Chandler From ‘Friends’ Dies at 54 – Billboard

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

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

His publicists and different representatives didn’t instantly reply to messages in search of remark. Requested to substantiate police response to what was listed as Perry’s residence tackle, LAPD Officer Drake Madison informed the Related Press that officers had gone to that block “for a loss of life investigation of a male in his 50s.”

Perry’s 10 seasons on Mates made him one among 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 Metropolis.

As Chandler, he performed the quick-witted, insecure and neurotic roommate of LeBlanc’s Joey and an in depth pal of Schwimmer’s Ross. By the sequence’ finish, Chandler is married to Cox’s Monica they usually have a household, reflecting the journey of the core solid from single New Yorkers to married and beginning households.

The sequence was one among tv’s largest hits and has taken on a brand new life — and located shocking recognition with youthful followers — in recent times on streaming companies.

Mates 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 on the time was the battle Perry had with dependancy and an intense want to please audiences.

“Mates was large. I couldn’t jeopardize that. I beloved the script. I beloved my co-actors … I beloved every little thing in regards to the present however I used to be combating my addictions which solely added to my sense of disgrace,” he wrote in his memoir, Mates, Lovers and the Massive Horrible Factor. “I had a secret and nobody might know.”

“I felt like I used to be gonna die if the reside viewers didn’t snigger, and that’s not wholesome for positive. However I might generally say a line and the viewers wouldn’t snigger and I’d sweat and generally go into convulsions,” Perry wrote. “If I didn’t get the snigger I used to be presupposed to get I’d freak out. I felt that each single night time. This stress left me in a nasty place. I additionally knew of the six individuals making that present, solely one among them was sick.”

An HBO Max reunion particular in 2021 was hosted by James Corden and fed into large 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 obtained one Emmy nomination for his Mates position 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 Bruce Willis within the the crime comedy The Entire 9 Yards.