Where Did Heath Ledger Live In Perth?

The Ledgers bought the Applecross property for $2.28 million in January 2016 after selling their custom-designed mansion at 38 Duncraig Road in late 2015 for $5.6 million – a home he reportedly had planned with his son as a ‘hideaway’ when he visited Perth.

Heath Ledger grew up in a suburb of Perth called Subiaco.

He became a state junior chess champion at the age of ten, around the same time his parents divorced.

Ledger was an avid chess player, playing some tournaments when he was young. As an adult, he often played with other chess enthusiasts at Washington Square Park.

Ledger was a fan of West Coast Eagles, an Australian rules football team that competes in the Australian Football League (AFL) and is based in his hometown of Perth.

In addition to being a chess player, Ledger was an avid photographer.

Ledger’s relationship with the Australian press was sometimes turbulent, and it led to his abandonment of plans for his family to reside part-time in Sydney.

In 2004, he strongly denied press reports alleging that “he spat at journalists on the Sydney set of the film Candy”, or that one of his relatives had done so later, outside Ledger’s Sydney home.

On 13 January 2006, “Several members of the paparazzi retaliated … squirting Ledger and Williams with water pistols on the red carpet at the Sydney premiere of Brokeback Mountain”.