Amber Heard | |
---|---|
Born | Amber Laura Heard April 22, 1986 Austin, Texas, U.S. |
Other names | |
Occupation | Actress |
Years active | 2003–present |
Spouse | |
Partner(s) | Tasya van Ree (2008–2012) |
Children | 1 |
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), Drive Angry (2011), and London Fields (2018). 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. [3]
Heard was married to actor Johnny Depp from 2015 to 2016. Afterward, the pair 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, where she was found liable for defaming Depp. [4] [5] [6]
Amber Laura Heard was born on April 22, 1986, [7] [8] in Austin, Texas, the middle child of three daughters [9] of internet researcher Patricia Paige (née Parsons; 1956–2020) and construction company owner David Clinton Heard (born 1950). [10] The family lived outside Austin. [11] Heard's father trained horses in his free time, and she grew up riding horses, hunting, and fishing with him. [11] She also participated in beauty pageants, although as an adult she has said that she could no longer "support the objectification". [11] [12] Raised Catholic, Heard began identifying as an atheist at the age of sixteen after her best friend died in a car crash. [12] The following year, no longer comfortable in "conservative, God-fearin' Texas", [11] Heard dropped out of her Catholic high school to pursue an acting career in Los Angeles. [10] [9] She eventually earned a diploma through a home-study course. [12]
Heard's earliest acting work included appearances in two music videos, Kenny Chesney's "There Goes My Life" and Eisley's "I Wasn't Prepared", and small supporting roles in the television series Jack & Bobby (2004), The Mountain (2004), and The O.C. (2005). She made her film debut in a minor role in the sports drama Friday Night Lights (2004), followed by brief supporting roles in films Drop Dead Sexy (2005), North Country (2005), Side FX (2005), Price to Pay (2006), Alpha Dog (2006), and Spin (2007), and a guest-starring spot in an episode of the police procedural crime drama television series Criminal Minds . Heard received her first leading role in the unconventional slasher film All the Boys Love Mandy Lane , which premiered at the 2006 Toronto International Film Festival, but was not released in Europe until 2008 and in the US until 2013 due to distribution problems. [13] [14] [15]
In 2007, Heard played the love interest of the main character in The CW's teen drama Hidden Palms , which the network aired to replace summer reruns of other series aimed at teenage audiences. That same year, Heard also appeared in the short movie Day 73 with Sarah, [16] in the teen drama Remember the Daze , and in an episode of the Showtime series Californication . [17]
Heard gained mainstream recognition in 2008 [18] [19] with supporting roles in the Judd Apatow-produced stoner comedy Pineapple Express and the martial arts drama Never Back Down . She also appeared as part of an ensemble cast in an adaptation of Bret Easton Ellis's novel The Informers (2008). [20] The following year, Heard starred in The Joneses (2009) opposite David Duchovny and Demi Moore; Variety wrote that Heard "more or less steals the show" from Moore. [21] Outside a brief appearance in the box office hit Zombieland (2009), Heard's other films during this time were either independent films that received only limited theatrical release— ExTerminators (2009), The River Why (2010), And Soon the Darkness (2010) [22] —or critically panned horror films— The Stepfather (2009), The Ward . [23]
Heard's first film release in 2011 was Drive Angry , a supernatural action thriller in which she was paired with Nicolas Cage. [24] The film underperformed commercially, [25] but film critic Roger Ebert wrote that she "does everything that can possibly be done" with her character, a waitress who becomes entangled in an undead man's mission to save his daughter from a cult. [26] In early 2011, Heard also appeared on the British television program Top Gear as a star in a reasonably priced car coming 33rd of 41 on their Cee'd leaderboard. [27] Heard next starred in NBC's The Playboy Club , a crime drama series about the original Playboy Club in 1960s Chicago. After poor reviews and ratings as well as protests from both feminists [28] and conservative groups, [29] the series was canceled after only three episodes had aired. [30] Heard's third role of 2011 was as the love interest of the main character, played by Johnny Depp, in the Hunter S. Thompson adaptation The Rum Diary (2011). A commercial failure, [31] grossing $30 million on a $45 million budget, [32] the film received mixed reviews. [33] In 2011, Heard appeared in an advertisement campaign for the fashion brand Guess. [34] [35]
Heard next starred in the thriller Paranoia (2013), the exploitation film Machete Kills (2013), and the satire Syrup (2013). That year also saw the US limited release of All the Boys Love Mandy Lane. Heard's performance in the film was deemed her "most definitive to date" by the Los Angeles Times [36] and "psychologically interesting" by The Washington Post . [37] In 2014, Heard appeared in a supporting role in the action-thriller 3 Days to Kill .
