Heath Ledger is an unusually charming young man, one of the brightest young stars in Hollywood. Most likely, he could achieve unprecedented heights, but his life suddenly and ridiculously ended when the actor was only 28 years old.
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Heathcliff Andrew Ledger was born on April 4, 1979 in the Australian city of Perth. Interestingly, Heath and his sister Katherine got their names in honor of the main characters of Emily Bronte’s famous Wuthering Heights novel. Heath Ledger's acting career began in 1996 when he starred in the sports television series Pot. Soon he became quite famous in Australia and received an invitation to act in the United States.
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In Hollywood, Heath quickly found an agent and got new roles, including in the youth comedy "10 Reasons for My Hatred" - the modern version of Shakespeare's "The Taming of the Shrew." However, the image of a young handsome man, according to which many American high school students sighed, contributed little to the realization of his outstanding acting talent, and Ledger began to look for more serious proposals.
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In 2000, Heath Ledger played the son of the hero Mel Gibson in Roland Emmerich’s sensational film "Patriot". This work brought the young actor world fame and the first professional awards. Despite the fact that in the following years he played many interesting roles, the most successful for Ledger was 2005.
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4 films with his participation were released immediately. Moreover, the actor managed to play roles completely different from each other in them. In the creepy film “The Brothers Grimm”, which presented the audience with an alternative story of famous storytellers, Ledger played one of the brothers - Jacob. In The Kings of Dogtown, the ever-drunken surfboard merchant. In the costume film "Casanova" the actor got the title role of the world famous seducer. The most controversial and, at the same time, very successful was the role of one of the cowboys in love with each other in Ang Lee's slightly scandalous movie "Brokeback Mountain", which brought Heath Manager an Oscar nomination.
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In 2007, the shooting of Christopher Nolan’s film “The Dark Knight” was completed, which became the continuation of the once sensational series of films about Batman. Heath Manager got the role of the main villain in it - the Joker. According to colleagues, in particular the prominent British actor Michael Kane, the young actor managed to surpass Jack Nicholson himself, who played the Joker in one of the previous films, as a scary psychopathic killer.
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Perhaps it was this role that killed Ledger. The work completely exhausted him, the actor began to take numerous antidepressants in combination with painkillers and sleeping pills. This ominous "cocktail" and became the reason for his death. The Oscars and Golden Globes for playing the role of the Joker were awarded to Heath Manager posthumously.
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