Ledger was born in 1979 in Perth, in western Australia, to a mining engineer and a French teacher, and got his first acting role playing Peter Pan at age 10 at a local theater company.

• 莱杰于1979年出生于澳大利亚西部的泊思市，他的父亲是一名开矿工程师，母亲是一位法语教师。莱杰十岁那年在当地一家剧团获得了他的第一个角色比特?潘。