Philip Seymour Hoffman

 Philip Seymour Hoffman (July 23, 1967 – February 2, 2014)

He was prolific in both film and theater from the early 1990s until his death at age 46, after which The New York Times declared him "perhaps the most ambitious and widely admired American actor of his generation". In 2005, Hoffman portrayed the author Truman Capote in Capote, for which he won multiple acting awards including the Academy Award for Best Actor. His three other Oscar nominations came for his supporting work playing a brutally frank CIA officer in Charlie Wilson's War (2007), a priest accused of pedophilia in Doubt (2008), and the charismatic leader of a nascent Scientology-type movement in The Master (2012). He also received critical acclaim for roles in Owning Mahowny (2003), Before the Devil Knows You're Dead (2007), The Savages (2007), Synecdoche, New York (2008), Moneyball (2011), and The Ides of March (2011). In 2010, Hoffman directed his first feature film, Jack Goes Boating. Hoffman struggled with drug addiction as a young adult, and relapsed in 2012 after many years of sobriety.

In February 2014, he died in his apartment of combined drug intoxication. Detectives searching the apartment found heroin and prescription medications at the scene, and revealed that Hoffman was discovered with a needle in his arm. Hoffman was 46 years old.