Heath Ledger (1979–2008)

Actor | Director | Editor

When hunky, twenty-year-old heart-throb Heath Ledger first came to the attention of the public in ...

Born: April 4, 1979
Died: January 22, 2008 (age 28)

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Filmography

Known For

Brokeback Mountain Ennis Del Mar (2005)
The Dark Knight Joker (2008)
A Knight's Tale William Thatcher (2001)
Known For

10 Things I Hate About You Patrick Verona (1999)
Actor

The Imaginarium of Doctor Parnassus Tony (2009)
The Dark Knight Joker (2008)
I'm Not There Robbie (2007)
Candy Dan (2006)
Casanova Casanova (2005)
Brokeback Mountain Ennis Del Mar (2005)
The Brothers Grimm Jacob Grimm (2005)
Lords of Dogtown Skip (2005)
The Order Alex Bernier (2003)
Ned Kelly Ned Kelly (2003)
The Four Feathers Harry Feversham (2002)
Monster's Ball Sonny Grotowski (2001)
A Knight's Tale William Thatcher (2001)
The Patriot Gabriel Martin (2000)
Two Hands Jimmy (1999)
10 Things I Hate About You Patrick Verona (1999)
Roar Conor (1997)
Paws Oberon (1997)
Home and Away Scott Irwin (1997)
Blackrock Toby (1997)
Sweat Snowy Bowles (1996)
Ship to Shore Cyclist (1993-1994)
Actor

Clowning Around Orphan Clown (1992)
Director

N'fa: Cause an Effect (2009)
Modest Mouse: King Rat (2009)
Grace Woodroofe: Quicksand (2009)
Nick Drake: Black Eyed Dog (2007)
Ben Harper: Morning Yearning (2006)
Director

N'fa: Seduction Is Evil (She's Hot) (2005)
Soundtrack

10 Things I Hate About You (1999)
Soundtrack

Roar (1997)
Archive footage

Hollywood Insider (2020-2021)
Access Hollywood (2017-2021)
Joker: Put on A Happy Face (2020)
Autopsy: The Last Hours of (2015-2020)
Celebrity Page (2017-2020)
Hollywood's Stories (2020)
Entertainment Tonight (2008-2020)
Motion vs. History (2020)
The Movies (2019)
Endless Summer: 30 Years of Home and Away (2018)
Terror Nullius (2018)
The Onion (2018)
The Heath Ledger Scholarship (2017)
La petite histoire des super-héros (2017)
Updating Death (2017)
I Am Heath Ledger (2017)
The Insider (2017)
Extra (2015-2017)
Death Battle (2016)
Nostalgia Critic (2016)
Do They Know It? (2016)
CNN Newsroom (2014)
The Fire Rises: The Creation and Impact of the Dark Knight Trilogy (2013)
Too Young to Die (2012)
Fantastic (2012)
Cinema 3 (2008-2010)
World Film Report (2009)
The 81st Annual Academy Awards (2009)
Today Tonight (2009)
Biography (2008)
E! True Hollywood Story (2005-2008)
VH1 News Presents (2008)
The Factor (2008)
The 80th Annual Academy Awards (2008)
Oscar, que empiece el espectáculo (2008)
14th Annual Screen Actors Guild Awards (2008)
A Current Affair (2008)
Corazón de... (2005-2008)
The Ellen DeGeneres Show (2008)
Here's Looking at You, Boy (2007)
Cómo conseguir un papel en Hollywood (2007)
Home and Away (2006)
Fabulous! The Story of Queer Cinema (2006)
Archive footage

Home and Away: Romances (2005)
Celebrities Uncensored (2003-2004)
Editor

Nick Drake: Black Eyed Dog (2007)

Videos

Awards

Did You Know

Before appearing with Christian Bale in The Dark Knight (2008), the two of them both played incarnations of Bob Dylan in I'm Not There (2007). This makes Ledger the second Joker actor to share a role with a Batman actor. Previously, Cesar Romero ...

Quotes

I don't have a technique. I've never been a believer in having one set technique on how to act. There are no rules and there is no rulebook. At the end of the day, it all comes down to my instincts. That's the one thing that guides me through every ...