Philip Seymour Hoffman by Ryan Gilbey

Actor and director who could imbue the many wretches, prigs and braggarts he played with a wrenching humanityPhilip Seymour Hoffman, who has died aged 46 of a suspected drugs overdose, had three names and 3,000 ways of expressing anxiety. He was a prolific and old-fashioned character actor, which is not a euphemism for "odd" " it means he could nail a part in one punch, summoning the richness of an entire life in the…

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