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Matilda Ledger, the 17-year-old daughter of Michelle Williams and the late Heath Ledger, is the spitting image of her actor father.

Matilda was recently spotted out and about in New York, dressed casually in an oversize tan-coloured parka, denim jeans and grey sneakers.

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The teenager sported a black tote bag and was busy looking at her phone when she was snapped in the Big Apple.

Matilda was only two years old when Heath Ledger died of combined prescription drug intoxication in January 2008.

After his death, Matilda’s mother moved the family from a Brooklyn apartment to a farmhouse in upstate New York.

Matilda was kept out of the public eye as she grew up, so not a lot is known about her.

She has not given interviews to the media, but on the rare occasion when she is photographed in public, the resemblance to her famous father is apparent.

In 2015, Heath’s parents, who live in Perth, gave an interview describing Matilda as “just like her father” in some ways.

“She is always full of questions and she always wants to know this or that about her dad and I suppose that will just get more intense when she gets older, and we would welcome that, especially when she get’s old enough to travel,” father Kim Ledger told The Project at the time.

“She has an enormous number of his mannerisms, she’s got his energy, because Heath never slept from when he was two.

“And Matilda is like that, she is a ball of energy and she radiates this aura that Heath was like.”

Heath’s mother Sally agreed.

“Matilda is indeed very much like her dad – she has long limbs and similar features.

“However, she also possesses the beauty of her mumma – lucky girl.”

It’s been reported that Matilda is planning a visit to Australia for a “gap year” after she finishes school.

“She wants to get to see and spend time with Heath’s family before she gets down to the serious business of university in America,” a source told New Idea.

The source said Williams, 42, had concerns about Matilda doing a gap year because Australia is “so far away”.

“(Matilda) understands her mum’s concerns, but she has a deep need to understand the other side of her heritage,” the source said.

Prior to COVID, the Ledger family had made the trek to the United States to visit Matilda, but recent travel restrictions had put a stop to that.

A source told Woman’s Day that the Ledgers felt they were “missing so much”.

“But Matilda is a strong-willed young thing, just like her dad, and she’s informed Michelle that she wants to go to Perth,” the source said.

“Michelle is extremely protective of Matilda and has tried so hard to shelter her from public life, but she has accepted Matilda’s wishes.”

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