Pato Hoffmann
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Pato Hoffmann is a Bolivia
n actor
and theater director who has performed in such films as Geronimo: An American Legend
, Lakota Woman: Siege at Wounded Knee
, and Cheyenne Warrior
. The nickname "Pato" was given to him as a child. Hoffmann was named the 1999 Indian Celebrity of the Year. He was born August 23, 1956 in La Paz
, Bolivia
, to Bolivian parents of Aymara, Quechua, Spanish, and German heritage. Hoffmann's family moved to New York City when he was four years old. He thereafter spent the formative years of his childhood and youth alternating between the United States and Bolivia, and more briefly in Mexico.
, agents were looking for Native American talent and signed on Hoffmann. His acting career in the U.S., Canada, Australia and Bolivia includes 13 feature films; over 30 episodes of television in series, mini-series, cartoons and soap operas; and numerous plays and readings with reputable theatre companies.
Hoffman's first significant role in a big budget feature film was The Dreamer in Geronimo: An American Legend
which also stars Matt Damon
, Robert Duvall
, and Gene Hackman
. Next Hoffman co-starred in the romantic film Cheyenne Warrior
as Hawk, a Cheyenne
warrior, who is nursed back to health by a pregnant, widowed Rebecca Carver played by Kelly Preston
.
Hoffmann has been specifically chosen for several roles throughout his acting career to include his role of Lee in The Last Winter
, and was asked by Valerie Red-Horse
to play her leading man in the film Naturally Native. The film Naturally Native was produced and financed entirely by the Mashantucket Pequot Tribal Nation of Connecticut, and contains one of the sexiest Native American love scenes between Hoffmann and Red-Horse.
Pato Hoffmann is bilingual in Spanish and English, and conversational in Portuguese. He has performed roles in those languages as well as Cheyenne
, Apache
, Sioux
, Creek
, Zuni
, Aztec
and Quechua, demonstrating extraordinary linguistic abilities.
Pato Hoffmann excels in the Cantonese style of Choy Li Fut Kung Fu and has studied with Master E. Y. Lee since 1983 in open-hand techniques as well as the use of the Long Staff and Bay Daggers.
Bolivia
Bolivia officially known as Plurinational State of Bolivia , is a landlocked country in central South America. It is the poorest country in South America...
n actor
Actor
An actor is a person who acts in a dramatic production and who works in film, television, theatre, or radio in that capacity...
and theater director who has performed in such films as Geronimo: An American Legend
Geronimo: An American Legend
Geronimo: An American Legend is a 1993 film, starring Wes Studi as Geronimo, Jason Patric as 1st Lt. Charles B. Gatewood, Gene Hackman as Brig. Gen. George Crook, Robert Duvall as Chief of Scouts Al Sieber, and Matt Damon as 2nd Lt. Britton Davis. The film was directed by Walter Hill from a...
, Lakota Woman: Siege at Wounded Knee
Lakota Woman: Siege at Wounded Knee
Lakota Woman: Siege at Wounded Knee is a 1994 TNT original movie starring Irene Bedard, Tantoo Cardinal, Pato Hoffmann, Joseph Runningfox, Lawrence Bayne, and Michael Horse and August Schellenberg....
, and Cheyenne Warrior
Cheyenne Warrior
Cheyenne Warrior is a 1994 film starring Kelly Preston, Dan Haggerty, and Pato Hoffmann and was directed by Mark Griffiths. This film is based on a screenplay by Michael B. Druxman and follows the struggle of a widowed, pregnant woman who is stranded at a trading post during the American Civil...
. The nickname "Pato" was given to him as a child. Hoffmann was named the 1999 Indian Celebrity of the Year. He was born August 23, 1956 in La Paz
La Paz
Nuestra Señora de La Paz is the administrative capital of Bolivia, as well as the departmental capital of the La Paz Department, and the second largest city in the country after Santa Cruz de la Sierra...
, Bolivia
Bolivia
Bolivia officially known as Plurinational State of Bolivia , is a landlocked country in central South America. It is the poorest country in South America...
, to Bolivian parents of Aymara, Quechua, Spanish, and German heritage. Hoffmann's family moved to New York City when he was four years old. He thereafter spent the formative years of his childhood and youth alternating between the United States and Bolivia, and more briefly in Mexico.
Acting career
After the success of Dances With WolvesDances with Wolves
Dances with Wolves is a 1990 epic western film directed by and starring Kevin Costner. It is a film adaptation of the 1988 book of the same name by Michael Blake and tells the story of a Union Army Lieutenant who travels to the American frontier to find a military post, and his dealings with a...
