Ledger to be honoured at Aussie museum
Tuesday, January 25 2011, 8:17pm EST
By Rebecca Davies
The Perth-born actor, who died in 2008 after an accidental overdose of prescription medicine, will be honoured in an exhibition celebrating his career at the Western Australian Museum.
According to AAP, Ledger’s father Kim has been working closely with the Western Australian Government to plan the 2012 exhibit.
Culture and the Arts Minister John Day said that Ledger’s family will be providing most of the content of the exhibition, including his posthumous Academy Award from 2009.
Day said: “As well as the stories from his youth and early career, the exhibition will document his aspirations as a director, his talented work creating music videos and his formidable abilities as a chess player and photographer.”
Source: http://www.digitalspy.com
He was a decent player. A pity he died too young.
What was his rating?
Ledger was an avid chess player, winning Western Australia’s junior chess championship at the age of 10. As an adult, he often played with other chess enthusiasts at Washington Square Park. Allan Scott’s film adaptation of the chess-related 1983 novel The Queen’s Gambit, by Walter Tevis, which at the time of his death he was planning to both perform in and direct, would have been Ledger’s first feature film as a director.