Amber Heard

Some Lesser Known Facts About Amber Heard

• Amber Heard is an American bisexual actress born and raised in a conservative Catholic family.

• Along with English, Amber is fluent in Spanish, which she learned growing up in Texas.

• As a teenager in Texas, she had several deaf friends, so she learned American Sign Language so that she could better communicate and connect with them.

• Amber has a keen interest in modelling and acting since her childhood. At a very young age, Amber participated in a beauty pageant competition.

  

• In an interview, Amber revealed that when she was 16 years old, her best friend died in a car accident. Since then, she has become an atheist.

• Amber’s father gave training to horses in his free time, so she used to go with him on the stables. She grew up riding horses, hunting, and fishing with her father.

  

• She dropped out of school at age 17 to pursue her modelling career in New York. Later she relocated to Los Angeles to pursue a career in acting.

• Amber completed her General Educational Development (GED) through a home study course.

• Before moving to acting career Amber Heard worked as an ally for LGTBQ+ rights, domestic violence, and humanitarian causes.

  

• In an interview, Amber mentioned that during her early days of acting and auditions, she did multiple jobs to fund her acting classes. She used to take public transport to cover her living expenses in Los Angeles.

• Heard started her acting career with two music videos in 2004 and a small supporting role in the TV serial Jack and Bobby(2004).

• In the early days of her acting career, she only played sexualized teenager roles in films like Friday Night Lights (2004), Alpha Dog (2006), Boys Love Mandy Lane (2006), and Hidden Palms (2007).

• In 2008 with supporting roles in the Hollywood comedy film Judd Apatow, and the martial arts drama Never Back Down, she got appreciation and recognition in the film industry.

• Amber Heard is trained in martial arts, she did all her stunts on her own in the films Never Back Down (2008), and Aquaman (2018).

• Amber’s first film in the lead role was in the film Drive Angry (2011), which is a supernatural thriller film, she was paired with Nicolas Cage.

• In 2010, at the celebration of 25 years of The Gay & Lesbian Alliance Against Defamation (GLAAD), Amber Heard came out publically and openly spoke about her sexual choices and bisexuality. She had come to the event with her girlfriend Tasya van Bee.

• Amber had also adopted her girlfriend’s last name and changed her name to Amber Van Ree.

• Amber was ranked number 13 on Maxim magazine’s Hot 100 Women of 2010 list.

• In 2011, she also appeared first time with her ex-husband Johnny Depp in the film The Rum Diary. The film was a big disaster at the box office.

• Heard was ranked number 34 in the list of 100 Sexiest Women in the World For Him Magazine 2011 edition.

• Amber has a huge passion for classic vintage cars. She owns and restores vintage cars like a 1968 Ford Mustang, Mustang, and Dodge Charger RT. In an interview, Amber once revealed her 1968 Ford Mustang car was stolen and recovered many times.

• Heard was one of the victims of the 2014 celebrity nude photo leak, in which more than 50 of her photos were stolen and released to the public.

• Amber Heard and Johnny Depp got married after 4 years of dating each other. Their marriage lasted only for 1.5 years.

• Amber Heard is a social activist. In 2016, after her divorce from Johnny Depp, she donated her $7 million divorce settlement to the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU), and Children’s Hospital Los Angeles (CHLA). CHLA also included Amber in their “Honor Roll of Donors” for fiscal year 2017.

• In April 2018, Johnny Depp Amber Heard’s ex-husband, filed a case against News Group Newspapers for labelling him a “wife beater” in an article. Amber served as a key witness for News Group Newspapers during the highly publicized trial in July 2020. In November 2020, the verdict was announced, and Depp lost his claim. The court found that the majority of the allegations of abuse made by Heard against Depp were proven to be true.

• In 2018, Amber actively participated in the campaign to raise awareness about US immigration policies. She was also one of the speakers at the United Nations’ 9th Annual Social Good Summit in September 2018. In 2019, she joined the Syrian American Medical Society in Jordon as a Goodwill Ambassador to help refugee camps.

  

• In 2018, Heard became an ambassador for the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU), which helps in advocacy for justice in gender issues.

  

• In February 2018, Amber Heard’s ex-husband filed a defamation case against Amber. The final verdict came in December 2022. In an interview, Heard once mentioned she had lost all her wealth in the legal process of that defamation case.

• In 2021, Amber Heard had her first child a daughter via surrogacy. She named her Oonagh Paige Heard after her mother’s name Paige Heard who died in May 2020.

  

• In 2022, a petition to remove Amber Heard from Aquaman and the Lost Kingdom (2023), a sequel to her film Aquaman (2017), reached 2 million signatures, so the film director decided to reduce her role and focus on other characters.

• In the Fire (2023), was the first film in which Amber Heard acted in the lead role after the defamation case. The film was premiered at the Taormina Film Fest (TFF) in June 2023.

• Amber had openly discussed her struggles with anxiety and depression during her controversy with her ex-husband Johnny Depp. In an interview, she revealed she had also hired a psychiatrist for her to cope with her anxiety and depression.

• Amber Heard was relocated to Madrid, Spain in June 2023.

• She has also adopted a new name Marthe Jane Cannary, and living a normal life with her daughter

• In December 2024, Amber Heard announced that she is expecting her second child via surrogacy.

• Amber loves reading books in her free time. Some of her favourite books are The Catcher in the Rye by J.D. Salinger, and The Alchemist by Paulo Coelho.

  

• She is an avid animal lover, and also an advocate for animal welfare. Amber has been involved in promoting the adoption of rescue animals. She also speaks against animal testing in the cosmetics industry.