Dustin Hoffman emerged as a key figure in the “Hollywood Renaissance” of the 1960s and 1970s, personifying a new generation of antiheroes in “The Graduate” (1967), “Midnight Cowboy” (1969), and “All The President’s Men” (1974). The Strasberg-trained actor was known for unrelenting dedication to his craft in some of the big screen’s most demanding roles, earning an Oscar nomination for playing an actor in drag who unwittingly becomes a female role model in “Tootsie” (1982), and for his portrayal of an autistic savant in “Rain Man” (1988), which finally won him a long overdue statue. As the
Worked as an attendant in a psychiatric hospital, as a waiter, a dishwasher, a typist, a Times Square headline crier during a newspaper strike and as a toy salesman at Macy's
1960
Stage debut, "Yes Is For a Very Young Man" at Sarah Lawrence College
1961
Broadway stage debut, "A Cook For Mr. General"
1961
TV acting debut, "Sweet Prince of Delancey Street" episode of "Naked City"
1964
Joined the Theatre Company of Boston and appeared in "Endgame", "The Quare Fellow", "In the Jungle of Cities" and other plays
