You have to understand that crew members make movies so they're seeing a lot of actors all the time in their career acting.

Soon after graduating he went to rehab for drug and alcohol addiction and has since remained sober. They met while working on the 1999 play In Arabia We'd All Be Kings which Hoffman directed. He is the son of Marilyn L.

He joined the LAByrinth Theater Company in 1995 and has directed and performed in numerous stage productions. He received another three Academy Award nominations for his supporting work in Charlie Wilson's War (2007) Doubt (2008) and The Master (2012).