Amber Heard

At 38 years old, Amber Heard has this physical status:

Amber Laura Heard (born April 22, 1986) is an American actress and model.

She was born and raised in Texas and made her film debut in a minor supporting role in the sports drama Friday Night Lights (2004), followed by a string of other small roles in television and film.

She was first known actress in the horror film All the Boys Love Mandy Lane (2006), but it wasn't announced in the United States until 2013, owing to distribution difficulties.

Her second major role was in the short-running The CW television series Hidden Palms (2007). Heard made his breakthrough in 2008 with roles in both the action film Never Back Down and the stoner comedy Pineapple Express, which were both box office hits.

She received the Breakthrough Award at Young Hollywood Awards the same year.

Heard continued her career with appearances in films including The Informers (2008), The Stepfather (2009), Zombieland (2009), and The Joneses (2009).

Early life

Heard was born in Austin, Texas, the middle child of three daughters of internet researcher Patricia Paige (née Parsons; 1956–2020) and building company owner David Clinton Heard (born 1950). The family lived outside Austin. In his spare time, Heard's father rode horses, and she and him began riding horses, hunting, and fishing. She has also participated in beauty pageants, but she has stated that she could no longer "support the objectification" as an adult. Heard, a raised Catholic, first became an atheist at the age of 16, after her best friend was killed in a car crash. Heard dropped out of her Catholic high school to pursue an acting career in Los Angeles the following year. Heard was no longer comfortable in "conservative, God-fearin' Texas." She obtained a diploma through a home-study program, which she obtained.

Personal life

Heard came out in 2010, but has since said, "I don't identify myself one way or another." I love who I love; it's the one that matters."

Heard was in a relationship with photographer Tasya van Ree from 2008 to 2012. During the marriage, Heard had her last name legally changed to van Ree and reverted to her birth name in 2014. Heard was arrested in 2009 for misdemeanor domestic violence at Seattle–Tacoma International Airport, Washington state, after allegedly striking van Ree. Heard appeared in King County District Court in Seattle, Washington, the next day, but was not charged. During Heard's divorce proceedings from actor Johnny Depp, the arrest was made public in 2016. Heard had been "wrongfully" accused and that the incident had been "misinterpreted and oversensationalized," according to van Ree's publicist, who later discovered that we were domestic partners rather than simply "friends" who became "sensationalized." "I am so not homophobic or misogynistic," the female officer who supervised the arrest—herself a lesbian—suddenly posted on Facebook. An assault was made, and the arrest was made (I saw it)"

Heard was one of the victims of the 2014 celebrity nude photo phishing, in which "more than half of [her] personal photographs were stolen and released to the public] later that day, with Heard later speaking and writing against such privacy invasions.

Heard dated tech entrepreneur and shareholder Elon Musk for a year until early 2018. Bianca Butti, an actress and cinematographer, was a student at the University of Ongoing to December 2021, she had a friendship with actor and cinematographer Bianca Butti from January 2020 to December 2021.

Heard had her first child by survivacy in April 2021.

Heard appeared in The Rum Diary opposite him in 2009. They began dating in 2011 and were married in a civil ceremony in February 2015.

Heard broke Australia's biosecurity laws by failing to identify in customs the two dogs accompanying the couple when they flew into Queensland, where Depp was filming. The dogs were released from the country just hours before a euthanasia deadline was set in May 2015. Heard had ordered her lawyers to enter not guilty pleas and said she was "looking forward" to fighting the charges by December 2015, and the trial had been postponed four times. Heard pleaded guilty to falsifying quarantine records in a court case in April 2016, saying that she had made a mistake due to sleep deprivation. Though criminal charges were dismissed, she was placed on a A$1,000 (US$752) one-month good behavior bond for delivering a fake document; Heard and Depp released a video apologizing for their behavior and encouraging others to follow biosecurity rules.

