Heath Ledger Leaves Daughter Golden Globe, Legacy

Heath Ledger’s three-year-old daughter, Matilda, will have more than old photographs and movies to remember her father, who died last year. She’ll also have her late father’s Golden Globe, which he won posthumously for his performance as The Joker in "The Dark Knight." And if Ledger wins an Oscar, that too may end up in little Matilda’s hands.

"It is such a fantastic and wonderful legacy, for his daughter Matilda will have so many people who will be able to speak to her about her father’s abilities and [the] respect he had in the industry," Ledger’s mother Sally Bell said to People.com.

Matilda, Ledger’s daughter with actress Michelle Williams, was only two years old when her father died in a Manhattan apartment of an accidental prescription drug overdose. Accepting Ledger’s Oscar Sunday night was "Dark Knight" director Christopher Nolan, who said that Ledger will "never be forgotten." We certainly won’t forget him …