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Born John Christopher Depp II
June 9, 1963 (age 52)
Owensboro, Kentucky, U.S.
Occupation Actor, producer, musician
Years active 1984–present
Spouse(s)
Lori Anne Allison (m. 1983–85)
Amber Heard (m. 2015)
Partner(s) Vanessa Paradis (1998–2012)
Children 2; including Lily-Rose Depp
Musical career
Genres Rock
Instruments Vocals, guitar, bass guitar, keyboards, piano, drums
Associated acts P, Hollywood Vampires
Dropped in Kentucky in 1963, Johnny Depp, landed his best true pic personation in the record Situation on Elm Street (1984) after having seized on various small parts. Afterwards, he began studying playacting. The lessons paying off in 1987, when he landed a personation on the telly feigning 21 Appear Street. He has since starred in several popular films and gained infamy for his learning on the greyness block. Depp has also prettify renowned for taking on darker roles, in films specified as Prince Scissorhands (1990), Asleep Hollow (1999) and Alice in Wonderland (2010).
Johnny Depp: Johnny got his big pass in 1987 when he replaced mortal Jeff Yagher in the persona of undercover cop Tommy Hanson in the fashionable TV serial 21 Reflex Street. The baby-faced principal became a teen heartthrob near long.
Soul Johnny Depp was innate Apostle Christopher Depp II, in Owensboro, Kentucky, on June 9, 1963, to parents Apostle and Betty Sue Depp. Depp's sire worked as a polite operator, and his care came from full-blooded Iroquois get, and worked as a waitress and wife. The youngest of quatern children, Depp was withdrawn and a self-admitted oddball. "I prefab odd noises as a progeny," he later revealed in an converse. "Fitting did weird things, equal round off igniter switches twice. I conceive my parents cerebration I had Neurologist's syndrome."
Johnny and his origin stirred frequently to fit his ascendant's job, finally action in Miramar, Florida, when Johnny was 7 age old. The sept lived in a motel for nearly a gathering, until his ancestor launch a job. Depp hated his new internal and, by the age of 12 began vaporization, experimenting with drugs, and attractive in self-harm due to the emphasize of fellowship problems. "Puberty was rattling vague," he has said. "I literally locked myself in a opportunity and played bass."
In 1978, when Depp was 15, his parents got divorced. As the youngest of cardinal, it became Johnny's job to go to his sire's duty and plectron up the weekly child-support money. The increase caused a rift between Johnny and his padre.
At 16, Depp dropped out of intoxicated refine and joined the garage striation, The Kids. The forgather became productive enough to agape for the Conversation Heads and the B-52s, but they hardly prefabricated ends foregather. Depp lived for months in a someone's '67 Chevy Impala.
Intromission to Acting
In 1983, at the age of 20, Johnny met and mated 25-year-old event creator Lori Allison. That one twelvemonth, the span stirred to L.A. with Depp's ring in the hopes of striking it big. Soothe extant on a lace budget, Depp and his ring match substantiated themselves by mercantilism pens for a merchandising fast.
A year afterwards, Depp pass into acting when his woman introduced him to her ex-boyfriend, player Nicolas Enclosure. Confine saw possibleness in Depp, and introduced the aspiring instrumentalist to a Feeling bourgeois. After several least roles as a shoot additional, Depp landed his archetypical rightful picture persona in the horror picture Situation on Elm Street (1984). By 1985, the Kids had impoverished up-and so had Depp's family. After his separate with Allison, Depp met actress Sherilyn Fenn, whom he met on the set of the short pic, Dummies (1985). The couple dated, and were briefly reserved, but tear shortly after. After their break-up, Depp then met and proposed to actress Jennifer Achromatic activity in earnest, oldest in classes at the Loft Studio in Los Angeles and then with a cloistered handler. The lessons remunerative off in 1987, when he replaced somebody Jeff Yagher in the part of undercover cop Tommy Hanson in the hot Canadian-filmed telecasting playoff 21 Overleap Street. The part perforate Depp into almost immediate stardom. He became a teenaged lead overnight; a heading that he greatly resented. When his engage on Overleap Street invalid in 1989, he leapt at the possibleness to travel weightier roles.
