| Johnny Depp (full name: John Christopher Depp II, born on June 9, 1963) is an American actor. He achieved huge popularity for roles in intellectual cinema.
Depp was born in Owensboro (USA, Kentucky State). His father, John Christopher Depp Sr., worked as civil engineer and his mother, Betty Sue Palmer was a waitress. Depp has two sisters — Debbie and Christie and a brother, Daniel. Since childhood, Johnny was very close to his mother. The death of his grandfather, with whom the boy has spent all his childhood, negatively affected the mentality of the child. It was hard for Johnny Depp to overcome the death of his Grandfather and also moving to Florida. At the age of 12, Johnny started smoking and soon, he took to drugs. When he was 15 years old his parents were divorced.
At this point in time, Depp took a great interest in music. Even in Owensboro, he was interested in music, when he visited church along with his uncle. In Florida, his mother presented a guitar to Depp and he learnt to play the guitar on his own. Soon, he joined the group “He Kids”, which performed in Florida night clubs. At the age of 16, Depp dropped out of school with a desire to devote his life to music. In search of good fortune, the group relocated to Los Angeles. Now, Depp played for the group “P”, which has organized an open concert recently. One more hobby of Johnny is drawing and he was the author of the cover of the group’s album. Also, Depp takes great interest in literature and one of his favorite authors is Jack Kerouac, whose creativity has immensely affected the perception of the world on Johnny during his teenage years.
At the age of 20, Johnny Depp married makeup artist Lori Anne Allison, who was older than Depp by 5 years. She introduced Depp to Nicholas Cage. Cage persuaded Depp to meet his agent, who arranged an audition for the role in the film “A Nightmare on Elm Street”, which has become Depp’s first work as an actor. However, music was his first passion and he hoped that the film would help in providing a good platform for his creativity, but, contrary to Depp's hopes, the group disintegrated. Further, Depp appeared in a number of television shows. During the shooting of the film “Edward Scissorhands” Depp met Winona Ryder, with whom he subsequently got engaged to.
In 1994, Depp dated model Kate Moss. Depp's career was peaking. After separating from Kate Moss in 1998, Depp came in touch with French singer and actress Vanessa Paradis and Depp relocated to France. The couple have two children —daughter Lily-Rose Melody (born on May 27, 1999) and son Jack (born on April 9, 2002). He owns a villa in the South of France near Saint Tropez and a house in Los Angeles and a small mansion, not far away from Bath.
In 2004, Johnny Depp was nominated for an Oscar for best actor for his role of Captain Jack Sparrow in the blockbuster movie “Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl”. He was once again nominated for best actor in 2005 for the leading role in the film “Finding Neverland”.
Johnny Depp has a nominal star on the Walk of Fame in Hollywood №7020. Depp has been nominated three times for an Oscar and six times for a Golden Globe. In 1999, Depp received the award "Honorary César" in France. In 2007, he was awarded a Golden Globe for the leading role in the tremendous film "Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street”, but, unfortunately, the presentation of awards was disrupted due to a strike of script writers in Hollywood. On June 2, 2008, during the MTV Movie Awards ceremony, the audience saw Johnny Depp walk twice onto the dais – Johnny Depp received two awards at once in the categories of “Best Villain" for his role in the film “Sweeney Todd” and " Best Comedy" for the role of Jack Sparrow in the film "Pirates of the Caribbean – 3: At World’s End ".
Interesting facts:
While dating actress Winona Ryder, he made a tattoo — Winona Forever. After the separation from her, he altered it to Wino Forever (for the slang Wino — alcoholic).
The tattoo on Johnny’s hand in the film “Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl” was drawn but after the film, Depp got a real tattoo made, with the difference that the bird on this tattoo flies in the other direction, and the name "Jack" symbolizes his son, instead of Jack Sparrow.
Depp's family tree has German, Irish and also Cherokee Indians.
Johnny knows French.
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American actor Johnny Depp celebrates his 45th birthday today. While Depp never won any Academy Awards, he entertained us with many characters - from Edward Scissorhands to Sweeney Todd and Captain Sparrow in the Pirates of the Caribbean saga.
Depp currently lives in France with his girlfriend, French singer and actress Vanessa Paradis. Happy 45th birthday, Johnny!