Heard filed for divorce from Depp in May 2016 and was granted a provisional restraining order against him, claiming a tweet of abuse from me. "I was abused by Johnny's excessive emotional, verbal, and physical abuse, which has included angry, threatening, and threatening assaults to me whenever I challenged his authority or disagreed with him." "Amber is attempting to reach a premature financial settlement by claiming violence," Depp's council said, "He is unable to attend the hearing and has not heard Amber's specific allegations against him." Despite this, he has every intention of staying away from Amber and will rule out mutual stay-away and personal conduct orders."

In August 2016, Heard said Heard promised to divide the funds equally between the ACLU and CHLA. Heard's request for a renewed restraining order was dismissed, and the two companies released a joint statement saying that their "relationship was intensely personal and at times volatile, but that love was inevitably bound by love." Neither party has made inaccurate claims for financial gain. There was never any intention of physical or emotional harm. The final terms of the deal were reached in January 2017, with Depp being expected to finish the Heard's attorneys' fees by February 2018, pay Heard $500,000 to Heard's attorneys' fees, and give Heard custody of their two dogs, a horse, and two cars. Depp wanted to keep all his real estate assets and 42 vehicles; no fee will be paid by either party; Heard said in her 2022 testimony that she and her husband had no pre-nuptial deal, she would have been entitled to half of Depp's salary during his marriage if she had requested it.

Depp filed a libel case in the United Kingdom against News Group Newspapers (NGN), the company that was publishing The Sun, in which they had branded him a "wife beater" in a 2016 story. During the highly publicized trial of NGN in July 2020, Heard was a key witness for the NGN. Depp had lost his appeal, and that "the overwhelming majority of alleged assaults of Ms. Heard by Mr. Depp [12 out of 14] have been found to the civil standard," the presiding judge found in November 2019. The court dismissed Depp's assertion as a hoax and found that Heard's accusations against Depp had harmed her career and activism. In March 2021, Depp's appeal to reverse the decision was turned down.

In February 2019, Depp sued Heard for defamation of a December 2018 op-ed for The Washington Post. Depp alleged that the op-ed contained three defamatory statements, the first of which was a headline:

"I spoke out against sexual abuse and confronted our culture's wrath," Amber Heard says. That has to change."

"I became a public figure representing domestic violence two years ago, and I felt the full force of our society's wrath for women who speak out."

"I had the rare vantage point of knowing how businesses shield men accused of violence in real time."

Heard was also accused of assaulting him, according to Depp, who said that her allegations constituted a hoax against him.

Heard filed a countersuit against Depp in August 2020, arguing that he orchestrated "a hate campaign on Twitter and [by] organising online petitions to keep her fired from Aquaman and L'Oréal." Heard's appeal eventually went to court over three charges that Depp had insulted her by making misjudiced, according to Adam Waldman, his then-lawyer, who was published in the Daily Mail in April 2020, where Waldman said: "In April 2020, Heard's counterclaim was the subject of a lawsuit."

"Heard and her colleagues in the media used fake sexual assault allegations as both sword and shield," the publicannounced a "sexual assault hoax" against Depp.

"Amber and her friends spilled a little wine and threwled the place up, and then pushed 911 to 911" as "a bluff" against Depp.

• Heard's "abuse hoax" against Depp had occurred.

Between April 11 and June 1, 2022, the Depp-Heard trial in Fairfax County, Virginia, took place. The jury found that all three Heard's allegations were incorrect, defamed Depp, and were made with actual malice, so the jury awarded Depp $10 million in compensatory damages and $5 million in punitive damages. The punitive damages were reduced to $350,000 as a result of a Virginia state statute cap. The jury found that Waldman's first and third statements to the Daily Mail were not defamatory, but not with actual malice, according to Heard's defense, while finding that Waldman's second remark to the Daily Mail was inaccurate, defamatory, and made with actual malice. Heard was awarded $2 million in compensatory damages and zero in punitive damages from Depp.

Online public opinion remained very critical against Heard during the trial, with the majority of people believing she was lying and her testimony being widely mocked. Heard said she was "harassed, humiliated, and threatened every single day" and that online criticism of her testimony had been "agonizing." Heard said she did not "blame" the jury for the decision because Depp was a "fantastic actor" and "people like him" after the trial. After "listening to three-and-a-half weeks of testimony about how I was a non-credible person," Heard wondered if the jury did not believe Heard's testimony and evidence.

