Apparent Drug Overdose Claims The Life of Phillip Seymour Hoffman Chris Ryan February 02, 2014 Reports in are stating that Phillip Seymour Hoffman was found dead in his Greenwich Village Apartment at 10:30 AM (EST) with a needle still in his arm. (Newswire.net -- February 2, 2014) -- New York, NY Oscar-winning American actor Philip Seymour Hoffman has been discovered dead in his Greenwich Village apartment, Phillip Seymour Hoffman with a needle still in his arm, in what authoriies believe was a drug overdose. Hoffmann created his title in the 90s in pictures along with the Boogie Nights and The Big Lebowski, before winning the Oscar for his portrayal of author Truman Capote in 2005. The Oscar-winning performer had apparently fought with substances previously and checked himself in to rehab for heroin use a year ago. A private assistant located Hoffman's body within an flat at 35 Bethune St. and telephoned 911 around 11:30 a.m, resources said. In 2006, Hoffman openly disclosed that he almost succumbed to drug abuse graduating from NYU's drama college, but got sober in rehabilitation."It was all that (medications and booze), yeah. It had been anything I really could get my fingers on... I enjoied it all," he advised "60 Minutes" as the time. TMZ stated he started using prescription tablets, subsequently snorted heroin for around a week before understanding he wanted help. Hoffman began his performing career in 1991, and also the subsequent year started to surface in movies. He slowly got recognition for his supporting function in some famous movies, including Scent of a Woman (1992), Twister (1996), Boogie Nights (1997), The Huge Lebowski (1998), Patch Adams (1998), Magnolia (1999), The Gifted Mr. Ripley (1999), Nearly Famous (2000), 25th Hour (2002), Punch-Drunk Love (2002) and Cold Mountain (2003). In 2005, Hoffman performed the title part in Capote, which is why he won multiple performing awards including an Academy Award Best Actor. He acquired another three Academy-Award nominations for his encouraging work in Charlie Wilson's War (2007), Question (2008) and The Grasp (2012). Other critically-acclaimed movies lately have contained Owning Mahowny (2003), Prior to the Devil Knows You're Dead (2007), The Savages (2007), Synecdoche, New York (2008), Moneyball (2011) and The Ides of March (2011). In 2010, Hoffman produced his feature-film directorial debut with Jack Goes Boating. Hoffman was also an accomplished director and theatre performer. He joined the LAByrinth Theater Organization in 1995, and has directed and performed in several stage productions. His performances in three Broadway plays led to three Tony Award nominations: 2 for Best Leading Actor in Correct West (2,000) and Dying of a Sales man (2012); one for Best Featured Actor in Long-Day's Journey into Night (2003). Hoffman was created in Fairport, Ny. His mom, Marilyn O'Connor (nee Loucks), who came to be in Waterloo, Ny, is a family courtroom judge, attorney, and civil-rights activist. His dad, Gordon Stowell Hoffman, is a former Xerox executive. He had two sisters, Emily as well as Jill, and a brother, Gordy Hoffman, who scripted the 2002 movie Love Liza, in which Philip starred. He had German, English, Irish, Dutch, and distant Polish, pedigree.[3] His dad was Protestant and his mum Catholic; Hoffman wasn't raised having a profound obligation to any denomination. Hoffman's parents divorced when he was nine years of age. Hoffman attended the 1984 Theater College in the New York State Summer School of the Arts. After graduating from Fairport High-School, Hoffman attended the Circle in the Square Theatre's summer plan, continuing his performing training together with the playing teacher Alan Langdon. He obtained a BFA in play in 1989 from New York University's Tisch College of the Arts. At NYU, he was a founding member of the theater business the Bullstoi Ensemble with performer Steven Schub and director Bennett Miller. Shortly after graduating, he went to rehabilitation for booze and drug dependency and staied sober till May 2013, when he entered a detoxification facility after fleetingly relapsing. CareerFilm and tv work Hoffman built a successful and revered movie profession playing varied and idiosyncratic figures in supporting parts, working having broad range of known directors, including Todd Solondz, The Coen Brothers, Spike Lee, Cameron Crowe, David Mamet, Robert Benton, Anthony Minghella and Paul Thomas Anderson; somewhat, he's appeared in five out of six of Anderson's feature films to day (Tough Eight, Boogie Nights, Magnolia, Punch-Drunk Love and The Learn). He appeared in The Celebration's Over, a documentary in regards to the 2000 US elections. Throughout his profession he has seldom been given an opportunity to perform the direct part. In 2002, yet, Hoffman starred as a widower surviving together with his spouse's suicide in Love Liza, for which his brother, Gordy Hoffman, composed the screenplay. In 2003, he performed the lead part in Owning Mahowny as a financial institution worker who embezzles cash to feed his gambling habit. Hoffman continued to perform supporting parts in such movies as Cool Mountain, as a carnally preoccupied preacher, Along Came Polly, as Ben Stiller's petroleum, has been celebrity pal, and Mission: Impossible III, as villainous arms dealer Owen Davian out to destroy Ethan Hunt. He obtained his first Prime time Emmy Award nomination for the HBO mini series Empire Falls, but dropped to castmate and private idol Paul Newman. Among Hoffman's first roles was as a cops deputy who gets hit in the face area by Newman in 1994's No one's Fool. He obtained another Emmy Award nomination for the Day-Time Emmy Awards for Exceptional Performer In An Animated System in his vocal perform on Arthur. In 2005, Hoffman gained widespread acclaim because of his portrayal of author Truman Capote in the movie Capote. His efficiency received several highprofile accolades and honours, like the Academy Award Best Actor, the Golden World Award for Best-Actor - Motion-Picture Play, the Screen Actors Guild Award for Best-Actor - Movie, as well as the BAFTA Award for Best-Actor in a Major Part. In addition, he was likewise awarded Best Celebrity by at least ten movie critic organizations, like the National Board of Review, Toronto Movie Critics, and Los Angeles Movie Critics. In 2007, Hoffman was nominated for the Golden Globe for Best-Actor in a Supporting Character for enjoying Gust Avrakotos, a CIA officer who assists Congressman Charlie Wilson help a secret war in Afghanistan in the film Charlie Wilson's War. In 2008, he was likewise nominated for Academy-Award for Best Supporting Actor for the exact same part, which he dropped to Javier Bardem for No Country for Old Men. In 2008, he appeared in Synecdoche, New York, in which he performed Caden Cotard, a guy who tries to create a scale reproduction of Nys inside a warehouse to get a perform, and Question, where he performed Father Brendan Flynn, a priest accused of sexually abusing students. He acquired Golden Globe and Screen Actors Guild nominations for the latter. He additionally received a second straight nomination for the Academy-Award for Best Supporting Actor because of his efficiency in Question. In the year 2012, he starred in Paul Thomas Anderson's critically-acclaimed play The Grasp, which showcased him as the charismatic leader of a nascent movements in postwar America. With this part, he was once again nominated for the Academy-Award for Best Supporting Actor. In 2013, he performed Plutarch Heavensbee in The Hunger Games: Catching Fire, the sequel to The Hunger Games. Source: http://www.newswire.net/newsroom/pr/00000000-hoffman.html.