Heath Ledger has died!

[KristianFan4Ever]

OMG, I just watched that clip and it sent chills down my spine. Poor guy, little did he know.

My heart goes out to Michelle, his daughter, his friends and family who are now in mourning!

[Sweet_VeeVee24]

It is being said that his family found out the news of his death by television...that's so mind blowing

[DevotedToAMC]

In his honor, I am going to see the movie...I already had plans to see it but now I definitely am because I will always remember him as a great actor but also someone who goes above and beyond for his fans and family

RIP Heath

[DevotedToAMC]

That is weird if he died from that because he looks very healthy to me

Nevermind. I just saw the information about a possibly overdose so now I can understand the cardiac arrest. Either way, it just sucks that he is gone

[JackPeyton]

wow. not even one full month into the year and two amazing younf actors have passed.

[JackPeyton]

What. The? [!@#$%^&*]!

from- godhatesfags.com

[Sylph]

From Times Online

January 23, 2008

Brokeback Mountain star Heath Ledger found dead at 28

James Bone in New York

The actor Heath Ledger was found dead from a possible overdose last night, only days after shooting his latest film in East London. He died in a loft apartment in the trendy SoHo neighbourhood of New York.

Police said that the 28-year-old actor had been found when a masseuse called at the apartment for an appointment. A housekeeper went to tell Ledger that the masseuse had arrived, and found him dead at about 3.26 pm. Initial reports said that he was naked and face-down, surrounded by pills.

“We are investigating the possibility of an overdose,” Paul Browne, a spokesman for the New York Police Department, said.

Ledger, who was nominated for an Oscar for his role in Brokeback Mountain, will soon be seen on the big screen as the Joker in the Batman sequel The Dark Knight. He recently appeared in I’m Not There as one of six actors who played the musician Bob Dylan. Ledger, who was born in Australia, had been in London last week to shoot Terry Gilliam’s adventure fantasy The Imaginarium of Doctor Parnassus with Christopher Plummer and Lily Cole in Clerkenwell.

Ledger grew up in Perth and began performing amateur theatre at the age of 10. After moving to Sydney aged 16 to pursue an acting career, he was cast in roles in television films, and was also given guest spots on TV.

The young heart-throb first came to the public’s attention in 1996, when he played a gay cyclist inSnowy Bowles, a little-known Australian soap opera about Olympic hopefuls at the Western Australian Institute of Sport.

Ledger moved to Los Angeles and co-starred in 10 Things I Hate About You, a teen comedy interpretation of The Taming of the Shrew. Although he received offers for other teen films, he turned them down to wait for projects that he wanted. “It wasn’t a hard decision for me,” he said. “It was hard for everyone else around me to understand. Agents were like, ‘You’re crazy,’ my parents were like, ‘Come on, you have to eat’.”

The actor was linked romantically to Naomi Watts, whom he met on the set of Ned Kelly in 2002. But the couple reportedly stopped dating in August 2002. Ang Lee, the director of Brokeback Mountain, hailed Ledger’s performance as a gay cowboy in the film in 2005 as a “miracle”, reminiscent of a young Marlon Brando.

Ledger was nominated for the Best Actor Oscar for his portrayal of the character Ennis. The Oscar went to Phillip Seymour Hoffman for his portrayal of author Truman Capote in Capote, but Brokeback Mountain won three Academy Awards, including Best Director.

Ledger began a romance with his Brokeback Mountain co-star Michelle Williams. The couple, who have a two-year-old daughter, Matilda, split up in September. Talking about his daughter in a recent interview, Ledger said: “I feel good about dying because I feel alive through her.”

The celebrity Website TMZ.com, which broke the news of Ledger’s death, quoted a “confidant” as saying that the actor had suffered from a sustance abuse problem but had been “clean” for a year. A van from the New York Medical Examiner’s Office arrived at the apartment at 421 Broome Street last night to remove the body. A post-mortem examination will be conducted today, but toxicology tests will take at least several days.

On a role

— For his role in Brokeback Mountain, Ledger was nominated for an Oscar, a Golden Globe and a Bafta

— One of his early breaks was in 1999 as the lead in the teen movie 10 Things I Hate About You

— In 2001 he had a starring role in the medieval romp A Knight’s Tale and a more serious part in Oscar-winning prison movie Monster’s Ball

— In 2005 he appeared in the film Casanova and in 2006 as a drug-addicted poet in Candy

Source: Internet Movie Database

[JackPeyton]

http://boards.soapoperanetwork.com/index.php?showtopic=24275

[JackPeyton]

you know whats really sad, the pictures of Lindsay Lohan and friends mourning this loss, because theyw ere good friends.

i mean, i feel much worse for his family and child and michelle - but still. the look on lilo's face is heartbreaking.

[DevotedToAMC]

Good lord some people really need to get a life. Someone just died for crying out loud...plus, Heath is no fag but played a gay man in a film (I guess what I am saying is nobody deserves to be called a fag).

I detest the "f" word being used anywhere...I have barely used it in my life and consider it just as bad as the N word.

[DevotedToAMC]

Good lord some people really need to get a life. Someone just died for crying out loud...plus, Heath is no fag but played a gay man in a film (I guess what I am saying is nobody deserves to be called a fag).

I detest the "f" word being used anywhere...I have barely used it in my life and consider it just as bad as the N word.

Those religious hypocrites or, as I call them, pseudo Christians, are a bunch of morons who need to let people mourn his death.

[Sylph]

Yes, I've just seen it. Wondering why it's not in the Movies section...

[JackPeyton]

he was a "fag-enabler"

[JackPeyton]

^its not really movie related. i mean it is because he was a movie star, but still.

like jamie lynn spears being prego wasnt in primetime tv section, but shes a primetime tv star.

and britneys daily dramas are in the OTL, not the music & movies.

i just always assumed the the movies & music sectionw as to discuss music & movies. and the OTL was more for celeb drama.

but idk.. sometimes son confuses me...

[Sylph]

Yeah, the board is puzzling. I guess that's why they have the Offtopic Lounge: everything that doesn't fit anywhere else, goes there...