Acteur Philip Seymour Hoffman overleden

RDJ134 3 februari 2014 om 01:49 uur

Gisteren is bekend geworden dat de Amerikaanse acteur Philip Seymour Hoffman op 46 jarige leeftijd is overleden aan waarschijnlijk een overdosis drugs. Philip Seymour Hoffman is vooral bekend door zijn aparte keuze van rollen en hoe hij deze karakters wist neer te zetten. Waar door hij ook een Oscar heeft gewonnen. Zeer tragisch.


Philip Seymour Hoffman, perhaps the most ambitious and widely admired American actor of his generation, who gave three-dimensional nuance to a wide range of sidekicks, villains and leading men on screen and embraced some of the theater's most burdensome roles on Broadway, died Sunday at an apartment in Greenwich Village. He was 46.

The death, apparently from a drug overdose, was confirmed by the police. Mr. Hoffman was found in the apartment by a friend, David Bar Katz, who became concerned after being unable to reach him.

Investigators found a syringe in his left forearm, at least two plastic envelopes with what appeared to be heroin near where his body was found in a bathroom, and five empty plastic envelopes in a trash bin, a law-enforcement official said.




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