LOS ANGELES (AP) — Matthew Perry, who starred as Chandler Bing within the hit collection “Pals,” has died. He was 54.
The Emmy-nominated actor was discovered useless of an obvious drowning at his Los Angeles house Saturday, based on the Los Angeles Occasions and celeb web site TMZ, which was the primary to report the information. Each retailers cited unnamed sources confirming Perry’s dying.
His publicists and different representatives didn’t instantly return messages searching for remark. Requested by AP to verify police response to what was listed as Perry’s house handle LAPD Officer Drake Madison instructed The Related Press that officers had gone to that block “for a dying investigation of a male in his 50s.”
Perry’s 10 seasons on “Pals” made him one in all Hollywood’s most recognizable actors, starring reverse Jennifer Aniston, Courteney Cox, Matt LeBlanc, Lisa Kudrow and David Schwimmer as a pal group in New York.
As Chandler, he performed a sarcastic but insecure and neurotic roommate of Joey and Ross, performed by LeBlanc and Schwimmer respectively. By the collection’ finish, Chandler is married to Cox’s Monica and so they have a household, reflecting the journey of the core solid from single New Yorkers to married and beginning households.
The collection was one in all tv’s largest hits and has taken on a brand new life — and located shocking reputation with youthful followers — lately on streaming companies.
The collection ran from 1994 till 2004. A reunion particular in 2021 was hosted by James Corden and fed into large curiosity in seeing the solid collectively once more, though the HBO Max reunion was the actors discussing the present and never a continuation of their characters’ storylines.
Perry acquired one Emmy nomination for his “Pals” function and two extra for appearances as an affiliate White Home counsel on “The West Wing.”
Perry additionally had a number of notable movie roles, starring reverse Salma Hayek within the rom-com “Fools Rush In” and reverse Bruce Willis within the the crime comedy “The Complete 9 Yards.”