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Heather Graham, 51, posted a photo with his deceased ex-boyfriend Heath Ledger on social platforms, recalling the man and saying he was a very special person.
Heather Graham and Heath Ledger briefly interacted for 8 months from 2000 to 2001, and many netizens lamented that the relationship had passed for 20 years.
If Heath Ledger is still alive, he will turn 42 by the Time of The Qingming Festival on April 4 this year.
Unfortunately, his life ended on January 22, 2008, at the age of 28.
Ang Lee, a director who has worked with Heath Ledger, said, "God is jealous of talent, a man is so talented that even God is jealous of him."
Heath Ledger left home at the age of 17 to chase his acting dreams, and in just a few years from Sydney to Los Angeles, he quickly became popular in Hollywood, starring in roles in "Brokeback Mountain" and "Batman: The Dark Knight" becoming classics.
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Heath Ledger was born on 4 April 1979 in Perth, Australia.
His father, Kim Ledger, was a stockbroker and is also said to be a mining engineer, while his mother, Sally Bell, was a French teacher.
It is said that because their parents liked the literary masterpiece Wuthering Heights, they used the name of the protagonist in the book, Heathcliff, to name their son Heath Ledger.
Heath Ledger also has an older sister and a younger sister.
Sister Kate has loved literature and art since she was a child, and has participated in many performances in school, and Heath admires her sister very much, and every time he watches her sister's performance, he sits in the front row.
His father, Kim, said Heath knew what he wanted at an early age, and he once pointed to the little shining stars hanging on the roof and said, "You know, one day I'll go there, and I want to join the film industry and become an actor."
After graduating from high school, 17-year-old Heath called his friend Trevor to chase his acting dreams together.
In a dilapidated car, they left their hometown of Perth and headed for Sydney, ready to make a big career there.
Heath was a proper activist, he said he would do it, and when he came to Sydney, he began to run the crew to participate in various auditions.
Luckily, he was soon given the opportunity to run the dragon suit.
A year later, Heath got a major role in the American drama Roar, which was filmed in Sydney, where Heath and his friend Trevor's dragon suit career ended and they moved into a sea-view apartment building.
On top of that, Heath meets the sexy and beautiful American actress Lisa Zane.
She will change his life.
Lisa Zane
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Lisa Zane is an American actress, but for Heath, Lisa Zane, from a Hollywood movie destination, became the actor he looked up to.
Lisa was very feminine, and she was cheerful and enthusiastic, and did not hesitate to give the hairy boy Heath Ledger a lot of acting instruction, and they soon fell in love.
Lisa saw the potential of being an actress in Heath, and at the end of the Sydney shoot, Lisa took Heath's hand and said, Follow me, come to Los Angeles.
Heath didn't expect to become a Hollywood superstar in the future, his idea was simple, he had nothing to lose anyway, and it was the same everywhere.
So Heath followed Lisa to Hollywood, where actors all over the world aspired.
He moved into Lisa's shared apartment, where he met filmmaker Matt Amato. Lisa tells Matt that Heath will sweep everything in Hollywood.
Then, Lisa took Heath on a run, and they went to the Venice Carnival together and made an eight-millimeter film.
Once, Matt took back his friend's script,"Ten Things I Hate About You," and Heath said to Matt after reading it, I love the role of "Padrick" and I want to play him.
Matt was a little shocked, in his eyes, this newcomer from Australia wanted to play the lead role, but it was a little self-conscious.
Stills from Ten Things I Hate You
There are many good actors in Hollywood, he is a non-professional, there are only a few works that can be written on the actor's resume, and most of them are supporting roles or running dragon sets, is Heath Ledger's idea whimsical?
However, we have an old saying that gold always shines.
Soon, Heath, who came back from an audition, was very happy to tell his roommate Matt that I got "Padrick"!
Matt was even more shocked, but at that moment, he also realized that, as Lisa said, Heath was really different.
Maybe, he'll really sweep everything away in Hollywood.
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On March 31, 1999, the movie "Ten Things I Hate You" was released in the United States, and the box office was good, and Heath Ledger also gained a large wave of fans, and it was at that time that he felt that he was an actor.
He signed an agent, and Steve Alexander became his partner and confidant in the days that followed.
In the eyes of agent Steve, Heath is a difficult artist, his personality is more self-sufficient, especially in the choice of script, always insisting on his own opinions.
After the success of the movie "Ten Things I Hate You", many similar roles came to the door, but they were rejected by Heath Ledger, who did not want to play repetitive roles, he wanted to challenge different genres.
In the end, he chose to join Mel Gibson's Patriot.
But during the audition, Heath felt frustrated, and his lines were read so badly that he had to stop and apologize.
But it didn't happen that Mel Gibson finally gave the role to Heath.
The real difficulty was during the shoot, when Heath called his agent to say he was very depressed and too stressed:
"I'm used to self-doubt, I always think that maybe I shouldn't play, I'm going to fail, I cheated on them, I've been trying to find a solution." 」
Fortunately, Heath Ledger still insisted on finishing the film, and the confrontation with Mel Gibson made him realize that there was still a lot to learn in the profession of acting.
The Patriot
Heath Ledger was more deliberate in his choice of script, shooting The Paladin, and Sony praised his performance, hanging posters of his photographs all over the streets of Los Angeles during the film's release.
However, Heath did not want to participate in such publicity, and he left the marketing meeting with Sony and fled to the bathroom.
Knights of the Holy War
During that time, he also filmed "Death Row Dance", and the confrontation with Hank Grotowski made Heath Ledger feel unprecedented shock.
