Amber Heard

Born April 22, 1986, in Austin, Texas, Amber Laura Heard received a Catholic upbringing, attending classes at St. Michael’s, a denominational school. Despite everything, after the traumatic death in a traffic accident of her best friend, when she was 16 years old, she suffered from depression, and ended up becoming a devoted follower of the novels of the anti-religious Ayn Rand , whose influence seems to have made her confessed atheist. “With her books I learned that all I needed was myself,” she says.

Without finishing her secondary studies, she moved to Los Angeles to succeed as an actress. He first appeared in a variety of music videos, before making his big screen debut with a very minor role in the sports drama Friday Night Lights , opposite Billy Bob Thornton , followed by the unknown horror film SideFX , and a brief appearance in the series OC . Over the years she has railed against the type of roles she has been offered. “Either they are uninteresting, or they are very masculine women. We are trying to imitate them, and it seems to me a rather sad injustice, it seems uncreative, and that there is a great lack of interest in representing female life”.

For many years she played very secondary roles, which did not require great effort, such as the young version of the role of Charlize Theron , a mother who works as a miner, in Men’s Land , a friend of Justin Timberlake , one of the kidnappers of a fifteen-year-old , in Alpha Dog , a blonde who charms an Afro-American bullied in the classroom in Breaking the Rules , victim of the zombies, in Welcome to Zombieland , a young woman faced with a murderer in The Stepfather , or Seth Rogen ‘s flirt in Super Smoked. She also played a sexy waitress, not exactly comparable to William Shakespeare ‘s great creations , who helps Nicolas Cage get his revenge in Blind Fury , a thriller so utterly bad it made viewers furious.

This being the case, nothing remotely foreshadowed that Amber Heard would be talked about for a long time. Everything changed during the filming of The Rum Diaries , not because of her performance –she had to play the blonde, the wife of a shady businessman, who had an affair with a journalist– nor because of the quality of the film, since it was about a not especially inspired adaptation of the novel by Hunter S. Thompson . What grabbed headlines was her torrid affair with the male lead, Johnny Depp , 23 years her senior, who ended up leaving her partner of twenty years, singer-actress Vanessa Paradis ., with whom he had not gotten to marry, despite the fact that they had two children in common. Curiously, Jack Sparrow does go through the vicarage twice with Heard, since they held ceremonies in two of the actor’s properties in West Hollywood and The Bahamas, in 2015.

After the wedding, Amber Heard seemed to live happily, and eat partridges, because the offers for movies even partially improved, as she was, for example, a CIA assassin in the middling thriller 3 days to kill , which she co-starred with Kevin Costner , and a photographer at Magic Mike XXL . Even a first-rate director, Tom Hooper ( The King’s Speech ) gave him his best work to date, a dancer who was a friend of the married couple formed by Alicia Vikander and Eddie Redmayne , in The Danish Girl , where the latter gave life to a transsexual, a royal character.

But only 15 months after the “yes, I do” one of the darkest soap operas that Hollywood has given in recent times is unleashed. First she files for divorce and asks Depp for support. But when he refuses, she denounces him in a court for domestic violence and psychological abuse, due to substance abuse, and provides some photos of him with violent blows. While part of public opinion turns against her husband, and even calls for a boycott of some of her tapes, others point to Amber Heard as a millionaire hunter without too much regard.

Despite how much has been said about this matter, she does not seem to have taken professional advantage. At least, Warner has signed her as Mera, a superhero capable of controlling water. She first played him briefly in Justice League , and later as the lead, opposite Jason Momoa , in Aquaman .. “I wish there was Mera when I was a kid,” she says. “She has great confidence in herself and she has no problem going up against even her own father to do what she thinks is right. I love that character, because she’s not the typical woman who needs to be saved. She manages it herself”, declared the actress. It’s not a particularly special creation, nor has she had to resort to the Stanislavski method to play her, but at least she has begun to show some charisma.