In 2015, Heard had a prominent role in the comedy-drama Magic Mike XXL , playing the love interest of the film's protagonist, Channing Tatum. [38] [39] Heard also had a small supporting role in Tom Hooper's period drama The Danish Girl (2015), [40] [41] and a starring role opposite James Franco and Ed Harris in the independent crime thriller The Adderall Diaries (2015). IndieWire stated that although Heard was "miscast" in The Adderrall Diaries, she "displays much potential and has succeeded in a bid to be taken more seriously". [42] Her fourth role in 2015 was opposite Christopher Walken in the television film One More Time , which aired on Starz. For her role as a struggling singer-songwriter, she took singing lessons and learned to play piano and guitar. [43] The Los Angeles Times called her performance "superb" and The Film Stage stated that Heard did an "admirable job". [44] [45] The actress also appeared in a November 2015 episode of the American automotive reality series Overhaulin' , in which her Mustang received a makeover. It also featured the cast pranking Heard at the behest of Depp. [46]
Heard played the female lead in London Fields , an adaptation of Martin Amis's novel about a clairvoyant femme fatale who knows she will be murdered. It premiered at the 2015 Toronto International Film Festival. [47] Shortly after the screening, the film was pulled from release due to disagreements between its director and producers, [48] and due to litigation. [a] Heard was sued for $10 million for allegedly breaching performance and promotional obligations. The actress countersued, claiming the producers had violated a nudity rider in her contract. In September 2018, a settlement was reached, and the film was finally released. [54] It received highly negative reviews, [55] and Heard later stated that "it was one of the most difficult movies to film and it has proven to continue to be difficult ... I can't say I did [the character] justice". [39] Jane Mulkerrins of The Daily Telegraph wrote that Heard provided "a decent enough turn as the enigmatic [Nicola Six]" that still could not save the adaptation, [56] while Peter Sobczynski of RogerEbert.com said that she "just does not project the kind of mystery and allure" that the character requires. [57] In 2019, Heard's performance in the film received a nomination for the Golden Raspberry Award for Worst Actress. [58]
In 2017, Heard appeared as part of an ensemble cast 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 the role the following year in Aquaman , which co-starred Jason Momoa and marked Heard's first major role in a studio film. [9] [59] [60] She cited Mera's trait of being "a strong, independent, self-possessed superhero in her own right" as one of the reasons for her attraction to the role as well as Mera's rejection of being called Aquawoman instead of by her own name. [9] [11] Aquaman received mixed reviews. [61] [62] It was a commercial success, [63] grossing over $1 billion. [64] The Chicago Tribune 's Michael Phillips and The Independent 's Geoffrey Macnab respectively noted that Heard "lends a blasé air of early '50s B-movie cheese" and that she "camps it up entertainingly" as Mera. [65] [66] That same year, Heard was appointed global ambassador for cosmetics brand L'Oréal Paris. [11]
In 2019, Heard had supporting roles in the independent dramas Her Smell and Gully . [67] [68] Her only project released in 2020 was The Stand , a miniseries based on Stephen King's novel of the same name. [69] She played Nadine Cross, a school teacher who is among the few survivors of an apocalyptic plague. It premiered on CBS All Access in December 2020, with the series finale airing in February 2021. [70] In 2021, Heard reprised her role as Mera in the superhero film Zack Snyder's Justice League , a director's cut of the 2017 film, for which she had also filmed new scenes. [71]
Heard reprised her Mera role in Aquaman and the Lost Kingdom (2023), a sequel to Aquaman. [64] An online petition to remove Heard from the film began following her ex-husband Depp's loss in his UK libel case and his replacement in the Fantastic Beasts films in 2020. [72] Heard described the campaign as "paid rumors and paid campaigns on social media", [73] and the film's co-producer, Peter Safran, confirmed that Heard would appear in the sequel. [74] By the start of the 2022 Depp v. Heard trial in the US, the petition had reached 2 million signatures. [75] Heard stated that she "'fought really hard to stay in the movie' but that 'they didn't want to include me in the film' and only shot a 'very pared-down version' of her part". [76] Walter Hamada, a former DC Studios president, and James Wan, the film's director, attributed the reduction of Heard's role to the sequel's intention to focus on the relationship between Momoa and Patrick Wilson's characters. [77] [78]