Heard's counsel, Elaine Bredehoft, told interviewers that Heard could not afford to pay the fines owed to Depp and would appeal the decision. Heard's insurance carrier, New York Marine, argued that the "jury's factual findings established that Heard's liability was caused by Heard's reckless act(s) of Heard, despite Heard's insurance company's assertion that Heard's loss was "not liable" for the death.

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Career

Heard's earliest acting appearances included appearances in two music videos, Kenny Chesney's "I Wasn't Prepared" and Eisley's "I Wasn't Prepared," as well as small supporting roles in the television series Jack & Bobby (2004), The Mountain (2004), and The O.C. (2005). She made her film debut in the sports drama Friday Night Lights (2004), Side FX (2006), Alpha Dog (2006), and Spin (2007), as well as a guest-starring role in an episode of the police procedural crime television series Criminal Minds. Heard appeared in the unconventional slasher film All the Boys Love Mandy Lane, which premiered at the 2006 Toronto International Film Festival, but it wasn't released in Europe or in the United States until 2013, due to distribution issues.

Heard portrayed the love interest of the main character in The CW's Teenager Drama Hidden Palms, which was aired to replace summer reruns of other series targeted at teen audiences. The series premiered in the United States in May 2007 to mixed reviews and poor ratings, causing the CW to air only eight of the planned 12 episodes before canceling it. Heard appeared in the short film Day 73 with Sarah in the teen drama Remember the Daze, as well as in an episode of Showtime's series Californication.

Heard gained mainstream attention in 2008 for his supporting roles in Judd Apatow's classic stoner comedy Pineapple Express and the martial arts drama Never Back Down, both of which were box office hits. In an adaptation of Bret Easton Ellis's book The Informers (2008), she appeared as part of an ensemble cast, but it was also a critical failure. Heard appeared in The Joneses (2009) opposite David Duchovny and Demi Moore; Variety claimed that Heard "more or less steals the show" from Moore. Heard's other films during this period, outside of a brief appearance in the box office, were either independent films that received limited theatrical release (2009), ExTerminators (2010), And Soon the Sun (2010), or critically panned horror films (2009), The Ward.

Drive Angry, a supernatural action thriller in which she was partnered with Nicolas Cage, was Heard's first film release in 2011. The film received mainly poor feedback and underperforms commercially, but film critic Roger Ebert said she "does everything that could possibly be done" with her character, a waitress who becomes trapped in an undead man's effort to rescue his daughter from a cult. Heard appeared on British television show Top Gear as a celebrity in a low-cost vehicle with a score of 41 on their Cee'd leaderboard in early 2011. Heard appeared in The Playboy Club, a crime drama film based on the original Playboy Club in 1960s Chicago. The series was cancelled after poor reviews and ratings, as well as demonstrations from both feminist and conservative groups, and only a few episodes had been broadcast before. In the Hunter S. Thompson adaptation The Rum Diary (2011), Heard's third appearance in 2011 was as the love interest of the main character, played by Johnny Depp. The film was a commercial failure, grossing $30 million on a $45 million budget, and receiving mixed feedback. Heard's role was said to be underdeveloped. Heard appeared in an advertisement campaign for Guess, which was in 2011.

Heard appeared in Paranoia (2013), the revenge film Machete Kills (2013), and the satire Syrup (2013), neither of which were critical or commercial success. Also in the year, All the Boys Love Mandy Lane's limited release was also available in the United States. Despite mixed to negative, Heard's appearance was described as her "most concrete to date" by the Los Angeles Times and "psychologically stimulating" by The Washington Post. Heard appeared in a supporting role in the commercially lucrative action-thriller 3 Days to Kill, which was released in 2014.

