Philip Seymour Hoffman has been found dead in his Manhattan apartment on Sunday; the cause of death is not yet known, but Hoffman was known to have a problem with drugs.
In May 2013, the 45-year-old Oscar winner left a clinic on the east coast of America where he had spent 10 days being treated. He had undergone rehab for heroin use and addiction to pills.
A personal assistant found Hoffman’s body in the bathroom an apartment at 35 Bethune St. with a hypodermic needle still in his arm, according to sources, and called 911 around 11:30 a.m,
The Academy Award-winning actor , aged 46, won Best Actor in 2005 for the film Capote and was also nominated for three best supporting actor Oscar nominations for his roles in Charlie Wilson’s War, Doubt , and The Master.
The New York City Police found Hoffman in his West Village Apartment some time in the late morning today.
Hoffman was in a longstanding relationship with costume designer Mimi O’Donnell. They met while working on the 1999 play In Arabia We’d All Be Kings, which Hoffman directed. They had a son, Cooper Alexander, born in March 2003, and two daughters, Tallulah, born in November 2006, and Willa, born in October 2008.