Matthew Perry’s Gravesite Finally Marked With Plaque Honoring His ‘Friends’ Legacy

More than two years after the death of Matthew Perry, the beloved actor’s gravesite has finally been marked with a plaque honoring both his life and his most famous role as Chandler Bing on Friends.

Entertainment Weekly recently visited Perry’s final resting place at Forest Lawn Memorial Park and found a newly installed plaque on a section of the mausoleum that had previously been unmarked. The plaque reads “Matthew Langford Perry,” followed by his birth and death dates — August 19, 1969, to October 28, 2023 — and the epitaph “Much Loved — Friend —,” a clear nod to his iconic sitcom role.

During the visit, the site was decorated with flowers and personal tributes. One bouquet included a note that read, “Thank you for the memories. You are far from forgotten.” A Batman-themed keychain was also left behind, referencing Perry’s longtime love for the Caped Crusader — a character he often joked about and even nicknamed himself after as “Mattman.”

Perry’s remains are located in a private outdoor mausoleum area called the Sanctuary of Treasured Love. Nearby are the graves of fellow actor Michael Clarke Duncan, as well as the shared resting place of Carrie Fisher and her mother Debbie Reynolds. Other notable figures buried in the same area include Bette Davis, Liberace, Ronnie James Dio, and Freddie Prinze.

The larger cemetery is also the resting place of stars such as Brittany Murphy, Paul Walker, John Ritter, Buster Keaton, Bill Paxton, Stan Laurel, and David Carradine.

Not far from Perry’s site lies the grave of John Aniston, father of Perry’s close friend and Friends co-star Jennifer Aniston. John Aniston died in November 2022, less than a year before Perry’s passing.

Perry died at age 54 after being found unresponsive in a hot tub at his Los Angeles home. His death was ruled the result of the acute effects of ketamine. In the months that followed, several individuals were charged in connection with illegally supplying the drug. Former doctor Salvador Plasencia was sentenced to 30 months in federal prison, while another doctor, Mark Chavez, received eight months of home detention. Additional defendants are still awaiting sentencing.

After Perry’s death, his Friends co-stars — Aniston, Courteney Cox, Lisa Kudrow, Matt LeBlanc, and David Schwimmer — released a joint statement calling themselves a family and asking for time to grieve.

In later interviews, Aniston spoke openly about Perry’s long struggle with addiction, saying the group had tried to help him whenever possible. Perry himself detailed those struggles in his 2022 memoir Friends, Lovers, and the Big Terrible Thing, and became a strong advocate for addiction recovery, even turning his former Malibu home into a sober living facility.

Decades after Friends ended in 2004, the show remains one of the most popular sitcoms in television history. Perry reunited with his castmates in 2021 for HBO Max’s special Friends: The Reunion, celebrating the series that made him a household name — and cemented a legacy that fans continue to honor today.