of the actor's newfound success. It was considered a failure at the box office.

In December 1968, Hoffman returned to Broadway to appear in the title role of Murray Schisgal and John Sebastian's musical Jimmy Shine. For his performance in the production Hoffman won a Drama Desk Award for Outstanding Performance. Just a few weeks after leaving the production, Hoffman's next major film, Midnight Cowboy, premiered in theatres across the United States on May 25, 1969. For his role as Ratso Rizzo in the film, Hoffman received his second Oscar nomination and the film won the Best Picture honor. This was followed by his role in Little Big Man (1970) where Jack Crabb, his character, ages from teenager to a 121-year-old man. The film was widely praised by critics, but was overlooked for an award except for a supporting nomination for Chief Dan George.

Hoffman continued to appear in major films over the next few years. Who Is Harry Kellerman and Why Is He Saying Those Terrible Things About Me? (1971), Straw Dogs (also 1971), and Papillon (1973) were followed by Lenny (1974), for which Hoffman received his third nomination for Best Actor in seven years.

Less than two years after the Watergate scandal, Hoffman and Robert Redford starred as Carl Bernstein and Bob Woodward, respectively, in All the President's Men (1976). Hoffman next starred in Marathon Man (also 1976), a film based on William Goldman's novel of the same name, opposite Roy Scheider. Hoffman's next roles were less successful. He opted out of directing Straight Time (1978) but starred as a thief. His next film, Michael Apted's Agatha, was with Vanessa Redgrave as Agatha Christie.

Hoffman next starred in Robert Benton's Kramer vs. Kramer (1979) as workaholic Ted Kramer whose wife (Meryl Streep) unexpectedly leaves him; he raises their son alone. Hoffman gained his first Academy Award, and the film also received the Best Picture honor, plus the awards for Best Supporting Actress (Streep) and Director.

In Tootsie (1982), Hoffman portrays Michael Dorsey, a struggling actor who finds himself dressing up as a woman to land a role on a soap opera. His co-star was Jessica Lange. Tootsie earned ten Academy Award nominations, including Hoffman's fifth nomination.

Hoffman in France, September 1985

In 1984, Hoffman starred as Willy Loman in the Broadway revival of the 1949 Arthur Miller play, Death of a Salesman, ^[12] a role he reprised in a tv movie of the same name, for which he won the 1985 Emmy Award in the category of Outstanding Lead Actor in a TV Movie or Miniseries. He also went on to win a Golden Globe for the same performance.

Hoffman's largest film failure was Elaine May's Ishtar, with Warren Beatty. The film faced severe production problems, received almost completely negative reviews from critics and was nominated for three Razzie awards. However, Hoffman and Beatty liked the film's final cut and tried to defend it.^[13][14] Hoffmann and Beatty were unaffected by the flop, and Ishtar became a cult film. James House, who later became a country music artist, served as Hoffman's vocal coach in the film.^[15]

In director Barry Levinson's Rain Man (1988), Hoffman starred as an autistic savant, opposite Tom Cruise. Levinson, Hoffman and Cruise worked for two years on the film, and his performance gained Hoffman his second Academy Award. Upon accepting, Hoffman stated softly to his fellow nominees that it was okay if they didn't vote for him because "I didn't vote for you guys either."^[16] After Rain Man, Hoffman appeared with Sean Connery and Matthew Broderick in Family Business. The film did relatively poorly with the critics and at the box office. In 1991, Hoffman voiced substitute teacher Mr. Bergstrom in The Simpsons episode "Lisa's Substitute", under the pseudonym Sam Etic. As a reference to this episode, during the episode featuring the Itchy & Scratchy movie, Lisa claims that Dustin Hoffman had a cameo in that movie but didn't use his real name.

Throughout the 1990s, Hoffman appeared in many large, studio films, such as Dick Tracy (1990) (where his Ishtar co-star Beatty plays the titular character), Hero (1992) and Billy Bathgate (1991) co-starring with Nicole Kidman who was nominated for a Golden Globe). Hoffman also played the title role of Captain Hook in Steven Spielberg's Hook (also 1991), earning a Golden Globe nomination; in this movie, Hoffman's costume was so heavy that he had to wear an air-conditioned suit under it. Hoffman played the lead role in Outbreak (1995), alongside Rene Russo, Kevin Spacey, Morgan Freeman, Cuba Gooding Jr. and Donald Sutherland. Following that, he appeared in the 1996 revenge-drama/legal-thriller Sleepers (1996) with Brad Pitt, Jason Patric, and Kevin Bacon.

Hoffman during the filming of Last Chance Harvey in 2008

In the mid-1990s, Hoffman starred in—and was deeply involved in the production of—David Mamet's American Buffalo (also 1996), one of the very few "pure art projects"^{[citation needed]} he is known for, and an early effort of film editor Kate Sanford. In 1997, Hoffman starred opposite John Travolta in the Costa Gavras film Mad City and gained his seventh Academy Award nomination for his performance in Wag The Dog, in a role that allowed Hoffman the chance to work with both Robert De Niro and Denis Leary. He next appeared in Barry Levinson's adaptation of Sphere (1998), opposite Sharon Stone, Samuel L. Jackson, Peter Coyote, Queen Latifah and Liev Schreiber. Hoffman next appeared in Moonlight Mile (2002), followed by Confidence (2003) opposite Edward Burns, Andy García and Rachel Weisz. Hoffman finally had a chance to work with Gene Hackman, in Gary Fleder's Runaway Jury (also 2003), an adaptation of John Grisham's bestselling novel.

