No stranger to disguise, Dustin Hoffman โ who 30 years ago dressed in drag for Tootsie โ cloaked himself in secrecy to hide an unforgiving disease that almost claimed his life.
In 2013, the Rain Man actor โ 75 at the time โ revealed he secretly underwent treatment for throat cancer, which was โsurgically cured,โ but he never spoke of it again.
Keep reading to learn more about the Oscar-winning actorโs journey with cancer.
In 1967, a 30-year-old Dustin Hoffman had his breakthrough role in the romantic comedy The Graduate, a film that earned the actor his first Oscar nomination.
Over the next several years, Hoffman appeared in classic films like All the Presidentโs Men (1976) and 1979โs Kramer vs. Kramer, where he took home an Academy Award for Best Actor.
In 1983, the California-born man then starred in the film Tootsie, where he played a dried-up actor who dresses up as a woman to land a role on a soap opera.
