BREAKING; Matthew Perry, Star of ‘Friends,’ Dies at 54

Mr. Perry, who died on Saturday, was best known for his role in “Friends,” the NBC sitcom that followed a group of young professionals living in Manhattan.

Matthew Perry, who portrayed Chandler Bing in the acclaimed sitcom “Friends,” has died. He was 54.

The death was confirmed by Capt. Scot Williams of the Los Angeles Police Department’s Robbery-Homicide division. He said the cause of death was not likely to be determined for some time, but there was no indication of foul play.

Mr. Perry was well known to American television audiences, featuring in over 200 episodes in all 10 seasons of “Friends,” the hit NBC show that followed a group of young professionals living in Manhattan. Mr. Perry starred alongside prominent actors like Jennifer Aniston, David Schwimmer and Lisa Kudrow.

Mr. Perry’s character, Chandler Bing, was notable for his sardonic wit.

“Friends” has endured decades after it first aired in 1994, gaining popularity among young audiences in recent years.

Though best known for “Friends,” Mr. Perry’s career in television spanned nearly four decades, with his earliest credit in 1979, when he was a young child in an episode of the cop show “240-Robert,” according to IMDb. He landed the role of Chandler Bing at 24.He had roles in various television shows in the 2010s, including “Mr. Sunshine,” a 2011 ABC comedy in which he starred as Ben Donovan, the general manager of the Sunshine Center, a San Diego sports and entertainment arena. In that show, he portrayed a gloomy, self-absorbed loner who was turning 40. Mr. Perry also played Oscar Madison opposite the actor Thomas Lennon, who portrayed Felix Unger, in all three seasons of a remake of “The Odd Couple,” which ran on CBS from 2015 to 2017.

“I was a guy who wanted to become famous,” Mr. Perry told The New York Times in a 2002 interview. “There was steam coming out of my ears, I wanted to be famous so badly. You want the attention, you want the bucks, and you want the best seat in the restaurant. I didn’t think what the repercussions would be.”

Mr. Perry had a history of addiction and related medical problems that, by his accounting, led him to spend more than half his life in treatment centers or sober living facilities.