In "Candy," a low-budget Australian indie, we get to watch the actor clean, as it were -- performing without the epic backdrop, music or momentousness. The movie may be a relentless downer -- he ...

Then, in 2008, he'll star in perhaps his highest-profile film yet -- the next Batman movie, The Dark Knight, in a role previously inhabited by no less than Jack Nicholson.

A fatherly chemistry professor (Geoffrey Rush) indulges two young lovers (Heath Ledger, Abbie Cornish) in their ever-increasing heroin habits. Eventually the pair, an artist named Candy and an ...

Hearing Heath Ledger speak his native tongue–in this case, Australian English–in the addled drug addiction drama “Candy” makes an enormous difference in the performer’s expressive range.

In his short life, Heath Ledger lit up the screen in a number of roles – from a ranch hand grappling with his sexuality to a high school bad boy who falls in love.

Heath Ledger had the script for Stephen Gaghan’s movie at the time of his death. AP Ledger died at 28 in 2008 of an accidental overdose. Reuters Fans left memorials to Ledger after his passing ...