Hoffman played theater owner Charles Frohman in the J. M. Barrie historical fantasia Finding Neverland (2004), costarring Johnny Depp and Kate Winslet. In director David O. Russell's I Heart Huckabees (also 2004), Hoffman appeared opposite Lily Tomlin as an existential detective team.

Seven years after his nomination for Wag the Dog, Hoffman got a second opportunity to perform again with Robert De Niro, co-starring with Barbra Streisand and Ben Stiller in the 2004 comedy Meet the Fockers, a sequel to Meet the Parents (2000). Hoffman won the 2005 MTV Movie Award for Best Comedic Performance. In 2005, he voiced a horse in Racing Stripes, and appeared in cameo roles in Andy García's The Lost City and on the final episode of HBO sitcom Curb Your Enthusiasm's fifth season. Hoffman appeared in Stranger than Fiction (2006), played the perfumer Giuseppe Baldini in Tom Tykwer's film Perfume: The Story of a Murderer (also 2006) and had a cameo in the same year's The Holiday.

In 2007, he was featured in an advertising campaign for Australian telecommunications company Telstra's Next G network,^[17] appeared in the 50 Cent video "Follow My Lead" as a psychiatrist, and played the title character in the family film Mr. Magorium's Wonder Emporium. In 2008, although he was reluctant to perform in an animated film, Hoffman had a prominent role as Shifu in the acclaimed film Kung Fu Panda, which was praised in part for his comedic chemistry with Jack Black and his character's poignantly complex relationship with the story's villain. He later won the Annie Award for Voice Acting in an Animated Feature for Kung Fu Panda and has continued into the role in the franchise's subsequent filmed productions outside of the franchise's television series. He next voiced Roscuro in The Tale of Despereaux and played the title character in Last Chance Harvey.

He appeared in Little Fockers, the critically panned yet hugely commercially successful, 2010 sequel to Meet the Fockers.^[18] In 2011, Hoffman reprised his role as Shifu in the commercially and critically successful animated film Kung Fu Panda 2.

Hoffman starred in the HBO horse-racing drama Luck, as a man involved in activities such as bookmaking and casino operations. Luck was cancelled in March of 2012 after three horses died on set.^[19] He will also direct Quartet, a BBC Films comedy starring Maggie Smith and Tom Courtenay.^[20]

Personal life[link]

With Gottsegen (left), and Jake Hoffman (right), at Los Angeles Fashion Week (2007)

Hoffman married Anne Byrne in May 1969.^[21] The couple had two children, Karina (b. 1966) and Jenna (born October 15, 1970). Hoffman adopted Karina (Byrne's child from a previous marriage.) The couple divorced in 1980. He married attorney Lisa Hoffman (née Gottsegen) in October 1980; they have four children – Jacob Edward (born March 20, 1981), Rebecca Lillian (b. March 17, 1983), Maxwell Geoffrey (born August 30, 1984), and Alexandra Lydia (born October 27, 1987). Hoffman also has two grandchildren. In an interview, he said that all of his children from his second marriage had bar or bat mitzvahs and that he is a more observant Jew now than when he was younger; he also lamented that he is not fluent in Hebrew.^[22] In 1970, Hoffman and Byrne were living in Greenwich Village in a building next door to the townhouse destroyed by members of the Weathermen when they detonated a bomb in the building's basement, killing three people. In the 2002 documentary The Weather Underground, Hoffman can be seen standing in the street during the aftermath of the explosion.^[23]

A political liberal, Hoffman has long supported the Democratic Party and Ralph Nader.^[24] In 1997, he was one of a number of Hollywood stars and executives to sign an open letter to then-German Chancellor Helmut Kohl protesting the treatment of Scientologists in Germany, which was published as a newspaper advertisement in the International Herald Tribune.^[25]

There were many rumors and discussions in July 2010 about Hoffman canceling his appearance at the Jerusalem Film Festival as a reaction to the Gaza flotilla raid. However, his representatives told The New York Times there was “no truth” to this report.^[26]

In 2009, he received the freedom of the Italian city Ascoli Piceno for being there during 1972 to shoot the movie Alfredo, Alfredo by Pietro Germi, where he played the role of Alfredo Sbisà.

He is testimonial on 2011 for Regione Marche in Italy, but he was really criticized also for a bad interpretation of Giacomo Leopardi's poetry "Infinito". ^[27]

Filmography and awards[link]

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• Dustin Hoffman at the Internet Movie Database
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• Dustin Hoffman at the Internet Broadway Database
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• Dustin Hoffman video interview at stv.tv, December 2007