• Name: Heath Ledger
  
• Birth Name: Heathcliff Andrew Ledger
  
• Height: 6' 1"
  
• Sex: M
  
• Nationality: Australian
  
• Birth Date: April 4, 1979 in Subiaco Hospital
  
• Birth Place: Perth, Western Australia
  
• Profession: actor
  
• Education: Guilford Grammar School
  
• Relationship: Naomi Watts (actress; born on September 18, 1968; split), Heather Graham (actress; born on January 29, 1970; together as of 2000), Lisa Zane (actress; born on April 5, 1964; met while they were filming ROAR in 1997)
  
• Father: Kim Ledger (mining engineer; divorced in 1989)
  
• Mother: Sally Bell
  
• Sister: Catherine Kate Ledger (older)
  
• Half Sister: Olivia Ledger (born in 1997; mother: Emma Brown) and Ashleigh Bell (born in 1989; father: Roger Bell)
  
• Step Father: Roger Bell
  
• Step Mother: Emma Brown
  
• Claim to fame: as Gabriel Martin in The Patriot (2000)
  

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• "I love the vibrant cities and the enthusiasm Americans have.....for America. I like to hang out in Manhattan where it's an easy walk to great theatre, cinema, or a Starbuck's Coffee House. I could easily make this my base."
• "I don't celebrate love and friendship by giving stuff to people. That's why I don't believe in marriage. I don't believe you should have to prove your love by giving someone a gold ring with a diamond on it."
• "I'm still a six-year-old kid and I always will be."
• "I was ok with it [My Parents being divorced], because it made me realize that my parents were human."
• "Maybe I'm not too typical, or maybe I'm just a daft. I don’t know- I tend to analyze things a lot. I think too much."
• "It's weird, you know? You don’t wake up every morning and think 'Okay, I'm hot.' That doesn’t concern me."
• "I didn’t want to do more teen flicks because its so easy to get trapped there. I think Australians have this independent streak. I want to always have the control to say no when I don’t think something is right for me. I want to be able to walk away."
• On how he found his second home on stage as a kid: "I just loved it and kept doing it. I blinked and I was getting paid. Doors kept opening and I kept walking through them."
• "No amount of money changes what I do between 'action' and 'cut.'"
• "I'm a home bug. When I get home from a shoot, the number one thing I want to do is sit in the house, do my laundry, do dishes, cook -- do all that [stuff] that you just usually don't do."
• "I'm a big movie-musical fan. I'd love to do a re-telling of "The Pirate" which starred Judy Garland and Gene Kelly."
• "I'm shy. People get confused. They think, as an actor you can get up and be confident on the screen. ‘Why aren't you like this in normal life? Why can't you act in your social life?' Because I can't!"
• "I always have bed head. I don't do anything with my hair. I don't know what to do with it."
• "Honesty always gets my attention. Not particularly someone who is honest to me, but someone who is honest with themselves. That is a quality I really enjoy, admire and love."
• On being romantic: "I love sitting around holding hands. Just spending time with someone, doing nothing, can be romantic."

• Blockbuster Entertainment Awards: Favorite Male - Newcomer, THE PATRIOT (2001) MTV Movie Awards
• ShoWest Award: Male Star of Tomorrow (2001)

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