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(CNN Spanish) — Mentions of Amber Heard on the internet multiplied this week amid the defamation trial she is confronting with ex-husband Johnny Depp. What was your trajectory? Here we review the life of Aquaman’s protagonist, mother of one girl and human rights activist, who turns 36 this Friday.
Heard is originally from Austin, Texas, where she was born on April 22, 1986. According to an IMDb review, she dropped out of school at the age of 17 and traveled to New York to pursue a modeling career. He eventually moved to Los Angeles to break into the world of acting.
His father is a commercial entrepreneur and his mother is an internet researcher. Heard has one sister who is also an actress: Whitney Heard.
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His career in film and television
The actress is known for her roles in films such as Aquaman, The Rum Diary (where she met Depp), Drive Angry and 3 Days to Kill.
According to IMDb, his first film role dates back to 2004 when he appeared in the film Friday Night Lights. He has also appeared in episodes of television series such as “Californication” and “Criminal Minds”.
Overall, she has worked on more than 40 film and television productions and partly worked as a producer.
One of the upcoming films in which he will star is the Aquaman sequel, Aquaman and the Lost Kingdom, in which he shares the screen with Nicole Kidman and Jason Momoa. Its premiere is scheduled for March 2023 in the United States, according to IMDb.
Over the years, Heard has appeared in numerous “sexiest women” rankings.
human rights activist
Heard is also known for her role as a human rights activist. She is involved with organizations such as Amnesty International and The Art of Elysium, an organization with more than 20 years of experience supporting communities in need through arts programs.
In 2018, the actress traveled to Jordan with the Syrian American Medical Society to visit Syrian refugees and said at the time that meeting them and the volunteers left an “indelible impression” on her, according to the then agency AP.
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Amber Heard, mom ‘on her own terms’
The actress has a daughter, Oonagh Paige, who recently turned one year old. When Heard announced the baby’s birth, she said she decided years before that she wanted to have a child and on her “own terms.”
In the post, which he then shared with his millions of followers on Instagram, he said his hope is that one day society will normalize the desire to “not want a ring to have a crib.” At that time he was in a relationship with the filmmaker Bianca Butti.
Venturing into motherhood in her own way gave her a new appreciation for “how radical it is for us women to think about one of the most fundamental parts of our destiny in this way,” she mused at the time.
The girl’s middle name, Paige, appears to be a tribute to the actress’ mother, who died in 2020.
In December 2010, Heard spoke openly about her sexuality at the Gay and Lesbian Alliance Against Defamation anniversary celebration. He also told website afterellen.com that his partner for several years has been photographer Tasya van Ree, according to the IMDb review.
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The tumultuous relationship between Amber Heard and Johnny Depp
Heard and Depp met while filming The Rum Diary in 2009 and married six years later in 2015. The couple quickly became embroiled in a contentious breakup marked by mutual grievances.
In 2016, Heard obtained a restraining order against Depp. In the complaint filed to obtain the order, Heard alleged that Depp was abusive and related to his drug use.
Some time later, they both announced that they had agreed to the divorce. However, that was not the end of the story. In 2018, Heard published an opinion piece about sexual violence in The Washington Post. “I became a public figure representing domestic violence and I felt the full brunt of our culture’s anger at women speaking out,” she wrote at the time. “Friends and advisors told me that I would not work as an actress again, that I would be blacklisted. A film I was in gave another actress my part,” she said.
The article did not specifically name Depp. A year later, however, he sued her for $50 million in defamation, alleging that she “clearly discussed (and has been consistently labeled as such by other media outlets) the alleged victimization of Mrs. Heard after she killed her ex-husband Johnny Depp.” (Mr. Depp), for domestic violence in 2016” and that hit him.
The process for this reason began last week.
In late 2021, a UK court ruled against Depp in a defamation lawsuit he brought against News Group Newspapers and Dan Wootton, editor-in-chief of The Sun newspaper, over an article alleging he was an abusive husband.
As part of that trial, Heard testified in the London courts in July 2020 that Depp threatened to kill her “many times”.