Actor Matthew Perry dies at 54, stories say : NPR

Matthew Perry died on Saturday at age 54 at his Los Angeles dwelling, a number of retailers report. The actor is pictured in 2009 on the L.A. premiere of The Invention of Mendacity.

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Matthew Perry died on Saturday at age 54 at his Los Angeles dwelling, a number of retailers report. The actor is pictured in 2009 on the L.A. premiere of The Invention of Mendacity.

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Actor Matthew Perry, finest identified for enjoying Chandler Bing on the hit TV present Buddies, has died, in keeping with a number of media retailers. He was 54 years outdated.

Perry was discovered lifeless of an obvious drowning at his Los Angeles dwelling on Saturday, in keeping with the Los Angeles Times, celebrity outlet TMZ and different stories.

Perry was solid in Buddies, the sitcom that shot him to fame, at age 24. He starred as Chandler for the sitcom’s total 10-season run, a sarcastic but affable commitment-phobe who later discovered love with the Kind-A Monica Geller (Courteney Cox).

“I liked Chandler, I liked the present, and I additionally knew: Bear in mind this, as a result of it is going to be one of the best time of your life,” Perry stated in an ABC News Nightline interview with Diane Sawyer final 12 months.

However behind the scenes, Perry struggled with habit. He opened up about his decades-long extreme use of alcohol and tablets in his memoir printed final 12 months, Buddies, Lovers and the Massive Horrible Factor. Within the guide, which he devoted to fellow victims of habit, he detailed his painful wrestle with drug use and his associated well being issues: He stated he’d spent half of his life in therapy, detoxed an estimated 65 instances and underwent 14 surgical procedures.

“Each time I ran into one thing that I did not actually need to share, I might consider the those that I might be serving to, and it could preserve me going,” the actor told The New York Times final 12 months.

Whereas on set, Perry stated he tried to maintain his habit hidden and described his unhealthy relationship together with his work.

“I felt like I used to be gonna die if the dwell viewers did not snicker, and that is not wholesome for certain,” Perry wrote in the memoir. “However I may generally say a line and the viewers would not snicker and I might sweat and generally go into convulsions. If I did not get the snicker I used to be speculated to get I might freak out. I felt that each single night time. This strain left me in a foul place. I additionally knew of the six folks making that present, solely one in every of them was sick.”

Buddy and co-star Lisa Kudrow was quoted within the Nightline episode as saying, “Matthew Perry was at all times the one attempting to maintain everybody else glad.”

Perry acquired an Emmy nomination for his Buddies position and two extra for his dramatic flip as affiliate White Home counsel on The West Wing.

Perry additionally starred in a number of movies, together with Fools Rush In, The Complete 9 Yards, 17 Once more and the TV present Studio 60 on the Sundown Strip.

Born in Massachusetts, the actor was raised in numerous components of Canada, usually touring between the houses of his break up mother and father in Los Angeles and Montreal. In Canada, he grew to become a nationally ranked junior tennis participant.

Later in life, the actor moved on to pickleball, the Occasions reported, even getting a courtroom constructed at his new dwelling within the Pacific Palisades.