Amber Heard

Recent Role:
Herself on TMZ on TV
Gender:
Female
Born:
4-22-1986
Birthplace:
Austin, Texas, USA
Birth Name:
Amber Laura Heard
Amber Heard, born on April 22, 1986 in Austin Texas, is an American film and TV actress known for her appearances in movies such as Alpha Dog, All the Boys Love Mandy Lane, and Never Back Down.

Amber attended St. Michael's Catholic Academy but left the school to pursue an acting career in Hollywood. At 18, she landed roles on television and film. In 2005, she appeared in Drop Dead Sexy and the award-winning North Country starring Charlize Theron. On television, she has had guest appearances on The O.C., Californication, and

Criminal Minds.

Amber loves to swim, rock climb, ride horses, dive and play golf. She speaks Spanish and knows sign language and she is a certified lifeguard.


An actress who first fell into her screen niche playing beautiful and voluptuous teenage girlfriends, Amber Heard was blessed with a visage that seemed tailor-made for modeling, and indeed she began her ascent to fame on that route. The Austin, TX, native reportedly dropped out of high school a year early and made a beeline for Los Angeles, her eyes fixed on glossies and catwalks. That dream failed to materialize, but in seemingly no time at all, Heard received a bid to act instead. She garnered two of her first major breaks when cast as the lead in the teen slasher movie All the Boys Love Mandy Lane (produced 2006, released 2008) and when she landed a key regular role on Kevin Williamson's short-lived prime-time soap Hidden Palms (2007). The cancellation of that series aside, 2007-2008 actually represented a watershed period for Heard, and one that witnessed the actress' enlistment in such big-screen features as Day 73 With Sarah (2007), The Beautiful Ordinary (2007), Never Back Down (2008), and the David Gordon Green-Judd Apatow crime comedy The Pineapple Express (2008), as the love interest of a stoner played by Apatow mainstay Seth Rogen. ~ Nathan Southern, Rovi