- For a person named "Michael Hofmann", see Michael Hofmann.
Michael Lynn Hoffman is a movie director. He grew up in Payette, Idaho, played basketball, and attended college at Boise State University. There he was elected as student body president of BSU. He was a cofounder of the Idaho Shakespeare Festival (along with Doug Copsey and Victoria Holloway) which is celebrating its 30 year anniversary this year. While at BSU, he served as president of the student body and earned the high honor of Rhodes Scholar. While studying at Oriel College, Oxford, he extended his interest in drama by making a student film Privileged, which starred a young Hugh Grant. Befriended by John Schlessinger, who provided the funding, Michael's next film was Restless Natives, a humorous look at young Scottish boys who hold up tour buses. His other credits include Some Girls, a film starring the young Patrick Dempsey (McDreamy on Grey's Anatomy), Restoration with Robert Downey, Jr., One Fine Day with Michelle Pfeiffer and George Clooney, Soapdish with Sally Fields and Kevin Kline, a A Midsummer Night's Dream, for which he also wrote the screenplay based on the work by Shakespeare, and The Emperor's Club (starring Kevin Kline). His film Promised Land (1987) was nominated for the Grand Jury Prize at the Sundance Film Festival. He is also father to Atticus, Phoebe & Olivia Hoffman.