Following the release of Aquaman and the Lost Kingdom in 2023, several critics observed that, true to what Heard claimed in court, a number of her scenes seem to have been cut out from the film. [76] One critic writing for Business Insider stated that "[d]espite WB and Wan's claim, it's tough to believe there wasn't another version of the film where Mera teamed up with her husband to track down his brother and the trio confronted Black Manta." [79] Another critic noted that "Heard, a steely highlight of Aquaman, here feels as though her scenes were all added in post" and that "[g]iven the clunky way Mera is literally silenced in the movie... it's hard not to assume that someone important in the production considered her a liability and made a decision of profound, deeply disappointing cowardice: To treat her as radioactive." [80] Echoing these sentiments, another critic wrote that "the fact that Heard's role is so sloppy and awkward suggests this wasn't the plan all along. It truly looks as if someone erased her actual role and then tossed her into the movie at the last minute as an afterthought" and further added that this is consistent with "Heard's allegations of the film cutting her role from the original script". [76] [81] In a more recent interview, Dolph Lundgren confirmed these observations by noting that "the original script was great... I was a bigger part of it and Amber Heard was a bigger part of it" while also lamenting that "[t]he studio decided... to just reshoot a bunch of footage to try to rebuild a slightly different story line... I felt a little disappointed, but life goes on." [82]
Heard's first role after the trial was in the film In the Fire , directed by Conor Allyn. The film premiered at the Taormina Film Fest in June 2023. [83] It was released in October 2023. [84]
Heard traveled to the Mexico–United States border with Amnesty International and worked with the organization on a bilingual campaign to raise awareness about US immigration policies. [85] [86] She supported the Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights' Stand Up for Human Rights campaign. [87] [3] Heard was one of the speakers at the United Nations' 9th Annual Social Good Summit in September 2018. [88] In her talk, she highlighted the centrality of humans and significance of fairness and justice, as embodied in the Universal Declaration of Human Rights. [89] Ahead of the 70th anniversary of the declaration's drafting, Heard gave a speech at HagueTalks' Imagine the World We Want event in October 2018. [90] [91]
In April 2018, Heard joined the Syrian American Medical Society (SAMS) on a multi-specialty medical mission to the Zaatari refugee camp in Jordan as a goodwill ambassador. She henceforth partnered with SAMS to help finance treatment for children in the camp with thalassemia. [92] [93] [94] In November 2018, she visited Smile Train's programs in Mexico, during which she met with children with cleft lip and cleft palate, their families, and doctors. [95] In February 2019, Heard joined SAMS' mission to Lebanon to help Syrian refugees living in poverty, during which she visited informal settlements in Beqaa Valley. She also partnered with SAMS in raising funds for psychosocial and educational programs and vocational training for the women and children in these settlements. [96] [97]
In November 2016, Heard appeared in a public service announcement (PSA) on domestic violence for the #GirlGaze Project. In the PSA, she spoke about the importance of making it easier for violence against women (VAW) survivors to come forward and self-advocate. She also highlighted the importance of taking responsibility for how VAW is handled and discussed in society. [98] [99] In a letter published in the December 2016 issue of Porter magazine, she spoke to "every woman who is suffering in silence", assuring them that they "may not see us, but we are there. Your sisters are everywhere... and we are with you." [100] [101]
During The Economist 's Pride and Prejudice event in March 2017, Heard highlighted the underrepresentation of LGBTQ characters in the Hollywood film industry. [102] Referencing her own coming out story, she praised actresses that are candid about their sexuality and encouraged men in the industry to help "challenge the status quo". [103] In August 2017, Heard produced a short video for the publication, in which she spoke about the gender pay gap and underrepresentation of women in the industry. [104] In 2018, Heard became an ambassador for the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU), aiding the organization's advocacy for justice in gender issues. [105] [106]
In August 2016, Heard pledged to donate her $7 million divorce settlement with Johnny Depp to the ACLU and Children's Hospital Los Angeles (CHLA). [107] [108] In November 2016, she defended this pledge against an allegation from TMZ—despite Depp not having completed the payment to her—that she had not yet made the donations as pledged. [109] CHLA included Heard in their "Honor Roll of Donors" list for the fiscal year 2017. [110] Depp finished paying the full settlement to Heard in October 2018. [111] [112] On the Dutch talk show RTL Late Night in October 2018, Heard said she had donated $7 million to the ACLU and CHLA. [113] As part of Depp v News Group Newspapers Ltd , Heard stated in a 2020 testimony that the settlement's full amount was donated to charity. [114]
