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Friends star Matthew Perry has died at age 54 after an apparent drowning, People reports. The actor was reportedly found dead at a Los Angeles-area home after first responders responded to a call for a person suffering cardiac arrest, according to TMZ.Perry is most famous for his work playing Chandler Bing on Friends, which ran from 1994 to 2004. The six-person cast, which also included Jennifer Aniston, Lisa Kudrow, Courtney Cox, David Schwimmer, and Matt Le Blanc, became the basis of a television juggernaut, with each actor earning over $1 million per episode by the final season. Together, they won the 1995 Screen Actors Guild Award for Outstanding Performance by an Ensemble in a Comedy Series. He also received an additional four Emmy solo nominations; one for Friends, two for The West Wing, and one for The Ron Clark Story.In his 2022 memoir, Friends, Lovers, and the Big Terrible Thing, Perry spoke at length about how the cast supported him during his struggle with alcoholism and addiction. “It's like penguins,” he told People. “Penguins, in nature, when one is sick, or when one is very injured, the other penguins surround it and prop it up. They walk around it until that penguin can walk on its own. That's kind of what the cast did for me.”More to come...
Friends star Matthew Perry has died at age 54 after an apparent drowning, People reports. The actor was reportedly found dead at a Los Angeles-area home after first responders responded to a call for a person suffering cardiac arrest, according to TMZ.Perry is most famous for his work playing Chandler Bing on Friends, which ran from 1994 to 2004. The six-person cast, which also included Jennifer Aniston, Lisa Kudrow, Courtney Cox, David Schwimmer, and Matt Le Blanc, became the basis of a television juggernaut, with each actor earning over $1 million per episode by the final season. Together, they won the 1995 Screen Actors Guild Award for Outstanding Performance by an Ensemble in a Comedy Series. He also received an additional four Emmy solo nominations; one for Friends, two for The West Wing, and one for The Ron Clark Story.In his 2022 memoir, Friends, Lovers, and the Big Terrible Thing, Perry spoke at length about how the cast supported him during his struggle with alcoholism and addiction. “It's like penguins,” he told People. “Penguins, in nature, when one is sick, or when one is very injured, the other penguins surround it and prop it up. They walk around it until that penguin can walk on its own. That's kind of what the cast did for me.”More to come...
