Heath Ledger

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Australian television and film icon, Health Ledger (4 April 1979 – 22 January 2008) moved to the United States during the 1990s to pursue what would become an outstanding career. Some of his 19 films include the Australian smash Two Hands, 10 Things I Hate About You (1999), Monster’s Ball (2001), Brokeback Mountain (2005) and The Dark Knight (2008).

As Ennis Del Mar in Brokeback Mountain, Ledger won the 2005 New York Film Critics Circle Award for Best Actor and the 2006 Best Actor award from the Australian Film Institute. For the same role he was also nominated for Best Actor at the 2005 Academy Awards and the 2006 BAFTA Best Actor award.

Ledger will also no doubt be remembered for this mesmorising performance as the Joker in The Dark Knight which opened with the largest ever North American box office weekend figures, $US 155.3 million. Ledger was nominated and won awards for this role, including the Academy Award for the Best Supporting Actor, Best Actor International Award at the 2008 Australian Film Institute Awards, the 2008 Los Angeles Film Critics Association Award for Best Supporting Actor, the 2009 Golden Globe for Best Supporting Actor in a motion picture and the 2009 BAFTA award for Best Supporting Actor.

At the age of 28 Ledger passed away from an accidental toxic combination of prescription drugs. The death came during the final stages of post-production of The Dark Knight and whilst Ledger was still filming The Imaginarium of Doctor Parnassus directed by Terry Gilliam from Monty Python fame. Fellow actors Johnny Depp, Jude Law and Colin Farrell have since stepped in to complete the film and donated thier earnings to Heath's daughter Matilda in remembrance to a great actor, father and an thespian.