Hoffman loved \u2018deep, dense characters\u2019<\/strong><\/p>\n Hoffman won an Academy Award for best actor for the 2005 biopic \u201cCapote\u201d and drew critical acclaim for his roles in a wide variety of films.<\/p>\n He was a beefy 5-foot-10-inch man, but was convincing as the slight, 5-foot-3-inch Truman Capote. He had a booming voice like a deity\u2019s but often played shlubby, conflicted characters.<\/p>\n \u201cHe just loved those deep, dense characters. That\u2019s where I think he found his true calling,\u201d said Bradley Jacobs, a senior editor of Us Weekly.<\/p>\n In Hollywood, Hoffman\u2019s big break came with a small role as Chris O\u2019Donnell\u2019s classmate in the 1992 film \u201cScent of a Woman.\u201d<\/p>\n For years, Hoffman was the kind of anonymous character actor who earned critical raves but was often unnoticed by the general public. He used his abilities to take chances with such directors as a then-unknown Paul Thomas Anderson, with whom he worked in \u201cHard Eight\u201d (and several ensuing films, as both became better known) and Todd Solondz (\u201cHappiness\u201d).<\/p>\n \u201cI think about that a lot,\u201d he told Esquire in 2012 of his anonymity. \u201cI feel it cracking lately, the older I\u2019m getting. I think I\u2019m less anonymous than I was.\u201d<\/p>\n As an actor, Hoffman could be heartfelt and giving, as with his male nurse in \u201cMagnolia\u201d or rock critic in \u201cAlmost Famous,\u201d or creepily Machiavellian, like the gamemaster in the latest \u201cHunger Games\u201d movie or a \u201cMission: Impossible\u201d movie villain.<\/p>\n He also appeared in \u201cCharlie Wilson\u2019s War,\u201d \u201cDoubt,\u201d and \u201cThe Master,\u201d for which he was nominated as best supporting actor.<\/p>\n He appeared last month at the Sundance Film Festival, where a movie he starred in, \u201cGod\u2019s Pocket,\u201d premiered.<\/p>\n \u201cHe seemed really in good spirits, and it\u2019s just so shocking,\u201d said CNN Entertainment Commentator Krista Smith, who interviewed Hoffman at the festival. \u201cBecause, just looking at his body of work and knowing how many actors revered him and how they look up to him. \u2026 The one thing that was so special about him is that he crossed all platforms \u2026 Every genre, he managed to fit in and just be brilliant at whatever he was doing.\u201d<\/p>\n We help you find and contact book\u00a0Foreign Actors<\/span><\/a>\u00a0in China and Foreign Models in China<\/em><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n Beloved resident of New York neighborhood<\/strong><\/p>\n But despite his love of performance, Hoffman was a private person who rarely spoke about his family, Jacobs said.<\/p>\n In New York\u2019s Greenwich Village neighborhood where he lived, it was common to see the actor riding a bicycle and walking his children to the public school they attended.<\/p>\n \u201cHe\u2019d go quietly about his business with his children. I still remember the day he won the Oscar, him walking his kids to school, not long after. And people were giving him high fives,\u201d said CNN\u2019s Rose Arce, whose daughter attended school with Hoffman\u2019s children. \u201cIt looked like it really meant something to him to have his neighbors saying congratulations. It\u2019s shocking, and I know everyone in the neighborhood is going to feel like they\u2019re missing a friend, like a friend has died.\u201d<\/p>\n After his Oscar win at the Academy Awards in 2006, Hoffman thanked his mother for taking him to his first play.<\/p>\n \u201cShe brought up four kids alone and she deserves a congratulations for that. \u2026 And she took me to my first play and she stayed up with me and watched the NCAA Final Four, and my passions, her passions became my passions. And, you know, be proud, Mom, because I\u2019m proud of you and we\u2019re here tonight and it\u2019s so good,\u201d he said in his acceptance speech.<\/p>\n Hoffman\u2019s father was a salesman and his mother was a family court judge, a biography on the Turner Classic Movies website says. He landed his first professional stage role before graduating from high school and went on to study acting at New York University.<\/p>\n Hoffman stayed active on stage even as his star rose in Hollywood. He starred in a Broadway production of \u201cDeath of a Salesman\u201d in 2012 and was co-artistic director of the Labyrinth Theater Company in New York.<\/p>\n He is survived by three children and his longtime partner, Mimi O\u2019Donnell.<\/p>\n FTA can act as your Chinese Celebrity Agency and help you contact book any\u00a0Chinese Celebrity.<\/span><\/a><\/em><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n Battling addiction<\/strong><\/p>\n Last year Hoffman revealed that he had entered rehab to deal with a drug problem, telling TMZ that he\u2019d kicked a substance abuse habit for 23 years but recently relapsed.<\/p>\n In a 2011 interview with \u201c60 Minutes,\u201d he discussed his past struggles with drug and alcohol addiction.