Monteith’s body was found Saturday around noon in a room on the 21st floor of the Pacific Rim hotel.
He had checked in July 6 and was scheduled to check out Saturday, but did not.
Hotel staff found his body when they went to his room. Police indicated the cause of death was not immediately apparent and there were no signs of foul play.
He had been dead for several hours before hotel staff found his body.
Cory Allan Michael Monteith was a Canadian actor and singer, known for his role as Finn Hudson on the Fox television series Glee from 2009 until his death in 2013.
Born in Calgary and raised in Victoria, Monteith had a troubled adolescence involving substance abuse from age 13 onwards, and he left school at age 16. After an intervention by family and friends, he entered drug rehabilitation at age 19, and began rebuilding his life.
As an actor based out of Vancouver, he had smaller roles on such television series as Stargate Atlantis and Smallville before an audition tape of him singing “Can’t Fight This Feeling” helped to land him the biggest role of his career, Finn on Glee, introducing him to an international audience as a high school quarterback who is at first reluctant to join the high school singing club.
In later seasons, the character had graduated but returned as a singing coach. Following his success on Glee, Monteith‘s film work included the movie Monte Carlo and a starring role in Sisters & Brothers.
In an interview with Parade magazine in 2011, he discussed his past history of substance abuse, and in April 2013 he again sought treatment for addiction. His body was found in a Vancouver hotel room in July 2013.
