Heath ledger biography movie about lucille ball
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List of awards and nominations received bygd Heath Ledger
Heath Ledger was an Australian film actor whose career lasted more than 16 years. Ledger received acclaim for his acting in the Australian crime rulle Two Hands (), receiving nominations at the Australian Film Institute (AFI) and Film Critics Circle of Australia in the categories for Best Actor. After starring in the films A Knight's Tale and Monster's Ball, Ledger was cast as the title character in the biographical film Ned Kelly for which he received his second AFI and bio Critics Circle award nominations.
Ledger's breakthrough performance as Ennis sektion Mar in the bio adaptation of Brokeback Mountain earned him nominations for an Academy Award, a BAFTA Award, a Golden Globe Award, and a Screen Actors Guild Award, all for Best Actor in a Leading Role. At age 26, he became the ninth-youngest Academy Award Best Actor nominee at the time. In addition, Ledger received recognition from several North American critics'
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When hunky, twenty-year-old heart-throb Heath Ledger first came to the attention of the public in , it was all too easy to tag him as a "pretty boy" and an actor of little depth. He spent several years trying desperately to sway this image, but this was a double-edged sword. His work comprised nineteen films, including 10 Things I Hate About You (), The Patriot (), A Knight's Tale (), Monster's Ball (), Ned Kelly (), The Brothers Grimm (), Lords of Dogtown (), Brokeback Mountain (), Casanova (), Candy (), I'm Not There (), The Dark Knight () and The Imaginarium of Doctor Parnassus (). He also produced and directed music videos and aspired to be a film director.
Heath Ledger was born on the fourth of April , in Perth, Western Australia, to Sally (Ramshaw), a teacher of French, and Kim Ledger, a mining engineer who also raced cars. His ancestry was Scottish, English, Irish, and Sephardi Jewish. As the story goes, in junior high school it was compulsory to take
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The Four Feathers ( film)
film by Shekhar Kapur
The Four Feathers is a wardrama film directed by Shekhar Kapur and starring Heath Ledger, Wes Bentley, Djimon Hounsou and Kate Hudson. Set during the British Army'sGordon Relief Expedition (late to early ) in Sudan, well after the formation of Mahdiyya, it tells the story of a young man accused of cowardice. This film, with altered plot events, is the latest in a long line of cinematic adaptations of the novel The Four Feathers by A.E.W. Mason. Other versions of the story have been set in the s, with different battle events.
Plot
[edit]Harry Faversham, a young British officer completing his training, celebrates his engagement to Ethne Eustace in a ball with his fellow officers and father. When the Colonel announces that the regiment is being dispatched to Egyptian-ruled Sudan to rescue the British General Charles "Chinese" Gordon, young Faversham has serious reservations about going to war, and resigns his commission. H