Matthew Perry Dies at 54: Matthew Perry, best known for playing Chandler Bing in the hit TV sitcom Friends, has died at 54.
Matthew Perry died in an ostensible drowning at his home in Pacific Palisades, Los Angeles, foundations including atypical for the actor and law enforcement, according to NBC News. An official cause of death has yet to be released.
Warner Bros. Television Group, which broadcast all ten seasons of Friends from 1994 until 2004, honoured “our dear friend” and “an incredibly gifted actor.”
“The impact of his comedic brain was felt worldwide, and his legacy will live on in the cores of so many. This is a heartbreaking day, and we refer our love to his family, his loved ones, and all of his devoted fans,” it transcribed.
Popular Friends Actor Matthew Perry Dies at 54!
After unimportant roles in Growing Pains, Beverly Hills 90210, and Dream On, Perry recorded the role of sarcastic and neurotic Chandler Bing in Friends. The comedy, about six friends living in New York City, quickly became a phenomenon, captivating multiple Emmys and scoring record ratings; the 2004 finale reached more than 52 million audiences in the US, making it the most-watched TV episode of the 2000s.
“People come up to me all day and say, ‘Hey Chandler!’ I do not respond to it,” he said in a 2014 interview. “If somebody says, ‘Hi Matthew, I love your work,’ that is one object. Nevertheless, if somebody goes ‘Yo, Chandler,’ I do not like that. I’m exhausted from it. I’m not Chandler.”
Born in Massachusetts in 1969 to an American dad and a Canadian mom, Perry grew up in Canada as his mother worked as a press assistant to Canadian Prime Minister Pierre Trudeau. In his famous 2022 memoir Friends, Lovers, and the Big Terrible Thing, Perry remembered acting up after his father abandoned his family to chase his thoughts of becoming an actor – including bullying a young Justin Trudeau. “I decided to end my argument with him when he was put in care of an entire army,” he wrote.
At 15, Perry moved to Hollywood with the hope of reconnecting with his daddy. It was there he began to enjoy acting and was eventually marked at a diner, “charming a bunch of young women,” by director William Richert, who left a memo asking him to be in his next movie, A Night in the Life of Jimmy Reardon, together with River Phoenix.
Perry was 24 when he played Chandler and was relatively unknown, like his co-stars Jennifer Aniston, Lisa Kudrow, Matt LeBlanc, then David Schwimmer; Courteney Cox was known for her role in Family Ties. In a 2019 interview, Friends co-creator David Crane supposed Chandler was the most challenging character to cast, with actors Craig Bierko, Jon Cryer, and Jon Favreau also painstaking for the role.
“Marta [Kauffman, co-creator] besides, I was thinking Chandler is just poorly written,” added Crane. “Then Matthew derived in, and you went, ‘Oh, well, there you go. Done. Done. That is the guy.'”
In 2019, he was put in a two-week coma when his Costa Rican colon exploded due to opiate abuse; he underwent surgery by 14 doctors to repair the damage. “At this point in my life, the words of appreciation pour out of me because I should be dead, and yet somehow I am not,” he wrote in Friends, Lovers, and the Big Awful Thing. And at last, Matthew Perry dies at 54!
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