Heath Ledger RIP

04 Apr 1979 - 22 Jan 2008

"Heath Ledger's Lonesome Trail - His dad wanted him to race cars. Hollywood wanted him to play Spider-Man. But he wanted to play a gay cowboy. Now he's a huge star, and he's not happy about it" - Rolling Stone magazine, March 2006.

I'm still in shock over the "suicide" of Heath Ledger last night in New York. I confess I didn't rate the guy very much from what I saw in Knight's Tale, but he was great in Monster Ball and in Lords of Dogtown. In the past month or so I was trying to see everything I could about the new Batman movie, where critics say he was doing the best Joker ever!!
It's so sad to see such a young talent go to waste, specially when the media attention (and the studios) seems to focus more and more on young people devoid of talent...

Filmography:
The Imaginarium of Doctor Parnassus (2009) (filming)
The Dark Knight (2008) (post-production)
I'm Not There. (2007)
Candy (2006)
Casanova (2005)
Brokeback Mountain (2005)
The Brothers Grimm (2005)
Lords of Dogtown (2005)
The Order (2003)
Ned Kelly (2003)
The Four Feathers (2002)
Monster's Ball (2001)
A Knight's Tale (2001)
The Patriot (2000)
Two Hands (1999)
10 Things I Hate About You (1999)
Paws (1997)
Blackrock (1997)
Clowning Around (1992)