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Actor Philip Seymour Hoffman Found Dead

Posted at 2:04 PM, Feb 02, 2014
and last updated 2014-02-02 14:12:24-05

Screen shot 2014-02-02 at 2.05.24 PM(CNN) — Oscar-winning actor Philip Seymour Hoffman has been found dead of an apparent drug overdose in his Manhattan apartment, law enforcement sources said Sunday.

Hoffman, 46, was found in the bathroom of the fourth-floor apartment, the sources told CNN.

Hoffman won an Academy Award for best actor for the 2005 biopic “Capote.”

He also appeared in “Charlie Wilson’s War,” “Doubt,” and “The Master,” for which he was nominated as best supporting actor.