From his biography, he was born in the city of New York and he grew up in the Roslyn Heights in New York. He is the son of Charlie and Gail Hoffman and he is a Jewish. He has the younger brother called Jeff and he graduated from the Wheatley School of the Old Westbury in New York, before going to the University of Arizona. He also attended University of Arizona and after the graduation, he moved to live in California, in the city of Los Angeles where he started to act.

Rick Hoffman got the first role when he played a security guard in the Conspiracy Theory in the year 1997. He has other small roles in different movies before he got the major role when he played like Freddie Sacker in the short lived Wall Street Series of Darren Star called The Street in the year 2000. It was stopped on the airwaves after only seven episodes. This forced him to quite the job where he was waiting the tables and went back in New York. He had other TV roles and they include Terry Loomis in the law drama known as Philly in the short lived Steven Bochco law drama. He was Jerry Best in the Bernie Mac show. He played as John Stamos in the Jake in Progress and as Chase Chapman in ABC comedy called Samantha Who. He was the star for Louis Lift of USA network and had continued to do so for many years now. Other works that he was involved into are The Condemned, Cellular, Hostel, Blood Work, The Day After Tomorrow. He was the guest in other movies like Lie To Me, Without a Trace, Crossing Jordan, NCIS, Law & Order, The Pretender, Chuck and CSI: Miami.

Rick Hoffman is an origin of the Long Island, in New York and his first baby was born in the year 2014. When it comes to his personal life, there is no record about having any girlfriend or being married, only that he has a son but it not clear if it is with a wife or a girlfriend. For his personal life, he is of low profile and he does not like to let people know more about him. He does not have the record of having any partner up to now or having any divorce in the past. He has a net worth of around 1 million dollars. In his role in the Suits, his character focuses more on his teeth. Even if his character also loves the cats, in really life, he is allergic to them and the writers stopped adding them for his role.