Heath Ledger "Brokeback Mountain", Ledger costarred with fellow Australian Abbie Cornish in the 2006 Australian film "Candy," an adaptation of the 1998 novel "," as young heroin addicts in love attempting to break free of their addiction, whose mentor is played by Geoffrey Rush; for his performance as sometime poet Dan, Ledger was nominated for three "Best Actor" awards, including one of the Film Critics Circle of Australia Awards, which both Cornish and Rush won in their categories. Shortly after the release of "Candy", Ledger was invited to join the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences. As one of six actors
Heath Ledger role in "Clowning Around" (1992), the first part of a two-part television series, and to work on the TV series "Sweat" (1996), in which he played a gay cyclist. From 1993 to 1997, Ledger also had parts in the Perth television series "Ship to Shore" (1993); in the short-lived Fox Broadcasting Company fantasy-drama "Roar" (1997); in "Home and Away" (1997), one of Australia's most successful television shows; and in the Australian film "Blackrock" (1997), his feature film debut. In 1999, he starred in the teen comedy "10 Things I Hate About You" and in the acclaimed Australian crime film "Two