57 year old depth announced the news on his Instagram, saying that Warner Brothers movie studio had asked him to leave his role as villain.

Gellert Grindelwald Depth had sued news group newspapers, which publishes The Sun on one of its journalists, Dan Wooton, over a 2018 article which stated he had been violent towards his ex wife, actress Amber Heard.

On Monday, a High Court judge in London ruled that the allegations were quote substantially true.

34 year old Heard claimed Dep had often threatened to kill her detail ing 14 occasions of extreme violence when she said the actor choked, punched, slapped, headbutted, throttled on kicked her depth, had told the court he was never violent towards his ex wife, saying her claims were a hopes on that he had lost the tip of a finger after she threw a vodka bottle at him.

Depth is best known as the swaggering Jack Sparrow in the Pirates of the Caribbean franchise.

He has often played off beat characters and has an army of fans using social media hashtags like justice for Johnny Depp to rally against Monday's verdict.

But Hollywood observers had warned that the court's ruling may be the final straw in the actor's career.