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Biography 

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Merilyn Monroe, the American actress, singer, model and showgirl who became a major sex symbol, starring in a number of commercially successful motion pictures during the 1950s. 
 

Marilyn Monroe

 

After spending much of her childhood in foster homes, Monroe began a career as a model, which led to a film contract in 1946. 

Her "dumb blonde" persona was used to comic effect in many films. 
 

Born in LA in 1926. 

Limited by typecasting, Monroe studied 
at the Actors Studio to broaden her range.

The final years of Monroe's life were marked by illness, personal problems, and a reputation for being unreliable and difficult to work with. 

 The circumstances of her death, from an overdose of barbiturates, have been the subject of conjecture. 

In 1999, Monroe was ranked as the sixth greatest female star of all time by the American Film Institute.

Heath Ledger 

He was born in 1979 in Perth, Western Australia.  

After performing roles in Australian television and film during the 1990s, Ledger moved to the United States in 1998 to develop his film career. His work encompassed nineteen films. 

In addition to acting, he produced and directed music videos and aspired to be a film director. 

Heath Andrew Ledger was an Australian television and film actor.

 

• the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor;

 

• a Best Actor International Award at the 2008 Australian Film Institute Awards, for which he became the first actor to win an award posthumously;

 

• the 2008 Los Angeles Film Critics Association Award for Best Supporting Actor;

 

• the 2009 Golden Globe Award for Best Supporting Actor;

 

• the 2009 BAFTA Award for Best Supporting Actor.

 

Heath Ledger had got many awards through all his life (28 years), but what’s the most interesting is that Ledger received numerous accolades for his critically acclaimed portrayal of the Joker in The Dark Knight, including:

At the time of his death, on 22 January 2008, he had completed about half of his work performing the role of Tony in Terry Gilliam's film The Imaginarium of Doctor Parnassus. 

Ledger died in January 2008, from an accidental "toxic combination of prescription drugs".  
 

A few months before his death, Ledger had finished filming his penultimate performance, as the Joker in The Dark Knight.