Heath Ledger

Heath Ledger

Heath Ledger's music video for Modest Mouse is to premiere online today.

The animated promo for Modest Mouse's song King Rat, which was directed by the Oscar winning actor, will debut on MySpace .

Oscar winner Ledger conceived the video's theme in order to raise awareness of the plight of whales hunted down illegally off the coast of his native Australia, according to NME.com.

Ledger failed to complete the video before his death in January 2008; the project was finished by the actor's partners at film company The Masses.

Proceeds from the download of the video for US iTunes during the first month will go to the Sea Shepherd Conservation Society.

The charity works to provent the destruction of the natural habitat in the world's oceans.

It's eighteen months since the sudden death of the popular actor from an accidental overdoes at his New York home.

Since his death he won a posthumous Best Supporting Actor Oscar for his performance in The Dark Knight as the Joker last summer.

He will return to the big screen for one final performance later this year in The Imaginarium of Doctor Parnassus, a movie he was shooting when he passed away.

Johnny Depp, Jude Law and Colin Farrell stepped into help filmmaker Terry Gilliam complete the film.


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