, agents were looking for Native American talent and signed on Hoffmann. His acting career in the U.S., Canada, Australia and Bolivia includes 13 feature films; over 30 episodes of television in series, mini-series, cartoons and soap operas; and numerous plays and readings with reputable theatre companies.
Hoffman's first significant role in a big budget feature film was The Dreamer in Geronimo: An American Legend
Geronimo: An American Legend
Geronimo: An American Legend is a 1993 film, starring Wes Studi as Geronimo, Jason Patric as 1st Lt. Charles B. Gatewood, Gene Hackman as Brig. Gen. George Crook, Robert Duvall as Chief of Scouts Al Sieber, and Matt Damon as 2nd Lt. Britton Davis. The film was directed by Walter Hill from a...
which also stars Matt Damon
Matt Damon
Matthew Paige "Matt" Damon is an American actor, screenwriter, and philanthropist whose career was launched following the success of the film Good Will Hunting , from a screenplay he co-wrote with friend Ben Affleck...
, Robert Duvall
Robert Duvall
Robert Selden Duvall is an American actor and director. He has won an Academy Award, two Emmy Awards, four Golden Globe Awards and a BAFTA over the course of his career....
, and Gene Hackman
Gene Hackman
Eugene Allen "Gene" Hackman is an American actor and novelist.Nominated for five Academy Awards, winning two, Hackman has also won three Golden Globes and two BAFTAs in a career that spanned five decades. He first came to fame in 1967 with his performance as Buck Barrow in Bonnie and Clyde...
. Next Hoffman co-starred in the romantic film Cheyenne Warrior
Cheyenne Warrior
Cheyenne Warrior is a 1994 film starring Kelly Preston, Dan Haggerty, and Pato Hoffmann and was directed by Mark Griffiths. This film is based on a screenplay by Michael B. Druxman and follows the struggle of a widowed, pregnant woman who is stranded at a trading post during the American Civil...
as Hawk, a Cheyenne
Cheyenne
Cheyenne are a Native American people of the Great Plains, who are of the Algonquian language family. The Cheyenne Nation is composed of two united tribes, the Só'taeo'o and the Tsétsêhéstâhese .The Cheyenne are thought to have branched off other tribes of Algonquian stock inhabiting lands...
warrior, who is nursed back to health by a pregnant, widowed Rebecca Carver played by Kelly Preston
Kelly Preston
Kelly Preston is an American actress and former model.- Early years :Preston was born Kelly Kamalelehua Smith in Honolulu, Hawaii. Her mother, Linda, was an administrator of a mental health center, and her father, who worked for an agricultural firm, drowned when Preston was three years old...
.
Hoffmann has been specifically chosen for several roles throughout his acting career to include his role of Lee in The Last Winter
The Last Winter
The Last Winter is a 2006 thriller film, directed by Larry Fessenden. The Last Winter premiered in The Contemporary World Cinema Programme at the 2006 Toronto International Film Festival on September 11, 2006...
, and was asked by Valerie Red-Horse
Valerie Red-Horse
Valerie Red-Horse is an American Indian actress and author of claimed Cherokee/Sioux heritage. She is also a former office manager for junk bond king Michael Milken and the former CEO of an insolvent Financial Industry Regulatory Authority broker/dealer Native Nations Securities, which was the...
to play her leading man in the film Naturally Native. The film Naturally Native was produced and financed entirely by the Mashantucket Pequot Tribal Nation of Connecticut, and contains one of the sexiest Native American love scenes between Hoffmann and Red-Horse.
Pato Hoffmann is bilingual in Spanish and English, and conversational in Portuguese. He has performed roles in those languages as well as Cheyenne
Cheyenne
Cheyenne are a Native American people of the Great Plains, who are of the Algonquian language family. The Cheyenne Nation is composed of two united tribes, the Só'taeo'o and the Tsétsêhéstâhese .The Cheyenne are thought to have branched off other tribes of Algonquian stock inhabiting lands...
, Apache
Apache
Apache is the collective term for several culturally related groups of Native Americans in the United States originally from the Southwest United States. These indigenous peoples of North America speak a Southern Athabaskan language, which is related linguistically to the languages of Athabaskan...
, Sioux
Sioux
The Sioux are Native American and First Nations people in North America. The term can refer to any ethnic group within the Great Sioux Nation or any of the nation's many language dialects...
