Philip Seymour Hoffman 1967-2014
Philip Seymour Hoffman is seen at the Los Angeles premiere of "The Hunger Games: Catching Fire," at Nokia Theatre LA Live on Monday, Nov. 18, 2013.
The Academy Award-winning actor was found dead in his apartment in New York City on
Sunday, February 2, 2014, of an apparent drug overdose, according to the New York Police Department. He was 46.
By CBSNews.com senior producer David Morgan
"Capote"
Born in 1967 in Fairport, New York, Hoffman was interested in acting from an early age, mesmerized at 12 by a local production of Arthur Miller's "All My Sons." He studied theater as a teenager, then majored in drama at New York University.
In his Oscar acceptance speech for "Capote" (pictured left), he thanked his mother for raising him and his three siblings alone, and for taking him to his first play. Hoffman's parents divorced when he was 9.
"Boogie Nights"
Hoffman's first onscreen acting job was as a drug dealer defendant in "Law and Order." He played a prep school student in the Al Pacino film, "Scent of a Woman," and was in the cast of "Boogie Nights" (left), Paul Thomas Anderson's 1997 drama about the pornographic film industry. It would be one of several Anderson films in which Hoffman starred.
"The Big Lebowski"
"Happiness"
"Flawless"
"Magnolia"
"State & Main"
"Almost Famous"
"Red Dragon"
"The 25th Hour"
"Along Came Polly"
Philip Seymour Hoffman and Ben Stiller in "Along Came Polly" (2004).
Some actors look like Hollywood stars no matter whom they play. Not Hoffman. "Yeah, I just try to look the way that the part is supposed to look," he told "Sunday Morning"'s Mo Rocca in 2012. "And I think most people don't look put together in normal life. For most people, their hair is a little uncomfortable. Unless they are people who have jobs and are in front of the camera, most people are kind of walking around looking like people."
"Capote"
In "Capote" (2005), Philip Seymour Hoffman stared as writer Truman Capote researching the notorious murders that would form the spine of his greatest success, the true-live crime novel, "In Cold Blood."
Hoffman told Mo Rocca that he resisted the role of Capote at first: "I'm very far away from him in so many ways. I'm like 5'10", and I weigh like 230. You know, I'm a big guy. And that was the least of it. It was really just, was I going to be able to understand and pull it off? I was just concerned about that.
"And then eventually I go, 'All right, let's just do it.' And then you kind of realize that your gut leads the way and you trust that. And that's what I did."
"Mission Impossible III"
"The Savages"
Philip Seymour Hoffman and Laura Linney as
siblings coping with a father suffering from dementia in "The
Savages" (2007) - and it was hard
to believe the two weren't related.
"There`s something about us that was like siblings, an immediate trust,
quirkiness, and a similar sense of humor," Hoffman said. "It was as
if we had experienced similar things growing up that formed us."
"Before the Devil Knows You're Dead"
"Charlie Wilson's War"
"Synecdoche, New York"
"Doubt"
"Doubt"
Meryl Streep as Sister Aloysius Beauvier and Philip Seymour Hoffman as Father Flynn in "Doubt" (2008), directed by playwright John Patrick Shanley.
"Max & Mary"
"Jack Goes Boating"
"The Ides of March"
"Moneyball"
"Death of A Salesman"
"The Master"
"The Master"
"The Master"
"A Late Quartet"
New York City
"The Hunger Games: Catching Fire"
Philip Seymour Hoffman as Plutarch Heavensbee, the head Gamemaker, with Donald Sutherland as President Snow, in the 2013 science fiction film, "The Hunger Games: Catching Fire."
"The Hunger Games: Catching Fire"
Philip Seymour Hoffman and Woody Harrelson in "The Hunger Games: Catching Fire."
Hoffman was due to reprise that role in the two-part sequel, "The Hunger Games: Mockingjay," which was already in production.
Sundance Film Festival
Willem Dafoe, Rachel McAdams and Philip Seymour Hoffman, of the film "A Most Wanted Man," pose for a portrait during the 2014 Sundance Film Festival at the WireImage Portrait Studio at the Village At The Lift on January 19, 2014 in Park City, Utah.
In addition to "A Most Wanted Man," another film featuring Hoffman, "God's Pocket," also premiered at Sundance.
Philip Seymour Hoffman
In a 2006 interview with "60 Minutes," Hoffman told Steve Kroft that he went into rehab at a very early age - 22 - because he feared his substance abuse would kill him – and he had so much he still wanted to do.
Last May, after more than two decades clean and sober, Hoffman reportedly checked himself into rehab.
Hoffman was found dead in his New York City apartment on Sunday, Feb. 2, 2014.
By CBSNews.com senior producer David Morgan