In the following years, he acted in nineteen films, including The Patriot (2000), Monster's Ball (2001), A Knight's Tale (2001), Brokeback Mountain (2005) and The Dark Knight (2008), [M]he directed music videos for artists[/M] such as Modest Mouse and Ben Harper and planned to pursue a career as a film director.
Heath Andrew Ledger, born April 4, 1979 in Perth, Western Australia, died January 22, 2008 in Manhattan, New York, was an Australian Oscar-winning actor who began his television and film career in his teens and made his major breakthrough in the United States in the mid-2000s. the number.
Heath Ledger was nominated for an Oscar and awarded several times for his role as the nuanced cowboy Ennis Del Mar, who begins a love affair with another man in the film Brokeback Mountain. During the recording in 2004, he met his future partner Michelle Williams, who the following year gave birth to the couple's daughter Matilda Rose.
At the 2009 Oscars, Heath Ledger was posthumously awarded an Oscar in the category of Best Supporting Actor for his portrayal of the sociopathic character The Joker in the film The Dark Knight. Among other prizes, the Joker also won him a Golden Globe for Best Supporting Actor, a male actor in a feature film. Heath Ledger starred in the fantasy film The Imaginarium of Doctor Parnassus (2009). Actors Johnny Depp, Jude Law and Colin Farrell completed Ledger's role because he died before filming ended, and all of the actors donated the salaries they received for the film to Heath's daughter Matilda Ledger.
Heath Ledger died in 2008. He was found dead in his Manhattan apartment in New York.