Amber Heard

 

Amber Laura Heard (born April 22, 1986) is an American actress. Amber Heard had her first leading role in the horror film All the Boys Love Mandy Lane (2006), and went on to star in films such as The Ward (2010), Drive Angry (2011), and London Fields (2018).

Amber Heard
Amber Heard in 2018
Born	Amber Laura Heard April 22, 1986 (age 38) Austin, Texas, U.S.
Other names	Amber Laura Depp Amber van Ree
Occupation	Actress
Years active	2003–present
Spouse	Johnny Depp ​ ​ (m. 2015; div. 2017)​
Partner(s)	Tasya van Ree (2008–2012)
Children	1

 

She has also had supporting roles in films including Pineapple Express (2008), Never Back Down (2008), The Joneses (2009),
The Rum Diary (2011), Paranoia (2013), Machete Kills (2013), 3 Days to Kill (2014), Magic Mike XXL (2015), and The Danish Girl (2015).
From 2017 to 2023, Heard played Mera in the DC Extended Universe, including the films Justice League (2017), Aquaman (2018), and Aquaman and the Lost Kingdom (2023).
She has also acted in television series such as The CW’s teen drama Hidden Palms (2007) and the Paramount + fantasy series The Stand (2020–2021).

In 2016, Heard became a volunteer with the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) in the capacity of an ACLU Artist Ambassador, a role reserved for individuals who advocate for civil rights and civil liberties.
Heard also served as a Human Rights Ambassador for the Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights.

Heard married actor Johnny Depp in 2015 until their dissolution of the marriage in 2016.

The two have since accused each other of domestic abuse and engaged in two lengthy and high-profile defamation cases, the Depp v. NGN trial and the widely publicized Depp v. Heard trial.

 

Early life

Amber Heard was born on April 22, 1986, in Austin, Texas, the middle child of three daughters of internet researcher Patricia Paige (née Parsons; 1956–2020) and construction company owner David Clinton Heard (born 1950).

The family lived outside Austin. Heard’s father trained horses in his free time, and she grew up riding horses, hunting, and fishing with him.

She also participated in beauty pageants, although as an adult she has said that she could no longer “support the objectification”.

Raised Catholic, Heard began identifying as an atheist at the age of sixteen after her best friend died in a car crash.
The following year, no longer comfortable in “conservative, God-fearin’ Texas”, Heard dropped out of her Catholic high school to pursue an acting career in Los Angeles.
She eventually earned a diploma through a home-study course.

Personal life

Amber Heard publicly came out in 2010, but has stated, “I don’t label myself one way or another –
I have had successful relationships with men and now a woman. I love who I love; it’s the person that matters.

Heard was in a relationship with photographer Tasya van Ree from 2008 to 2012. Heard had her last name legally changed to van Ree during the relationship and reverted to her birth name in 2014.

In 2009, Heard was arrested for misdemeanor domestic violence at Seattle–Tacoma International Airport, Washington state after allegedly hitting van Ree.

Heard appeared the next day in King County District Court, Seattle but was not charged. The arrest was made public in 2016 during Heard’s divorce proceedings from actor Johnny Depp.

A statement was then issued by Heard’s publicist in which van Ree said that Heard had been “wrongfully” accused and that the incident had been “misinterpreted and over-sensationalized”,

While also recalling “hints of misogynistic attitudes toward us which later appeared to be homophobic when they found out we were domestic partners and not just ‘friends'” and adding that she and Heard “shared 5 wonderful years together and remain close to this day.”

The female officer who conducted the arrest—herself a lesbian—subsequently posted on Facebook to say, “I am not homophobic or misogynistic! The arrest was made because an assault occurred (I witnessed it).”

Heard was one of the victims of the 2014 celebrity nude photo leak,
In which “more than 50 of [her] personal photos were stolen and released to the public” with Heard later both speaking and writing against such breaches of privacy.

Following her divorce from Johnny Depp, Heard dated tech entrepreneur and Tesla CEO and shareholder Elon Musk for a year, until early 2018.

She later had a relationship with actress and cinematographer Bianca Butti from January 2020 to December 2021.

In April 2021, Heard had her first child, a daughter, via surrogacy. As of June 2023, Heard resides in Madrid, Spain.

Relationship with Johnny Depp

Heard first met actor Johnny Depp in 2009 when she was cast in The Rum Diary opposite him.
According to reports, the couple began dating in 2012 and were married in a civil ceremony in February 2015.

Australian customs incident

In April 2015, Heard and Depp breached Australia’s biosecurity laws when they failed to declare in customs the two dogs accompanying them when they flew into Queensland, where Depp was working on Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Men Tell No Tales.

In May 2015, the dogs were flown out of the country hours before a euthanasia deadline. Later in July of the same year, only Heard was charged for this breach in the laws.

By December 2015, the case had been adjourned four times with Heard having instructed her lawyers to enter not guilty pleas and stating that she was “looking forward” to fighting the charges.

