Heath Ledger Movies

Welcome to Heath Ledger Movies - a website dedicated to the on screen works of the late actor Heath Ledger, as well as to provide an informational resource of Heath Ledger Movies that spanned throughout his career from 1992 to 2009.

Heath Andrew Ledger was born April 4th, 1979 in Perth, Australia. While attending Guildford Grammar School in Western Australia, Heath decided to pursue drama studies and was immediately recognized as possessing great talent. When Heath turned 17, he left school and made his way to Sydney, Australia. After a few relatively small and low budget television and movie roles, Heath decided to audition for American roles. After showcasing one of his more successful television roles, that of Conor in the Fox Series “Roar”, he was hired by Australian director Gregor Jordan for the role of Jimmy in the movie “Two Hands”. Based on that performance he was able to land the role of Patrick Verona in “10 Things I Hate About You”, a loose remake of The Taming Of The Shrew, filmed in Washington D.C. in the United States and which netted him an estimated $100,000 pay check.

To avoid being typecast, Heath decided that his next choice in movie roles would be in the $110,000,000 epic period piece movie “The Patriot”, set in South Carolina in 1776 about a man who leads the Colonial Militia during the American Revolution. This role garnered Heath much notice and he was immediately cast as Sir William Thatcher, the lead role in the action adventure movie “A Knight's Tale” for the purported sum of $3,000,000.

Afterwards Heath chose a variety of character roles including the small but highly praised role of Sonny Growtowski in “Monsters Ball”, Harry Feversham in “The Four Feathers”, the title role in “Ned Kelly”, as well as Alex Bernier in the horror thriller “The Order”, where he was reunited with Shannyn Sossamon, his love interest from “A Knight's Tale”.

Further movie roles included that of Skip in “Lords Of Dogtown”, Jacob Grimm in “The Brothers Grimm” where he stared alongside Matt Damon, and another title role performance in the adventure comedy romance movie “Casanova”.

These roles all led up to another performance in 2005, that of Ennis Del Mar in the romance drama “Brokeback Mountain” which garnered Heath Ledger 6 award nominations which included a possible Oscar for Best Performance by an Actor in a Leading Role. Although he did not win the Oscar, he did win two other awards, the AFI International Award, and the News Limited Readers Choice Award for his portrayal of the character. It was during the filming of “Brokeback Mountain” that he met the future mother of his child Michelle Williams, with whom he later got engaged. He also became friends with another star of the movie, Jake Gyllenhaal, who later became godfather to Matilda Rose Ledger when she was born October 28th, 2005 to Heath and Michelle.

Heath Ledgers next choice in movie roles was that of Dan in the hard hitting romance drama “Candy”, where he portrayed a poet who falls in love with art student Candy, but whose relationship quickly turns self destructive from the shared use of heroin. This role also garnered Heath Ledger 3 awards nominations, although he was shut out from each.

After taking on the role of Robbie in the biographical movie “I'm Not There”, which also featured Christian Bale, Heath Ledger was chosen by Christopher Nolan to portray the maniacal Joker in the movie “The Dark Knight” because of his fearless nature. This time Heath Ledger starred directly alongside Christian Bale, along with his friend Jake Gyllenhaals sister, Maggie Gyllenhal, as well as Aaron Eckhart. Critics citied his performance as the Joker as his best ever, and which Heath Ledger himself stated was the most fun he had ever had with any character on screen. Sadly, the role of the Joker would prove to be his second to last on screen performance and last complete performance.

On January 22nd, 2008, 3 months after the end of his relationship with Michelle Williams, Heath Ledger died in Manhattan, New York from an accidental overdose of prescription drugs that included painkillers, sleeping pills and anti-anxiety medication. Although the role of the Joker was his last fully completed performance, and one that his co-stars of “The Dark Knight” lobbied to garner him a posthumous Oscar nomination, he would still next be seen in “The Imaginarium of Doctor Parnassus”, the movie he was filming for director Terry Gilliam at the time of his death, released in 2009. Although not all of Heath Ledgers scenes were completed, as a tribute to him, 3 other actors, Johnny Depp, Jude Law and Colin Farrell stepped in to complete his role in the fantasy movie to ensure its release.

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