In January 2021, the Daily Mail reported an allegation made by Depp's lawyers that Heard had yet to complete her donations. [115] [116] In response to this claim, Heard's lawyer stated that Heard intended to "eventually fulfill her pledge" but had "been delayed in that goal because ... she has been forced to spend millions of dollars" following Depp's lawsuit. [117] [118] During the 2022 Depp v. Heard trial, the corporate designee of CHLA testified that as of 2021, Heard had given the organization $250,000. [119] The ACLU's chief operating officer testified in December 2021 that the organization expected to receive the money over a 10-year period. [120] To that time, a total of $1.3 million had been donated to the ACLU in Heard's name between 2016 and 2018. [121] Heard testified that defending the case had cost her more than $6 million in legal fees and that she planned to resume her donations when she could. [111] [122]
In May 2019, Heard gave a speech on Capitol Hill in support of the SHIELD Act, discussing her experience with the nonconsensual leak of her private photos obtained via hacking as part of the 2014 celebrity nude photo leak. [123] Heard wrote an op-ed in The New York Times in November 2019, deeming "revenge porn" an inappropriate label due to the lack of consent for the images' disclosure and emphasizing the importance of congressional legislation to protect privacy in light of state laws' failure. [124] In the same month, Heard, together with Nico Tortorella and DC Comics, was awarded for "their activism and commitment to disenfranchised youth" by the Hetrick-Martin Institute. [125] Prior to the 2020 United States presidential election, Heard appeared in an election ad created by artist Marilyn Minter in support of Planned Parenthood and participated in the VoteRiders #IDCheck Challenge on social media. [126] [127]
Heard publicly came out in 2010, [128] 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." [129]
Heard was in a relationship with photographer Tasya van Ree from 2008 to 2012. [128] [130] Heard had her last name legally changed to van Ree during the relationship and reverted to her birth name in 2014. [2] In 2009, Heard was arrested for misdemeanor domestic violence at Seattle–Tacoma International Airport, Washington, after allegedly hitting van Ree. [131] [132] Heard appeared the next day in King County District Court, Seattle but was not charged. [132] The arrest was made public in 2016 during Heard's divorce proceedings from actor Johnny Depp. [131] [132] 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". [133] The female officer who conducted the arrest — a lesbian — subsequently posted on Facebook to say, "I am so not homophobic or misogynistic! The arrest was made because an assault occurred (I witnessed it)." [133]
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. [123] [124]
Following her divorce from Johnny Depp, [134] Heard dated tech entrepreneur and Tesla CEO and shareholder Elon Musk for a year, until early 2018. [9] [135] [136] She later had a relationship with actress and cinematographer Bianca Butti from January 2020 to December 2021. [137] [138] [139]
In April 2021, Heard had her first child, a daughter, via surrogacy. [140] In December 2024, Heard announced that she is expecting her second child. [141] As of June 2023, Heard resides in Madrid, Spain. [142]
Heard first met actor Johnny Depp in 2009 when she was cast in The Rum Diary opposite him. According to reports, [143] [144] the couple began dating in 2012 and were married in a civil ceremony in February 2015. [145] [146] [147] [148]
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 . [149] In May 2015, the dogs were flown out of the country hours before a euthanasia deadline. [150] [151] Later in July of the same year, only Heard was charged for this breach in the laws. [152]
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. [153] In the court case in April 2016, [154] Heard pleaded guilty to falsifying quarantine documents, stating that she had made a mistake due to sleep deprivation. [155] While criminal charges were dropped, she was placed on a A$1,000 (US$752) one-month good behaviour bond for producing a false document; [156] Heard and Depp released a video apologizing for their behavior and urging others to adhere to biosecurity laws. [156]
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." [157] She requested $50,000 a month "as and for pendente lite spousal support based on [their] marital lifestyle". [158] [159] 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". [160] [161]
A settlement amount for the divorce was arrived at in August 2016, [162] [163] and Heard pledged to donate the proceeds equally between the ACLU [164] and CHLA. [165] [166] 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." [162]
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, [167] contribute $500,000 towards Heard's attorneys fees, and to give Heard custody of their two dogs, a horse, and two cars. [168] [166] 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. [169] [170]
