Actor Heath Ledger dead at 28

NEW YORK (CNN) - Actor Heath Ledger was found dead Tuesday of a possible drug overdose in a Lower Manhattan apartment, the New York Police Department said. He was 28 years old.

"Pills were found in the vicinity of the bed," police spokesman Paul Browne told CNN. "This is being looked at as a possible overdose, but that is not confirmed yet."

Browne said Ledger said he was found by a housekeeper who had gone to wake him for an appointment with a masseuse in the Soho apartment.