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When hunky, twenty-year-old heart-throb Heath Ledger first came to the attention of the public in 1999, 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 (1999), The Patriot (2000), A Knight's Tale (2001), Monster's Ball (2001), Ned Kelly (2003), The Brothers Grimm (2005), Lords of Dogtown (2005), Brokeback Mountain (2005), Casanova (2005), Candy (2006), I'm Not There (2007), The Dark Knight (2008) and The Imaginarium of Doctor Parnassus (2009). He also produced and directed music videos and aspired to be a film director.
Heath Ledger was born on the fourth of April 1979, 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 one of two electives, either cooking or drama. As Heath could not see himself in a cooking class he tried his hand at drama. Heath was talented, however the rest of the class did not acknowledge his talent. When he was seventeen he and a friend decided to pack up, leave school, take a car and rough it to Sydney. Heath believed Sydney to be the place where dreams were made or, at least, where actors could possibly get their big break. Upon arriving in Sydney with a purported sixty-nine cents to his name, Heath tried everything to get a break.
His first real acting job came in a low-budget movie called Blackrock (1997), a largely unimpressive cliché; an adolescent angst film about one boy's struggle when he learns his best mate raped a girl. He only had a very small role in the film. After that small role Heath auditioned for a role in a T.V. show called Sweat (1996) about a group of young Olympic hopefuls. He was offered
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I have been a Falcon since 1995 when I came to the University to work on my Ph.D. in the Department of English after completing a double B.A. in English and communication at Bluffton College. In 2000, I earned my Ph.D. and began teaching full time for the University Writing Program.
At BGSU I have taught courses in first-year writing, literature, women’s studies, and lesbian and gay studies. I have been named twice in Who’s Who Among America’s Teachers, have been nominated for the Distinguished Lecturer/Instructor Award from the College of Arts and Sciences and was named BGSU’s 2010 Master Teacher Award winner by the Student Alumni Connection.
One of my favorite parts of being a faculty member in the Honors College is that I have the unique opportunity to design classes on a wide variety of unusual subjects and to teach those classes to students from across a range of majors and educational experiences. Over the past several years, I have taught Special Topic Seminars on:
- Demystifying Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows
- (Re-)Visioning Oz (on adaptations of The Wonderful Wizard of Oz)
- Tracking the Vampire: Bloodsuckers in Literature and Film from Carmilla to Edward Cullen
- “Happily Ever After:” Adaptations and Retellings of “Sleeping Beauty”
- Exhuming the Walking Dead: The Rise of Zombies in Contemporary American Culture
- Deliciously Addictive Dexter: What Jeff Lindsay’s Serial Killer Says About Those Who Watch, Read, and Adore Him
In addition to Special Topics Seminars, I regularly teach the core curriculum Honors classes and Presidential Honors. I also serve as an advisor on Honors Projects.
When I am not teaching, I most enjoy spending time with my partner, Gary, and our three “kids”/cats, Licorice, Ani and Kit. I am an obsessive fan of “The Golden Girls “(Blanche is my favorite character!), the Harry Potter series (Hermione is awesome!), and indie music (Joshua Radin rocks!). I watch way too much television and will watch
Heath Ledger
Australian actor (1979–2008)
Heath Andrew Ledger (4 April 1979 – 22 January 2008) was an Australian actor. After playing roles in several Australian television and film productions during the 1990s, he moved to the United States in 1998 to further develop his film career. His work consisted of 20 films in a variety of genres, including 10 Things I Hate About You (1999), The Patriot (2000), A Knight's Tale (2001), Monster's Ball (2001), Casanova (2005), 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 of which were posthumously released. He also produced and directed music videos and aspired to be a film director.
For his portrayal of Ennis Del Mar in Ang Lee's Brokeback Mountain, he received nominations 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. In 2007, he played a fictional actor, Robbie Clark, one of six characters embodying aspects of Bob Dylan's life and persona in Todd Haynes' I'm Not There.
Ledger died in January 2008 from an accidental overdose as a result of prescription drug abuse. A few months before his death, he finished filming his role as the Joker in The Dark Knight; the performance brought him praise and popularity, and numerous posthumous awards, including the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor, the Golden Globe Award for Best Supporting Actor, and the BAFTA Award for Best Supporting Actor.
Early life and education
Ledger was born on 4 April 1979 in Perth, Western Australia, to Sally Ramshaw, a French teacher, and Kim Ledger, a racing car driver and mining engineer whose
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