Academy Award-winning actor Philip Seymour Hoffman, who won an Oscar for the filmCapote, has been found dead in his New York City apartment of an apparent drug overdose, a New York Police Department source says.
Hoffman, 46, was found unresponsive on the bathroom floor of his Greenwich Village apartment by police responding to an emergency 911 call made by a friend of the actor, and Emergency Medical Service workers declared him dead on the scene, the New York City Police Department said in a statement.
Investigators found a syringe in Hoffman's arm and envelopes containing what was believed to be heroin. An investigation was ongoing.