Philip Seymour Hoffman found dead in his appartment with a needle in arm. Cops said that he died due to drug overdose.  His personal assistant found Hoffman’s body in his apartment at 35 Bethune St. and called 911 around 11:30 a.m, sources said that "Heroin was found in the pad".

Hoffman is shooting “The Hunger Games: Mockingjay – Part 2” and was in post-production for a Showtime series “Happyish.” Philip Seymour Hoffman was seen in the audience just over a week ago at Broadway’s “Waiting for Godot.”

He also won the Best Actor Oscar for the film “Capote” in 2005, and received three Academy Award nominations as Best Supporting Actor for other movies.

In 2006 he admitted that he nearly succumbed to substance abuse after graduating from NYU’s drama school, but got sober in rehab. He told "60 Minutes", “It was all that (drugs and alcohol), yeah. It was anything I could get my hands on…I liked it all”.

Last year, he reportedly checked himself into rehab again for ten days after relapsing in 2012. TMZ said that he began using prescription pills, then snorted heroin for about a week before realizing he needed help.