Philip Seymour Hoffman found dead
Oscar-winning actor Philip Seymour Hoffman has been found dead after suffering an “apparent drug overdose”, the New York Police Department said.
The 46-year-old was found dead in his bathroom in the city’s Greenwich Village area at 11.30am local time.
Police were called to 35 Bethune Street in the West Village area of Manhattan by a friend of the actor, the spokesman said.
The 46-year-old won the Academy Award for Best Actor for the 2005 biopic 'Capote' and received three Oscar nominations as Best Supporting Actor.
He has also received critical acclaim for his work in the theatre.
“He was found dead in his bathroom of an apparent drug overdose,” an NYPD spokesman said.
Police were called by a friend of the actor, the spokesman said.
“There was heroin found at the scene”, the police official added later.
The news of Seymour Hoffman’s death came after claims that his representatives had denied a death hoax spread earlier in the week.
Hoffman had struggled with substance abuse in his early career, and first went to rehab after graduating from New York University in 1989.
