‘Friends’ actor Matthew Perry found dead in hot tub at Los Angeles home
The actor, famous for playing Chandler Bing in the sitcom, was found unresponsive in a hot tub at his home in Los Angeles, media reports said
Matthew Perry, famous for playing Chandler in popular sitcom of the 90s Friends, was found dead at his Los Angeles home on Saturday (October 28), media reports said. Perry was 54.
Perry’s publicists and other representatives did not immediately return messages seeking comment. Asked by The Associated Press to confirm police response to what was listed as Perry's home address LAPD Officer Drake Madison said that officers had gone there "for a death investigation of a male in his 50s.”
Perry's 10 seasons on Friends made him one of Hollywood's most recognisable actors, starring opposite Jennifer Aniston, Courteney Cox, Matt LeBlanc, Lisa Kudrow and David Schwimmer as a friend group in New York.
As Chandler, he played a sarcastic yet insecure and neurotic roommate of Joey and Ross, played by LeBlanc and Schwimmer respectively. By the series' end, Chandler is married to Cox's Monica and they have a family, reflecting the journey of the core cast from single New Yorkers to married and starting families. The series was one of television's biggest hits and has taken on a new life — and found surprising popularity with younger fans — in recent years on streaming services. The series ran from 1994 until 2004. A reunion special in 2021 was hosted by James Corden and fed into huge interest in seeing the cast together again, although the HBO Max reunion was the actors discussing the show and not a continuation of their characters' storylines.
Perry received one Emmy nomination for his Friends role and two more for appearances as an associate White House counsel on The West Wing. Perry also had several notable film roles, starring opposite Salma Hayek in the rom-com Fools Rush In and opposite Bruce Willis in the crime comedy The Whole Nine Yards.
(With inputs from agencies)
