Amber Heard was born on April 22, 1986 in Austin, Texas to her mother Patricia, who died in 2020, and her father, David. As a child, Amber spent a lot of time around horses, learning to ride them with her father as a result of him training them in his spare time. She also partook in beauty pageants but has since renounced her love of this as an adult stating to Glamour that she could no longer ‘support the objectification’.