Philip Seymour Hoffman (1967â2014) Film and stage actor and theater director Philip Seymour Hoffman was born in the Rochester, New York, suburb of Fairport on July 23, 1967. He was the son of Marilyn (Loucks), a lawyer and judge, and Gordon Stowell Hoffman, a Xerox employee, and was mostly of German, Irish, English and Dutch ancestry. After becoming involved in high school ... Born:
MORE: Film review of Yves Saint Laurent. So, although Yves Saint Laurent was met with mixed reviews, everyone involved with the film can breathe easy that, ultimately, it had Bergeâs seal of approval. However, the second Yves Saint Laurent film has had much more controversy surrounding it. Set later in the designerâs life the film explores the designerâs penchant for casual sex and drugs, as well as his relationship with Jacques de Bascher, who died of AIDS in the early 1980s.
With the success of both Shirley MacLaine and Audrey Tatouâs biopics on the life of Coco Chanel, it wouldnât be long until films about other famous fashion designers began coming out. This year, not one, but two movies about the life of Yves Saint-Laurent have been released. The first, Yves Saint Laurent, starring Pierre Niney as a young Saint Laurent follows the designerâs rapid ascension to the height of the haute couture scene. Pierre Niney plays a young Yves Saint Laurent in Yves Saint Laurent.