BASIC FACTS
Birth Date: April 4th, 1979
Astrological Sign: Aries
Place of Birth: Subiaco Hospital, Perth, Australia
Father: Kim Ledger (mining engineer)
Mother: Sally Bell
Step Father: Roger Bell
Sister: Catherine Kate Ledger (older)
Half Sisters: Olivia Ledger (born in 1997; mother: Emma Brown) and Ashleigh Bell (born in 1989; father: Roger)
Height: 6'2"
Eye Colour: Brown
Hair Colour: Blonde
Current Residence: Los Angeles
FILMOGRAPHY
Clowning Around (1992)
Ship to Shore (TV, 1993)
Sweat (Snowy Bowles - TV, 1996)
Blackrock (Toby Ackland - 1997)
Bush Patrol (Schoolboy - TV, 1997)
Roar (Conor - TV, 1997)
Paws (Oberon - 1997)
Home and Away (Scott Irwin - TV, 1998)
Two Hands (Jimmy - 1999)
Ten Things I Hate About You (1999)
The Patriot (Corporal Gabriel Edward Martin - 2000)
A Knight's Tale (Sir William Thatcher - 2001) (My favorite Movie)
Monster's Ball (Sonny Grotowski - 2001)
Our Sunshine (2002)
Four Feathers (Harry Faversham - 2002)
The Sin Eater (Father Alex Bernier - 2002)
Ned Kelly (Ned Kelly - 2003)
STAGE APPEARANCES
Peter Pan
The Name Of The Father
Bugsy Malone
Hamlet
Royal Hunt For The Sun
The Boyfriend
FUTURE APPEARANCES
Ned Kelly (Ned Kelly - 2003)
FAN MAIL:
Heath Ledger C/O Creative Artists Agency
9830 Wilshire Blvd.
Beverly Hills, CA 90210
LITTLE KNOWN FACTS
Auditioned for the role of Max Evans in ROSSWELL (1999).
He was the contender to play Christan in MOULIN ROUGE!
Knocked out one of director Brian Helgeland's front teeth with a broomstick when the two were demonstrating a jousting move. It was several months before Helgeland's mouth had healed enough to repair the damage. He says it was the only jousting injury during filming. (KNIGHT'S TALE, A (2001)
Performed his own stunts in THE PATRIOT.
The initial scene of the two knight's jousting in the first scene of A KNIGHT'S TALE is actually footage of his stunt double in an accident. During filming of a later scene in the movie, the lance of the stunt double's opponent moved off target and hit him in the head. The double fell to the ground unconscious. The entire footage was used for the introduction. Filmmaker's were hoping that no one would notice that the knight that hit the ground had the same shield crest as Sir Ulric (three phoenixes) used later in the movie.
WHAT'S THE WORST THAT COULD HAPPEN? (2001) oringally was a project for him.
Finished high school a year early at age 16
First got his start in the Globe Shakespeare Company in Perth, Australia
He made his movie debut in 1997 Australian teen drama
He actually wanted to be a teacher
His parents divorced when he was 10
He got held back in his 2nd year
Just recently broke up with Heather Graham
His step mother has diabetes
He suffered a major change when his aunt died of lung cancer on april 13, 1992
He is a self taught tap dancer
His main passion in life apart from acting is photography
Heath's birth name is not Heathcliff. It is simply Heath Andrew Ledger
He has a small strawberry birthmark on his inner left thigh
Was nominated MTV Movie Award for Best Musical Performance in 2000 for 10 THINGS I HATE ABOUT YOU and AFI Award for Best Performance by an Actor in a Leading Role in 1999 for TWO HANDS.
Below are some links to a few Heath Pages. If you know anymore, please feel free to email me at JesssXTwo@aol.com so that i can add them to my page!
Other Heath Pages
Heath Page 1
Heath Page 2
Heath Page 3
