RIP: Philip Seymour Hoffman Found Dead in NY Apt; Possible Heroin Overdose admin Monday, February 3, 2014 5-4-3-2-1, The Receipt, The Script Photo Credit: Victoria Will/AP Philip Seymour Hoffman, Oscar award winning actor, was found dead in his New York apartment over the weekend. The actor was found on Sunday, laying unconscious and with a needle stuck in his arms. Police officials believes the highly respected actor died of an apparent drug overdose. The 46 year old actor’s peers regard him as one of the best to ever do it, due to his ability to play a wide range of characters. Hoffman – with his doughy, every man physique, his often-disheveled look and his limp, receding blond hair – was a character actor of such range and lack of vanity that he could seemingly handle roles of any size, on the stage and in movies that played in art houses or multiplexes. He could play comic or dramatic, loathsome or sympathetic, trembling or diabolical, dissipated or tightly controlled, slovenly or fastidious. The stage-trained actor’s rumpled naturalism brought him four Academy Award nominations – for “Capote,” `’The Master,” `’Doubt” and “Charlie Wilson’s War” – and three Tony nominations for his work on Broadway, including his portrayal of the beaten and weary Willy Loman in “Death of a Salesman.” Most recently, Hoffman revealed that he had re-entered rehad for drug treatment. He has struggled with drug addiction for awhile, but lived drug-free for the last 23 years. Unfortunately, in an interview in 2013, he admitted to have fell off the wagon and begun using heroin. For more on Hoffman’s story, read HERE.
