Chandler From ‘Friends’ Dies at 54 – Billboard

Matthew Perry, who starred as sarcastic however candy Chandler Bing within the hit sequence Friends, has died. He was 54.

The Emmy-nominated actor was discovered lifeless of an obvious drowning at his Los Angeles house Saturday (Oct. 28), in line with the Los Angeles Times and TMZ, which was the primary to report the information. Both retailers cited unnamed sources confirming Perry’s dying.

His publicists and different representatives didn’t instantly reply to messages in search of remark. Asked to verify police response to what was listed as Perry’s house handle, LAPD Officer Drake Madison informed the Associated Press that officers had gone to that block “for a death investigation of a male in his 50s.”

Perry’s 10 seasons on Friends made him considered one of Hollywood’s most recognizable actors, starring reverse Jennifer Aniston, Courteney Cox, Matt LeBlanc, Lisa Kudrow and David Schwimmer as a good friend group in New York City.

As Chandler, he performed the quick-witted, insecure and neurotic roommate of LeBlanc’s Joey and a detailed good friend of Schwimmer’s Ross. By the sequence’ 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 sequence was considered one of tv’s largest hits and has taken on a brand new life — and located stunning recognition with youthful followers — in recent times on streaming providers.

Friends ran from 1994 till 2004, and the solid notably banded collectively for later seasons to acquire a wage of $1 million per episode for every.

Unknown at the time was the wrestle Perry had with dependancy and an intense need to please audiences.

“Friends was huge. I couldn’t jeopardize that. I loved the script. I loved my co-actors … I loved everything about the show but I was struggling with my addictions which only added to my sense of shame,” he wrote in his memoir, Friends, Lovers and the Big Terrible Thing. “I had a secret and no one could know.”

“I felt like I was gonna die if the live audience didn’t laugh, and that’s not healthy for sure. But I could sometimes say a line and the audience wouldn’t laugh and I would sweat and sometimes go into convulsions,” Perry wrote. “If I didn’t get the laugh I was supposed to get I would freak out. I felt that every single night. This pressure left me in a bad place. I also knew of the six people making that show, only one of them was sick.”

An HBO Max reunion particular in 2021 was hosted by James Corden and fed into big curiosity in seeing the solid collectively once more, though this system consisted of the actors discussing the present and was not a continuation of their characters’ storylines.

Perry acquired one Emmy nomination for his Friends function and two extra for appearances as an affiliate White House 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 Bruce Willis within the the crime comedy The Whole Nine Yards.