Ledger as the Joker in the new Batman movie, "The Dark Knight," due to be released this summer.
Heath Ledger, an Academy award nominee for his work in the Academy award winning "Brokeback Mountain," passed away this afternoon in his New York apartment. Ledger, who has a 2-year-old daughter, Matilda, with former fiance Michelle Williams, was found with over the counter sleeping pills strewn around his body.
As one of Hollywood's bright young stars, Ledger had a brilliant career ahead of him. I, as a heterosexual male, can say Brokeback Mountain was a fantastic movie. R.I.P. Heath. You were a tremendous actor.
Ledger was photographed in London on Saturday on the set of his latest movie, "The Imaginarium of Doctor Parnassus."
