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    Heath Ledger was born in Perth, Western Australia in 1979. He showed an early talent for acting, performing in school plays. He left school at age 16 to pursue acting full time. Some of his early roles included television shows in Australia. His breakout role was in 10 Things I Hate About You in 1999. This led to leading roles in big budget films like A Knight's Tale and Brokeback Mountain. He won several major awards for his role in Brokeback Mountain and The Dark Knight, including a posthumous Oscar for his role in The Dark Knight.

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    Heath Ledger was born in Perth, Western Australia in 1979. He showed an early talent for acting, performing in school plays. He left school at age 16 to pursue acting full time. Some of his early roles included television shows in Australia. His breakout role was in 10 Things I Hate About You in 1999. This led to leading roles in big budget films like A Knight's Tale and Brokeback Mountain. He won several major awards for his role in Brokeback Mountain and The Dark Knight, including a posthumous Oscar for his role in The Dark Knight.

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    Heath Ledger was born in Perth, Western Australia in 1979. He showed an early talent for acting, performing in school plays. He left school at age 16 to pursue acting full time. Some of his early roles included television shows in Australia. His breakout role was in 10 Things I Hate About You in 1999. This led to leading roles in big budget films like A Knight's Tale and Brokeback Mountain. He won several major awards for his role in Brokeback Mountain and The Dark Knight, including a posthumous Oscar for his role in The Dark Knight.

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    Heath Ledger was born in Perth, Western Australia in 1979. He showed an early talent for acting, performing in school plays. He left school at age 16 to pursue acting full time. Some of his early roles included television shows in Australia. His breakout role was in 10 Things I Hate About You in 1999. This led to leading roles in big budget films like A Knight's Tale and Brokeback Mountain. He won several major awards for his role in Brokeback Mountain and The Dark Knight, including a posthumous Oscar for his role in The Dark Knight.

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    HEATH LEDGER

    Since it was born, Heath already was predestined to


    enter the world of the interpretation. And it is that Heath
    comes from squally Heathcliff, the name of the
    protagonist of Emily Bronte's novel, Summit.

    In the institute it was standing out for his aptitude for


    the sports, especially the hockey, but touched more by
    the idea of being an actor, it stopped playing to form a
    part of the theatrical company Globe Shakespeare
    Company.

    In 1999 it gave the great jump in his career and


    travelled to the American continent. His first movie was
    10 reasons to hate yourself, a version teen of The
    fierecilla tamed of Shakespeare, who obtained a great
    box-office success. With this paper, Heath and his
    companion of distribution, Julia Stiles, turned into new
    idols for teenagers.
    Family and personal life

    Heath Ledger was born on April 4, 1979, in Perth, Western


    Australia, son of Sally Ledger Bell, a Frenchman's teacher,
    and Kim Ledger, a motorist and engineer, whose family
    established and directed the company Ledger Engineering
    Foundry. [26 [27] [28]] The foundation of charity Sir Frank
    Ledger was created in honor to his great-grandfather. [26]
    Ledger Mary's Mount was present at the Primary School, in
    Gooseberry Hill, [29 [30]] and later the Guildford Grammar
    School, where, ten years after age, it had his first experience
    as actor interpreting Peter Pan in a school production. [6 [26]]
    His parents separated the same year and were divorced on
    the following year. [31] The major sister of Ledger, Kate,
    actress and later publicist, with whom it was removing very
    well, breathed it to turn into actor.

    CAREER
    Decade of 1990
    After approving his examinations of graduation sixteen years
    after age, Ledger left the school to devote itself to the action.
    [31] Together with Trevor DiCarlo, his best friend since they
    had three years of age, he drove across Australia from Perth
    up to Sídney, returning to his natal city to realize a small
    paper in Clowning Around (1992), the first part of a movie for
    television in two parts, and to be employed at the series of
    television Sweat (1996), where it personified a homosexual
    cyclist. [26] From 1993 until 1997, Ledger also was employed
    at the television series of Perth Ship to Shore (1993); in the
    dramatic series of Fox Broadcasting's short duration qualified
    Company Roar (1997); in Home and Away (1997), one of the
    most successful television programs of Australia.

    Decade of 2000
    From 2000 until 2005, it realized several papers as actor of
    distribution. The most notable were like Gabriel Martin, the
    major son of Benjamin Martin (Mel Gibson), in The Patriot
    (2000), and as Sonny Grotowski, the son of Hank Grotowski
    (Billy Bob Thornton), in Monster's Ball (2000). Also it had
    leading papers, in To Knight's Tale (2001), The Four Feathers
    (2002), The Order (2003), Ned Kelly (2003), Casanova
    (2005), The Brothers Grimm (2005), and Lords of Dogtown
    (2005). In 2001 it gained a Prize ShoWest in the category "
    Estrella Masculina of the Tomorrow ".
    Ledger got the prizes to the best actor of 2005 so much of the
    Critics' Circle of Cinema of New York as of the Critics' Circle
    of Cinema of San Francisco for his action in Brokeback
    Mountain, in which it interpreted

    PRIZES
    Ledger obtained an Oscar, a Globe of Gold, a BAFTA and a
    prize of the Actors' Union for his paper in The Dark Knight.
    Oscar was nominated to the prize to the best principal actor
    by the movie Brokeback Mountain
    Movies
    Principal article: Heath Ledger's Movies
    1992: Clowning Around.
    1997: Blackrock.
    1997: Paws.
    1999: Two Hands.
    1999: 10 Things I Hate About You.
    2000: The Patriot.
    2001: Monster's Ball.
    2001: To Knight's Tale.
    2002: The Four Feathers.
    2003: The Order.
    2003: Ned Kelly.
    2005: Casanova.
    2005: The Brothers Grimm.
    2005: Lords of Dogtown.
    2005 Brokeback Mountain.
    2006: Candy.
    2007: I'm Not There.
    2008: The Dark Knight.
    2009: The Imaginarium of Doctor Parnassus

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