Academy Award-winning actor Philip Seymour Hoffman has been found dead at his home in New York of a suspected drug overdose, aged 46. Born in Faripoint, New York in 1967, Hoffman began his career in the early 1990s with a guest role in Law & Order, but enjoyed his breakthrough in 1992 when he appeared in four films, including Scent of a Woman.
During the 1990s, he enjoyed film roles in the likes of The Getaway and Nobody’s Fool, as well as making a small appearance in Paul Thomas Anderson’s feature debut Hard Eight. He would reunite with Anderson on a further four films in Boogie Nights, Magnolia, Punch-Drunk Love and The Master, as well as earning acclaim for a string of performances in films such as Happiness, Flawless, The Talented Mr. Ripley, Almost Famous and Capote – the latter of which saw him receiving the Academy Award for Best Actor.
Following his Oscar success, he would be nominated a further three times, twice for Best Supporting Actor in Charlie Wilson’s War and Doubt, and once for Best Actor in The Master. Meanwhile, his other notable film roles included The Big Lebowski, Red Dragon, 25th Hour, Cold Mountain, Mission: Impossible III, Before the Devil Knows You’re Dead, The Savages, Synecdoche, New York, The Boat that Rocked, Moneyball, The Ides of March, A Late Quartet, and The Hunger Games: Catching Fire. He will next be seen in the Joe Le Carre adaptation A Most Wanted Man and was currently reprising his role as Plutarch Heavensbee in The Hunger Games: Mockingjay – Part 1 and The Hunger Games: Mockingjay – Part 2, of which he had a week of filming left to complete.
Our condolences to the family and friends of this immensely talented actor.
Originally published February 2, 2014. Updated April 11, 2018.
