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Heath Ledger
Heath Andrew Ledger was an Australian actor. Known for his versatility across independent and major studio films, his work consisted of 20 films in a variety of genres. His accolades included an Academy Award, an Actor Award, a BAFTA Award, and a Golden Globe Award.
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entertainment · Australian actor (1979–2008) · television actor · film director · film actor · character actor · actor · also Heath Ledger, Ledger
Born 4 April 1979 · Died 22 January 2008 · Q40572
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2026· 3 entries
“down-to-earth, generous, kind hearted, life-loving, unselfish individual”
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The Guardian: ‘Heath Ledger knocked my tooth out jousting with a broom’: how we made A Knight’s Tale
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2025· 1 entry
The Guardian: ‘I said goodbye to Heath Ledger at this urinal’: a stroll round Terry Gilliam’s pivotal places
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2024· 3 entries
The Guardian: Celebrity lookalike phenomenon reaches Australia with Heath Ledger contest - video
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The Guardian: Heath Ledger’s Joker was based on a Francis Bacon painting, says Christopher Nolan
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Snopes rated the claim “An old Polaroid photograph shows a young Heath Ledger, Joseph Gordon-Levitt, Julia Stiles and Larissa Oleynik of the 1999 film "10 Things I Hate About You."” Mostly True.
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2023· 1 entry
PolitiFact rated the claim “Princess Diana, actor Heath Ledger and musician John Lennon were “killed for exposing the truth.”” False.
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2021· 2 entries
Snopes rated the claim “Heath Ledger improvised in the hospital scene in "The Dark Knight" after something went wrong with the explosions.” False.
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Snopes rated the claim “Heath Ledger's Joker is hidden in a restaurant scene in "The Dark Knight."” False.
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2018· 1 entry
Snopes rated the claim “A photograph shows Heath Ledger's Joker doing a skateboard kickflip over Batman.” False.
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2017· 6 entries
The Guardian: From Mick Jagger to Heath Ledger: Australia's bungled quest to make a great Ned Kelly film
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Snopes.com rated the claim “A photograph shows actors Heath Ledger and Cillian Murphy posing together.” False.
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The Guardian: I Am Heath Ledger review – uncommonly tender portrait avoids the hard questions
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The Guardian: 'He was super happy': Heath Ledger film fights perception actor was depressed
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The Guardian: I Am Heath Ledger trailer: 'Even as a supporting actor, he will steal the whole show' – video
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Jason Payne-James, a forensic pathologist, asserted that Ledger might have survived if hydrocodone and oxycodone had been left out of the combination of drugs that the actor took just prior to his death
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2011· 1 entry
That he had begun working on the song in 2008 and was scheduled to meet with a music video director who was good friends with Ledger, Matt Amato
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2009· 5 entries
Won Golden Globe Award for Best Supporting Actor – Motion Picture for The Dark Knight (2009).
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Awarded MTV Movie Award for Best Villain for The Dark Knight (2009).
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Awarded Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor for The Dark Knight (2009).
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Awarded Saturn Award for Best Supporting Actor for The Dark Knight (2009).
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Awarded BAFTA Award for Best Actor in a Supporting Role for The Dark Knight (2009).
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2008· 13 entries
Died 2008-01-22.
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“In this industry, interest in you comes in waves, it's so tidal. And so I don't really want to jump on the first wave that comes along.”
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“s US$16.3 million estate to Matilda Rose Ledger. Legacy Memorial tributes and services As the news of Ledger”
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“Heath Ledger, ator, sobre contracenar com Jake Gyllenhaal no papel de caubóis gays em O Segredo de Brokeback Mountain”
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“I had a year where I sat around on my butt and declined generous offers to do more teen movies and more of the same characters as the one from 10 Things. I was literally living off Ramen noodles and water just because I was sticking to my guns. It was very hard because they offer you so much money. It's so easy to say, 'Ah fuck it, at least I can live and eat.”
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“I only do this because I'm having fun. The day I stop having fun, I'll just walk away.”
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“[I'm] an extremely private dude and all this is happening so damn quick. I really haven't had any time to rationalize it. But it's nothing that I'm going to let freak me out or take control of me or my thoughts or my real life.”
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“I love acting. Oh, God, I love it. But all this fame and all this bullshit attention. I'm not supernatural. I've done nothing extremely special to deserve the position. It happens every couple of years, and it's happened to hundreds of people before me.”
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“I'm not good at future planning. I don't plan at all. I don't know what I'm doing tomorrow. I don't have a day planner and I don't have a diary. I completely live in the now, not in the past, not in the future.”
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“I'm in control of my life, not anyone in Hollywood. I only do this because I'm having fun. The day I stop having fun, I'll just walk away. I wasn't going to have fun doing a teen movie again. I don't want to do this for the rest of my life. I don't. I don't even want to spend the rest of my youth doing this in this industry. There's so much more I want to discover.”
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“When anything is blocking my head or there's worry in my life, I just go sit on Mars or something and look back here at Earth. All you can see is this tiny speck. You don't see the fear. You don't see the pain. You don't see thought. It's just one solid speck. Then nothing really matters. It just doesn't.”
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“It's like anything in life, visualizing the old man you're going to become: As long as you have a clear picture of that — the life you want to lead — eventually you'll probably get there.”
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“I have never had great expectations of my performance or of a film. I try not to think about the outcome. If you look that far ahead, it sort of taints your choices as an actor. I try as hard as I can to believe that no one is ever going to see it and that it's not even a movie. Then you can allow yourself to bare more. Then, once a project is done, I tend to forget about it until it comes out.”
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2007· 2 entries
Director Todd Haynes compared Ledger's presence to actor James Dean, casting Ledger as Robbie Clarke, a fictive personification of Bob Dylan in I'm Not There
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Ward later stated that she had begun dating Ledger in November 2007 and that they and their families had spent that year's Christmas together in their hometown of Perth.
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2006· 2 entries
Ledger directed music videos for the title track on Australian hip hop artist N'fa's CD debut solo album Cause An Effect and for the single "Seduction Is Evil (She's Hot)"
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“used to smoke five joints a day for 20 years”
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2005· 1 entry
Their daughter, Matilda Rose Ledger, was born on 28 October 2005 in New York City.
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2004· 2 entries
Strongly denied press reports alleging that "he spat at journalists on the Sydney set of the film Candy", or that one of his relatives had done so later, outside Ledger's Sydney home
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Ledger began a relationship with actress Michelle Williams after meeting her on the set of Brokeback Mountain
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2003· 1 entry
Prior to his involvement with Williams and the birth of their daughter; the will divided half of his estate between his parents and half between his siblings
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2001· 1 entry
Won a ShoWest Award as "Male Star of Tomorrow"
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1999· 1 entry
Starred in the teen comedy 10 Things I Hate About You and in the acclaimed Australian crime film Two Hands, directed by Gregor Jordan
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1979· 1 entry
Born 1979-04-04.
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1974· 1 entry
At the age of 26, from an overdose of an antidepressant
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