In Memory of Philip Seymour Hoffman (1967-2014)

Phillip Seymour Hoffman (1967-2014)

I have never seen any of Philip's movies. It is with sorrow that the Oscar-winning actor Philip Seymour Hoffman was reportedly found dead of a drug overdose in his office apartment in West Village. He was 46 years old on February 2nd, 2014. Philip began acting as a student at Fairport High School. At the age of 17, he got selected to be in attendance at the 84 Theater School at the New York State Summer School of the Arts. In the same place, he met the two people he would later work with within the later years, director Bennett Miller and screenwriter Dan Futterman.

After Hoffman graduated from Fairport High, he attended a summer program at the Circle in the Square Theatre and continued to craft his acting skills. He joined the Tisch School of the Arts at New York University, earning himself a BFA award for drama in 1989. In 1991, he made his acting debut in an episode of "Law and Order" as a case defendant. Philip would not appear in films until 1992. He made his breakthrough in four movies, including "Scent of the Woman". Throughout many years Hoffman would make his youthful career as a supporting actor playing roles and working with many notable directors his lifetime. One of the directors was Paul Thomas Anderson, who cast him in five of his six motion pictures. He then does both the narration and interviews himself in a documentary for 2000 named "The Party's Over". Philip breaks up the supporting role cliché and moves in for his first leading role in a tragic comedy, "Love Liza". In 2003, he also did another main role-playing as a gambling-addicted bank employee in "Owning Mahowny". Hoffman's career got defined by both supporting and leading parts over the years with notable flicks such as "Cold Mountain", "Along Came Polly", and the third instalment of "Mission: Impossible". Philip went for gold acclaim in the title role of "Capote", where he would receive many of its awards, including an Academy Award for Best Actor.

After the commendable success of his performance of "Capote", the newly A-listed Philip went on to have more diverse roles, such as the title character in "Charlie Wilson's War". That next year he would receive an Oscar nomination for Best Supporting Actor. He was working on the two parts of "The Hunger Games" feature "Mockingjay" to a role he once played in the recent instalment "Catching Fire" before his untimely death.

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