In the court case in April 2016, Heard pleaded guilty to falsifying quarantine documents, stating that she had made a mistake due to sleep deprivation.

While criminal charges were dropped, she was placed on a A$1,000 (US$752) one-month good behavior bond for producing a false document; Heard and Depp released a video apologizing for their behavior and urging others to adhere to biosecurity laws.

Divorce

Amber Heard filed for divorce from Depp in May 2016 and obtained a temporary restraining order against him,
releasing a statement saying that, “During the entirety of our relationship, Johnny has been verbally and physically abusive to me.

I endured excessive emotional, verbal and physical abuse from Johnny, which has included angry, hostile, humiliating and threatening assaults to me whenever I questioned his authority or disagreed with him.”

She requested $50,000 a month “as and for pendente lite spousal support based on [their] marital lifestyle.”

In response, Depp’s counsel said “Amber is attempting to secure a premature financial resolution by alleging abuse”,
But agreed with her request for a restraining order, saying Depp “nonetheless has every intention of staying away from Amber and will stipulate to mutual stay-away and personal conduct orders.”

A settlement amount for the divorce was arrived at in August 2016, and Heard pledged to donate the proceeds equally between the ACLU and CHLA.

She dropped her request for a continued restraining order and she and Depp issued a joint statement saying that their “relationship was intensely passionate and at times volatile, but always bound by love.

Neither party has made false accusations for financial gain. There was never any intent of physical or emotional harm”.

The final terms of the settlement were agreed upon by January 2017 with Depp being required to complete the payment of $7 million to Heard by February 2018,

Contribute $500,000 towards Heard’s attorneys fees, and to give Heard custody of their two dogs, a horse, and two cars.

Depp was to retain all his real estate assets and 42 vehicles and no spousal support would be paid by either party.

In her 2022 testimony, Heard stated that because they had no pre-nuptial agreement, she would have been entitled to half of Depp’s earnings of $65 million during the marriage had she requested it.

Depp v News Group Newspapers Ltd

In June 2018, Depp brought a libel lawsuit in the United Kingdom against News Group Newspapers (NGN), the company publishing The Sun, which had labeled him a “wife beater” in an April 2018 article.

Heard was a key witness for NGN during the highly publicized trial in July 2020.

In November 2020, the presiding judge found that Depp had lost his claim and that “the great majority of alleged assaults of Ms Heard by Mr Depp [12 out of the 14] have been proved to the civil standard”.

The court rejected Depp’s claim of a hoax, and accepted that the allegations Heard had made against Depp had damaged her career and activism.

Depp’s appeal to overturn the verdict was rejected in March 2021.

Depp v. Heard

In February 2019, Depp sued Heard for defamation over a December 2018 op-ed for The Washington Post.

In the lawsuit, Depp alleged that the op-ed contained three defamatory statements, the first of which was a headline:

• “Amber Heard: I spoke up against sexual violence — and faced our culture’s wrath. That has to change.”
• “Then two years ago, I became a public figure representing domestic abuse, and I felt the full force of our culture’s wrath for women who speak out.”
• “I had the rare vantage point of seeing, in real time, how institutions protect men accused of abuse.”

Depp also alleged that Heard had been the one who abused him, and that her allegations constituted a hoax against him.

In August 2020, Heard filed a counterclaim against Depp, alleging that he had coordinated “a harassment campaign via Twitter and [by] orchestrating online petitions to get her fired from Aquaman and L’Oréal.”

Ultimately, Heard’s counterclaim went to trial over three allegations that Depp had defamed her through statements made by his then-lawyer, Adam Waldman, published in the Daily Mail in April 2020, where Waldman stated:

• “Heard and her friends in the media used fake sexual violence allegations as both sword and shield”, publicizing a “sexual violence hoax” against Depp.
• …in one incident at a penthouse, “Amber and her friends spilled a little wine and roughed the place up, got their stories straight under the direction of a lawyer and publicist, and then placed a second call to 911” as “an ambush, a hoax” against Depp.
• …there had been an “abuse hoax” by Heard against Depp.

The Depp-Heard trial took place in Fairfax County, Virginia between April 11 and June 1, 2022.

The verdict was that for Depp’s lawsuit, the jury found that all three statements from Heard’s op-ed were false, defamed Depp, and were made with actual malice,
So the jury awarded Depp $10 million in compensatory damages and $5 million in punitive damages from Heard.

The punitive damages were reduced to $350,000 due to a limit imposed by Virginia state law.

For Heard’s counterclaim, the jury found that Waldman’s first and third statements to the Daily Mail had not been proven to be defamatory,
While finding that Waldman’s second statement to the Daily Mail was false, defamatory and made with actual malice.

As a result, Heard was awarded $2 million in compensatory damages and zero in punitive damages from Depp.

Over the course of the trial, online public sentiment was generally against Heard as she was made fun of and labeled “crazy” and as her testimony, which was mocked widely, was thought to be false.

