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Johnny Depp - Wikipedia. John Christopher Depp II (born June 9, 1. American actor, producer, and musician. Top Gear Episode 3 Sub. He has won the Golden Globe Award and Screen Actors Guild Award for Best Actor.

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He rose to prominence on the 1. Jump Street, becoming a teen idol. Depp has taken on the task of challenging himself to portray "larger- than- life" roles, starting with a supporting role in Oliver Stone's Vietnam War film Platoon in 1. Edward Scissorhands (1. He later found box office success in the fantasy adventure film Sleepy Hollow (1. Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl (2.

Charlie and the Chocolate Factory (2. Alice in Wonderland (2. Rango (2. 01. 1). He has collaborated on nine films with director, producer and friend Tim Burton. Depp is regarded as one of the world's biggest film stars.[2][3] He has gained praise from reviewers for his portrayals including screenwriter- director Ed Wood in Ed Wood, undercover FBI agent Joseph D. Pistone in Donnie Brasco, author J. M. Barrie in Finding Neverland, and the Boston gangster Whitey Bulger in Black Mass.

Films featuring Depp have grossed over $3. United States box office and over $8 billion worldwide.[4] His most commercially successful films are the Pirates of the Caribbean films, which have grossed $3 billion, Alice in Wonderland, which grossed $1 billion, Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, which grossed $4. The Tourist, which grossed $2. Depp has been nominated for major acting awards, including three nominations for Academy Award for Best Actor.[8] Depp won the Golden Globe Award for Best Actor – Motion Picture Musical or Comedy for Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street and the Screen Actors Guild Award for Outstanding Performance by a Male Actor in a Leading Role for The Curse of the Black Pearl. He has been listed in the 2. Guinness World Records as the highest paid actor, with earnings of $7.

Depp was inducted as a Disney Legend in 2. Early life. Depp was born in Owensboro, Kentucky,[1. Betty Sue Palmer (née Wells; 1. John Christopher Depp (born 1. Depp is of mostly English ancestry, with some ancestors from elsewhere in Europe. He is descended from a French Huguenot immigrant, Pierre Deppe or Dieppe, who settled in Virginia around 1. Watch Last Dance HD 1080P here.

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He is also of 3/2. African descent, as he descends twice over from an African slave whose biracial daughter, Elizabeth Key Grinstead, was the first woman of Sub- Saharan African ancestry in North America to sue for her freedom from slavery and win (in 1. Depp moved frequently during his childhood.

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He and his siblings lived in more than 2. Miramar, Florida in 1. Depp's parents divorced in 1. His mother married Robert Palmer (died 2. Depp has called "an inspiration to me".[2. Beyblade Metal Fusion Episode 28 Full.

With the gift of a guitar from his mother when he was 1. Depp began playing in various garage bands.[1. A year after his parents' divorce, he dropped out of high school to become a rock musician.[1. He attempted to go back to school two weeks later, but the principal told him to follow his dream of being a musician.[1. He played with The Kids, a band that enjoyed modest local success. The Kids set out together for Los Angeles in pursuit of a record deal, changing their name to Six Gun Method, but the group split up before signing a record deal. Depp subsequently collaborated with the band Rock City Angels[2.

Mary", which appeared on Rock City Angels' debut Geffen Records album Young Man's Blues.[2. On December 2. 0, 1. Depp married Lori Anne Allison,[1.

During their marriage she worked as a makeup artist while he worked a variety of odd jobs, including a telemarketer for pens. His wife introduced him to actor Nicolas Cage, who advised him to pursue an acting career.[1. Depp and his wife divorced in 1. In 2. 01. 5, Depp married Amber Heard but divorced in 2.

Acting career. Early film roles and 2. Jump Street (1. 98. Depp's first film role was in the horror film A Nightmare on Elm Street (1. Nancy Thompson (Heather Langenkamp) and one of Freddy Krueger's victims.[1. After a starring role in the comedy Private Resort (1. Depp was cast in the lead role of the skating drama Thrashin' (1.

Instead, Depp appeared in a minor supporting role as a Vietnamese- speaking private in Oliver Stone's Vietnam War drama Platoon (1. Depp became a popular teen idol during the late 1.

Fox television series 2. Jump Street, which premiered in 1. He accepted this role to work with actor Frederic Forrest, who inspired him. Despite his success, Depp felt that the series "forced [him] into the role of product."[2. He subsequently decided to appear only in films that he felt were right for him.[2. Depp's first film release in 1.

John Waters' Cry- Baby, a musical comedy set in the 1. Although it was not a box office success upon its initial release, over the years it has gained a cult classic status. Depp's second 1. 99. Tim Burton's film Edward Scissorhands, in which he played the title character opposite Dianne Wiest and Winona Ryder.

It was a critical and commercial success that established him as a leading Hollywood actor[citation needed] and began his long association with Burton. Producer Scott Rudin has stated that "basically Johnny Depp is playing Tim Burton in all his movies"; although Burton disapproved of the comment, Depp agrees with it. In his introduction to Burton on Burton, a book of interviews with the director, Depp called Burton ".. a brother, a friend, .. Depp had no film releases in the following two years, with the exception of a brief cameo in Freddy's Dead: The Final Nightmare (1. A Nightmare of Elm Street franchise. He appeared in three films in 1.

In the romantic comedy Benny and Joon, he played an eccentric and illiterate silent film fan who befriends a mentally ill woman and her brother; it became a sleeper hit. He then starred alongside Leonardo Di.

Caprio and Juliette Lewis in Lasse Hallström's What's Eating Gilbert Grape, a drama about a dysfunctional family. In his review of the film, Todd Mc. Carthy of Variety said that "Depp manages to command center screen with a greatly affable, appealing characterization."[2.

Depp's final 1. 99. Emir Kusturica's surrealist comedy- drama Arizona Dream, which opened to positive reviews. In 1. 99. 4, Depp reunited with director Tim Burton, playing the title role in Ed Wood, a biographical film about one of history's most inept film directors. Depp later stated that he was at the time depressed about films and filmmaking, but that "within 1. I was committed."[3. He found that the role gave him a "chance to stretch out and have some fun" and that working with Martin Landau, who played Bela Lugosi, "rejuvenated my love for acting".[3. Ed Wood received critical acclaim, with Janet Maslin of The New York Times writing that Depp had "proved himself as an established, certified great actor" and "captured all the can- do optimism that kept Ed Wood going, thanks to an extremely funny ability to look at the silver lining of any cloud."[3.

Depp was nominated for Golden Globe Award for Best Actor – Motion Picture Musical or Comedy for his performance. The following year, Depp starred in three films. He played opposite Marlon Brando in the box- office hit Don Juan De.

Marco, as a man who believes he is Don Juan, the world's greatest lover. He then starred in Jim Jarmusch's Dead Man, a Western shot entirely in black- and- white; it was not a commercial success and had mixed critical reviews. Depp's final film of the year was in the financial and critical failure Nick of Time, a thriller in which he played an accountant who is told to kill a politician to save his kidnapped daughter. In 1. 99. 7, Depp starred alongside Al Pacino in the crime drama Donnie Brasco, directed by Mike Newell. He portrayed Joseph D. Pistone, an undercover FBI Agent who assumes the name 'Donnie Brasco' in order to infiltrate the mafia in New York City. To prepare for the role, Depp spent time with the real- life Joe Pistone, on whose memoirs the film was based.

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