Dustin Hoffmann

Dustin Hoffman made the ugly, but attractive, fashionable, on and off the screen, and one has the feeling that no woman would have noticed him, if it were not for the protagonist of so many movies (another who also has Much credit goes to Woody Allen ). The spectators left the cinema saying “he is not handsome, but he has something”, which is the most that some of us can aspire to in the universe of flirting. In the 70s, with the heyday of anti-heroes, even the big Gary Cooper – type men were outdated , and more remained, they turned out to be average, with some intellectual background. What the history of cinema has made clear is that without The Graduate, we would never have seen actors like Robert Duvall in leading roles ,Harvey Keitel or Gene Hackman .

Born in Los Angeles, on August 8, 1937, it can be said that the interpreter has cinema in his blood, since his father was a set decorator, although he intended to dedicate himself to production. They named him Dustin, in memory of Dustin Farnum , star of silent westerns. He studied at the conservatory in his hometown, but soon moved to New York to study with one of the most prestigious acting teachers, Lee Strasberg . He debuted on Broadway in 1964, with “Waiting for Godot”, by Samuel Beckett . Although he plays many roles on stage, and does not go unnoticed on television, it was his first film role that established him: the young man who begins life when he is seduced by the wife of his father’s boss. , inThe graduate (1967), which incidentally contributed the famous song Mrs. Robinson, by Simon and Garfunkel.

Although movie stardom was a zone reserved for handsome men, Dustin Hoffman managed to take a lot of ground from them from that moment on. Despite his short stature, he landed major roles, which he pulled off with brilliance and versatility. They include the survivor of Midnight Cowboy (1969), the cowboy in Little Big Man (1970), the outraged husband in Straw Dogs (1971), the prisoner of Papillon (1973), the comic transgressor Lenny (1974), the journalist from All the President’s Men (1976), and the jilted publicist who has to take care of his little one in Kramer vs. Kramer, which brought him his first Oscar. Around the same time, the same thing happened to him as to his character, and he divorced his first wife, Anne Byrne, with whom he had two daughters. In 1980 he contracted his second marriage to Lisa Gottsegen, with whom he has had four more children. Meanwhile, he was pushing his ability to morph as the actor forced by circumstance to cross-dress in Tootsie , and the autistic one in Rain Man , which earned him his second Oscar. He has turned 65, which calls into question whether that should necessarily be the age established for retirement, since he is in top shape. The one who was Captain Hook, now intervenes in the biography of his creator, James Barrie, entitled Discovering Neverland .