Associate Press reported earlier today that Oscar winner  Philip Seymour Hoffman was found dead in his apartment in New York City on Sunday.  Hoffman won an Academy Award for the 2005 biographical film CAPOTE.  The actor had in the pass struggled with drug abuse problems.

IMDB Bio: Film and stage actor and theater director Philip Seymour Hoffman was born in the Rochester, New York, suburb of Fairport on July 23, 1967. After becoming involved in high school theatrics, he attended New York University's Tisch School of the Arts, graduating with a B.F.A. degree in Drama in 1989.