Actor Gene Hackman has been found dead along with his wife, Betsy Arakawa, and a dog in their Santa Fe home, the Santa Fe County Sheriff’s Office said early Thursday.

Hackman, a two-time Oscar winner, was 95. Arakawa, a classical pianist, was 64, the sheriff’s office said.

“Foul play is not suspected as a factor in those deaths at this time, however exact cause of death has not been determined,” the office’s public information officer Denise Womack-Avila said in an emailed statement, adding that the investigation was ongoing.

“On February 26, 2025 at approximately 1:45 p.m., Santa Fe County Sheriff’s deputies were dispatched to an address on Old Sunset Trail in Hyde Park,” the statement said. “This is an active and ongoing investigation by the Santa Fe County Sheriff’s Office.”

Hackman and Arakawa spent the past few decades living in houses they had built for themselves in the artist-friendly Santa Fe, where Hackman painted, sculpted and wrote historical fiction.

The couple married in 1991 following Hackman’s divorce from his first wife, Filipa “Faye” Maltese, with whom he had three children.

Hackman’s long and storied career in Hollywood spanned 100 screen credits and five Oscar nominations, which he won twice for bringing humanizing depth to corrupt lawmen in “The French Connection” and “Unforgiven.”

He breathed life into a number of on-screen villains, from Lex Luthor in three installments of the smash hit “Superman” franchise, to the older brother of the outlaw Clyde in “Bonnie and Clyde” (1967), to a sinister law partner in “The Firm” (1993) to a sleazy low-rent movie producer in “Get Shorty” (1995).

“Villains are always the best roles,” particularly when the characters are given depth, Hackman told The Washington Post in 1996. “It’s the best kind of acting.”

“There is some quote that people live their lives trying to change the world to fit their own prejudices. That’s kind of interesting. We all do that to some extent,” he said. “We make the world the way we want it to be.”

Francis Ford Coppola, who directed Hackman in “The Conversation” (1974) called Hackman a “great actor” and a “great artist” in a tribute posted on Instagram. “The loss of a great artist, always cause for both mourning and celebration: Gene Hackman a great actor, inspiring and magnificent in his work and complexity,” the post reads. “I mourn his loss, and celebrate his existence and contribution.”

“What a colossal loss for cinema today,” Studio Canal UK posted on X, calling Hackman “one of the true greats.”