HEATH LEDGER FOUND DEAD IN NYC AT AGE 28

Mister Rinzler

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NEW YORK - Heath Ledger was found dead Tuesday at a downtown Manhattan residence, and police said drugs may have been a factor. He was 28. NYPD spokesman Paul Browne said Ledger had an appointment for a massage at the Manhattan apartment believed to be his home. The housekeeper who went to let him know the masseuse had arrived found him dead at 3:26 p.m.

A large crowd of paparazzi and gawkers began gathering Tuesday evening outside the building on an upscale block in SoHo, where several police officers guarded the door.

The Australian-born actor was nominated for an Oscar for "Brokeback Mountain," where he met Michelle Williams in 2005. The two had lived in Brooklyn and had a daughter, Matilda, until they split up last year.

He most recently appeared in "I'm Not There," in which he played one of the many incarnations of Bob Dylan ƒƒ‚‚ as did Cate Blanchett, whose performance in that film earned an Oscar nomination Tuesday for best supporting actress.

Ledger was to appear as the Joker this year in "The Dark Night," a sequel to 2005's "Batman Begins." He's had starring roles in "A Knight's Tale" and "The Patriot," and played the suicidal son of Billy Bob Thornton in "Monster's Ball."

Ledger grew up in Perth, and began doing amateur theater at age 10. At 16, he moved to Sydney to pursue an acting career, quickly landing TV movie roles and guest spots on Australian television.

After several independent films and a starring role in the short-lived Fox TV series "Roar," Ledger moved to Los Angeles and costarred in "10 Things I Hate About You," a teen comedy reworking of "The Taming of the Shrew."

Offers for other teen flicks came his way, but Ledger turned them down, preferring to remain idle than sign on for projects he didn't like.

"It wasn't a hard decision for me," Ledger told the Associated Press in 2001. "It was hard for everyone else around me to understand. Agents were like, 'You're crazy,' my parents were like, 'Come on, you have to eat.'"
 

Acal

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Must've sucked for the kid. I wonder how this will affect The Dark Knight movie. I was looking forward to seeing that too.
 

Romance

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A little messed up......

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xDFx Prestige

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how can you say it was his time? he killed himself. He said that the whole role of the joker was putting him into a depressed state being all psychotic all the time so thats prolly why. But i will not feel bad, actors and celebs always make their lives seem soooo hard, pssssh bs if you ask me, if you dont want to act anymore just buy a mansion with your millions of dollars in which you have and quit acting peace of cake. I hate that ppl make celebs such a big deal when they are gone....especially when they kill themselves, ppl die everyday and they do not receive any recognition, ppl kill themselves everyday, these ppl are no different than ledger and i think it is absurd that he is receiving so much publicity for a cowardly way to leave this earth, he disgraced himself...he should have gotten help.

Prestige
 

Romance

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He didn't purposely kill himself. He accidentally overdosed on sleeping pills. And you should never speak ill of the dead.
 

XGC BoonDock

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You don't know if he did kill himself. Yes it was all about the Joker and what not but it was that he couldn't sleep being that he had to be all psychotic the whole time. So he took some sleeping pills and maybe he took to many not knowing how much he took or maybe he committed suicide. You don't know.

~BoonDock11
 

XGC UrbanKenobi

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I'm really curious about what this'll do with the Imaginarium. It was supposed to come out in 2009. They were going to start filming this summer, I believe. With Ledger gone, I wonder if they'll scrap the project, re-cast, or what.
 

Acal

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"The Imaginarium of Doctor Parnassus" was a movie that he was going to act in. It has now been postponed.
 
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