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Heath Ledger
Australian actor (–)
Heath Andrew Ledger (4 April – 22 January ) was an Australian actor. After playing roles in several Australian television and film productions during the s, he moved to the United States in to further develop his bio career. His work consisted of 20 films in a variety of genres, including 10 Things I Hate About You (), The Patriot (), A Knight's Tale (), Monster's Ball (), Casanova (), Lords of Dogtown (), Brokeback Mountain (), Candy (), I'm Not There (), The Dark Knight (), and The Imaginarium of Doctor Parnassus (), the latter two of which were posthumously released.[1] He also produced and directed music videos and aspired to be a film director.[2]
For his portrayal of Ennis Del Mar in Ang Lee's Brokeback Mountain, he received nominations for the BAFTA Award,[3]Screen Actors Guild Award, Golden Globe Award and the Academy Award for Best Actor, becoming the eighth-youngest nominee in t
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When hunky, twenty-year-old heart-throb Heath Ledger first came to the attention of the public in , it was all too easy to tag him as a "pretty boy" and an actor of little depth. He spent several years trying desperately to sway this image, but this was a double-edged sword. His work comprised nineteen films, including 10 Things I Hate About You (), The Patriot (), A Knight's Tale (), Monster's Ball (), Ned Kelly (), The Brothers Grimm (), Lords of Dogtown (), Brokeback Mountain (), Casanova (), Candy (), I'm Not There (), The Dark Knight () and The Imaginarium of Doctor Parnassus (). He also produced and directed music videos and aspired to be a film director.
Heath Ledger was born on the fourth of April , in Perth, Western Australia, to Sally (Ramshaw), a teacher of French, and Kim Ledger, a mining engineer who also raced cars. His ancestry was Scottish, English, Irish, and Sephardi Jewish. As the story goes, in junior high school it was compulsory to take
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Why ‘The Dark Knight’ is the best superhero movie of all time
Anyone who knows me knows that I’m a massive Marvel fan. My room is covered with posters of various movies, I attend every Thursday night premiere with pride and Captain America merchandise makes up the majority of my wardrobe. I love Marvel and I love the movies they make; I’ll defend the Marvel Cinematic Universe forever. But I have to give credit where credit’s due. The MCU doesn’t have the best superhero movie of all time. That title goes to Christopher Nolan’s cinematic masterpiece, “The Dark Knight.”
“The Dark Knight,” released in , is the second installment in Nolan’s Batman trilogy. With Christian Bale in the starring role, “The Dark Knight” provides a more mature, more advanced Batman than “Batman Begins.” And that means more advanced villains and a higher-stakes plot, too. Between incredible acting performances from the entire cast, tension grounded in real life and an ending no one could expect, “The Dark Kn