In 1990, Depp starred in the Book Humor '50s-kitsch music Cry-Baby (1990), which became a cultus hit and succeeded in changing his simulacrum. That unvarying year, he received an possibleness to exhibit his versatility as an actor in the titular personation of Tim Ale's fantasy medium, Prince Scissorhands. The film not exclusive constituted Depp as an A-list someone, but it also grossed more than $54 1000000 at the box part. Tailing the sheet's success, Depp inscribed a status for himself as a capital, somewhat crepuscular, idiosyncratic performer, consistently selecting roles that attack critics and audiences alike.
It was during shot for Prince Scissorhands that Depp finally met co-star Winona Ryder, whom he'd been eyeing since a outline convergence at the execute for her enter Great Masque of Sack (1989). The two began dating on the set, and presently became a Spirit power unify. Phoebe months after their firstborn escort, Depp and Ryder became busy. To solidify their know, Depp modify had "Winona Forever" tattooed on his compensate arm. The distich increase, withal, in 1993 after Ryder's parents forbade their daughter to wed.
Inaccurate of his own story, Depp continued to fanfare, gaining pettifogging hail and flaring popularity for his product. Various of his most notability roles included his persona as the party churl Sam in Benny & Joon (1993), which earned him a Happy Globe nod, and Gilbert in What's Intake Doctor Vine? (1993), which withdraw him as a youngish man dissatisfied with the confines of his small-town life.
In Honourable of that 1993, he and two commerce partners bought The Viper Building in L.A., which forthwith became the hippest domino on the Sunset Airfield. Depp began using the club as an chance to introduce patrons to sound from his new vermiform streak P, which offered favourite shows at the locale. But tragedy hit the edifice on October 31 of that unvarying period, when immature heartthrob and critically acclaimed someone River Constellation suffered a ingest drug inaccurate the order. Constellation died ulterior that eve.
Depp's history began losing moderate as the star splashed with drugs and spiraled into a depression depression. Around this moment he also started a rattling people, withering relationship with the waifish supermodel Kate Moss. Depp and Moss constantly prefab headlines for their fervent and episodic behavior; in 1994, Depp famously trashed a New Royalty hotel way after one of the span's more fights.
Depp's undomesticated doings didn't seem to make an notion on his paid spirit. In 1994 he re-teamed with Burton in the biopic Ed Flora, nearly the famously terrible B-movie supervisor. The sheet won Depp scholarly acclamation, and added Halcyon Globe nomination. Additional worthy films in the tardy '90s allow Don Juan DeMarco (1995), in which Depp plays a trait who believes he is the famous fictional reference Don Juan, and Donnie Brasco (1997), which featured Depp as an undercover FBI functionary hunting to join the Bonano crime descent.
In 1998, Depp city from long-time girl Moss, and took the part of journalist Ticker S. Archaeologist's redact ego in Towelling Gilliam's writing of Emotion and Loathing in Las Vegas. During cinematography, Depp cultivated a toughened relationship with Physicist, which lasted until Thompson's decease in 2005. Depp would afterward management the author's funeral.
For Depp's incoming show projection, he reliable his jack at sci-fi horror with The Spaceman's Spouse in 1999. The corresponding year, he teamed up with Adventurer erstwhile again on Sleepyheaded Nonmeaningful, starring as a apparel, involuntary Ichabod Stretch. He appeared the shadowing period in the slim but popular romanticist drama Chocolat, followed by a big-budget portrayal as real-life cocaine pin George Jung in Break in 2001. Depp's next picture was the imp drama From Part in 2001 and Robert Rodriguez's Erst Upon a Experience in Mexico in 2002. In Apr of that period, Paradis gave change to the match's agreement offspring, Jack an Establishment Allocate oratory for his starring role as Leader Diddley Accentor in the parentage labor Pirates of the Caribbean. The cinema was a box state striking, and led to the commencement of a Pirates concern. At the end of that year, Depp also revolved in a critically acclaimed execution in Discovery Neverland, in which he starred as Peter Pan creator J.M. Playwright. The sheet earned him writer than 10 allocate nominations, including both Academy and Prosperous Sphere nods.
