“Friends” star Matthew Perry has passed away.
According to Los Angeles Times, Perry 54, was found dead in a hot tub on Saturday in his Los Angeles home.
Authorities responded about 4 p.m. to his home, where he was discovered unresponsive.
The Los Angeles Police Department’s robbery-homicide detectives are investigating the death.
Yellow-and-black LAPD crime scene tape blocked off the entrance to Bluesail Drive on Saturday evening.
The cause of death will be determined at a later date by the Los Angeles County coroner’s office.
Los Angeles Times reported that sources, who spoke on condition of anonymity because the investigation was ongoing, did not cite a cause of death.
"There was no sign of foul play," the sources added.
They also reported that Perry’s mother, Suzanne, and her husband, broadcaster Keith Morrison, joined the journalists and LAPD officers on the scene shortly after 7 p.m.
However, Perry's mother refused to comment.
Warner Bros were among the first people to break the news of Perry's death.
“We are devastated by the passing of our dear friend Matthew Perry,” Warner Bros. Television Group, which produced “Friends,” they said in a statement.
They eulogised Perry as an incredibly gifted actor and an indelible part of Warner Bros.
Los Angeles Times reported that Perry, the son of actor John Bennett Perry and Suzanne Marie Langford, onetime press secretary of Canadian Prime Minister Pierre Trudeau, was born in 1969.
He grew up between Montreal and Los Angeles after his parents separated when Perry was 1.
He got his start as a child actor, landing guest spots on “Charles in Charge” and “Beverly Hills 90210” and playing opposite River Phoenix in the film “A Night in the Life of Jimmy Reardon” in the 1980s and early 1990s.
But his big break came when he was cast in “Friends” — originally titled “Friends Like Us” — a sitcom about six single New Yorkers navigating adulthood that premiered on NBC in 1994.
The series soon became a juggernaut, the anchor of the network’s vaunted Thursday-night “Must-See TV” lineup, and turned Perry and his castmates Jennifer Aniston, Courteney Cox, Lisa Kudrow, Matt LeBlanc and David Schwimmer into mega-stars almost overnight.
