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Heath Andrew Ledger (4 April 1979 – 22 January 2008) was an Australian actor. After playing roles in several Australian television and film productions during the 1990s, he moved to the United States in 1998 to further develop his film career.
The Joker is a character portrayed by Heath Ledger and the main antagonist in Christopher Nolan's 2008 superhero film The Dark Knight.Based on the DC Comics supervillain of the same name, he is depicted as a psychopathic criminal mastermind with a warped, sadistic sense of humor who defines himself by his conflict with the vigilante Batman.
To the Joker's disbelief, the passengers refuse to kill one another. Batman subdues the Joker but refuses to kill him. Before the police arrest the Joker, he says although Batman proved incorruptible, his plan to corrupt Dent has succeeded. Dent takes Gordon's family hostage, blaming his negligence for Rachel's death.
The Batman fan community often cites Hamill’s Joker as one of the best. It’s a role Hamill has returned to over the years, including in the animated movie “Batman: The Killing Joke.”
Roger Stoneburner makes a brief appearance as the Joker in the pilot of the WB’s Charmed-style Birds of Prey series, which starred Dina Meyer as Barbara Gordon (a.k.a. Batgirl) and Ashley Scott ...
Starring Joaquin Phoenix as Arthur Fleck a.k.a. Joker and directed by Todd Phillips, the two films draw inspiration from DC Comics characters, rather than provide a canonical (or extended ...
Mob bosses Sal Maroni (Eric Roberts) and the Chechen (Ritchie Coster) pay the Joker half of their money to kill Batman. The Joker publicly threatens to kill people every day until Batman reveals his true identity, and makes good on his threat by killing Commissioner Gillian B. Loeb (Colin MacFarlane) and, apparently, Gordon. Bruce decides to ...
Todd Phillips tells EW he "of course" intended a shot in his "Joker" sequel to signify the origin of another "Batman" villain in addition to Joker and Harley. Warning: This article contains ...