Johnny Depp
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Johnny Depp (born July 9, 1963 in Owensboro, Kentucky) is an American actor.
He was the son of an engineer and a waitress. He grew up with his brother and his sister and spent a lot of time with his grandfather. When his grandfather died, Johnny was seven years old and he was very sad. His family went to Florida and in the next years, they had to change homes often. Johnny became worse at school and had his first experiences with drugs at the age of 15. He was thrown out of school and started to make music in a band called The Flame, and later on The kids. He has one daughter, Lily-rose and one son Jack and is currently seeing a French singer, Vanessa Paradis.
His first film was Nightmare on Elm Street, which was quite a success. Afterwards, he decided to go to an acting school in Los Angeles. He got a small part in the movie Platoon and shortly after this, he was offered a part in the series 21 Jump Street which he first turned down but finally accepted.
Since then he has been a star. Young people loved him, but this was not what he liked, so he took drugs and was in the news because of this. But his career went on and he played in lots of famous movies.
Today, Johnny Depp is one of Hollywood's most liked actors who can play in a huge range of roles. Normally he plays rather queer guys, for example in Finding Neverland. He is not only liked for his look but also for his talent to act and his incomparable gestures.
[edit] Filmography (movies Depp has been in)
- Private Resort (1985)
- Cry-Baby (1990)
- Edward Scissorhands (1990)
- Benny and Joon (1993)
- What's Eating Gilbert Grape? (1993)
- Ed Wood (1994)
- Don Juan De Marco (1994)
- Dead Man (1995)
- Donnie Brasco (1996)
- Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas (1998)
- Sleepy Hollow (1999)
- Chocolat (2000)
- Blow (2000)
- From Hell (2001)
- Once Upon a Time in Mexico (2003)
- Pirates of the Caribbean (2003)
- Secret Window (2004)
- Finding Neverland (2004)
- Charlie and the Chocolate Factory (2005)
- The Corpse Bride (Voice, 2005)
- Pirates of the Caribbean 2 : Dead Man's Chest (2006)
- (post-production) Pirates of the Caribbean 3 : At World's End
[edit] Trivia
- The name Depp actually is a minor insult in German, meaning fool, moron, or idiot.
