A sometime actor who has built a career working in both Britain and the USA as a director, Michael Hoffman began his career as an undergraduate in student production at Boise University and in semi-professional stage productions in Idaho. In 1979, he attended Oxford University as a Rhodes scholar and eventually switched from stage work to film. In 1982, he wrote and directed "Privileged", a student feature about the woes of upper-class youth which included among its leading players fellow student Hugh Grant. With Rick Stevenson and others, he formed the Oxford Film company which oversaw a