<\/p>\n \u201cAnything I could get my hands on, I liked it all,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n Asked why he decided to sober up, he replied, \u201cYou get panicked. \u2026 I was 22 and I got panicked for my life, it really was, it was just that. And I always think, \u2018God, I have so much empathy for these young actors that are 19 and all of a sudden are beautiful and famous and rich.\u2019 I\u2019m like, \u2018Oh my God. I\u2019d be dead.\u2019\u201d<\/p>\n According to TMZ, Hoffman said last year that he\u2019d fallen off the wagon, started taking prescription pills and slipped into snorting heroin.<\/p>\n The actor\u2019s public comments about his battle with substance abuse illustrate the struggles many addicts face, according to HLN\u2019s Dr. Drew Pinsky, an addiction specialist.<\/p>\n \u201cSomeone with opiate addiction, they are doing pushups their whole lives. And they must work on it all the time. And even working on it, there\u2019s a high probability of relapse. And God willing, they get adequate treatment, and they re-engage in treatment, and things go well,\u201d Pinsky said. \u201cBut often, it\u2019s a frequently fatal condition. We just simply have to continually remind ourselves of that. And now it has taken a glorious, glorious talent from us.\u201d<\/p>\n After he returned from rehab, Hoffman rented the apartment where his body was found Sunday, two neighbors said. The rest of his family lived elsewhere in the neighborhood.<\/p>\n We help you find and contact book\u00a0Foreign Actors<\/span><\/a>\u00a0in China and Foreign Models in China<\/em><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n \u2018He was a giant talent\u2019<\/strong><\/p>\n Word of Hoffman\u2019s death sparked a flood of reactions from actors, directors, studio heads and fans.<\/p>\n \u201cThis is a horrible day for those who worked with Philip,\u201d actor Tom Hanks said in a statement. \u201cHe was a giant talent. Our hearts are open for his family.\u201d<\/p>\n Lionsgate, the studio behind \u201cThe Hunger Games\u201d movies, described Hoffman as \u201ca singular talent and one of the most gifted actors of our generation.\u201d<\/p>\n In a Twitter post, actor Jim Carrey described Hoffman as a \u201cbeautiful soul.\u201d<\/p>\n \u201cFor the most sensitive among us the noise can be too much,\u201d he wrote. \u201cBless your heart.\u201d<\/p>\n Robert DeNiro, who starred opposite Hoffman in the 1999 movie \u201cFlawless,\u201d said he was \u201cvery, very saddened\u201d by Hoffman\u2019s death.<\/p>\n \u201cThis is one of those time where you say \u2018this just shouldn\u2019t be. He was so young and gifted and had so much going, so much to live for.\u2019\u201d<\/p>\n For Mike Nichols, who directed Hoffman in his Oscar-nominated turn in \u201cCharlie Wilson\u2019s War,\u201d there were no words, just grief.<\/p>\n \u201cNo words for this. He was too great and we\u2019re too shattered,\u201d he said in an e-mailed statement.<\/p>\n Police investigating<\/strong><\/p>\n As fans and neighbors gathered outside the apartment building where Hoffman was found, police were combing his apartment for evidence Sunday. As part of the investigation, authorities are looking into whether anyone was with the actor when he died, law enforcement officials said.<\/p>\n An autopsy will be conducted on Hoffman\u2019s body Monday, said Julie Bolcer, a spokeswoman for New York City\u2019s Office of Chief Medical Examiner.<\/p>\n Law enforcement sources told CNN that detectives will track Hoffman\u2019s recent activities to see where he purchased what appears to be heroin.<\/p>\n Moving on the theory that Hoffman\u2019s death was a drug overdose, they\u2019ll now try to seek exactly where he bought it, the sources said.<\/p>\n This will involve searching his phone and trying to track some of his movements, the sources told CNN.<\/p>\n A federal law enforcement official said the \u201cAce of Hearts\u201d and \u201cAce of Spades\u201d stamps on the bags are familiar to law enforcement. They\u2019re among hundreds of stamps drug distribution crews use to brand their products.<\/p>\n Heroin use on the rise, authorities warn<\/strong><\/p>\n Authorities have warned that heroin addiction is soaring and noted an uptick in the availability of the drug.<\/p>\n Last week the Drug Enforcement Administration announced a heroin mill bust in the Bronx, New York, after they seized $8 million worth of the drug.<\/p>\n The DEA has warned that people who are addicted to opioid prescription pills are now finding highly pure heroin easier and cheaper to obtain.<\/p>\n It produces a similar, if more dangerous, high because unlike the pills, there is no way to regulate the dosage of heroin, given the undetermined purity.<\/p>\n That\u2019s why investigators likely won\u2019t have to look far to find where Hoffman could get the drug, Pinsky said.<\/p>\n \u201cIt\u2019s right outside his house, I guarantee you,\u201d he said, \u201cor somewhere nearby.\u201d<\/p>\n
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