Heard played a central role in the comedy-drama Magic Mike XXL in 2015, portraying Channing Tatum's love interest. The film, like its predecessor, was a big box office hit. Heard appeared in Tom Hooper's period drama The Danish Girl (2015) and a supporting role opposite James Franco and Ed Harris in the independent crime thriller The Adderall Diaries (2015). IndieWire said that although Heard was "miscast" in The Adderrall Diaries, she "displays a great deal and has succeeded in getting Heard to be taken more seriously." Christopher Walken was the lead actress in her fourth role in 2015. She took singing lessons and learned to play piano and guitar as a struggling singer-songwriter. Heard did a "admirable job," according to the Los Angeles Times, who called her performance "superb." In a November 2015 episode of the American car reality show Overhaulin', in which her Mustang got a makeover, the actress also appeared in a November 2015 episode of the American car reality series Overhaulin'. At the behest of Depp, it also featured the cast pranking Heard.

In London Fields, Martin Amis's adaptation of a clairvoyant femme fatale who knows she will be murdered, Heard played the female lead. It premiered at the 2015 Toronto International Film Festival. The film was withdrawn from release shortly after the screening due to differences between its director and producers, as well as litigation. Heard was charged with $10 million dollars for reportedly disregarding instructions and promotion. The actress appealed, alleging that the designers had breached a nudity rider in her contract. A deal was struck in September 2018, and the film was finally released. It received largely critical feedback, and Heard later said that "it was one of the most difficult movies to film and it had continued to be difficult." I can't say I did [the character] justice" justice. Heard gave "a good enough role as the enigmatic [Nicola Six]" but that the film could not be saved, according to Jane Mulkerrins of The Daily Telegraph, although RogerEbert's Peter Sobczynski said she "just doesn't have the right idea and allure" that the character demands. Heard's role in the film received a nomination for Worst Actress in 2019.

In 2017, Heard appeared in Lake Bell's indie comedy I Do... Until I Don't and joined the DC Extended Universe (DCEU) cast as Mera, a princess of an Atlantean kingdom, in the superhero film Justice League. She reprised her role in Aquaman, which co-starred Jason Momoa and marked Heard's first major role in a studio film. Mera's ability as a "strong, free, self-possessed superhero in her own right" was one of the reasons for her attraction to the role, although she prefers to be identified as Aquawoman rather than by her first name. Aquaman received mixed feedback. It was a commercial success, grossing over $1 billion. Michael Phillips and Geoffrey Macnab of the Chicago Tribune respectively announced that Heard "lends a blasé air of early '50s B-movie cheese" and that she "camps it out enthralling" as Mera. Heard was named global ambassador for cosmetics brand L'Oréal Paris last year.

Heard appeared in the independent dramas Her Smell and Gully in 2019. The Stand, Stephen King's book of the same name, was her only project revealed in 2020. She played Nadine Cross, a schoolteacher who is one of the few survivors of an apocalyptic plague. It premiered on CBS All Access in December 2020, with the series finale airing in February 2021. Heard reprised her role as Mera in Zack Snyder's Justice League, a director's cut of the 2017 film for which she had also shot new scenes.

Heard is scheduled to appear in Aquaman and the Lost Kingdom (2023), a sequel to Aquaman. Following her ex-husband Depp's death in his UK libel lawsuit and his replacement in the Fantastic Beasts films in 2020, she started a petition to have Heard removed from the film. According to the petition, Heard denied her allegations against Depp and is herself "a well-known and proven domestic predator." Heard referred to the campaign as "paid rumors and paid advertisements on social media," and Peter Safran, the film's co-producer, announced that Heard would appear in the sequel. The petition had attracted 2 million signatures by the time of the 2022 Depp vs. Heard trial in the United States. Heard said in her testimony that she "fought really hard to remain in the film" but that "they didn't want to include me in the film" and that only her character was shot in a "very pared-down version" of her role. Walter Hamada, the former president of DC Films, testified against Depp, said they had considered recasting Mera but that it was more concerned about Heard's chemistry with Momoa than the abuse allegations. Hamada also stated that the role's diminished presence in the sequel was due to the film's decision to focus on Momoa and Patrick Wilson's characters. Heard is also scheduled to appear in Conor Allyn's forthcoming period drama, In the Fire.

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