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Politics | 01/13/2009 8:30 am

Heath Ledger Leaves Daughter Golden Globe, Legacy

By The Staff at wowOwow.com
Heath Ledger holds daughter Matilda/Flickr

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 … 

 

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Belinda Joy
Yet again another life lost that wasn’t necessary. Selfishly, I wish he was still alive for his family, fans, films and me (because I thought he was such a honey). But the universe had something else in mind I guess. His daughter is such a little Gerber Baby, what a cutie!
By Belinda Joy on 01/13/2009 9:27 am
Brooklyn Gal
What’s great about this whole tragic story is that Heath’s family and Michelle get along well, and they are doing right by their grandchild. Too many times we read about greed in families. Not this time.
By Brooklyn Gal on 01/13/2009 9:36 am
Tee Zee
Agreed, although this little cutie will not have her father here to help guide her it sounds like she’s surrounded by love that will keep his memory alive for her.
By Tee Zee on 01/13/2009 10:14 am
Grande Camper
I agree. By passing along all those memorable of her father she will hopefully grow up felling very close to him.
By Grande Camper on 01/13/2009 9:45 am
P Dog
Come here. Hey! Look at me. So I had a wife, beautiful, like you, who tells me I worry too much. Who tells me I ought to smile more. Who gambles and gets in deep with the sharks… Look at me! One day, they carve her face. And we have no money for surgeries. She can’t take it. I just want to see her smile again, hm? I just want her to know that I don’t care about the scars. So… I stick a razor in my mouth and do this… …to myself. And you know what? She can’t stand the sight of me! She leaves. Now I see the funny side. Now I’m always smiling!
By P Dog on 01/13/2009 12:06 pm
DeBúrca obj
I must have missed something P Dog.
By DeBúrca obj on 01/13/2009 12:19 pm
C Hardy
DeB…that was a line from the movie that Heaths character said to the Batman…You didnt miss anything this P Dog is a fool.
By C Hardy on 01/13/2009 1:39 pm