Anne Byrne: Meet Dustin Hoffman’s First Wife

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Meet Dustin Hoffman’s First Wife

Anne Byrne Kronenfeld was the first wife of actor Dustin Hoffman and had one child, Jenna Byrne, with him. Hoffman adopted Byrne’s daughter from a previous marriage, Karina Hoffman-Birkhead. Byrne and Hoffman divorced in 1980 and both remarried that same year, Byrne to Ivan Kronenfeld.

Early in his career, Hoffman was very much a womanizer. He describes his single days, with his wing and fellow actor, Robert Duvall, as being a time when they were “obsessed with sex.” But that all changed when he met Anne Byrne in 1963, and later married her in 1969.

Byrne had a daughter named Karina from a previous marriage so Hoffman adopted her as his own. They had their daughter Jenna in 1970, but their marriage didn’t survive. They ended up divorcing in 1980.

The same year his divorce was finalized, he moved on to marry Lisa Gottsegen. They have four children together: Jacob, born in 1981, Rebecca, born in 1983, Maxwell, born in 1984, and the baby of the family, Alexandra or “Ali,” born in 1987.

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