Heath Ledger
 Birthday: April 4, 1979 Age: 32 Sign: Aries Birthplace: Perth, Australia Hometown: New York, New York Big Break:
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Heath Ledger was born on April 4,1979 to French teacher, Sally Ledger Bell and Kim Ledger, a mining engineer and racecar driver. Ledger’s parents divorced when he was eleven. He has an older sister Kate, and two half-sisters Ashleigh Bell and Olivia Ledger. At the age of 10 he had his first acting experience by starring in a school production as Peter Pan. At the age of 16, Ledger graduated early to pursue an acting career. His success started in Australia, but his 1999 teen comedy 10 Things I Hate About You made a box office success. He received the “Best Actor of 2005” award for his performance in Brokeback Mountain. He was also nominated for Golden Globe and Academy Awards Best Actor.Heath Ledger had been linked to many actresses such as Lisa Zane, Heather Graham, and Naomi Watts. During the filming of Brokeback Mountain, Ledger began dating co-star Michelle Williams. Together they have a daughter Matilda Rose who was born on October 28, 2005. After three years together, Heath and Michelle Williams split in September, 2007. Heath Ledger died on January 22, 2008. He was found dead in his New York City apartment. Autopsy showed that his death was caused of an overdose of prescription medications. Did you know...
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January 18, 2012
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Williams opened up about Ledger’s death in an teary-eyed interview with GQ.
“It was making me crazy,” Williams said of grieving for her loved one.
September 28, 2011
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Accents are beautiful, and sometimes actors have have the difficult task of faking them for roles. Sometimes they're awful, but we're focusing on the good ones. Here are 5 celebrities with the best fake accents.
Heath Ledger: Heath amazingly transformed his Aussie accent for so many of his roles. And his performance in Brokeback Mountain really made me believe Ledger came from from hill folk.
September 23, 2011
The house has been known as "the tree house" because of how it's situated in the Hollywood Hills and surrounded by trees on all sides. Unlike most celebs who feel the need to have 10 bedroom homes with swirling staircases and firemen poles, Heath and Michelle lived "modestly" in the 2 bedroom, 2 bathroom home built in 1951.
The couple bought the home from Ellen DeGeneres in 2005 for $2.1 mil, but after Ledger and Williams split and his unfortunate death in 2008, the house was sold for $2.5 million.
August 8, 2011
In the September issue of Latina, Saldana says, "The year after Avatar was just emotionally overwhelming. I was traveling all over the world, waking up in different time zones. Your body gets exhausted, and by the end of the year I just collapsed."
When she began training for Colombiana in Paris, Saldana says she had her breakdown:
"I was sitting in my hotel room, and I couldn't stop crying. I couldn't stay awake. I must have slept for an entire month. It took me the rest of the year, even as I was working and shooting Colombiana, to pick myself up. Thank God my family was there.”
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With the news of Arnold Schwarzenegger's love child leaked, let’s recap other famous love children over the past decades that you may or may not have heard about.
John Edwards: The former senator and democratic nominee for President fathered a child out of wedlock while his wife had cancer! Then he denied the child was his for two years and made a sex tape with his mistress, Rielle Hunter. There are a lot of slutty politicians, but homeboy is a sociopath.
Prince Harry – Prince Harry might actually be a love child himself. His dad should be Prince Charles but it’s very possible that his pops could be Princess Dianna’s lover, James Hewitt. Who is Prince Harry’s dad? How many licks does it take to get to the center of a tootsie pop? The world may never know...
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January 5, 2011
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In an interview with The Daily Beast, Michelle admits she refuses to move out of the house they once shared and she's found it extremely difficult to hold on to anything anymore.
She said: “This is a lived-in house. There are seven people living here at the moment. I couldn’t live here alone. You could live here if you want. We have a very open-door policy.”
She also admitted that his sudden passing triggered a series of unexpected losses in different areas of her life.
She explained: “I experienced a lot of loss after his death. I lost my city because of all the paparazzi descending upon us. I actually lost my journal during that time, oddly enough. I literally couldn’t hold on to anything. It felt as if things were literally slipping through my fingers. Things were just streaming away from me. I lost my sense of humor. I’m still sort of looking for that.”
