Heath Ledger

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Heathcliff Andrew Ledger (April 4, 1979 - January 22, 2008) was an Academy Award-winning Australian actor. He was born in Perth, Western Australia as the son of Sally Ledger Bell (née Ramshaw),a French teacher, and Kim Ledger, a race car driver and mining engineer. His mother is descended from the Clan Campbell of Scotland and his father comes from a family well-known in Perth, as the Sir Frank Ledger Charitable Trust was named after his great-grandfather. Heath attended Marys Mount Primary School, in Gooseberry Hill, and later Guildford Grammar School and its preparatory school of the same name. At 16, he sat for early graduation exams, and left school to pursue an acting career with girlfriend Jenna Sorrell. With his best friend, Trevor DiCarlo, Heath made the cross-country drive to Sydney. He returned to Perth for the TV series Sweat (1996), in which he played a gay cyclist. He then starred in the American television series Roar. In 1996, prior to his film debut in the 1997 Australian movie Blackrock, Heath was involved in the short lived Fox Broadcasting Company fantasy-drama Roar. In 1999, he starred in the teen comedy 10 Things I Hate about You and also had the lead role in the acclaimed Australian movie Two Hands, directed by Gregor Jordan. Since then he has starred in The Patriot, Monster's Ball, A Knight's Tale, Ned Kelly, The Order and The Brothers Grimm. In 2001, he won a ShoWest Award for the Male Star of Tomorrow based on his performance in The Patriot, and wor

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