In June 2018, [171] 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. [172] [173] Heard was a key witness for NGN during the highly publicized trial in July 2020. [174] 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". [172] [173] The court rejected Depp's claim of a hoax, [175] and accepted that the allegations Heard had made against Depp had damaged her career and activism. [172] [173] Depp's appeal to overturn the verdict was rejected in March 2021. [118]
In February 2019, Depp sued Heard for defamation over a December 2018 op-ed for The Washington Post. [176] [177] In the lawsuit, Depp alleged that the op-ed contained three defamatory statements, the first of which was a headline:
Depp also alleged that Heard had been the one who abused him, and that her allegations constituted a hoax against him. [177]
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". [180] [181] 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:
The Depp-Heard trial took place in Fairfax County, Virginia between April 11 and June 1, 2022. [183] 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. [178] [182] The punitive damages were reduced to $350,000 due to a limit imposed by Virginia state law. [184] 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. [182] As a result, Heard was awarded $2 million in compensatory damages and zero in punitive damages from Depp. [178]
During the trial, online public sentiment was generally against Heard. Her testimony, which was widely ridiculed, was thought to be false. [185] Heard said she was "harassed, humiliated, threatened every single day" and described online criticism of her testimony as "agonizing". [186] 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". [187] 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". [187] [188]
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. [189] [190] 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. [191]
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 remain 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". [192] [193]
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 [194] | Also executive producer [195] |
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 [196] | Herself | ||
2011 | Hollywood Film Festival | Spotlight Award | The Rum Diary | |
2014 | Texas Film Hall of Fame | Inductee [197] | Herself | |
2019 | Golden Raspberry Awards | Worst Actress [198] | London Fields | Nominated |
MTV Movie & TV Awards | Best Kiss [199] | Aquaman | ||
Saturn Awards | Best Supporting Actress [200] | |||
Teen Choice Awards | Choice Sci-Fi/Fantasy Movie Actress [201] |
John Christopher Depp II is an American actor and musician. He is the recipient of multiple accolades, including a Golden Globe Award as well as nominations for three Academy Awards and two BAFTA awards. His films, in which he has often played eccentric characters, have grossed over $8 billion worldwide, making him one of Hollywood's most bankable stars.
Paul Bettany is an English actor. He is best known for his roles as J.A.R.V.I.S. and Vision in the Marvel Cinematic Universe, including the Disney+ miniseries WandaVision (2021), for which he garnered a Primetime Emmy Award nomination.
Vanessa Chantal Paradis is a French singer, model and actress. Paradis became a star at the age of 14 with the international success of her single "Joe le taxi" (1987). At age 18, she was awarded France's highest honours as both a singer and an actress with the Prix Romy Schneider and the César Award for Most Promising Actress for Jean-Claude Brisseau's Noce Blanche, as well as the Victoires de la Musique for Best Female Singer for her album Variations sur le même t'aime. Her most notable films also include Élisa (1995) alongside Gérard Depardieu, Witch Way Love (1997) opposite Jean Reno, Une chance sur deux (1998) co-starring with Jean-Paul Belmondo and Alain Delon, Girl on the Bridge (1999), Heartbreaker (2010) and Café de Flore (2011). Her tribute to Jeanne Moreau at the 1995 Cannes Film Festival during which they sang in duet "Le Tourbillon" became notable in French popular culture. In 2022, she was nominated for the Molière Award for Best Actress for her performance in the play Maman.
Douglas Gene Stanhope is an American stand-up comedian, author, actor, political activist and podcast host. His stand-up material favors caustic and often obscene observations of life in the style of Bill Hicks, which he delivers while consuming alcohol. Politically, he has favored libertarianism and once endorsed the Free State Project, a proposed political migration of at least 20,000 libertarians to a single low-population state to foster libertarian ideas.
Tasya van Ree is an American painter and photographer. She is noted for her work in photography and for her multifaceted interests in mixed media and visual presentation, particularly in fashion and its relation to identity, as well as for dating actress Amber Heard.
London Fields is a 2018 mystery thriller film directed by Mathew Cullen with a screenplay by Roberta Hanley and Martin Amis, based on the 1989 novel of the same name by Amis. The film stars Billy Bob Thornton as Samson Young, a terminally ill writer who has suffered from writer's block for 20 years. The cast also includes Amber Heard, Jim Sturgess, Theo James, Jason Isaacs, Cara Delevingne, Obi Abili, and Jaimie Alexander.
Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Men Tell No Tales is a 2017 American swashbuckler fantasy film directed by Joachim Rønning and Espen Sandberg, produced by Jerry Bruckheimer, and written by Jeff Nathanson from a story credited to both Nathanson and executive producer Terry Rossio. The fifth installment of the Pirates of the Caribbean film series, the film stars Johnny Depp, Javier Bardem, Geoffrey Rush, Brenton Thwaites, Kaya Scodelario, and Kevin McNally. The story follows Captain Jack Sparrow as he searches for the Trident of Poseidon to defeat Armando Salazar, who is determined to kill every pirate at sea and take revenge on Sparrow for imprisoning him and his crew of ghosts in the Devil's Triangle.
Aquaman is a 2018 American superhero film based on the DC character of the same name. Co-produced and distributed by Warner Bros. Pictures, it is the sixth film in the DC Extended Universe (DCEU). Directed by James Wan from a screenplay by David Leslie Johnson-McGoldrick and Will Beall, it stars Jason Momoa as Arthur Curry / Aquaman, who sets out to lead the underwater kingdom of Atlantis and stop his half-brother, King Orm from uniting the seven underwater kingdoms to destroy the surface world. Amber Heard, Willem Dafoe, Patrick Wilson, Dolph Lundgren, Yahya Abdul-Mateen II, and Nicole Kidman also star in supporting roles.
Lily-Rose Melody Depp is a French-American actress. Born to actors Johnny Depp and Vanessa Paradis, she began her acting career in film with a minor role in Tusk (2014) and pursued a career as a fashion model. She appeared in the period dramas The Dancer (2016) and The King (2019), and the romantic comedy A Faithful Man (2018).
Fantastic Beasts: The Crimes of Grindelwald is a 2018 fantasy film directed by David Yates and written by J. K. Rowling. The sequel to Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them (2016), it is the second instalment in the Fantastic Beasts film series and the tenth overall in the Wizarding World franchise. It features an ensemble cast including Eddie Redmayne, Katherine Waterston, Dan Fogler, Alison Sudol, Ezra Miller, Zoë Kravitz, Callum Turner, Claudia Kim, William Nadylam, Kevin Guthrie, Jude Law, and Johnny Depp. Set in 1927, it follows Newt Scamander and Albus Dumbledore as they attempt to take down the dark wizard Gellert Grindelwald while facing new threats in a more divided wizarding world.
Fantastic Beasts: The Secrets of Dumbledore is a 2022 fantasy film directed by David Yates from a screenplay by J. K. Rowling and Steve Kloves, based on a screenplay by Rowling. The sequel to Fantastic Beasts: The Crimes of Grindelwald (2018), it is the third and final instalment in the Fantastic Beasts film series and the eleventh overall in the Wizarding World franchise. The film features an ensemble cast that includes Eddie Redmayne, Jude Law, Ezra Miller, Dan Fogler, Alison Sudol, Callum Turner, Jessica Williams, Katherine Waterston, and Mads Mikkelsen. Set several years after the events of its predecessor, the film sees Albus Dumbledore tasking Newt Scamander and his allies with a mission that takes them into the heart of dark wizard Gellert Grindelwald's army.
City of Lies is a 2018 crime thriller film about the investigations by the Los Angeles Police Department of the murders of rappers Tupac Shakur and the Notorious B.I.G. It is directed by Brad Furman, with a screenplay by Christian Contreras based on the non-fiction book LAbyrinth by Randall Sullivan. The film stars Johnny Depp as retired LAPD detective Russell Poole and Forest Whitaker as journalist Jack Jackson, with Rockmond Dunbar and Neil Brown Jr. also starring.
Fantastic Beasts is a film series directed by David Yates and a spin-off prequel to the Harry Potter novel and film series. The series is distributed by Warner Bros. and consists of three fantasy films as of 2024, beginning with Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them (2016), and following with Fantastic Beasts: The Crimes of Grindelwald (2018) and Fantastic Beasts: The Secrets of Dumbledore (2022). Following the 2001–11 Harry Potter film series, Fantastic Beasts marks the second film series in the Wizarding World shared universe media franchise.
