Breaking News: Heath Ledger Found Dead In New York

I was just watching the news when a special report said that Heath Ledger was found dead in his New York apartment.
http://www.cinematical.com/2008/01/22/breaking-heath-ledger-found-dead/

[Post edited by tony1569 on Jan 22, 2008]

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Actor Heath Ledger Is Found Dead
By Sewell Chan

The actor Heath Ledger was found dead this afternoon in an apartment building at 421 Broome Street in SoHo, according to the New York City police. Mr. Ledger was 28.

At 3:31 p.m., a masseuse arrived at Apartment 5A in the building for an appointment with Mr. Ledger, the police said. The masseuse was let in to the home by a housekeeper, who then knocked on the door of Mr. Ledger’s bedroom. When no one answered, the housekeeper and the masseuse opened the bedroom and found Mr. Ledger unconscious. They shook him, but he did not respond. They immediately called the authorities. The police said they did not suspect foul play and said they found pills near body.

Mr. Ledger, a native of Perth, Australia, won acclaim for his role as a co-star in “Brokeback Mountain”, a 2005 film. The film, based on a short story by Annie Proulx about two cowboys who fall in love, won critical acclaim. Reviewing the film in The New York Times, the critic Stephen Holden wrote, “Mr. Ledger magically and mysteriously disappears beneath the skin of his lean, sinewy character. It is a great screen performance, as good as the best of Marlon Brando and Sean Penn.”
Mr. Ledger met the actress Michelle Williams while filming ‘’Brokeback Mountain.” The two actors fell into a very public romance. They had a daughter, Matilda Rose, who was born on Oct. 28, 2005. They moved to Brooklyn, but then separated last year.

Calls by The New York Times to Mara Buxbaum, a publicist for Mr. Ledger, and Steve Alexander, the actor’s agent, were not immediately returned this afternoon.

Thomas J. Lueck contributed reporting.

As per the New York Times...

[Post edited by mvckalel on Jan 22, 2008]

The Joker is dead

Did they finish shooting?

Yeah, since that's the only thing we care...but yeah, they did, supposedly on post-production for DK...

[Post edited by mvckalel on Jan 22, 2008]

So sad!
The creepy part is that he kind of looked like Brandon Lee as the Crow

Both were 28 at death

[Post edited by xavier311 on Jan 22, 2008]

I know, of course a lot of sympathy with his family.

I most say it came as a total shock. Still like

This is really sad. It's almost unreal henning.

[Post edited by Mike37 on Jan 22, 2008]

Really is.

With Brokeback Mountain and The Dark Knight he really had a big career in front of him.

He gave a great performance in the 2005 dramatic comedy CASANOVA - I loved the witty script.

-LH (The Loverboy)

R.I.P Heath Ledger

I think the first movie that I saw him in was A Knight's Tale. I liked him in The Brothers Grimm with Matt Damon, but I never really got into Broke Back Mountain.

I hope there are still a Knight's Tale dvds on wal-mart's $5 dvd bin...

I had a lot of respect for him.

He started out as a by-product of the Hollywood hype machine. The executives saw a face they wanted to market and manufactured a star by putting his face in magazines.

He said when he did A Knight's Tale that he didn't even know how to act. Rather than going with the flow he made the choice to legitimize himself only a few years later.

WOW, that stinks, whole career ahead of him

totally unexpected.

Ledger was born in Perth, Australia. He has a young daughter with actress Michelle Williams, his co-star in "Brokeback Mountain." - CNN.com

Very sad for his family, especially for Michelle Williams & their daughter.



- Josh

R.I.P Heath Ledger my prayers go out to his two year old daughter. I know from personal experience it isn't easy growing up without a father. My Heart goes out to her.

Here's hoping everyone reserves judgement on what happened until the autopsy comes back.

[Post edited by Movielover316 on Jan 22, 2008]

this is just aweful, i feel sad for his young daugther, she wont get to know her father. He was a good young actor who seemed to take his career serious. This is just horrilbe. rip Heath ledger

THIS SITE <link has more details from news sources about his untimely death, of an apparent overdose of sleeping pills.

-LH (The Loverboy)

Sad, tragic, and certainly unexpected. His talent will certainly be missed.

sean

Hey Xavier, check the archives, I posted a thread before Christmas and I said he in fact looked like The Crow. But it is another tragic death of a young holywood actor with so much ahead of him.

[Post edited by InvisibleBiker on Jan 23, 2008]

Now they are not certain it was suicide. A mix of a illness and sleeping pills might have caused it.

However, CNN reports:

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An autopsy Wednesday morning on actor Heath Ledger was inconclusive, and a cause-of-death determination will take 10 to 14 days.

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