Dustin Lee Hoffman is a actor with a career in film, television, and theatre since
1960. Hoffman began his acting career in the Pasadena Playhouse. He got the
favorable attention of critics for the 1966 Off-Broadway play Eh? for which he
won a Theater World Award and a Drama Desk Award. Hoffman’s first film break
role was The Graduate in 1967. Other movies that followed included Midnight
Cowboy (1969), All The Presidents Men and Marathon Man both in 1976. He 
has won two Academy Awards, one for his role in Kramer vs. Kramer (1979), 
and the other for his performance in Rain Man (1988). He is also received 
five Golden Globes, three BAFTAs, three Drama Desk Awards’, a Genie 
Award and an Emmy Award. Dustin Hoffman also received the AFI Life
Achievement Award in 1999.

Dustin Hoffman with Anne Bancroft in a scene from The Graduate

Hoffman with costar Tom Cruse

Dustin Hoffman in Tootsie (1982)