After filming this play, he seems to have shed a layer of skin, and his performance skills have also made a breakthrough.
Dance of Death Row Prisoners
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In 2002, Heath Ledger joined the film Kelly Party, in which he met the beautiful actress Naomi Watts, and the two fell in love because of the drama.
Prior to that, Heath Ledger's previous girlfriend was Heather Graham, whom she met while filming the movie Knight of The Holy War.
The two began dating in October 2000 and are said to have broken up due to age issues, with Heather 9 years older than Heath.
However, the two remained friends after breaking up.
Heather Graham
Going on to say that Naomi Watts and Heath Ledger met in the crew of the movie "Kelly Party", Naomi only played a small role, but because of Heath, she became extremely interested in the film.
She recalls being shocked by Heath's performance on her first day in the group.
She said he had passionate eyes and a charming voice, which are the necessary conditions and the most attractive thing for a good actor.
The Kelly Party
Unfortunately, the two did not make it to the end and broke up in April 2004.
Naomi Watts and Heath Ledger
In June of the same year, Heath Ledger joined the crew of Ang Lee's film Brokeback Mountain and met actress Michelle Williams, and the two rubbed a spark of love while filming.
Ang Lee recalled that during a ski scene, the sleigh overturned and Michelle was injured. In the hospital, Heath nervously held Michelle's hand, and it was clear that Heath liked Michelle.
Brokeback Mountain
After filming, Heath and Michelle come together.
Soon, Heath told his friend that he was going to be a father. Friends said Heath was excited, he liked Michelle, and he said the way Michelle embraced him felt like he was going into his soul.
In other words, Heath saw Michelle as his soul mate.
In October 2005, Michelle gave birth to her daughter out of wedlock. Heath moved from Los Angeles to New York because Michelle wanted to live in Brooklyn, and that was perhaps the happiest time of his life because he said:
"Waking up every morning with those smiles (Michelle and daughter) and it lights up your day, it's true, and I'm proud of them."
It was also in December 2005 that "Brokeback Mountain" was released, and the box office reputation was exploded.
Heath Ledger, in his twenties, was nominated for the Oscar for Best Actor for the film.
Overnight he became a Hollywood superstar.
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Heath Ledger, who wanted to leave all his time for his daughter and girlfriend Michelle, soon began to miss his job.
"It's a double-edged sword because part of you want to stay at home and do nothing for the rest of your life, but once you're there, you want to leave and start working."
He took over the film "I'm Not There" and began to prepare for his directorial debut, The Queen's Chess Game.
However, his relationship with Michelle has problems.
Tabloid sources reported that the two broke up because Michelle couldn't stand Heath Ledger's drug use, but the incident was not confirmed. Heath's friends revealed that Heath had a very serious insomnia problem.
To treat his insomnia, he took a lot of medications that he didn't know where they came from, and Heath's insomnia wasn't treated well and made him even more depressed.
In early 2007, Heath Ledger received a call from his agent, steve telling him that Christopher Nolan was working on the next Batman series, and he asked Heath if he was interested in the Joker's villain.
Heath Ledger replied without even thinking about it, he was absolutely interested.
Heath Ledger immediately flew to see Nolan, and he got the role of The Joker, and in order to play him well, Heath shut himself in his home for six weeks before booting up, trying to find the feeling of madness and the sound suitable for the Joker.
Heath Ledger seems to have spent his whole life preparing for the role of Batman: The Dark Knight, and this time on set, he's no longer as overwhelmed as he was about making The Patriot.
Instead, he felt more confident and at ease than ever before, saying:
"It's the most interesting role I've had since I was an actor, hand-to-hand, creative, too good to be true."
Batman: The Dark Knight
Filming was completed in November, and Heath Ledger was in a good mood, full of energy, flying back to Australia at Christmas to spend the holiday with his family, and telling his family that he was going to take his youngest sister to London and introduce her to the entertainment industry.
His sister followed him to London, where Heath Ledger soon jumped on the filming of the new film Magical Fantasy Show.
No one thought that this would become his last work.
Magic Fantasy Show
The film was filmed very hard, the weather was very cold, Heath was still hanging on the bridge for several hours in the rain, he fell ill with a very serious cold, and eventually became pneumonia, which aggravated his insomnia symptoms.
He told friends who lived with him that sleeping pills would not help him fall asleep.
No one thought that these drugs would take his life.
On the afternoon of January 22, 2008, Heath Ledger was found lying in the apartment room of Hollywood actress Mary-Kate Olson, and heath Ledger was rumored to be dating Mary.
Mary-Kate Olson
But Mary is not in her apartment, and finds Heath Ledger as a masseuse who has come to give Heath Ledger a massage, but when she enters the apartment, heath Ledger is lying on the bed unresponsive.
The masseuse immediately contacted Mary and called the emergency and called the police.
But it was too late.
Heath Ledger,28, was frozen in that day.
The cause of death, which was announced by the police, was poisoning caused by drug abuse, and Heath Ledger, who wanted to fall asleep, took a variety of medications, including painkillers, anxiolytics and sedatives.
In 2009, a year after Heath Ledger's death, he won the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor and the Golden Globe for Best Supporting Actor for his brilliant performance in the film Batman: The Dark Knight.
Unfortunately, he could no longer witness his own miracles.
Heath Ledger's love of acting is almost crazy and persistent, and he is very cautious in picking scripts, not playing repetitive genres, eager to challenge more in-depth roles.
He missed out on a lot of commercial blockbusters that would have made him famous long ago.
But he didn't care, he only cared about playing the role he liked and doing what he liked to do.
Reference: Documentary I Am Heath Ledger
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