Oscar winning actor Philip Seymour Hoffman has been found dead in his Manhattan apartment after an apparent overdose.

Hoffman, who was 46, won the Academy Award for Best actor for the 2005 film, Capote. The American actor and father of three was found in his bathroom on Sunday morning on the 4th floor of his West Village Apartment according to law enforcement officials with a syringe still sticking out of his arm surrounded by bags of heroin. The actor had appeared in several New York based films; Scent of a Woman (1992), The Talented Mr. Ripley (1999), Almost Famous (2000), 25th Hour (2002), Along Came Polly (2004), Before the Devil Knows You're Dead (2007), Synecdoche, New York (2008) and Jack Goes Boating (2010).