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Andrew Ledger (April 4, 1979 – January 22, 2008) was an Academy
Award-nominated Australian film actor. After appearing in
television roles during the 1990s, Ledger developed a movie
career, appearing in nearly twenty films. He starred in both
critical and box-office successes, including 10 Things I Hate
About You, The Patriot, Monster's Ball, A Knight's Tale, and
Brokeback Mountain. For his portrayal of Ennis Del Mar in
Brokeback Mountain, Ledger was nominated for a 2005 Oscar for
"Best Actor in a Leading Role" and won awards from the
British Academy and the Australian Film Institute, as well as two
MTV Movie Awards. In addition to his work as an actor and also as
producer of music videos, Ledger aspired to be a film director. He
had completed filming on the role of the Joker in the forthcoming
movie The Dark Knight shortly before dying from an accidental
prescription drug overdose at age 28. His last acting project was
Terry Gilliam's unfinished film The Imaginarium of Doctor
Parnassus. Ledger's death affects both the marketing campaign for
Christopher Nolan's film The Dark Knight and production for Terry
Gilliam's film The Imaginarium of Doctor Parnassus. In February
2008 actors Johnny
Depp, Jude
Law, and Colin
Farrell signed on to take over Ledger's role, becoming
multiple incarnations of his character transformed in the
"magical" world of the film, in part as a
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