Dustin Hoffman, the Rain Man star, has undergone a battle with cancer back in 2013 and ended up a winner. However, despite this fact, he never really spoke of his journey to being healthy again.
At the time, a spokeswoman for the then-75-year-old actor-director confirmed that Hoffman is “feeling great and in good health” after undergoing cancer treatment. Publicist Jodi Gottlieb shaed with the site that Hoffman’s cancer was detected early and “surgically cured.”
It was in 1967 that Hoffman had his breakthrough role in the romantic comedy The Graduate, which earned him his first Academy Award nomination. He was 30 at the time, and the rest is history. Over the years, he has landed a huge number of roles that placed him high on the list of best male actors there are.
“I went home and started crying,” Hoffman recalled. “I think I’m an interesting woman, when I look at myself on-screen, and I know that if I met myself at a party I would never talk to that character because she doesn’t fulfill, physically, the demands that we’re brought up to think women have to have in order for us to ask them out.”
Reaching the second highest grossing film of that year, Hoffman said that although it made many laugh, Tootsie was never a comedy for him.
In 1988, Hoffman won his second Oscar, for Rain Main – he earned his first for Kramer vs. Kramer – and went on to receive six Golden Globes and one Primetime Emmy.
Recently, he and his wife were spotted on the streets of London and looked as in love as ever. “The Hollywood legend looked years younger than 86 as he smiled and waved at the cameras. He was tanned and carefree as he strolled through the city and ducked into boutiques with his wife of 43 years, wrote Hello!”