Actor Hoffman dead of suspected drug overdose

Philip Seymour Hoffman, one of the leading actors of his generation and winner of an Academy Award for his title role in the film Capote, was found dead in his Manhattan apartment late on Sunday in what a New York police source described as an apparent drug overdose.

Hoffman, 46, was discovered unresponsive on the bathroom floor of his Greenwich Village apartment by police responding to a 911 call.

A police spokesman said investigators found Hoffman with a syringe in his arm and recovered two small plastic bags in the apartment containing a substance suspected of being heroin.