Actor Heath Ledger is dead, the New York Police Department said Tuesday.
The Academy Award nominated actor was 28.
Ledger's housekeeper found him dead in his Manhattan apartment, New York police said.
He died at 3:26 p.m., they said.
The New York Fire Department received a call at 2:27 today responding to a "cardiac arrest call" in New York.
They found an unresponsive male dead at the scene.
More details to come.
