Actor Heath Ledger Found Dead

The actor Heath Ledger was found dead this afternoon apartment in Manhattan owned by the actress Mary-Kate Olsen, according to the New York City police. Signs pointed to a suicide, police sources said. Mr. Ledger was 28.

At 3:31 p.m., a masseuse arrived at Apartment 5A in the building, at 421 Broome Street in SoHo, for an appointment with Mr. Ledger, the police said. The masseuse was let in to the home by a housekeeper, who then knocked on the door of Mr. Ledger’s bedroom. When no one answered, the housekeeper and the masseuse opened the bedroom and found Mr. Ledger naked and unconscious on a bed, with pills scattered around his body. They shook him, but he did not respond. They immediately called the authorities.

The police said they did not suspect foul play. The police said they believed Ms. Olsen, 21, was in California and said it was not clear why Mr. Ledger was in her apartment.

Mr. Ledger, a native of Perth, Australia, won acclaim for his role as a co-star in “Brokeback Mountain”, a 2005 film. The film, based on a short story by Annie Proulx about two cowboys who fall in love, won critical acclaim. Reviewing the film in The New York Times, the critic Stephen Holden wrote, “Mr. Ledger magically and mysteriously disappears beneath the skin of his lean, sinewy character. It is a great screen performance, as good as the best of Marlon Brando and Sean Penn.”

Mr. Ledger met the actress Michelle Williams while filming ‘’Brokeback Mountain.” The two actors fell into a romance and moved to Boerum Hill, Brooklyn, where their comings and goings were widely noted by paparazzi. They had a daughter, Matilda Rose, who was born on Oct. 28, 2005. The couple separated last year.

In an interview in London for an article published in November, Mr. Ledger told The New York Times, ‘’I feel like I’m wasting time if I repeat myself.” He said in the interview that he was not proud of his latest role, in Todd Haynes’s “I’m Not There,” in which Mr. Ledger was one of a half-dozen actors depicting the musician Bob Dylan. ‘’I feel the same way about everything I do. The day I say, ‘It’s good’ is the day I should start doing something else,” said in the interview.

Calls by The Times to Mara Buxbaum, a publicist for Mr. Ledger, and Steve Alexander, the actor’s agent, were not immediately returned this afternoon.


I wonder who will play the Joker now.

Yea i readed that a while ago. didnt know who it was at first tho =P

Yea he was gonna play Joker in the Dark Knight....tis a shame he wouldve been a good Joker

Have they not done filiming?

Theyve done some filming...

hes dead?

No idea who this was...

LegendGamer wrote:hes dead?

Apparently?
I don't know how dead you have to be, to be considered dead.

>.> i thought this was a gay chain mail thinggy

Xavior wrote:No idea who this was...

Played in

A Knights Tale
10 Things I hate about you
Lords of Dogtown
Brokeback Mountain

Dem wrote:

Xavior wrote:No idea who this was...

Played in

A Knights Tale
10 Things I hate about you
Lords of Dogtown
Brokeback Mountain

A thats why I haven't heard of him. Not seen any of those films

I read it too. So young so horrible. R.I.P Heath!
Great man, great actor!

Whos Heath Ledger

OH WAIT
HES THE DUDE IN KNIGHTS TALE?

THE BLONDE DUDE WHO LIKE IS THE MAIN DUDE?

f u c k that.

Hey hes a good actor shut it....He was also in Lords of Dogtown as Skip and he kicked ass with that role.

Doubts. I thought he was shit as an actor.

May he rest in peace though.

i heard... that sux

no matter what you think of his acting please don't speak ill of the dead.
it's a sad loss the guy was like 23.
he had a whole future before him.

28, but thats still a lot of time left >.>

Actually Dem, if you read and saw what I wrote.

I was meaning to say f u c k that as in to say....uhh its so hard to explain.

Point is, I wasn't saying f u c k him. A Knight's Tale was a good film.


May as well reinstate Jim Carrey as the riddler.

Ritchie wrote:no matter what you think of his acting please don't speak ill of the dead.
it's a sad loss the guy was like 23.
he had a whole future before him.

I'll say what I wish.

kthxbai.

Haldir wrote:

Ritchie wrote:no matter what you think of his acting please don't speak ill of the dead.
it's a sad loss the guy was like 23.
he had a whole future before him.

I'll say what I wish.

kthxbai.

yea sure i'm not saying you shouldnt, but I just ask for some respect for the dead. But allright