12 Facts About Pato Hoffmann

Pato Hoffmann was named the 1999 Indian Celebrity of the Year.

Pato Hoffmann was born in La Paz, Bolivia to Bolivian parents of Aymara, Quechua, Spanish, and German heritage.

Pato Hoffmann's family moved to New York City when he was four years old.

Pato Hoffmann thereafter spent the formative years of his childhood and youth alternating between the United States and Bolivia, and more briefly in Mexico.

Pato Hoffmann's acting career in the US, 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.

In 2006, Pato Hoffmann portrayed the character Lee Means in The Last Winter, playing opposite Ron Perlman.

Pato 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.

Pato Hoffmann is bilingual in Spanish and English, and conversational in Portuguese.

Pato Hoffmann has performed roles in those languages as well as Cheyenne, Apache, Sioux, Creek, Zuni, Aztec and Quechua, demonstrating extraordinary linguistic abilities.

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, DC, where he pursued graduate studies in Agricultural Development as a part of his education in International Development.

Pato Hoffmann served as production consultant and acting coach on the award-winning play The Vagina Monologues and the feature length video Autonomia.

Pato Hoffmann worked as a casting associate and consultant in the US and Bolivia.