On February 2, 2014, movie star Philip Seymour Hoffman was found dead in his New York City apartment with a syringe in his left arm. He was just 46 years old.
Philip Seymour Hoffman was a true actor’s actor. The native New Yorker sharpened his skills on Broadway before finding fame in Hollywood and never forgot that the craft itself trumped any accolades. An Academy Award-winning thespian, Philip Seymour Hoffman toiled on his work with the focus of a teacher who tragically knew that he would die too soon.
While he lived in the West Village of Manhattan with his partner Mimi O’Donnell and their three children, the 46-year-old Hoffman was found dead in an apartment two blocks away on February 2, 2014. The actor had initially taken the apartment to work on memorizing lines without any distractions, but he soon made his second home a refuge for his drug use.
