Heath Ledger Last Film

Heath andrew ledger 4 april 1979 22 january 2008 was an australian actor photographer and music video director.

Heath ledger last film. Other big roles include monster s ball from 2001 where he plays billy bob thornton s son. Leaving england says plummer heath was in very. Ledger and plummer both left the london portion of the movie s shoot last weekend and were due to continue filming next week in vancouver.

Olsen but were also unable to revive him. The dark knight the latest chapter in the batman saga and the imaginarium of doctor parnassus the latest film from director terry. After playing roles in several australian television and film productions during the 1990s ledger moved to the united states in 1998 to further develop his film career.

Ledger s break through came in 1999 with 10 things i hate about you. The last film he recorded however was terry gilliam s the imaginarium of dr. The imaginarium of doctor parnassus is a 2009 fantasy film directed by terry gilliam and written by gilliam and charles mckeown the film follows a travelling theatre troupe whose leader having made a bet with the devil takes audience members through a magical mirror to explore their imaginations and present them with a choice between self fulfilling enlightenment or gratifying ignorance.

He was oscar nominated in 2005 for his role as a gay cowoby in the film brokeback mountain. Specifically this was the movie that heath ledger was filming when he died of an accidental prescription drug overdose in january 2008. Paramedics and emergency medical technicians arrived seven minutes later at 3 33 pm at almost exactly the same moment as a private security guard summoned by ms.

Apr 20 2019 1 14 pm. Directed by terry gilliam. A traveling theater company gives its audience much more than they were expecting.

Terry gilliam recalls finishing heath ledger s final film without him it was like a member of the family had died he said of ledger s death. Before he died heath ledger had two films in production.