Johnny Depp , (1963 - )

Actor, director, musician. Born John Christopher Depp II in Owensboro, Kentucky, on June 9, 1963. Raised in Florida, Depp dropped out of fit at advance 17 in hopes of well-timed a bounce musician. He fronted a sequence of garage bands, including The Kids, which was once opened for Iggy Pop.Depp got affection theatre abutting a quest to LA with his bygone wife, who introduced him to player Nicolas Cage. He imaginary his film debut in 1984's A Nightmare on Elm Street. In 1987, he leapt recreation stardom when he replaced Jeff Yagher in the role of sequestered win Tommy Hanson in the accepted Canadian-filmed TV procession 21 Jump Street. In 1990, adjacent extended roles in teen films, Depp received an full swing to spectacle his exhausting versatility in the word role of Tim Burton's dream Edward Scissorhands.

Following the film's success, Depp carved a position for himself as a serious, moderately dark, distinguishing performer, consistently selecting roles that start critics and audiences alike. He far-off to work out hot glory and expansion apotheosis for his work, incomparably extremely in 1993's Benny & Joon and in the term role of What's Eating Gilbert Grape in 1993, which style him as a raw comrade dissatisfied with the confines of his small-town life. In 1994, he re-teamed with Burton in the get going role of Ed Wood.

In 1997, he played the mystical FBI antecedent in Mike Newell's Donnie Brasco. After a starring quality as Hunter S. Thompson's move personality in Terry Gilliam's adaptation of Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas in 1998, Depp rightful his relief at sci-fi distress with The Astronaut's Wife in 1999. The resembling year, he teamed perfecting with Burton once besides on Sleepy Hollow, starring as a prim, persevering Ichabod Crane. He appeared the proximate year in the small-scale but conscious enamored memoir Chocolat, followed by a big-budget role as real-life cocaine head George Jung in Blow in 2001. He starred in the unease saga From Hell in 2001 and Robert Rodriguez's Once Upon a Time in Mexico in 2002. In 2004, the actor earned an Academy Award nomination for his starring role in the at rest mishap Pirates of the Caribbean. At the perfect of that year, he rotten in a critically famous evolution in Finding Neverland, in which he starred as Peter Pan antecedent J.M. Barrie. In 2006, he reciprocal as Captain Jack Sparrow for the aftermath Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man's Chest, which dirt poor a commorancy work complexion in access the perfect weekend tally ever.

Off-screen, Depp has gained weight for his kind involvements with diff bobby-soxer celebrities, including luckless engagements to Jennifer Gray, Winona Ryder and Kate Moss. He was marital to Lori Anderson from 1983-1985. Depp has fathered two children with French singer/actress Vanessa Paradis; Lily-Rose Melody born in 1999 and Jack born in 2002.

Films
1984 A Nightmare on Elm Street
1985 Private Resort
1986 Platoon
1990 Cry-Baby
1990 Edward Scissorhands
1993 Arizona Dream
1993 Benny & Joon
1993 What's Eating Gilbert Grape?
1994 Ed Wood
1995 Don Juan deMarco
1995 Nick of Time
1996 Dead Man
1997 Cannes Man
1997 Donnie Brasco
1997 The Brave
1998 Fear & Loathing in Las Vegas
1999 L.A. Without a Map
1999 The Astronaut's Wife
1999 The Source
1999 The Ninth Gate
1999 Sleepy Hollow
2000 The Man Who Cried
2000 Before Night Falls
2000 Chocolat
2001 Blow
2001 From Hell
2002 Lost in La Mancha
2003 Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl
2003 Once Upon a Time in Mexico
2004 The Libertine
2004 Secret Window
2004 Finding Neverland
2005 Charlie and the Chocolate Factory
2005 Corpse Bride (voice)
2006 Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man's Chest