Oscar-winning actor Philip Seymour Hoffman has died. He was 46.
According to the NYPD, Hoffman was discovered unresponsive in his Manhattan home after suffering an apparent drug overdose. Police were called to the scene by a friend who found Hoffman in the bathroom of his fourth floor apartment around 11:30am this morning. According to law enforcement a hypodermic needle and two glassine envelopes containing what appeared to be heroin were also found in the home.
Police would not go as far as to release the name of the friend who first discovered the actor. An autopsy will be performed and results will likely take a while to report due to the toxicology report.
Hoffman, who audience will most recently remember for his work as Plutarch Heavensbee in The Hunger Games franchise, was an elite participant of indie film. He had a great love for the stage and often found time to return to theater in-between his film projects.
Hoffman won the Oscar for Best Actor for 2005's Copote. He was also nominated three times in the Best Supporting Actor category for Doubt, Charlie Wilson's War, and 2012's The Mater. He had many upcoming projects, many of which are now in question. Just last month he was in Park City for the Sundance premieres of God's Pocket and A Most Wanted Man. His comedy pilot "˜Happyish' had also just otten a full season order from Showtime, and he had just signed on to direct the upcoming Ezekiel Moss.
A glimmer of good news rests with his work on Mockingjay Part 1 & 2. It is being told that the actor only had seven days left of shooting before he was set to wrap on both films. As a result, the part of Heavensbee will likely not be recast, rather the remaining scenes reworked. If anything it will prompt more work in post.
Hoffman always credited his role as George Willis, Jr. in 1992's Scent of a Woman as the one that launched his career. It was a small role, opposite Chris O'Donnell, but it left a lasting impression and he took strongly to his performance. Since then he has been in almost all of Paul Thomas Anderson's films.
Today Hollywood and fans lost a talented actor who was still in his prime. But Hoffman was much more than that. He leaves behind three children with costume designer Mimi O'Donnell: Cooper, 11, Tallulah 7 and Willa, 6. To them they lost a dad.
