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Tragic Oscar-winner who died of drugs is unrecognizable in high school yearbook photo... who is he?


The beloved actor was born and raised in upstate New York, where he graduated high school in 1985 as senior class vice president.

Hoffman also memorably played a charismatic priest accused of child molestation in Doubt, starring him with Meryl Streep, Amy Adams and Viola Davis. Capote also continued acting with Anderson in movies like Magnolia and The Master, the latter of which earned him his final Oscar nomination in 2013 for the role of a cult leader inspired by Scientology founder L. Ron Hubbard. They welcomed a son called Cooper, 21 - who has followed his father's footsteps into acting and starred in Paul Thomas Anderson's latest movie Licorice Pizza - as well as two daughters, Tallulah, 18, and Willa, 16.

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