Philip Seymour Hoffman, who was born on 23rd of July in 1967, and died on 2nd of February in 2014 also known as Phil Hoffman or Philip S Hoffman was a brilliant American actor and also a director, who estimated net worth of $35 million. Hoffman established himself as strongest actors of his generation, but not just of the stage but also film actors, and he was right. He became known to a movie industry through first major role in Scent of a Woman in 1992, where he played the character of George Willis, he was playing together with Chirs O`Donnell.
Philip Seymour Hoffman Net Worth $35 Million
And a very reputable career in theatre, as director he became known with some plays as, Jesus Hopped the `A` Train in 2001 and Our Lady of 121st Street in 2003, for which Philip received a Drama Desk Award nomination for Outstanding Director for a Play.
Phil Hoffman was born in New York in working class family. In his family Phil has mixture of German and Irish Catholic backgrounds. While being young boy of nine years old, Philip had to overcome some bitter moments, the divorce of his parents. Phil has two sisters and one brother, and all of them work in the movie industry. Philip grew up in Fairport, in New York, started to study acting at Summer School based on Arts and later continued studying arts at Tisch School. His first debut in TV screen was in 1991, while playing a respondent in one episode of serial Law & Oder, and later, he started to appear more in films.
American actor and director was known for his workaholic way and that most of his time had to be divided between New York and Hollywood. No doubts, why Philip could own net worth of $35 million. When in a year of 1991 Hoffman started his acting career, he started to appear in films as Boogie Nights in 1997, he played a loyal handyman in The Big Lebowski in 1997, Magnolia in 1999, and in The Talented Mr. Ripley in 1999, a screenwriter in State and Main in 2000, Almost Famous in 2000, 25 th Hour in 2002 and a phone-sex cheater in Punch-Drunk Love in 2002, Cold Mountan in 2003, a hopeless child Along Came Polly in 2004. In 2005 he proudly approved that he deserves an Oscar, with winning as a famous writer Truman Capote in movie Capote, directed by Bennett Miller. Hoffman was very flexible and hardworking person, what helped him to become a strong and good actor, he liked to try himself in different roles in blockbusters like Mission: Impossible III in 2006, a challenged college professor in The Savages in 2007, in the same year, he received three more nominations of Academy Award for his great job in Charlie Wilson`s War, for the work Doubt in 2008 and for The Master in 2012 as well. The challenging roles in films Hoffman seems was making very easily, as it would super comfortable for an actor, and of course it always helps to all working team, one of these challenges appears in movie Before The Devil Knows You`re Dead in 2007, also Synecdoche, New York in 2008, and of course his standout support for movie Moneyball and also The Ides of March in 2011.
While earning big salary and a fame as a unique actor, Phil, as director, made successful career as well, in 1995 he became a member of the Theatre Company LAByrinth. In idea of Hoffman, that being as director helps him to be a better actor, and being as an actor, it helps him to be a better director. Phil received nominations of Tony Award for his Broadway performances, even two nominations for the Best Leading Actor and one more as Best Featured Actor. In all this entire hard working years Philip S. Hoffman managed to reach net worth of $35 million and to have a luxurious life, what maybe he didn`t have while being a child. Many acted movies and directed plays shows how rich was Philip Hoffman!
Even Phil Hoffman was very busy person, but all his free time he was spending with his life partner and children. It is not a secret that Hoffman had problems with drug and alcohol addiction. Unfortunately in February of 2014, Hoffman died of accidental overdose of combined drug, nevertheless The New York Times declared Philip as probably the most ambitious American actor.
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