Actor Heath Ledger found dead

[opcoded]

This sucks. Just found out according to the Associated Press.

A New York Police Department spokesman says the actor Heath Ledger has been found dead at a downtown Manhattan residence.

I'll update this entry as I get more info.

ETA: Apparently his housekeeper found him when she came in to tell him something - happened just a couple of hours ago.

ETA2: CNN is saying it was cardiac arrest - More info here.

Comments

[creepycourt.livejournal.com]

woah!!! thats so random! :(

[etherpunk.livejournal.com]

Yeah totally took me by surprise. He was a good actor.

[silverwind.livejournal.com]

My mother just called, she said she'd heard it on the radio and that *someone* is saying the housekeeper said something about finding pills ... but "they've been wrong before" although she didn't give context for that comment.

*sigh*
Last thing anyone needs is some new 'scandal' crap blowing around with them being wrong about the whole mess... again. :P

[patrick.livejournal.com]

Oh no! According to IMDB, he was making a movie with Terry Gilliam. I bet filming isn't done on that, so Dark Knight is going to be his final film.

Very sad.

[thought1.livejournal.com]

Very sad, but not surprising given Terry's usual luck with movies.

(As posted in reply to several other friends who just mentioned this as well)

[thought1.livejournal.com]

He tended to get really deep into his roles; I wonder if he got too messed up by playing a twisted psychopath (The Joker) recently?

Update:

[thought1.livejournal.com]

Apparently, he had massive sleep issues after playing The Joker. He told the New York Times, shortly before his death, "Last week I probably slept an average of two hours a night." Multiple sleeping pills were only keeping him asleep for an hour or two at a time, apparently. The dangers of being too good an actor.