Ledger's father, Kim Ledger, provides poignant insights into his son’s dedication to his craft. He recalled how Heath isolated himself in a hotel room for weeks before filming The Dark Knight, ...

"The Dark Knight" star Heath Ledger died a few weeks before his 29th birthday on January 22, 2008 and it was ruled an ...

In his memoir, Caine opens up about filming 'The Dark Knight' with Ledger, who died in 2008 Sharareh Drury is a writer on the Movies team at PEOPLE. She joined PEOPLE in 2025 and has worked for ...

Michael Caine reflected on working with the late Heath Ledger during ... he was initially skeptical about Ledger's casting as Batman's classic nemesis The Joker, only to be later blown away ...

Let's break it down in this ending explainer for Joker: Folie à Deux. The reference to Ledger's Joker comes in the very last scene of the film, after we've already endured over two hours of ...

Ask anyone to name their favorite acting performance in a superhero movie, and most will probably respond with Heath Ledger's Joker character in "The Dark Knight." Ledger, who died at 28 years old ...

He left PEOPLE in 2018. They both played infamously evil clowns, but It’s Bill Skarsgard sees some major differences between his Pennywise and Heath Ledger’s Joker from The Dark Knight.

Much like the rest of the world, Michael Caine had a big reaction to seeing Heath Ledger’s Joker for the first time in The Dark Knight.

Heath Ledger's Academy Award-winning turn as The Joker in Christopher Nolan's The Dark Knight will surely go down as one of the most iconic and celebrated comic book movie performances of all time ...