Aquaman and the Lost Kingdom is a 2023 American superhero film based on the DC Comics character Aquaman. Directed by James Wan from a screenplay by David Leslie Johnson-McGoldrick, it is the sequel to Aquaman (2018) and the 15th and final film in the DC Extended Universe (DCEU). Jason Momoa stars as Arthur Curry / Aquaman, who must work with his half-brother Orm to prevent Black Manta from killing his family and using the cursed Black Trident to overheat the world while searching for the lost seventh kingdom of the seas. Amber Heard, Randall Park, Dolph Lundgren, Temuera Morrison, Martin Short, and Nicole Kidman also star in supporting roles.
Depp v News Group Newspapers Ltd[2020] EWHC 2911 (QB) was a defamation lawsuit brought in England. The case was initiated by American actor Johnny Depp, who sued News Group Newspapers (NGN) and then-executive editor Dan Wootton for libel after The Sun ran an article that claimed Depp had abused his ex-wife and criticised his casting in the Fantastic Beasts film series. The article stated, "Overwhelming evidence was filed to show Johnny Depp engaged in domestic violence against his wife Amber Heard," who "recounted a detailed history of domestic abuse incidents, some of which had led to her fearing for her life." After a three-week trial in London in July 2020, Andrew Nicol, a High Court judge sitting without a jury, rejected Depp's claim in a verdict announced later that year, ruling that the published material was "substantially true".
John C. Depp, II v. Amber Laura Heard was a trial held in Fairfax County, Virginia, from April 11 to June 1, 2022, that ruled on allegations of defamation between formerly married American actors Johnny Depp and Amber Heard. Depp, as plaintiff, filed a complaint of defamation against defendant Heard claiming $50 million in damages; Heard filed counterclaims against Depp claiming $100 million in damages.
Camille Vasquez is an American attorney known for representing actor Johnny Depp in the defamation case that he brought against his ex-wife Amber Heard.
Penney S. Azcarate is the chief judge of the circuit court in Fairfax County, Virginia. Azcarate is best known for presiding over the defamation case brought by actor Johnny Depp against his ex-wife Amber Heard.
"This Is a Song for Miss Hedy Lamarr" is a song by English rock guitarist Jeff Beck and American actor, producer and musician Johnny Depp released as the lead single from their collaborative studio album 18 (2022). The single was released on 9 June 2022 and was written by Depp and American musician Tommy Henriksen, who is a member of the supergroup Hollywood Vampires which was co-founded by Depp in 2012.
Jennifer K. Howell is an American film producer, actor, and social activist. She is the founder of The Art of Elysium, a nonprofit organisation, and Elysium Bandini Studios, a nonprofit film production company. Howell received the Walter Littlefield Distinguished Speaker in Rhetoric and Communication Award in 2012. She is known for producing films such as "Don't Come Back from the Moon", "The Heyday of the Insensitive Bastards", "Forever", and Webby Awards winning documentary film "Obey Giant". She also produced the 2012 short documentary "The Art of Elysium Stories", which was nominated for the 3rd Annual Shorty Social Good Awards in the best video series category.
The actress legally changed her last name to van Ree in April 2008, and back to Heard four years later in April 2014.
The Rum Diary was also a flop.
In 2016, Ms. Heard pledged to donate $3.5 million over 10 years to the ACLU. Two years later, in 2018, the ACLU invited Ms. Heard to become an ambassador and to work with us on an op-ed to bring attention to the issue of sexual assault and domestic violence issues; she agreed. Through her ambassadorship, Ms. Heard supported our advocacy for gender justice issues, a cause that has long been central to our mission at least since Ruth Bader Ginsburg headed the ACLU's Women's Rights Project.
Back in 2018, Amber said during an appearance on the Dutch talk show RTL Late Night: "$7million in total was donated - I split it between the ACLU and the Children's Hospital of Los Angeles. I wanted nothing." [...] a sensational UK court case [...] During that case – which Johnny lost – Amber claimed while under oath that: "the entire amount of my divorce settlement was donated to charity."
Ms Heard's appearance on Danish TV show RTL Late Night in October 2018, where she said that "$7m was donated in total".
In November last year, Depp lost a libel lawsuit in London ... Giving evidence in a statement dated February 26, Heard stated: "... the entire amount of my divorce settlement was donated to charity."
The Aquaman star has stated on multiple occasions, including in U.K.'s high court in 2020, that she donated the settlement as promised. However, neither organization received the money in full
Heard donated her $7 million settlement to the American Civil Liberties Union, and became an organization ambassador for women's rights.
{{cite web}}
: CS1 maint: numeric names: authors list (link)