Fans of the hit show “Friends” paid homage to Matthew Perry after the actor was found dead on Saturday at his Los Angeles home.
Mr. Perry, who gained fame in the 1990s as the wise-cracking Chandler Bing in the top-rated U.S. television comedy and chronicled his decades-long battle with substance abuse in a memoir last year, died on Oct. 28 at age 54.
His death was confirmed in a statement posted by NBC, the broadcast network that aired “Friends” for 10 years, on the social media platform X, formerly known as Twitter.
The Los Angeles Times and TMZ.com, both citing unnamed law enforcement sources, reported that the American-Canadian performer was found dead in a hot tub or jacuzzi.
NBC News, citing an unnamed representative of Mr. Perry and a law enforcement source, reported the actor was found dead of an apparent drowning at his home in the Pacific Palisades neighborhood of Los Angeles.
Perry was best known for his longtime role as Chandler in the hugely successful “Friends,” which ran for 10 seasons on the NBC network from 1994 to 2004, co-starring Jennifer Aniston, Courteney Cox, David Schwimmer, Matt LeBlanc, and Lisa Kudrow.
The series made international celebrities of all six castmates, who played a close-knit group of young adults who shared space in one another’s apartments and met for coffee at the “Central Perk,” a fictional Manhattan café.
