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Another big loss for the tinsel town! Academy Awards winner and perhaps the most ambitious and widely admired American actor of his generation, Philip Seymour Hoffman tragically passed away at the age of 46.

The only actor to have given a three-dimensional nuance to a wide range of sidekicks, villains and leading men on screen and lug some of theater's most cumbersome roles on Broadway, died on Sunday at an apartment in Greenwich Village he was renting as an office.

His body was found by a friend who at once alerted the emergency services. Police say he apparently died of a drug overdose. Investigators discovered a syringe in his arm and, nearby, an envelope containing what appeared to be heroin.

Hoffmann, much revered for his films like Boogie Nights and the Big Lebowski, won the best actor Oscar for his 2005 portrayal of writer Truman Capote.

Mr. Hoffman had been struggling with addiction for years now. In 2006, he said in an interview with “60 Minutes” that he had given up drugs and alcohol many years earlier, when he was 22.

Last year, he checked into a rehabilitation program again for about 10 days, after a reliance on prescription pills pushed him back to his heroin addiction.

Rest in peace Philip Seymour Hoffman!

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