Heath Ledger directed music videos.
 After playing roles in several Australian television and film productions during the 1990s, Ledger moved to the United States in 1998 to develop his film career further
 Ledger created and acted in a music video set to Drake's recording of the singer's 1974 song about depression "Black Eyed Dog"  a title "inspired by Winston Churchill's descriptive term for depression" (black dog); it was shown publicly only twice, first at the Bumbershoot Festival, in Seattle, held from 1 to 3 September 2007; and secondly as part of "A Place To Be: A Celebration of Nick Drake", with its screening of Their Place: Reflections On Nick Drake, "a series of short filmed homages to Nick Drake" (including Ledger's), sponsored by American Cinematheque, at the Grauman's Egyptian Theatre, in Hollywood, on 5 October 2007

