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Connecting Carla Gugino and Heath Ledger
Carla Gugino
American actress
In 2011, Gugino appeared as Madame Vera Gorsky in Zack Snyder's action-fantasy film '' Sucker Punch'' alongside Abbie Cornish and Emily Browning.
Emily Browning
Australian actress
In 2003, she appeared opposite Heath Ledger and Orlando Bloom in 2003's '' Ned Kelly'', and reunited with Connolly the following year in the film adaptation of ''Lemony Snicket's A Series of Unfortunate Events'', in which she played Violet Baudelaire.
Carla Gugino
American actress
In 2011, Gugino appeared as Madame Vera Gorsky in Zack Snyder's action-fantasy film '' Sucker Punch'' alongside Abbie Cornish and Emily Browning.
Abbie Cornish
Australian actress
Cornish received critical acclaim for her role in ''Candy'', opposite Heath Ledger. She has also starred in '' A Good Year'', ''Elizabeth: The Golden Age'' and Kimberly Peirce's ''Stop-Loss''.
Carla Gugino
American actress
In 1995, Gugino appeared as Nan St. George (later the Duchess of Trevenick) with Greg Wise and James Frain in the BBC miniseries '' The Buccaneers'', an adaptation of Edith Wharton's last novel.
Edith Wharton
In the same episode, period films of Wharton's work are lampooned by agent Ari Gold, who says that all her stories are "about a guy who likes a girl, but he can't have sex with her for five years, because those were the times!" Carla Gugino, who plays Amanda, was the protagonist of the BBC-PBS adaptation of ''The Buccaneers'' (1995), one of her early jobs.
Ari Gold (Entourage)
It is seen as a potential blockbuster for Vincent; Ari goes to Dana Gordon to acquire the role only to find that Heath Ledger has already been cast as the lead. Ari convinces Heath Ledger to drop out after pointing out that he recently did '' Brokeback Mountain'' and that this new film has similar homoerotic undertones, which could damage Ledger's status as a budding sex symbol.
Carla Gugino
American actress
The following year, she played the female lead in the thriller '' Righteous Kill'', opposite Robert De Niro and Al Pacino.
Robert De Niro
American actor, director, and producer
In 2019, De Niro returned to the screen by playing talk show host Murray Franklin in Todd Phillips' ''''Joker'''', a possible origin story for the Batman character The Joker (Joaquin Phoenix).
