Actress Profile: Amber Heard

This is the year of Amber Heard. Haven't heard of her? Well you will because with her extensive resume that's growing by the day you're sure to see her on the big screen a lot this coming year.

Getting her start way back in 2004 in the movie Friday Night Lights, Heard has been in numerous and notable movies since then including Never Back Down, Zombieland and last years remake of the 1970 horror thriller of the same name And Soon The Darkness. Now many of you have probably never seen those movies but if you did you would see an actress that's steadily on the rise and one who deserves such roles that are coming to her in John Carpenter's first movie in 10 years The Ward and Patrick Lussier's action thriller Drive Angry.

All The Boys Love Mandy Lane is 2007 movie also starring Amber Heard as a high school teen who is adored by her entire school more for her looks more than anything. The level of infatuation that she receives becomes both frustrating and unwanted to the point where she ends up killing members of her student body all who look at her as nothing more than for lack of better words "a piece of ass." The reason I am singling out this movie is because throughout her acting career she has portrayed characters who are cast only as eye candy. Five of the movies she has starred in since 2007 shes has played the love interest. The girl who is there for sex appeal and nothing more. So her taking revenge in "Mandy Lane" on the people who see her in that light and that light alone is kinda anticlimactic given the type of roles she will be portraying from here on out.

And Soon The Darkness stars Heard as a girl who believes her best friend has been kidnapped as they vacation Argentina. Not the love interest. In The Ward she's plays a young institutionalized woman who is haunted by a mysterious and deadly ghost. Again not the love interest.  Drive Angry plays a girl out for revenge and from what I can tell based on the trailer alone, not the love interest! You see the pattern here. As she gets picked for more roles and actually lets her acting do the talking instead of her mass sex appeal the way people view her as real actress is sure to change.

Recently there have been reports that Amber Heard has been cast as Red Sonja the upcoming movie produced by Avi Lerner who had this to say about Heard landing the coveted role: "Amber is the new Red Sonja, but she doesn't know it yet!" The Character of Red Sonja, a fiery-haired warrioress in a chainmail bikini, seeks vengeance on the people who destroyed her family. This is yet another important role for Amber Heard as she continues to build her career. It's not easy to make a name for yourself in the movie biz but she's found the way to do it and I'm looking forward to seeing her continue to make a name for herself from here on out.

Amber Heard Filmography:

Friday Night Lights (2004)
Alpha Dog (2006)
All The Boys Love Mandy Lane (2007)
Never Back Down (2008)
Pineapple Express (2008)
The Informers (2009)
Zombieland (2009)
The Stepfather (2009)
And Soon The Darkness (2010)
The Ward (2011)
The Rum Diary (2011)