He was one of the most talented actors of his generation and sadly we lost him too early, when he was just 28 years old. On the occasion of his birthday, today (4 April) we remember the great one Heath Ledgergoing to discover some curiosities that (perhaps) you didn’t yet know about the late actor.
His mother decided to call him Heathcliffe in homage to the male protagonist of the novel Wuthering Heights Of Emily Bronte. On his wrist, Heath had tattooed the writing KAOS: the initials of the sisters Kate, Ashleigh And Oliviaand of the mother Sally.
The actor grew up in what he himself defined as “the most isolated city in the world”: Perthin Australia. At school he was the leader of a dance group made up of 60 boys, all boys.
His first major acting role was as a gay teenager in the Australian series Sweatin 1996.
For his first starring role in a film, that of Patrick Verona in 10 things I hate about youat the castings he overcame the competition of colleagues such as Ashton Kutcher And Josh Hartnett.
On the set of Brokeback Mountaina film for which he earned his first nomination Oscarhe unintentionally almost broke his colleague’s nose Jake Gyllenhaal. The accident occurred while the two actors were enacting a kissing scene between their characters.
During the filming of the same film he fell in love with Michelle Williams, and he noticed it when she injured her knee. In this regard, Heath stated: “From that moment on I always wanted to take care of her”. The two actors had a daughter together, Matilda Roseborn on 28 October 2005.
Before Michelle, Heath Ledger had affairs with colleagues Heather Graham And Naomi Watts.
In 2009 he was awarded a PETA Awards posthumously for his contribution against whaling. The same year he also won a Oscar posthumously for the part of Joker neither The dark Knight Of Christopher Nolanfor which the actor created the character’s makeup himself, as part of his approach to the role.
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