Dustin Lee Hoffman is an American actor of theater, film, television, and voice acting, as well as a film director and producer. By the early 1980s, when Hoffman already had one Academy Award statuette for his leading role in "Kramer vs. Kramer", he had the largest number of "antihero" roles among all actors in Hollywood at that time. To this day, Hoffman remains one of the most hardworking actors, which is reflected in extremely detailed rehearsals and helping colleagues understand their characters. He has also repeatedly been called a perfectionist, devoted to his craft. The actor's list of roles includes many vivid characters: the shy virgin Benjamin Braddock from "The Graduate", the disabled thief "Ratso" Rizzo in "Midnight Cowboy", the gray-haired eccentric old man Jack Crabb from "Little Big Man", the humorist Lenny Bruce in "Lenny", Carl Bernstein from "All the President's Men", the unappreciated actor Michael Dorsey, forced to dress as a woman in "Tootsie", and even marathon runner Thomas Levy from the film of the same name.

However, Hoffman gained the greatest fame from his two "Oscar-winning" roles: the divorced father Ted Kramer from the social drama "Kramer vs. Kramer" and the autistic Raymond Babbitt in "Rain Man". Hoffman is a two-time Academy Award winner (1980, 1989; nominated 5 more times), a six-time Golden Globe winner (1968, 1980, 1983, 1986, 1989, 1997; nominated 7 more times), and a three-time BAFTA winner (1969, 1970, 1984; nominated 5 more times). For his lifetime achievements in world cinema, Hoffman was awarded the honorary Golden Bear of the Berlin International Film Festival (1989), an honorary César Award (2009), and a special award from the American Film Institute (1999).