Heath Ledger

The great history of Hollywood has seen the untimely death of one of the best young Australian actors today. Heath Ledger was found dead lying on his bed after a massive cardiac arrest. He left an ex-girlfriend and a daughter, and his millions of fans that saw him grow from a teen-bopper actor, to become more mature roles. Let's take a quick look-back on his colorful career.

Born in Perth, Australia in April 1979 quarter, his first job as a TV series calledSweat in 1996, where he played a gay cyclist. His first big crack in Hollywood came after he landed a role in a teen movie called Ten Things I Hate About You. Its role as a bad-hearted boy with the opposite Julia Stiles has done to his growing fan base today. He played in the Patriot with Mel Gibson has won applause as he labels as the emerging young actors of the decade developed. Since the Patriot, took a leading role in A Knight's Tale, TheOrder and the Brothers Grimm - all films that defined his screen roles in the future than an act or protagonist of tension. But it was not an actor, which can classified to a certain niche.

His career will continue to be redefined, when he played the character of Ennis Del Mar in the controversial film "Brokeback Mountain" L '. This film depicts two cowboys on a ranch in Wyoming, which has fallen in love. The film work was the first screen that the relationship between persons of the same sex revealedin a way that went to the mainstream, drawing different views. The film won Best Film British Academy Awards and Golden Globe Awards. He also received his first and only Academy Award nomination, after which many Australians know him as one of the greatest young actors in Australia.

His latest work is Batman: The Dark Knight, where he played as Joker, a criminal with a karmic twist. However, his death halted production of the PostMovies with The Imaginarium of Doctor Parnassus.

It 'hard to imagine how a star of his promising career was halted by these events. We will never know how big he has become in his career, if it continues, but the basics, like a great actor of this generation is on the ground. Congratulations to Heath and his family.