Actor Philip Seymour Hoffman, who won a best actor Oscar for the title role in the 2005 film Capote, was reportedly dead in his Manhattan apartment at the age of 46.
Multiple media outlets have reported, quoting unnamed law enforcement officials, say the suspected cause of death is a drug overdose.
The Wall Street Journal reports that the New York Police Department and the Office of the Chief Medical Examiner are investigating to determine a cause of death. The newspaper quotes a police official as saying the actor was found dead at his apartment in the West Village neighborhood of Manhattan.
Hoffman’s first role was as a defendant in a 1991 episode of Law & Order, he went on to appear in films Twister (1996), Boogie Nights (1997) and The Big Lebowski (1998). He was nominated for a best supporting actor Oscar for the 2007 film Charlie Wilson’s War and was in the process of filming a sequel to The Hunger Games.
In a 2012 interview with NPR’s Morning Edition, Hoffman, who was then appearing on Broadway in the lead role of Willy Loman in Arthur Miller’s Death of a Salesman, said it is a play that provokes thinking on all aspects of life, including family.