Dustin Hoffman

  • Maggie Smith portrait added to the National Portrait Gallery collection

    ByGramilano

    The National Portrait Gallery, London, has unveiled its most recent commissioned portrait, a painting of Dame Maggie Smith by James Lloyd. The large (six feet by three) oil painting shows the actress in jacket and trousers sitting in a bare studio on a draped chair which is placed on an intriguing trompe-l’oeil platform. The sittings began in 2011 and…

  • Dustin Hoffman to make directorial début with film about retired opera singers

    ByGramilano

    Dustin Hoffman will make his directorial debut with a film about retired opera singers. The Hollywood Reporter said yesterday that Hoffman is scheduled to begin shooting “Quartet” in London later this week. The film, based on Ronald Harwood’s tender play, is funded by the BBC, and will star Billy Connolly, Tom Courtenay, two-time Academy Award winner Maggie…

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