Philip Seymour Hoffman was bid a somber farewell Friday morning at a private, but celebrity-studded funeral on Manhattan’s Upper East Side.
Some 400 mourners — enough star presence to fill a shelf with Academy Awards — are gathered at the Church of St. Ignatius Loyola.
They include Meryl Streep, Cate Blanchett, Amy Adams, Michelle Williams, Ethan Hawke, Spike Lee, Louis C.K., Joaquin Phoenix, Bobby Canavale, Eric Bogosian, Julianne Moore, Josh Hamilton, Paul Thomas Anderson and Ellen Burstyn.
The burly and brilliant actor was brought to the church in a black Cadillac hearse for the noontime service, followed by four black stretch limos holding his closest loved ones.
A dozen pall bearers carried his brown lacquer coffin up the church’s steep limestone steps.
Hoffman’s partner of 15 years, costume designer Mimi O’Donnell, followed, a pained expression on her face. She held the hand of the couple’s youngest chile five-year-old Willa, with their son, Cooper, 10, and daughter Tallulah, 7, at her side as they entered the church.
Hoffman, 46, was found dead Sunday in the bathroom of his Greenwich Village apartment, a syringe still in his arm and some 70 small bags of heroin, 20 of them empty, in the apartment.
Hoffman’s longtime partner Mimi O’Donnell holds their daughter while comforting their son.Photo: UPI
The star of Hollywood and Broadway was widely regarded as among the best and most hardworking of his generation, described as fearless in his command of ambitious and versatile roles, which numbered more than 50 in a career spanning just under 25 years.
He was nominated for a Tony for his portrayal two years ago of Willy Loman, the title character of Arthur Miller’s “Death of a Salesman.”
He won the best actor Oscar for his portrayal of Truman Capote in the 2005 film “Capote,” and was nominated for Oscars for his leading roles in the films “Doubt,” (2008), “Charlie Wilson’s War,” (2007), and “The Master,” (2013).
Hoffman was vocal about his long struggle against drug and alcohol addiction.
He had told interviewers that he had gone to rehab in his early 20s, and stayed clean for more than two decades, all the while attending meetings for struggling addicts and alcoholics in Greenwich Village.
But he had fallen off the wagon in recent years — posing with drinks in hand for cameras at awards and functions, and confessing to pals last year that a dependence on prescription drugs had escalated again to heroin use.
Friends said he put himself in rehab for ten days in May. Later last year, O’Donnell asked him to leave the family’s Jane Street apartment, and he moved into a $ 10,000-a-month rental on Bethune Street.
Law enforcement sources have told The Post that Hoffman purchased his fatal stash of heroin at around 8 p.m. on the night before he died.
Two dealers, both wearing messenger bags, stood beside the actor as he withdrew $ 1,200 in six installments from an ATM outside a D’Agostino’s near his apartment
The pair are being sought; police have already busted a trio of alleged dealers from a Mott Street apartment after an informant told investigators of seeing Hoffman scoring there months ago.
Cate Blanchett and her husband arrive at Hoffman’s funeral Friday at St. Ignatius Church.Photo: EPA
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