Philip Seymour Hoffman was an American actor and director. He began his acting career in 1991, and in the following year he began to appear in films. He is best known for the role as Truman Capote in the film Capote (2005), which he won an Academy Award for best picture at the Academy Awards. He won three more Academy Awards for best supporting actor in Charlie Wilson’s War, Doubt, and The Master. He was an accomplished actor and director. His mother Marilyn O’Conner is a family court judge and a lawyer. His father Gordon Stowell Hoffman is a former Xerox executive. Philip began acting at the age of 17 at the New York State Summer School of the Arts. His first role in his acting career was as a defendant in a rape case in the Law & Order episode “The Violence of Summer” in 1991. His major breakthrough as a successful movie actor was in the movie Scent of a Woman (1992). He had a successful and respected acting career. He had finished completing all of his majority of the scenes in The Hunger Games: Mockingjay-part 2 film, before his death. He revealed in a 2006 interview with 60 Minutes, that he had suffered from drugs, and alcohol abuse problems, after graduating from college. He went to rehab, and recovered at age 22. 20 years later, he went to rehab, because of problems with prescription pills, and heroin. On February 2, 2014 he was found dead in his bathroom by his friend playwright David Bar Katz at Hoffman’s West Village, Manhattan office apartment. According to the New York City Police Department his death appears to be drug related, which more is later to be known. He was 46 years old. R.I.P. Philip Seymour Hoffman.