Full name: Amber Laura Heard
Birthday: April 22 1986
Age: 36
Birthplace: Austin, Texas, United States
Profession: Actress & activist
Amber Heard’s Net worth: $12.5 million
However, considering the injunctions from her recent lawsuit against Johnny Depp, It is safe to assume her net worth will change drastically.
And she will be plunged into the trenches if she somehow manages to pay her ex-husband Johnny Depp $15 million as the court stipulated.
Amber Heard’s Awards: Young Hollywood Awards (2008), Dallas International Film Festival Award (2010), Texas Film Hall of Fame (2014) etc
Education: St Michael’s Catholic Academy.
she dropped out after the death of her friend. Her friend died in an accident, a circumstance that made Amber become an atheist.
Modelling was also part of the reasons she left school.
Amber Heard’s Relationships
Tasya Van Ree
Amber’s first high-profile romance was with Tasya Van Ree, a painter and photographer.
Amber came out as bisexual two years into their relationship. They were together from 2008 until 2012.
Tasya, who became famous for photographing celebrities in black and white eventually ended her relationship with Amber, but not before getting her name tattooed on her body.
While they were together, Amber Heard was arrested for domestic violence against Tasya after a dispute in public. The pair had a fight at Seattle-Tacoma International Airport.
Johnny Depp
Amber and Johnny Depp met on the set of The Rum Diary in 2011 and got married in 2015.
Two years later, the Justice League actress filed for divorce, but that was only the beginning of what would become a multi-year legal saga.
Amber secured a temporary restraining order against her boyfriend in 2016, claiming he was physically and verbally abusive throughout their relationship.
In 2019, the actor filed a defamation suit against Amber after she published an op-ed in The Washington Post about exiting an abusive relationship. The case was tried in 2022.
Johnny sued The Sun and its parent company for libel in 2020 after they ran a report in 2018 that referred to him as a “wife-beater.”
Amber testified that her boyfriend would frequently accuse her of cheating on him with her co-stars.
Following the 2020 UK trial, Johnny Depp sued Amber for defamation for $50 million, claiming that her op-ed had harmed his reputation and cost him movie deals.
Amber filed a countersuit against him for $100 million.
The duo appeared in court for a 6-week trial, during which their relationship was scrutinized, with both identifying times in which the other had acted abusively towards them.
Amber was judged to have defamed Johnny by the jury, and she was sentenced to pay him more than $10 million in damages.
It was also determined that his lawyer Adam Waldman’s words had defamed her, and she was granted $2 million.
Elon Musk
There were allegations that she cheated on Depp with Elon Musk while she was still married.
Heard said that her connection with the tech billionaire began only after her divorce from the actor and Musk’s divorce from then-wife Talulah Riley were both formalized in 2016.
Amber started dating tech billionaire Elon Musk in 2017, and the pair were on and off for almost a year.
They spent a lot of time together while Amber was shooting a movie in Australia, amid her messy divorce. The pair parted paths in February 2018.
Other notable relationships
After Depp, Amber has dated British actress Cara Delevingne (2016), art dealer Vito Schnabel (2018), Andy Muschietti (2019), and cinematographer Bianca Butti (2020-2021)
Amber Heard’s Early Life
Heard was born in Austin, Texas, to internet researcher Patricia Paige (née Parsons) (1956–2020) and small-business owner David Clinton Heard (born 1950).
She also has a younger sister called Whitney. The family resided just outside of Austin. In his spare time, Heard’s father trained horses, and she grew up riding horses, hunting, and fishing with him.
She also competed in beauty pageants as a child, but as an adult, she stated that she could no longer “accept the objectification.”
Heard was raised Catholic but began identifying as an atheist when her best friend died in a car accident when she was sixteen.
Heard stated the next year that she no longer felt at ease in “conservative, God-fearin’ Texas” and withdrew from her Catholic high school to pursue an acting career in Los Angeles.
She eventually received a diploma after completing a home-study course.
Amber Heard’s Acting Career
Amber Heard played Charlize Theron’s character in flashbacks in the Academy Award-nominated film North Country (2005).
Syrup (2013), Drive Angry (2011) 3D, The Joneses (2009), Never Back Down (2008), Alpha Dog (2006), and Friday Night Lights (2006) are among her other early film credits (2004).
Amber Heard appeared on The CW show Hidden Palms (2007) and had guest appearances on Showtime’s Californication (2007) and CBS’ Criminal Minds (2005).
Amber Heard appeared in the movie office smash Zombieland (2009), alongside Woody Harrelson, Bill Murray, and Jesse Eisenberg.
She also appeared in The Stepfather (2009), a suspense thriller starring Sela Ward, Dylan Walsh, and Penn Badgley.
She rose to prominence in 2008 after starring alongside Seth Rogen and James Franco in the comedy blockbuster Pineapple Express.
Heard won a Young Hollywood Award in 2008 for her breakout performance in “Pineapple Express.”
She starred in Johnny Depp’s The Rum Diary (2011) and John Carpenter’s The Ward (2010), which premiered at the 2010 Toronto Film Festival.
She also appeared in the independent film And Soon the Darkness (2010), which she also co-produced.
Heard appeared in the 2013 film Paranoia, alongside Harrison Ford, Liam Hemsworth, and Gary Oldman.
The film was released on August 16 2013, by “Relativity Media.”
She also appeared in Robert Rodriguez’s Machete Kills (2013), which was released on March 4, 2013 by Open Road Films, and McG’s 3 Days to Kill, which was released in 2014.
Furthermore, her film All the Boys Love Mandy Lane (2006), which premiered at the 2006 Toronto Film Festival, was distributed in theatres in the fall of 2013 by The Weinstein Company.
From 2015 to date she has featured in films like The Adderall Diaries, One More Time, Magic Mike XXL, The Danish Girl, Overhaulin’, and The Prince, all in 2015.
Her other films are I Do… Until I Don’t (2017), Justice League (2017), Her Smell (2018), London Fields (2018), Aquaman (2018), Gully (2019), & Zack Snyder’s Justice League (2021).
Amber Heard The Activist
Amber is an active philanthropist. She is an ardent advocate for women’s and children’s rights.
Heard devotes her time to humanitarian organizations such as Amnesty International and Art of Elysium, which promote human rights globally, and the Syrian American Medical Society, which supports Syrian refugees.
In 2018, she was also designated the UN Human Rights Council’s Human Rights Champion.
Amber Heard The Mama: Surrogacy & Motherhood
A year after her mom’s death, Amber Heard announced the birth of her first child, a surrogate daughter named Oonagh Paige Heard, on April 8, 2021.
Amber Heard captioned the photo: “Four years ago, I decided I wanted to have a child. I wanted to do it on my own terms. I now appreciate how radical it is for us as women to think about one of the most fundamental parts of our destinies in this way. I hope we arrive at a point in which it’s normalised to not want a ring in order to have a crib.”
The identity of the child’s father is not known.
Is Heard cut from Aquaman 2?
In an interview with EW, a spokesperson for Amber Heard confirmed the inaccuracy of the rumour that Warner Bros has dropped her from the franchise.
How did Amber Heard become famous?
Her role in the comedic hit, Pineapple Express in 2008 earned her attention and accolades. She even received The Young Hollywood Award for her stellar performance.
How long were Johnny and Amber together?
The duo were together for 15 months. They met in 2015 and were divorced in 2016.