Heard said she was “harassed, humiliated, threatened every single day” and described online criticism of her testimony as “agonizing”.

After the trial, Heard said that she did not “blame” the jury for the verdict, that they possibly favored Depp because of his celebrity, not the evidence, as he was a “fantastic actor” and “people feel they know him”.

An interviewer hypothesized that the jury had reviewed the evidence and had not believed Heard’s testimony and Heard responded to this by questioning how the jury could have believed her by the time,
She got on the stand when they had already listened “to three-and-a-half weeks of testimony about how I was a non-credible person”.

The day after the verdict was read, Heard’s lawyer, Elaine Bredehoft, told interviewers that Heard could not afford to pay the damages owed to Depp and would appeal the verdict.

A month later, one of Heard’s insurance providers, New York Marine, sued Heard in federal court, wanting to avoid paying up to $1 million for her legal defense fees in the Virginia case,
Arguing that the “jury’s factual findings establish that Heard’s liability is caused by the willful act(s) of Heard”, hence New York Marine is “not liable” for the loss.

After they both filed to appeal the verdict, Depp and Heard settled the case in December 2022, with Heard publicly stating that even if her appeal succeeds, she “simply cannot go through” a retrial,

While maintaining that the settlement was “not an act of concession.” Meanwhile, Depp’s lawyers stated that the “jury’s unanimous decision and the resulting judgement in Mr. Depp’s favor against Ms. Heard remains fully in place,”
And that the settlement would result in $1 million being paid to Depp by Heard’s insurer, which “Depp is pledging and will donate to charities.”

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Year	Title	Role	Notes
2004	Friday Night Lights	Maria
2005	Side FX	Shay
	Drop Dead Sexy	Candy
	North Country	Young Josey Aimes
2006	Price to Pay	Trish
	Alpha Dog	Alma
	All the Boys Love Mandy Lane	Mandy Lane
2007	Spin	Amber
	Day 73 with Sarah	Mary	Short film
	Remember the Daze	Julia Ford
2008	Never Back Down	Baja Miller
	The Informers	Christie
	Pineapple Express	Angie Anderson
2009	ExTerminators	Nikki
	The Joneses	Jenn Jones
	Zombieland	406
	The Stepfather	Kelly Porter
2010	And Soon the Darkness	Stephanie	Also co-producer
	The River Why	Eddy
	The Ward	Kristen
2011	Drive Angry	Piper
	The Rum Diary	Chenault
2013	Syrup	Six	Also executive producer
	Paranoia	Emma Jennings
	Machete Kills	Miss San Antonio
2014	3 Days to Kill	Agent Vivi Delay
2015	The Adderall Diaries	Lana Edmond
	One More Time	Jude
	Magic Mike XXL	Zoe
	The Danish Girl	Ulla Poulsen
2017	I Do… Until I Don’t	Fanny
	Justice League	Mera
2018	Her Smell	Zelda E. Zekiel
	London Fields	Nicola Six	Filmed in 2013
	Aquaman	Mera
2019	Gully	Joyce
2021	Zack Snyder’s Justice League	Mera
2023	In the Fire	Grace Victoria Burnham	Also executive producer
	Aquaman and the Lost Kingdom	Mera

Year	Title	Role	Notes
2004	Jack & Bobby	Liz	Episode: “Pilot”
	The Mountain	Riley	Episode: “A Piece of the Rock”
2005	The O.C.	Salesgirl	Episode: “Mallpisode”
2006	Criminal Minds	Lila Archer	Episode: “Somebody’s Watching”
2007	Californication	Amber	Episode: “California Son”
	Hidden Palms	Greta Matthews	8-episode series
2010	The Cleveland Show	Herself (voice)	Episode: “Beer Walk!”
2011	Top Gear	Herself	Episode: “Episode#16.5”
	The Playboy Club	Bunny Maureen	7-episode series
2015	Overhaulin’	Herself	Episode: “In Too Depp”
2020–2021	The Stand	Nadine Cross	7 episodes

Year	Title	Artist
2003	“There Goes My Life”	Kenny Chesney
2005	“I Wasn’t Prepared” (Version 1)	Eisley

Year	Award	Category	Work	Result
2008	Young Hollywood Awards	Breakthrough of the Year	Herself	Won
2009	Detroit Film Critics Society Awards	Best Ensemble	Zombieland	Nominated
2010	Scream Awards			Won
	Dallas International Film Festival	Dallas Star Award	Herself
2011	Hollywood Film Festival	Spotlight Award	The Rum Diary
2014	Texas Film Hall of Fame	Inductee	Herself
2019	Golden Raspberry Awards	Worst Actress	London Fields	Nominated
	MTV Movie & TV Awards	Best Kiss	Aquaman
	Saturn Awards	Best Supporting Actress
	Teen Choice Awards	Choice Sci-Fi/Fantasy Movie Actress