Johnny Depp Biography

John "Johnny Christopher Depp II (* June 9, 1963 in Owensboro, Kentucky) is an American actor, who lives in France.

Johnny Depp is the son of Betty Sue (born Palmer) and John Christopher Depp I. (sen.), German and Irish descent and a great-grandson Cherokees. After the High School with 16 canceled, he came through various odd jobs, including in telephone marketing, first as extras for the film. After several secondary roles in which he usually the victims in horror films, as in one of his first film role in Nightmare on Elmstreet by Wes Craven, played, got after the visit of several acting schools his career in the real thrust by the successful TV series 21 Jump Street, in the he unangepassten a young undercover police played. Because of his rebellious nature, he was with Marlon Brando and James Dean compared.

The success of the cult series was so great that Depp - as he felt himself - was demoted to the product. Even though this time he had learned a lot - as Depp - he wanted something like this never experience. In addition, he had, according to his own sentiment, with ancillary role of the private Sani offender learners in Oliver Stone's Platoon (1986) noticed the potential of film as opposed to the Fernsehspiel.

Henceforth he was looking for his movie roles with care and without regard to any cash-toxic. His roles he added with special Marotten. Own words that he always made up one third of the so-called Strasberg mining method of Method Acting, a further third by the person playing with trains being equipped to him by a real people are known, and ultimately the above-mentioned Marotten.

1990 he played in the film Cry-Baby his first major role in a cinema film. Director of the film was John Waters, for zotige and tasteless films is known.

His first great success in a leading role he had in 1990 in the fantasy Edward tragicomedy with the scissor hands, where he was the first time with Tim Burton worked together, Johnny Depp as a director very estimates. For his performance in the film, he was for the Golden Globe for best leading actor nomination. With the role of Edward succeeded Depp, from the "Schickimicki 'image of the series and proved to solve his first conversion capability.

1993 he took over the main role in the melancholy romantic comedy Benny and Joon, for which he is also a nomination for the Golden Globe received. In the same year he played the main roles in the Emir Kusturica movie-Arizona Dream and Gilbert Grape - Somewhere in Iowa at the side of Leonardo DiCaprio and Juliette Lewis. In addition, he played in the music video for Into the Great Wide Open of Tom Petty.

In the same year, the Viper Room Club opened in which Depp up to 2004 shares.

1994, he played the title role in Tim Burton's Ed Wood, together with Martin Landau as abgehalftertem Dracula-Star Bela Lugosi.

1995, he tried to be a musician and published with his band P selbstbetitelte debut album. Flea of the Red Hot Chili Peppers played bass, in order to support his friend. Another artist was Gibby Haynes of the Butthole Surfers here. The CD contains a cover version of the ABBA classic Dancing Queen. The musical success, however, the sound evolved, however, to the collector unit on the stock exchanges (Source: CAPITOL Records Inc. 1995 7243 8 32942 2 0). As early as 1994, he played guitar in the song 'That Woman's Got Me Drinking' his friend Shane MacGowan and the main role in the accompanying music video. He also played in the play "Fade In-Out" by Oasis the slide guitar, this piece is on the album "Be Here Now" (1997).

In Sleepy Hollow Depp 1999 worked again with Tim Burton. Depp that he had not thought that a major studio facility of its basic role of the detective - "a mix of Miss Marple, Sherlock Holmes and a pubescent girls" - would ever be tolerated, but the film came from the public good.

Depp also played in other horror films including the Jack the Ripper adaptation From Hell (2001), at the side of Heather Graham, Robbie Coltrane and Ian Holm, and in The Secret Window (2004), based on a short story by Stephen King. In the Jarmusch film Dead Man 1995, he plays in a Western, where many issues Kafkaesque be affected.

In 2003 he was for his performances as Captain Jack Sparrow in Pirates of the Caribbean for an Oscar as best leading actor nominated by the actors guild with the Screen Actors Guild Award as Best Actor. 2004 he also received an Oscar nomination for best leading actor for his presentation of Peter Pan author JM Barrie in the film drama Finding Neverland. In 2005 he also played in the filming of Charlie and the Chocolate Factory the owner of the factory, Willy Wonka, a new collaboration with Tim Burton. 2006 was with the 2nd Depp Part of Pirates of the Caribbean in the cinema, the film simultaneously with the most viewers and the highest box office earnings of his career. In May 2007 came the 3rd Pirates of the series with the name Pirates of the Caribbean - At the end of the world in the German cinemas.

2005 he said the main role in Tim Burton's animated film Corpse Bride - Marriages with a corpse.

The 2007 film adaptation, published by Nick Hornbys A Long Way Down is the first film in which Depp acts as a producer. Since December 2007 (in Germany since 21 February 2008) is also Depp as the main actor in the film adaptation of the musical Sweeney Todd - The vicious barber from the Fleet Street by Tim Burton to see it for 2008 as best actor nominated for an Oscar had not received it.

