Cate Blanchett visits Philip Seymour Hoffman's former apartment with gifts

A teary-eyed Cate Blanchett arrived at the former Jane St. apartment of Philip Seymour Hoffman carrying gifts, which were likely for the late actors three children.

There were tears in actress Cate Blanchetts eyes Monday when she arrived at the West Village apartment building that Philip Seymour Hoffman once called home.

Dressed in black, the Oscar-winner emerged from a black Cadillac and with the help of an assistant she removed a boxed telescope apparently a gift the oldest of Hoffmans now fatherless children, 10-year-old Cooper.

Blanchett and her assistant brought toys, games and a telescope to the apartment building where the late Philip Seymour Hoffman once lived.

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They also took out two large bags that appeared to be toys and games from Hoffmans daughters, Tallulah, 7, and Willa, 5, and carried them inside the Jane Street building.

Blanchett worked with Philip Seymour Hoffman for 1999s The Talented Mr. Ripley.

Blanchett, who is up for another Oscar for her turn in the Woody Allen movie Blue Jasmine, met Hoffman when they worked together on the 1999 movie The Talented Mr. Ripley.

CHRIS PIZZELLO/APThe cast and crew of The Talented Mr. Ripley, including Cate Blanchett (second from right) and Philip Seymour Hoffman (right) in 1999.

Actor Justin Theroux, a close friend of Hoffmans, was also seen leaving the apartment.

Hoffman had lived on Jane Street for many years with the mother of his children, estranged girlfriend Mimi ODonnell.

VICTORIA WILL/INVISION/APPhilip Seymour Hoffman died of an apparent drug overdose on Sunday.

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The substance-abusing actor moved to the $10,000-a-month rental on Bethune St. where he was found dead Sunday not long after he fell off the wagon after over two decades of sobriety.

Jackson Lee/Splash NewsPhilip Seymour Hoffman out with Mimi O'Donnell and their daughters in New York.

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