[on the directors he would have liked to work with] Look, most of them are dead. Sometimes, most often than not, once we start shooting I won't look at the script at all until we finished shooting. The second person to win a posthumous acting Oscar. And if I want to swim naked in my pool, I'm still going to do it. Then you can allow yourself to bare more. HISTORY reviews and updates its content regularly to ensure it is complete and accurate. In the film, Ledger portrayed a fictional actor named Robbie Clark, one of six characters embodying aspects of Dylan's life and persona.A few months before his death, Ledger had finished filming his performance as the Joker in 'The Dark Knight (2008). show called Sweat (1996) about a group of young Olympic hopefuls. Then came his very brief role in Paws (1997), a film which existed solely to cash in on guitar prodigy Nathan Cavaleri's brief moment of fame, where he was the hottest thing in Australia. Upon arriving in Sydney with a purported sixty-nine cents to his name, Heath tried everything to get a break.His first real acting job came in a low-budget movie called Blackrock (1997), a largely unimpressive cliché; an adolescent angst film about one boy's struggle when he learns his best mate raped a girl. It got him small notice, but unfortunately the show was quickly axed, forcing him to look for other roles. He went to the U.S. trying to audition for film roles, showcasing his brief role in Roar (1997) opposite then unknown Vera Farmiga.Then Australian director Gregor Jordan auditioned him for the lead in Two Hands (1999), which he got. Soon after the masseuse and housekeeper discovered Ledger’s body, emergency crews arrived on the scene but were unable to revive him. |  [on his sleeping problems] Last week I probably slept an average of two hours a night. I'm pretty good at dropping a character once it's over for the day. You. I can't say I'm proud of my work. I like to do something I fear. ‘The Matrix Reloaded’ Neo Outfit, ‘Pretty Woman’ Boots Up for Auction, Michelle Williams steps out for the first time with her second child, The Billion-Dollar Film Club: 46 Movies to Reach $1 Billion Worldwide, Biggest Golden Globe-Nominated Transformations Over the Years, Top 30 Highest-Grossing Comic Book Movies, The 2006 Australian Film Institute Awards, TGIF's Look at '10 Things I Hate About You', Remembering Heath Ledger - A Tribute to the Legendary Actor/Superstar, Endless Summer: 30 Years of Home and Away, This Will Change The Way You Watch '10 Things I Hate About You', The Fire Rises: The Creation and Impact of the Dark Knight Trilogy, Heath Ledger zhou nian ji, si suo bei shang zai guang ying liu zhuan zhong man man pin chang, What to Watch if You Miss the "Game of Thrones" Cast. I don't have a day planner and I don't have a diary. Shoot. The neighbors and locals are beautiful people. He attended Harrow, then Trinity ...read more, Roe v. Wade, the landmark Supreme Court decision that established a woman’s legal right to an abortion, is decided on January 22, 1973. I've never been a believer in having one set technique on how to act. My body was exhausted, and my mind was still going. You don't have to go to Beverly Hills, you don't have to go to the parties. They think as an actor you can get up and be confident on the screen. Heath finally had deserved success with his role in Brokeback Mountain (2005). That's what my success is, getting underneath that. To. His ancestry was Scottish, English, Irish, and Sephardi Jewish. You can drive two hours one way and be at the Joshua Tree desert, two hours one way you're skiing at Big Bear. I never had money, and I was very happy without it. Ledger lost the Best Actor Oscar to Philip Seymour Hoffman (Capote) but Brokeback Mountain cemented his reputation as an A-list actor and a fixture in the pages of celebrity-obsessed magazines. It's like a village. So I kind of put the brakes on that. The choices were being made for me -- I was being thrown into projects.