Heath Ledger found it hard to play a junkie in 2005 Candy, because he had never been addicted to anything stronger than tobacco. Speaking in a November 2006 interview, little more than a year...

NEW YORK (AP) - Heath Ledger turned down more teen movies after starring in the romantic comedy ''10 Things I Hate About You,'' waiting for the kinds of grueling, intense roles that would become hi...

Jake Gyllenhaal was too scared to take part in the naked cliff jump scene in Brokeback Mountain, leaving his co-star Heath Ledger to do the honors. Ledger, who also acted nude in his latest movie C...

A free-spirited art student and a roguish poet find their addiction to each other taking a back seat to their taste for heroin in director Neil Armfield's intensely personal tale of recreational dr...

Heath Ledger checked himself into an Australian rehab facility and learned how to shoot up heroin from a junkie to perfect his latest movie role. The Aussie actor plays a drug addict in new movie C...