It's so sad that the world lost Heath so soon, and that their daughter Matilda has to grow up without a father. You can tell in her interviews that Michelle is still so hurt by the loss, there was a lot of love there. It's just so tragic.
December 23, 2010
She sat down with ABC Nightline and told them about her healing process, saying that she’s “sad” it’s becoming more and more of a distant memory. "I've found meanings around the circumstance, but the actual event itself still doesn't ... " she said.
"I can't find a meaning for it. I can find meanings in things and people and relationships that have sprung up and friendships that have strengthened. I can find a lot of meaning in that, but not in why."
Apparently after Heath’s death, her whole world kind of stopped, and Michelle says it was different than any of the years in her lifetime. . "In a strange way, I miss that year, because all those possibilities that existed then are gone," she admitted.
"It didn't seem unlikely to me that he could walk through a door or could appear behind a bush," Williams said. "It was a year of very magical thinking, and in some ways I'm sad to be moving further and further away from it. ... I know I got kind of obsessed with that for a while, the before and after. A lot of things died. ... There's a line from a book that gave me so much comfort and it said, 'When you've truly lost everything, then at least you can become rich in loss.' "
Watch the emotional video below…After seeing this, I get why she hasn’t really talked about Heath….it brings back all those memories…so sad.
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Seems like ghosts like to haunt celebrities as much as regular folks! Here are the top ten celebrity paranormal encounters.
10. Maksim Chmerkovskiy will never cheat on a girlfriend after this experience!
Dancing With the Stars’ Maksim Chmerkovskiy told Hollyscoop, "There is a Hotel in North Carolina--and the room has a ghost of a lady whose husband cheated on her so she jumped out of the window. I stayed in the room next door and heard a lot of noises, and when I called room service to tell them to tell them to quiet down and they told me it was a ghost. Before he finished the story I was already downstairs trying to change my room."
9. Taylor Momsen
Taylor Momsen may sometimes look demonic, but a past experience may be influencing her current goth look!
“My mom grew up in Devil’s Lake, N.D., and her next door neighbor died. She was wealthy and her belongings got put in a museum… So I went ghost hunting and took pictures and talked to her and all this stuff. And there are actually two images that I took, one of a hand on a typewriter and one of her entire body in a window.”
8. Anna Nicole Smith
Leave it to the late Anna Nicole Smith to have had a kinky ghost experience!
“Well … a ghost would crawl up my leg and have sex with me at an apartment a long time ago in Texas. I used to think it was my boyfriend, and one day I woke up and it wasn’t. It was, like, a spirit and it—woo! [miming a ghost flying from under her sheets]—went up! I was freaked out about it, but then I was like, ‘Well, you know what? He’s never hurt me and he just gave me some amazing sex so I have no problem.’”
7. Keanu Reeves
Actor Keanu Reeves is traumatized for life after seeing this vision as a child…
“I was living in New Jersey when I saw and felt this ghost. I remember just staring at this suit which had no body or legs in it as it came into the room before disappearing… It was a double-breasted suit in white, and I looked at my nanny who was just as shocked as me. I just couldn’t get back to sleep afterward, and I still see the figure in my dreams and nightmares.”
6. Shayne Lamas
Reality show star Shayne Lamas told Hollyscoop, "I woke up one day and someone was writing on my wall & another time my mirror shattered."
5. Ke$ha
Ke$ha's hit song “TiK Tok” was inspired by some pretty freaky deaky stuff going on at home!
“I’d always try to convince my friends to spend the night, ‘cause I wouldn’t get haunted on if they were there. I woke up one morning, surrounded by all my girlfriends. I woke up feeling like P. Diddy!”
We always wondered what that line meant!
4. Lisa Rinna
Lisa Rinna did an episode of “Celebrity Ghost Stories” on the Biography Channel where she talked about the ghost that lives in her husband’s (and now her) home.
