Heath Ledger is considered one of his generation’s brightest young stars, and one of its most tragic losses. Ledger, who died in 2008 of an accidental drug overdose at age 28, ...

Heath Ledger, photographed at the Four Seasons Hotel in Beverly Hills on June 9, 2000. It was not long before the opening of “The Patriot,” in which he starred as Mel Gibson’s son.