Hi is there real actor who played the joker dead ???? if so how
Yes, Heath Ledger was found dead in his New York apartment, pobably caused by overdosis:
LESS than three months ago, Heath Ledger described his sleepless nights and mental exhaustion as he wrestled with his role as the "psychopathic, mass-murdering, schizophrenic" Joker in the new Batman film.
One night he took a sleeping pill, Ambien, to little effect. He took a second, slept for an hour, but then woke, his mind racing.
"Last week I probably slept an average of two hours a night," Ledger told The New York Times.
"I couldn't stop thinking. My body was exhausted, and my mind was still going," he said, while admitting he also "stressed out a little too much" about his role in the Bob Dylan film I'm Not There.
Yesterday, the 28-year-old Australian film star was found dead, face-down and naked at the foot of his bed in his rented SoHo apartment in Manhattan. There were prescription drugs, including sleeping pills, by his bed.
Only hours earlier, his Australian co-star in I'm Not There, Cate Blanchett, was nominated for two Academy Awards.
Despite wide speculation about suicide, nobody yet knows what killed Ledger, or what part drugs played. In Perth, his family insisted the death was accidental. It is understood they will arrange for his body to be flown home where he will be laid to rest.
Ambien is marketed in Australia as Stilnox, and has been linked with dangerous side effects. More than 500 people responded to a national drug reactions hotline last year, reporting bizarre behaviour after taking the drug. Two months ago, Australia's medicines regulator ordered that packs of Stilnox carry warnings that the drug can cause people to walk, eat, drive or have sexual intercourse in their sleep. They now also warn Stilnox can cause rage reactions, confusion, agitation and hallucinations.
In Manhattan, police said the type of sedative found in Ledger's apartment was uncertain. Deputy Commissioner Paul Browne said the actor had an appointment for a massage at the apartment and his housekeeper found him unconscious about 3.30pm when she went to notify him of the masseur's arrival. He was unresponsive and pronounced dead shortly after. Mr Browne stressed that the cause of death would not be known until determined by a medical examiner.
Mr Browne denied early reports that pills were scattered about the floor.
The TMZ.com website quoted representatives of Ledger's family as saying police had advised them his death was entirely accidental. He was not a suicidal type, they had said. The website added that an unnamed family member said Ledger was ill with pneumonia. Police could not confirm this.
Ledger split last year from Michelle Williams, who played his wife in Brokeback Mountain, for which he received an Oscar nomination for his role as a gay cowboy. The couple had a daughter, Matilda, and lived together in Brooklyn until their separation.
The Perth model Sophie Ward, whose supermodel sister Gemma was romantically linked with Ledger during his trip home to spend Christmas with his family, told The West Australian that Ledger appeared troubled when the trio spent time together. "We went to the movies and just did normal stuff … but he was a bit edgy," said Ms Ward, 22. "He couldn't really relax."
She said he was anxious and distressed about his relationship breakdown and separation from Williams, but she did not believe claims he was battling drug problems.
She believed his recent problems stemmed from those relationship issues. "He said he was going to London but was quite upset because he couldn't see his daughter as much as he'd like to," she said.
It is understood Ledger's family heard of his death from a radio report yesterday morning. His parents, Kim and Sally, and sister Kate emerged from his mother's home in the Perth suburb of Attadale.
Mr Ledger read a brief statement about the "very tragic, untimely and accidental passing of our dearly loved son, brother and doting father of Matilda". He had been found "peacefully asleep".
"Heath has touched so many people on so many different levels during his short life that few had the pleasure of truly knowing him. He was a down-to-earth, generous, kind-hearted, life-loving and selfless individual who was extremely inspirational to many.
"Please now respect our family's need to grieve and come to terms with our loss privately."
As recently as last week Ledger's career seemed to be continuing its upward trajectory: he was in London filming The Imaginarium of Doctor Parnassus, directed by Monty Python's Terry Gilliam.
Blanchett said in a statement: "I'm thrilled by the [Oscar] nominations but more profoundly saddened by the loss of Heath. I deeply respected his work and always admired his continuing development as an artist. My thoughts are with his family and close friends."
In SoHo, hundreds of media and onlookers gathered outside Ledger's five-storey loft building. It was the kind of attention that infuriated Ledger in life.
A woman craned out of the window of an adjacent building to photograph Ledger's shrouded body as it was wheeled to an ambulance. Dozens more tried to capture the moment on mobile phone cameras. Across the street a boy, barely into his teens, shouted: "I got it. I got it on video!"
Only once the morbidly curious drifted into the night did there seem to be a moment of simple compassion.
A Perth woman, Daleen Kupsch, 31, now living in lower Manhattan, said she had grown up in Morley, a couple of suburbs away from Ledger's home of Guildford. He had only recently been a popular visitor to the Guildford Hotel.
"I am a big fan. I feel so sorry for his little girl. I just saw him and his little girl the other day. He seemed so happy."
And he was, apparently. In an interview about I'm Not There with WJW-TV, Ledger struck a philosophical note when asked how having a child had changed his life: "You're forced into, kind of, respecting yourself more. You learn more about yourself through your child, I guess. I think you also look at death differently. It's like a catch 22: I feel good about dying now because I feel like I'm alive in her, you know, but at the same hand, you don't want to die because you want to be around for the rest of her life."
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