At the end of July 2008 announced that Tim Burton a 3D adaptation of the classic children's book Alice in Wonderland plant. For the title role was the little-known Australian Mia Wasikowska selected, while Depp in the role of the crazy hat shop slip. A cinema release is scheduled for summer 2010. [1]

Currently, Depp according to the American Forbes Magazine of the best-paid actors in Hollywood. Between June 2007 and June 2008, he received fees in the amount of 72 million U.S. dollars and thus ranks behind Will Smith (80 million U.S. dollars) in second place.

In 1983 he married the artist Lori Allison, but the marriage was already divorced after two years. From 1994 to 1998 was Kate Moss his life partner. Since 1998, Depp with the French actress, singer and model Vanessa Paradis liiert, with two children hat.Johnny he Depp was familiar with the writer and journalist Hunter S. Thompson friend, who in 2005 took the lives, and embodied in the 1998 film Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas the main role of Raoul Duke. Depp was Hunter S. Thompson of the "Colonel" [4] called and this financed with other friends of the deceased the project "Gonzo-Fist" (a gun in the form of Thompson-designed Gonzo fist), with the ash in the Desert sky was shot. Johnny Depp was allowed to press the shutter.

The filming of the book The Rum Diary, again with Johnny Depp in one of the main roles should be in 2000 and 2003 in production. After several delays could be some, the film is in production in 2009 and is the cinemas. Johnny Depp is next to Nick Nolte also act as executive producer.

The news agency APA reported on 9 March 2006 that in August this year a documentary on Thompson ready. Johnny Depp and Sean Penn are involved in the production, under the title Buy the ticket, take the ride to appear.

The German synchronous voice of Johnny Depp is usually David Nathan. In Pirates of the Caribbean to the competent supervisor, however, somewhat different Depps synchronization, David Nathan after the film had already eingesprochen. So Marcus Off occupied the whole movie again einsprach and the role in Pirates of the Caribbean 2 and Pirates of the Caribbean 3 over.

Filmography
Year     Film     Role     Other notes
1984     A Nightmare on Elm Street     Glen Lantz     
1985     Private Resort     Jack     
Slow Burn     Donnie Fleischer     
1986     Platoon     Private Gator Lerner     
1987-1991     21 Jump Street     Tom Hanson     TV series
1990     Cry-Baby     "Cry-Baby" Wade Walker     
Edward Scissorhands     Edward Scissorhands     
1991     Freddy's Dead: The Final Nightmare     Teen on TV     
1993     What's Eating Gilbert Grape     Gilbert Grape     
Benny & Joon     Sam     
Arizona Dream     Axel     
1994     Ed Wood     Edward D. Wood, Jr.     
1995     Nick of Time     Gene Watson     
Dead Man     William Blake     
Don Juan DeMarco     Don Juan     
1996     Cannes Man     Himself     
1997     Donnie Brasco     Donnie Brasco/Joseph D. 'Joe' Pistone     
The Brave     Raphael     Also Director and Writer
1998     Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas     Raoul Duke     
L.A. Without A Map     Cameo as Himself     
1999     Sleepy Hollow     Constable Ichabod Crane     
The Astronaut's Wife     Commander Spencer Armacost     
The Ninth Gate     Dean Corso     
2000     Chocolat     Roux     
Before Night Falls     Lt. Victor, Bon Bon     
2001     From Hell     Inspector Frederick Abberline     
The Man Who Cried     Cesar     (Limited release)
Blow     George Jung     
2002     Lost in La Mancha     Himself (Johnny Depp)     
2003     Once Upon a Time in Mexico     Sheldon Jeffrey Sands     
Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl     Captain Jack Sparrow     Nominated - Academy Award for Best Actor
2004     Happily Ever After     L'inconnu     
Finding Neverland     Sir James Matthew Barrie     Nominated - Academy Award for Best Actor
Secret Window     Mort Rainey     
2005     The Libertine     John Wilmot, 2nd Earl of Rochester     
Charlie and the Chocolate Factory     Willy Wonka     
Corpse Bride     Victor Van Dort     first voice-over role
2006     Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man's Chest     Captain Jack Sparrow     
2007     Pirates of the Caribbean: At World's End     Captain Jack Sparrow     
Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street     Sweeney Todd     Golden Globe Award for Best Actor - Motion Picture Musical or Comedy
Nominated - Academy Award for Best Actor
2008     Gonzo: The Life and Work of Dr. Hunter S. Thompson     Narrator     
2009     The Imaginarium of Doctor Parnassus     Tony     post-production; Assuming a role originally portrayed by Heath Ledger
Public Enemies     John Dillinger     post-production
Shantaram     Lindsay     pre-production; Also Co-Producer
The Rum Diary     Paul Kemp     pre-production; Also Executive Producer
2010     The Man Who Killed Don Quixote     Toby Grisoni     pre-production (production restarted in 2008; tentative release date)

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