The "ABCs of BBM": Round 965! (Rules in first post)

[Toast]

Heath Ledger stood out for his portrayal of the abashedly self-conscious Ennis Del Mar - as a 19 year old maturing into a still quite thirty nine year old single man.

def - In an embarrassed manner; In a disconcerted manner.

[Fran]

Heath made his film debut in the 1997 Australian movie Blackrock, which is based on the play A Property of the Clan  by Nick Enright.

[memento]

Heath had a passion for chess and said he played at least one game a day. In New York he played in Washington Square Park.

[Toast]

Heath Ledger starred with Matt Damon
(as Jacob Grimm and Wilhelm Grimm, respectively)
in the film The Brothers Grimm, 2005,
directed by Terry Gilliam.

[Meryl]

Heath appears as The Joker with actor Aaron Eckhart as Two-Face aka Harvey Dent in this summer's Batman movie, The Dark Knight.

[Fran]

Heath played the role of the protagonist, a British soldier named Harry Faversham, in Shekhar Kapur's The Four Feathers.

[Toast]

Heath Ledger played Sonny,
third generation of the troubled Grotowski family,
in the 2001 film Monster's Ball.

[memento]

Heath played the role of Skip in The Lords of Dogtown which was directed by Catherine Hardwicke.

[Meryl]

The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences, saddled with a system that can only arrive at its decisions imperfectly, was not able to honor Heath with an Oscar for Brokeback Mountain; however, it will take its place in film history as one of the Oscars-that-should-have-been.

[Fran]

From a review of Lords of Dogtown:

"Heath Ledger is flamboyantly funny and alive as Z-Boys guru Skip Engblom."

-- Peter Travers, Rolling Stone