It has been rumoured she is the midst of a romance with silver screen star Johnny Depp.
And there is a good chance he would have been one of the heartthrobs who adorned Amber Heard’s wall when she was just an innocent schoolgirl.
Pictures have emerged showing The Rum Diary star when she was a fresh-faced teenager, right at the time her 49-year-old rumoured beau had established himself as one of Hollywood’s leading men.
Flashback to 2001: Cheeky 15-year-old Amber at a friends pool party in Texas (left), while Johnny Depp was promoting his film ‘Blow’ in Hollywood (right)
Starlet in the making: Even as a fresh faced teen Johnny Depp’s rumoured new squeeze Amber Heard had Hollywood good looks
And even as a teenager in Austin, Texas, Amber, 26, had the million dollar features that would make her one of Hollywood’s hottest young starlets.
Of course one striking difference is her hair colour, which was a mousy blonde rather than the platinum locks she is now famous for.
She was also a cheeky girl who loved sticking her tongue out and making faces for her friends.
This is highlighted in some images taken when she went to a friend’s swimming pool party when she was 15, as she loved hamming it up for the cameras.
Worlds apart: While Amber was frolicking with friends in 2001, Johnny Depp was filming with Penelope Cruz
One of the girls: The beaming teenager loved spending time with friends and looked to be loving this sleepover
Opening his heart about his bi𝓈ℯ𝓍ual Playboy Club star daughter, 62-year-old David Heard did not want to speak about the Depp rumours, saying: ‘I do not have any comment about anything like that.’
However he did say he is pleased at how well she has done for herself, adding: ‘I’m proud of her. She’s hard-working, steadfast to her job and doesn’t do anything but go to auditions and meetings.
‘She hardly does anything else, she wanted this for her career since she was 12-years-old, from the time she was a little girl.’ As he revealed Amber was always determined to become a star.
Like Depp, she was a high-school dropout that left $12,000-a-year private Catholic school St Michaelís Academy at the age of 16 to pursue a career in front of the camera.
He said: ‘She did modeling first and went to New York. She came home because I begged her.
‘But I couldn’t stop her when she was 18. I begged her not to go but she knew what she was doing, and she was right. She’s a very talented actress.’
Popular: The future star was extremely popular among her peers even though she received some teasing
Yearbook beauty: Amber ended up leaving school at the age of just 16 to pursue a career in modelling
David lives with his wife Paige in the outskirts of Austin in the same modest detached home to which they moved when was Amber was around nine.
He still runs his own building contracting business but hopes to soon retire.
And while he said he is proud of his daughter’s Texan roots, she rarely returns now.
He said: ‘She was 𝐛𝐨𝐫𝐧 in Austin and raised in Austin. Now she only comes back when she has to.
‘She was raised here but she loves travelling the country and the world. She was in China last week.’
David does get to go to LA and visit his daughter ‘a couple of times a year, to events like the SAG Awards and premieres, I’m usually her date.’
Generation gap: While Amber starred in her 8th grade dance, Depp already had hits such as Donnie Brasco
Walk like an Egyptian: Amber decided to dress up as a member of the ancient civilization for Halloween
But now it seems he may now have superstar competition to fight off for his daughter’s hand now.
Meanwhile one of her 𝘤𝘩𝘪𝘭𝘥hood friends said that while Amber was always ambitious, she was a shy girl who ended up being given a less than flattering nickname due to her looks.
Her classmate Meghan Brindley said: ‘She had a nickname because she was pretty. Some people used to call her “Amber seen and not Heard.”
‘She also once mixed up the term feminism in theology and so people made fun of her for that, she said something like “I’m against women’s suffrage”, it was like uh-oh.
‘So just silly little things like that. You know we’ve all made innocent mistakes like that.
‘She was very quiet, she always seemed almost like her mind was just off somewhere else and she always said “I’m going to go and be an actress and that is what I want to do.”‘
Very friendly: Johnny and Amber swapped pecks on the check at The Rum Diary premiere last November
