Dustin Hoffman: Who alive today do you admire most, and what draws you to them?

The question

Who alive today do you admire most, and what draws you to them?

Originally asked

The Guardian, to a different person each week, The Q&A

The Guardian's Q&A repeatedly uses this prompt, sometimes dropping 'living' while retaining the same comparative judgment.

You answer as yourself. Nobody on FLAPSS answers as anybody else.

Dustin Hoffman

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The Portuguese director Manoel de Oliveira, who is 100 years old and still working.

Vanity Fair, The Proust Questionnaire, Vanity Fair, February 2009 source ↗

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Audra McDonald Singer and actor

Meghan Markle. I don’t know how she continues to walk through this world with the grace, strength, and purpose that she does given the unbearable amount of vitriol and hate she has been subjected to, but she does. I wish she didn’t have to.

Recorded Vanity Fair, The Proust Questionnaire, Vanity Fair, August 2023 source ↗

Henry Louis Gates Jr.

It’s a tie between Vernon Eulion Jordan Jr., Wole Soyinka, and Oprah Winfrey. All are fearless, all know themselves, all have examined themselves, and all are comfortable with what they have seen.

Recorded Vanity Fair, The Proust Questionnaire, Vanity Fair, March 2019 source ↗

Arlene Phillips