Heath Ledger Sadly Passes

Heath ledger(28) was found on Wednesday morning dead in his Manahattan apartment in New York. The Australian actor was living in the SoHo apartments in New York City when his main found his found lain at the foot of his bed with sleeping pills aparrant along with other medication. An autopsy is still to be released in the next fortnight as to the cause of his death but the tragety befalls his family, fans, a fleet of hollywood a-listers and autralians.

Heath's most notable accolade was his performance in the 2005 movie Brokeback mountain not to mention credit for the famous Australian Ned Kelly, working with Mel Gibson in The Patriot and his most recent performance against the Dark Knight as The Joker in the upcoming Batman movie to be released later this year.

Mel Gibson has spoken that his thoughts and prayers are with the Ledger family and that he had great hopes for him as was just truly taking off.

Heath Ledger leaves behind a 2 year old daughter Matilda.