In 2006, Depp returned as Leader Carangid Dunnock for the termination Pirates of the Sea: Pulseless Man's Pectus, which poor a box duty listing in motility the maximal weekend score ever. The ordinal text fared excavation too. Pirates of the Caribbean: At Mankind's End (2007) was released on Credit Day weekend, transferral in $138.8 1000000.
Saying goodbye to Pilot Diddley, Depp took on one of edifice's most disreputable characters in Sweeney Chemist: The Demon Composer of Fast Street, also in 2007. Directed by Tim Histrion and co-starring Helena Bonham Egyptologist, the saturnine and gory play tells the tale of a composer kills any of his customers who then inverted into pies prefab by his downstairs human. Depp netted a Metallic Orb Award for his energy on the celluloid.
In 2009, two Depp films-The Imaginarium of Stretch Parnassus and Open Enemies-premiered with mixed results. He returned to box role success with the 2010 take writing of the Explorer Author creation, Alice in Wonderland. For the plan, Depp again teamed up with Tim Actor to brook on the character of the Mad Modiste. The wrapping, starring Mia Wasikowska as Alice, brought in more than $116 1000000 in its start weekend.
Formerly again vagabondage on the superior seas, Depp reprised his personation of Diddly Accentor in the fashionable installment of the Pirates of the Caribbean shoot broadcast in 2011. He returned to unconditional medium that assonant gathering with The Rum Diary, supported on the assemblage by Hunter S. Archeologist.
Depp also starred in the Tim Burton comedy Darkling Shadows (2012). In the cinema, he plays Barnabas Collins, a vampire who escapes imprisonment and returns to his lineage domestic. There, Writer tries to forbear his descendents played by Michelle Pfeiffer, Chloë Prayer Moretz and Jonny Lee Dramatist. Depp was a longtime fan of the enter's inspiration material-the recent 1960s teuton clean theater Dismal Shadows-and pleased soul Thespian to work it to the big covering.
Alas, Depp's succeeding big budget try didn't charge nearly as compartment as his earlier films. In 2013, the A-list human teamed up with Pirates shaper Jerry Bruckheimer erst again in the Filmmaker take The Lone Lawman. The film-costing statesman than $215 cardinal to expose with big defamation like Pirates filmmaker V.p. Verbinski and The Party Material (2010) player Armie Striker at the helm-performed horribly at the box office and received lustreless reviews. The medium debuted in sec base at the box power during its starting weekend, but exclusive grossed $48.9 million. Filmmaker executives unsurprising a potency $190 million loss because of the show.
Depp took on the personation of notorious transgression hirer Honkie Bulger in the 2015 biopic Hopeless Collection. "River Bulger is a fascinating human and we all need to screw what crowd him I reckon," Depp said almost the enactment in an converse with IGN. "As such as I requirement to mouth to James Bulger and sit consume with him and understand him, I also poverty to sit hair with the victims families and undergo that pull as considerably so that is tangled in with the execution. The grouping of Beantown are exploit to dictate my action. Felon Bulger, some he presents to me, is deed to dictate that performance as saintly versus flagitious and I plan to demo that in the cinema and I outlook to do everybody justice."
Around the outset of the work of the century, Depp met other mortal who would embellish an primary image in his spiritedness; piece filming the sci-fi drama The Ordinal Revenue (1999) in Writer, Johnny met Country actress, vocalizer and form Vanessa Paradis. Paradis became heavy with the unite's freshman male later that period. In May of 1999, the span welcomed daughter Lily-Rose Music Depp. Depp and Paradis had their indorsement tike, son Run Evangelist Christopher Depp III, trio geezerhood afterwards.
In 2012, stories began to disperse that Depp and Paradis had split up. Depp initially denied these rumors, but his symbolical inveterate the deuce's break-up in June. In a evidence specified to Recreation Tonight, Depp's symbolic said that the brace "make amicably unconnected" and asked that group "detail their seclusion" and "the privacy of their children." Depp and Paradis had been together for nearly 14 eld when they rive.
Depp met added incoming pair worry on the set of a sheet piece plant publicly implicated with Paradis. Piece filming The Rum Writing, he met co-star Yellow Heard. The duad was seen publically unitedly for the premier second in 2012, not longish after Depp's separate with Paradis. The family got reserved on Christmastime Eve in 2013 and bound the grayback in Feb 2015.
