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Heath Andrew Ledger (April 4, 1979 – January 22, 2008) was an Australian actor and music video director. After playing roles in several Australian television and film productions during the 1990s, Ledger moved to the United States in 1998 to develop his film career further. His work consisted of twenty films, including 10 Things I Hate About You (1999), The Patriot (2000), A Knight's Tale (2001), Monster's Ball (2001), Lords of Dogtown (2005), Brokeback Mountain (2005), Candy (2006), I'm Not There (2007), The Dark Knight (2008), and The Imaginarium of Doctor Parnassus (2009), the latter two being posthumous releases. He also produced and directed music videos and aspired to be a film director. For his portrayal of Ennis Del Mar in Brokeback Mountain, Ledger won the New York Film Critics Circle Award for Best Actor and the Best International Actor Award from the Australian Film Institute; he was the first actor to win the latter award posthumously. He was nominated for the BAFTA Award, Screen Actors Guild Award, Golden Globe Award and the Academy Award for Best Actor, becoming the eighth-youngest nominee in the category at that time. Posthumously, he shared the 2007 Independent Spirit Robert Altman Award with the rest of the ensemble cast, the director, and the casting director for the film I'm Not There, which was inspired by the life and songs of American singer-songwriter Bob Dylan. In the film, Ledger portrayed a fictional actor named Robbie Clark, one of six characters embodying aspects of Dylan's life and persona. Ledger died on 22 January 2008 as a result of an accidental overdose of medications. A few months before his death, Ledger had finished filming his role as the Joker in The Dark Knight. At the time of his death, The Dark Knight was in post-production, and The Imaginarium of Doctor Parnassus, in which he was playing his last role as Tony, was in the midst of filming. His death affected the subsequent promotion of The Dark Knight. His performance as the Joker in The Dark Knight earned him universal acclaim and popularity from fans and critics alike. Ledger also received numerous posthumous awards for his work on The Dark Knight, including the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor, a Best Actor International Award at the 2008 Australian Film Institute Awards, the 2008 Los Angeles Film Critics Association Award for Best Supporting Actor, the 2009 Golden Globe Award for Best Supporting Actor – Motion Picture, and the 2009 BAFTA Award for Best Supporting Actor.
If Heath Ledger never died. This is what Nolan originally had planned for his Batman Franchise. So I am making a fan cast post for the series originally was going to be 5 Films. So in this film “Shadow Of The Bat” it was supposed to take place 8 years later after The Dark Knight and the girl who Gordon’s Wife was holding on to as well as the son was apparently according to Nolan was supposed to be 10 year old Barbara Gordon at the time so now 8 years later she is working for the GPD and she eventually would have worked for Batman and The Joker would have shot her and made her handicapped like in the killing joke but with a Nolan twist obviously and Harvey Dent would be alive from The Dark Knight and in this movie he would have became two face by an intense court scene where the joker is in court and Harvey dent is there to “bring him down” and the joker had something planned unexpectedly and something like Joker acid on Dents face and body something like that and he escaped with his goons killing everyone in the court house and kidnapping Harvey. So I’m pretty sure that the ending of two face in The Dark Knight would have ended in this film but with more two face. And not only does joker throw acid I think he exploded the court and that’s what burnt his body but also what I do remember as well is that all of the mind games joker did to dent after becoming two face were supposed to be in this film as well even more apparently.
