I grabbed this image off the web a week or two ago to write a post about this year’s upcoming Batman movie — The Dark Knight. Watching the movie will be bittersweet, however, as actor Heath Ledger — who played the role of The Joker in this upcoming film — was found dead this afternoon in an apartment in New York City. He was 28 years old. Early reports indicated a drug overdose, but it’s unknown at this point if it was an accident or suicide and his family insists it was accidental while also revealing that he had been suffering from pneumonia.
Ledger is probably best-known for his role as Ennis del Mar, a cowboy who enjoys a long-term closeted gay relationship with another cowboy (Jake Gyllenhaal) in the film Brokeback Mountain. The role earned him an Oscar nomination, but he lost the Oscar that year to Philip Seymour Hoffman (for the film Capote). Ledger was engaged to his Brokeback co-star Michelle Williams, but they called off the engagement last fall. Ledger and Williams have one daughter, Matilda Rose, who was born in October 2005.
Any death is sad, but this is just terrible, terrible news. Ledger was an extremely talented actor, with a young daughter, and a bright future ahead of him. Godspeed.
I was completely shocked to hear about this; Heath was certainly a favorite actor of mine in recent years. I’m about to pop “10 Things I Hate About You” into the DVD player.
I was really really upset to hear of Heath Ledgers death. I thought he was a fantastic Actor and I am not one of those people saying that because of his death. I genuinely always liked him and it is just so sad to hear of his passing and for it all to be so public also. He will be missed by so many people.
he was too yound to die ,such an incredible actor