According to Lisa, when her first daughter was 6 weeks old, she started laughing and seemed to be talking to someone who wasn’t there. When her second daughter, Emilia, was a baby, she heard loud giggling on their baby monitor between spaces of silence. When she went into her daughter’s room, she saw a woman standing over the crib. Now that’s freaky!
3. Lady Gaga
Who knew Lady Gaga was a ghostbuster!
The singer dropped $5K for a Ghostbuster machine to do a “spirit-seeking sweep” of one of the London venues on her Monster’s Ball tour.
One of her aides had to buy the kit, which includes an electro-magnetic field reader. Owner of the “ghost-busting firm,” Dan Webb, told the Sunday Mirror, “Her aide said the gear had to be robust as they were taking it on the road, so they must be doing this every where Lady Gaga is performing.”
Maybe the ghost wanted to check out Lady Gaga's show….
2. Matthew McConaughey
Matthew McConaughey’s ghost madame like to scare him in the buff!
The actor once said in an interview, “When I first moved in, I had a tent and I put it up on the floor of the upstairs bedroom with my sleeping bag and my dog. That’s when I first saw Madame Blue. The first night I’m hearing noises, I’m hearing bass sounds, wood moving and coyotes ... So, I get up out of the tent with my dog Miss Hud and I’m running around buck naked and I’ve got a bat so I’m gonna go and investigate. I go downstairs and there’s nothing there. I now know it was here because I have seen her since. She has no qualms with me. She’s a cool ghost. Maybe me being nude all the time is why we get along!”
We’re soooo jealous of that ghost right now!
1. Michelle Williams
The freakiest ghost stor goes to Michelle Williams, who claims she has been visited by ex-fiancé Heath Ledger‘s ghost on several occasions.
According to Michelle, Heath visited her three months after his death at 3 a.m. and she awoke to her bedroom furniture being moved before seeing a shadowy figure that looked like Heath. The second time he visited, Williams said that he apologized for not helping her to raise their daughter Matilda.
Now that's a tear jerker!
December 24, 2009
Here’s the list:
Sherlock Holmes – based on the 1887 fictional character created by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle. Starring Robert Downey Jr., Jude Law, and Rachel McAdams.
It’s Complicated - Romantic comedy. 2 men vie for the affections of a woman. Starring Meryl Streep, Steve Martin, and Alec Baldwin.
Up in the Air – Adapted from the 2001 novel of the same name written by Walter Kirn. Plot revolves around a man whose job it is to travel the country and fire people for the corporation he works for. This film will have a limited release December 4 and 11, but Christmas is when it gets the wide U.S. national release. Stars George Clooney, Vera Farmiga, Jason Bateman and Danny McBride.
The Imaginarium of Doctor Parnassus - The leader of a travelling theater troupe must rescue his daughter after making a deal with the devil. This is the last film starring Heath Ledger, who died during production. Johnny Depp, Jude Law and Colin Ferrell play the transformations of Ledger’s character in his wake.
Alvin and the Chipmunks: The Squeakquel – The Chipmunks give up the ill-fated fame of the 2006 film to go to school. They enter a $25,000 contest to save their school’s music program. Stars Jason Lee and Zachary Levi.
November 11, 2009
The director Terry Gilliam decided to keep Heath in the film, but supplement his role by having Johnny Depp, Colin Farrell, and Jude Law play parts of the role as well.
The movie is about Dr. Parnassus and his extraordinary 'Imaginarium', a traveling show where members of the audience get to choose between light and joy or darkness and gloom.
One thousand years ago, Parnassus made a deal with the devil, Mr Nick, in which he won immortality. Many centuries later, on meeting his one true love, Dr Parnassus made another deal with the devil, trading his immortality for youth, on condition that when his first-born reached its 16th birthday he or she would become the property of Mr Nick. Valentina is soon approaching her 16th birthday, and Dr Parnassus is desperate to protect her from her impending fate. Mr Nick arrives to collect but, always keen to make a bet, renegotiates the wager. Now the winner of Valentina will be determined by whoever seduces the first five souls. Enlisting a series of wild, comical and compelling characters in his journey, Dr Parnassus promises his daughter's hand in marriage to the man that helps him win.
Watch the trailer below.
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