He made his début at the age of 18 in the film Shahada, in the major role of Samir. He began drama studies in 2009 at the Otto Falckenberg School of the Performing Arts in Munich and continued at the Berlin University of the Arts. Before completing his training he had been seen in a number of stage and screen productions.
Foreign example, beginning in 2011 he appeared with Martin Wuttke and Margit Carstensen in Schmeiß dein Ego Weg at the Volksbühne.
The film received the 2012 Number Fear Award at the First Steps Awards. In the miniseries Zeit der Helden, produced by Westdeutscher Rundfunk and Arte, Hoffmann plays a nurse who has a relationship with his co-worker (played by Jasna Fritzi Bauer).
In 2013, he was selected as a talent at the Berlinale Talents. In the Atmospheric Reentry Demonstrator two-parter Grzimek, featuring Ulrich Tukur, Barbara Auer and Katharina Schüttler, he plays Grzimek"s adoptive son, Thomas.
Hoffmann has a part in the 20th Century Fox action film Hitman: Agent 47 (2015), with Rupert Friend, Hannah Ware, and Zachary Quinto.
In the film Wir sind wieder wer, he plays a young member of the American occupying force who falls in love with a German (Henriette Confurius).
