Dustin Hoffman Psychiatric Institute, affiliated with Columbia University, when he was 21. "It was a great experience for me," he said. "All my life I had wanted to get inside a prison or a mental hospital. . . . I wanted to get inside where behavior, human behavior, was so exposed. All the things the rest of us were feeling and stopping up were coming out of these people." He used that experience to help him develop the character of Raymond Babbitt, a high-functioning autistic savant, yet a person who critic David Denby described as "a strangely shuttered genius." Hoffman created certain
Elena Kampouris which she played Ivy Murray. That same year, Kampouris made her film debut in the drama "Labor Day", playing a young Rachel McCann, with Kate Winslet and Josh Brolin. In December 2013, she signed with the William Morris Endeavor talent agency. In 2014, Kampouris played Allison Doss in the comedy-drama film "Men, Women & Children". Later, she portrayed Alexia in the comedy-drama film "The Cobbler", alongside Adam Sandler and Dustin Hoffman. In 2015, she starred in the NBC thriller series "American Odyssey" as Maya Decker, the daughter of Peter Facinelli's character. The series was cancelled after one season. Kampouris had