Matthew Perry, best known for his iconic role as Chandler Bing on « Friends, » was found dead on Saturday.
In the wake of Matthew Perry’s , reactions and tributes from the beloved actor’s « Friends » community, including some of his former co-stars, have flooded social media with paying homage to Perry’s life and legacy, both on and offscreen.
Perry was found dead at a home in the Pacific Palisades neighborhood of Los Angeles after police responded to a 911 call for a water rescue on Saturday afternoon, an LAPD watch commander confirmed to CBS Los Angeles. He was 54.
Known best for his iconic portrayal of Chandler Bing on the long-running sitcom « Friends, » Perry won international recognition and critical acclaim for some of the many acting credits he earned throughout what was a prolific Hollywood career. In addition to « Friends, » he starred in television series and films like « Studio 60 on the Sunset Strip, » « Growing Pains, » « Ally McBeal, » « 17 Again, » « The Whole Nine Yards, » « The West Wing » and a 2015 reboot of « The Odd Couple. »
Perry received an Emmy nomination in 2002 for outstanding lead actor in a comedy series for his role as Chandler Bing, and, later, Emmy and Golden Globe nominations for his performance in the 2007 miniseries, « The Ron Clark Story. » His struggles with substance use were well documented, and he shared more details about those experiences in a memoir released last year titled, « Friends, Lovers and the Big Terrible Thing. »
Perry looked back on the years playing Chandler alongside his « Friends » co-stars — Jennifer Aniston, Courteney Cox, Lisa Kudrow, Matt LeBlanc and David Schwimmer — and reflected on the group’s lasting bond in an emotional sit-down with the cast featured in HBO Max’s 2021 .
« The best way that I can describe it is after the show was over, at a party or any kind of social gathering, if one of us bumped into each other, that was it. That was the end of the night. You just sat with the person all night long and that was it, » Perry said.
« You apologized to the people you were with, but they had to understand you had met somebody special to you and you were going to talk to that person for the rest of the night, » he continued.
