Hoffman, Huffman, Merkerson, Newman, Oh, Parker and Weisz Take Home Golden Globes

Hoffman won for Best Actor in a Motion Picture (Drama) for his role as author Truman Captoe in Capote. Huffman was titled Best Actress in a Motion Picture (Drama) for her work as a male-to-female transsexual in TransAmerica. Mary-Louise Parker, who beat out also-nominated Huffman, won the Globe as Best Actress in a TV Comedy for her character in Showtime's Weeds.

The Globe for Best Actress in a TV Movie or Miniseries was awarded to Merkerson for the HBO film version of Ruben Santiago-Hudson's autobiographical play, Lackawanna Blues. She had recently won the Emmy Award for her performance and is a regular character on TV's Law & Order.

Other up-coming and previous theater actors were awarded Globes for their various film and TV performances. Paul Newman, who recently starred in the Broadway revival of Our Town, won for Best Supporting Actor (Television) for his role in the HBO Miniseries Empire Falls. Sandra Oh, set to lead in Diana Son's Satellites at the Public Theater this May, was awarded as Best Supporting Actress (Television) for her role in ABC's Grey's Anatomy. Also, British actress Rachel Weisz, who starred Off-Broadwy in Neil LaBute's The Shape of Things, was named Best Supporting Actress (Motion Picture) for The Constant Gardner.

Hoffman was most recently nominated for a Tony Award in 2003 as Best Supporting Actor in a Play for his role in the revival of Eugene O'Neill's Long Day's Journey Into Night. He has also won two Drama Desk Awards as Outstanding Director of a Play in 2001 and 2003 for Off-Broadway shows, Jesus Hopped the A Train and Our Lady of 121st Street, respectively. Hoffman was nominated for a Tony Award as Best Actor in a Play in 2000 for his role in the revival of Sam Shepard's True West.

Huffman is a long-time member of New York's Atlantic Theater Company. She has appeared on Broadway in the 1988 original play Speed-the-Plow by David Mamet. Huffman won the 1997 Obie Award for her role as Donnie in the Off-Broadway production of David Mamet's Cryptogram. Her other Off-Broadway credits include Dangerous Corner, Oh, Hell!, and Boy's Life. Most recently, William H. Macy, her husband and co-founder of the Atlantic Theater, directed her in The Joy of Going Somewhere Definite.

Parker won the 2001 Tony Award for Best Actress in a Play for her role as Catherine in David Auburn's Proof. Most recently she was nominated for the 2005 Tony Award for Best Actress in a Play for her role in Craig Lucas' Reckless.

Merkerson last appeared on Broadway in her 1990 Tony nominated role as Berniece in August Wilson's The Piano Lesson. She later won the 1992 Obie Award for her work in I'm Not Stupid.