Philip Seymour Hoffman was an American film, stage actor and theater director.
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Philip Hoffman was born on July 23, 1967, in Rochester, Fairport, New York.
He was the son of Marilyn (Loucks), a lawyer and judge, and Gordon Stowell Hoffman, a Xerox employee.
Hoffman graduated from New York University’s Tisch School of the Arts, 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 following year in My New Gun (1992).
Hoffman also starred in several films including Scent of a Woman (1992), Twister (1996), The Talented Mr. Ripley (1999), Almost Famous (2000), Punch-Drunk Love (2002), Along Came Polly (2004), Synecdoche, New York (2008), Hunger Games series (2013–15), and many more.
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Philip Hoffman was one of 14 actors to have won the Academy Award, BAFTA Award, Critics’ Choice Award, Golden Globe Award and SAG Award.
In May 2013, Hoffman revealed that he checked into a substance abuse treatment center as a result of snorting heroin.
Philip Hoffman died of acute mixed drug intoxication on February 2, 2014, in West Village, New York, United States.
Hoffman had an estimated net worth of $35 million at the time of his death.
At the time of his death, Hoffman had nearly completed all of his work in “Mockingjay — Part 1,” released in November 2014, but one key scene toward the end of the final between his character and Jennifer Lawrence’s Katniss Everdeen remained to be filmed.
Hoffman’s funeral was held in the Church of St Ignatius Loyola in New York.


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