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NEW YORK (Reuters) - Award-winning actor Philip Seymour Hoffman was found dead in his New York City apartment on Sunday of an apparent drug overdose, according to a New York Police Department source.
The source said Hoffman was found dead after a 911 emergency call from a friend of the actor. The source gave no further details.
The New York Times, citing a law enforcement official, said investigators found a syringe in Hoffman's arm and an envelope containing what was believed to be heroin.
Hoffman, 46, won the Academy Award for Best Actor for the 2005 biographical film Capote, and received three Academy Award nominations as Best Supporting Actor.
I just read about this, too. I'm really sad. He was such a great actor and had been sober for 23 years before a relapse last year. I wonder what triggered it.
You don't hear about many if any Oscar winning actors that go before their time. Only other one I can think of off hand is Heath Ledger and he won his Oscar post-humously.
This is why drugs are bad. I've surprisingly never seen any of his movies, but it's always sad when somebody who brings happiness to millions dies prematurely. Thoughts to his loved ones. Also drugs: they're bad. Except caffeine.
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He was one of the best parts in a movie full of great parts: Boogie Nights. RIP
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I liked him, he brought a certain gravitas to whatever role he was involved in. A real shame he felt the need to dabble in that stuff. No good comes from Heroin.
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The fact that he was sober for 20+ years is the really heartbreaking thing for me. To detox and stay clean for that long, just to have a minor slip and then DIE... unfair is really what best describes how I feel about it. Rest in peace Philip.
I wasn't trying to downplay the severity of heroin. My point was that this guy was sober for such a long time, it's just so damn sad that his relapse kills him.
creeping-deth87 wrote: I wasn't trying to downplay the severity of heroin. My point was that this guy was sober for such a long time, it's just so damn sad that his relapse kills him.
Agreed. One has to wonder what threw him back into using the stuff and if he planned a suicide with it, from the reports of all the bags that were found with him. Of course he could have been murdered, also. It just seems so strange and murky, the whole thing.
Truely a pity. He was an amazing actor, very worthy of note, though obviously other factors took over his life at the end, it seems.
I do wonder if this overdose was on top of other health issues as well, as he had been looking quite sickily in movies for some time, though that might have just been how he portrayed himself for the camera.
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A terrible shame. There are lots of famous actors, but very few really great actors, and he was exceptional in just about everything he appeared in.
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I liked him best in the big lebowski, even though it was a smaller role. One of the few that could actually act, not just play himself in every movie like most "actors" do.
I wonder what will happen with mocking jay? if its anything like the book his character would have a big role in the movie i guess it comes down to how much they filmed of it before he died. Sad story anyway though
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ds9lord wrote: I wonder what will happen with mocking jay? if its anything like the book his character would have a big role in the movie i guess it comes down to how much they filmed of it before he died. Sad story anyway though
Apparently he had 9 days of filming left, so not insurmountable.
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