The Oscar-winning actor was found dead of an apparent drug overdose, news reports said, quoting a New York police source.
He was found on the bathroom floor with a syringe in his arm, the reports said.
In its front-page obituary, the New York Times referred to Hoffman as "perhaps the most ambitious and widely admired American actor of his generation."
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Park Sae-jin
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