Philip Seymour Hoffman’s nearest and dearest — including longtime girlfriend Mimi O’Donnell and the couple’s three young children — gathered at an Upper East Side funeral home Thursday to begin their final farewells to the actor.
“American Hustle” star Amy Adams and Hoffman pal Justin Theroux were among the first Hollywood celebrities to arrive at Thursday night’s private and tightly secured function.
Joaquin Phoenix, John C. Reilly, Michelle Williams, Ethan Hawke and Cate Blanchett, all stage and screen co-stars of Hoffman’s, also attended.
But despite the many bold-face names, it was O’Donnell and the couple’s three grade-school children — a young family left ruptured by his apparent heroin overdose Sunday — who held the gathering’s guests and scores of journalists spellbound.
O’Donnell left her Jane Street apartment with Cooper, 10, Tallulah, 7, and Willa, 5, some 90 minutes before the wake’s 5 p.m. start time.
Brave Cooper exited the reporter-ringed building first, wearing a dark sweater and black slacks, followed by his mom, who wore a dark coat and heels, a blue scarf at her neck.
The mom held little Willa’s hand and exchanged a sad look with the girl as they joined Cooper in crossing from the front door to a chauffeured black GMC Yukon XL.
“Look at all the snow!” the mom then said to her youngest child, who wore leopard-print shoes and a frilly purple dress with a white ribbon at the waist under her dark coat.
Big sister Tallulah wore jeans and a lime-green shirt under a dark coat.
Both girls sucked on lollipops as they ducked into the waiting vehicle.
The family arrived at the Frank E. Campbell Funeral Home on Madison Avenue and East 81st Street at 4:10 p.m. O’Donnell, her face etched with grief, cradled Willa as they entered.
Hoffman’s mother, Marilyn O’Connor, and brother, Gordy, were already inside.
Thursday’s four-hour wake will be followed Friday by a funeral Mass at nearby St. Ignatius of Loyola church on Park Avenue.
Hoffman, 46, was found dead, with more than 20 empty and another 49 full envelopes of heroin in his apartment. He’d rented the $10,000-a-month Bethune Street home after O’Donnell reportedly asked him to leave due to his drug abuse.
She became alarmed when the “Capote” Oscar winner failed to pick up the kids that morning, as planned. She called his playwright pal, David Bar Katz, who, along with the actor’s assistant Isabella Wing-Davey, found Hoffman’s body.
The “Boogie Nights” actor had struggled with addiction in recent months.
He checked into a rehab program for 10 days last May after a prescription-drug addiction spiraled into heroin use, a relapse that ended 23 years of narcotics sobriety.
Additional reporting by Frank Rosario
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