Biography of Amber Heard

Amber Laura Heard (born April 22, 1986) is an American actress. She 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) and Drive Angry (2011). She has also had supporting roles in films including Pineapple Express (2008), Never Back Down (2008), The Joneses (2009), Machete Kills (2013), Magic Mike XXL (2015), and The Danish Girl (2015). Heard is part of the DC Extended Universe franchise, playing Mera in Justice League (2018), Aquaman (2018), and the forthcoming Aquaman and the Lost Kingdom (2023). She has also acted in television series such as Hidden Palms (2007) and The Stand (2020). Heard is an American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) ambassador on women's rights and a Human Rights Champion for the Stand Up for Human Rights campaign by the Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights.

Heard married actor Johnny Depp in 2015. The dissolution of the marriage in May 2016 garnered widespread media attention when Heard publicly accused Depp of physical domestic abuse. Depp would later file a defamation lawsuit against a British tabloid newspaper over their coverage of the accusations, and another against Heard herself for an op-ed published in her name in the Washington Post. The latter lawsuit, over which Heard filed a countersuit, became the subject of a widely-publicized trial in which a jury ruled that Heard had defamed Depp in three statements in her op-ed. The court ordered Heard to pay Depp $10.35 million, while also awarding her $2 million over a statement given by Depp's lawyer on his behalf. Heard received widespread backlash on social media over the domestic abuse accusations and subsequent court cases, including in what has been described as "one of the worst cases of cyberbullying and cyberstalking by a group of Twitter accounts".