, Creek
Creek language
The Creek language, also known as Muskogee or Muscogee , is a Muskogean language spoken by Muscogee and Seminole people primarily in the U.S. states of Oklahoma and Florida....
, Zuni
Zuni language
Zuni is a language of the Zuni people, indigenous to western New Mexico and eastern Arizona in the United States. It is spoken by around 9,500 people worldwide, especially in the vicinity of Zuni Pueblo, New Mexico, and much smaller numbers in parts of Arizona.Unlike most indigenous languages in...
, Aztec
Aztec
The Aztec people were certain ethnic groups of central Mexico, particularly those groups who spoke the Nahuatl language and who dominated large parts of Mesoamerica in the 14th, 15th and 16th centuries, a period referred to as the late post-classic period in Mesoamerican chronology.Aztec is the...
and Quechua, demonstrating extraordinary linguistic abilities.
Education
Pato Hoffmann attended college for eight years and was awarded a Bachelor's Degree in Economics with a minor in Anthropology by the American University in Washington, D.C., where he also pursued graduate studies in Agricultural Development as a part of his education in International Development.Pato Hoffmann excels in the Cantonese style of Choy Li Fut Kung Fu and has studied with Master E. Y. Lee since 1983 in open-hand techniques as well as the use of the Long Staff and Bay Daggers.
Filmography (partial)
- Cielito Lindo (2007) ... as Don Mario, Directed/Produced by Alejandro AlcondezAlejandro AlcondezAlejandro Alcondez is a Mexican/American actor, screenwriter, film producer and film director. Born in Jalisco, Mexico, Alcondez moved to Hollywood, California in the early 1990s...
- The Last WinterThe Last WinterThe Last Winter is a 2006 thriller film, directed by Larry Fessenden. The Last Winter premiered in The Contemporary World Cinema Programme at the 2006 Toronto International Film Festival on September 11, 2006...
(2005) .... Lee Means - A.K.A. Birdseye (2002) .... Alvin Karpis
- Pendulum (2001) .... Petty
- Meteorites! (1998) (TV) .... Sheriff John Whitehorse
- Naturally Native (1998) .... Steve Bighawk
- Born Into Exile (1997) (TV) .... Detective Sanyo
- Dr. Quinn, Medicine WomanDr. Quinn, Medicine WomanDr. Quinn, Medicine Woman is an American post-Civil War western/drama series created by Beth Sullivan. Dr. Michaela "Mike" Quinn, played by Jane Seymour, left Boston in search of adventure. She goes to Colorado Springs, Colorado where she establishes herself as doctor/adviser.The show ran on CBS...
(1997) (TV) .... Strong River in "Right or Wrong" - Raven Hawk (1996) (TV) .... Rhyia's Father
- The Secret of Lizard Woman (1996) (TV)
- Wild Bill (1995) .... Cheyenne Leader
- A Perry Mason Mystery: The Case of the Grimacing Governor (1994) (TV) .... Sgt. Whitehorse
- Lakota Woman: Siege at Wounded KneeLakota Woman: Siege at Wounded KneeLakota Woman: Siege at Wounded Knee is a 1994 TNT original movie starring Irene Bedard, Tantoo Cardinal, Pato Hoffmann, Joseph Runningfox, Lawrence Bayne, and Michael Horse and August Schellenberg....
(1994) (TV) .... Spencer - Cheyenne WarriorCheyenne WarriorCheyenne Warrior is a 1994 film starring Kelly Preston, Dan Haggerty, and Pato Hoffmann and was directed by Mark Griffiths. This film is based on a screenplay by Michael B. Druxman and follows the struggle of a widowed, pregnant woman who is stranded at a trading post during the American Civil...
(1994) (TV) .... Hawk - Geronimo: An American LegendGeronimo: An American LegendGeronimo: An American Legend is a 1993 film, starring Wes Studi as Geronimo, Jason Patric as 1st Lt. Charles B. Gatewood, Gene Hackman as Brig. Gen. George Crook, Robert Duvall as Chief of Scouts Al Sieber, and Matt Damon as 2nd Lt. Britton Davis. The film was directed by Walter Hill from a...
(1993) .... The Dreamer - Dr. Quinn, Medicine WomanDr. Quinn, Medicine WomanDr. Quinn, Medicine Woman is an American post-Civil War western/drama series created by Beth Sullivan. Dr. Michaela "Mike" Quinn, played by Jane Seymour, left Boston in search of adventure. She goes to Colorado Springs, Colorado where she establishes herself as doctor/adviser.The show ran on CBS...
(1993–1994) (TV) Franklin (3 episodes)
