Robin Williams, who is known as an Oscar-winning actor and comedian, was found dead on Monday, from an apparent suicide at his home in Northern California. He was 63.
The comedian’s appeal stretched across generations and genres, from family fare as the voice of Disney blue Genie in “Aladdin” to his portrayal of a fatherly therapist in the 1997 drama “Good Will Hunting,” for which he earned his sole Oscar.
Williams’ wife Susan Schneider, who was heart broken with the incident said in a statement on Monday, ”I lost my husband and my best friend, while the world lost one of its most beloved artists and beautiful human beings”.
According to his Publicist Mara Buxbaum said,Williams had been recently suffering from severe depression, and the actor had repeatedly talked about his past struggles with alcohol.
The Marin County Sheriff’s coroner’s division, said it suspected Williams committed suicide by asphyxia, but the cause of death is still under investigation and an autopsy will be conducted Tuesday.
The Marin County Sheriff’s office, said it received an emergency call about noon local time on Monday, that Williams was unconscious and not breathing at his home near Tiburon, north of San Francisco.
His representatives at the time said, Williams was not using drugs or alcohol but had gone to the centre to “fine-tune and focus” his sobriety after working a longer-than-usual schedule.
United State President, Barack Obama, was one of many offering condolences to his family when he said: ”Williams arrived in our lives as an alien but he ended up touching every element of human spirit”.
Outside the family home in a neighborhood of low-slung houses with water views, people left flowers and talked about the man who rode his bike around and had a smile and a wave for children on the street.
The death of Williams shook Hollywood, and colleagues mourned the loss of what many called a big-hearted man and one of the most inventive comedians of his time.
