Johnny Depp Biography

Johnny Depp was born in Kentucky and raised in Florida, he had the kind of upbringing that would helped him to lend itself to future of brooding lost boys. He was 16 and his parents were divorced, he dropped out of school in the hopes of making his career as a musician. Depp fronted many of garage bands, "The Kids" - one of them is the most successful, was once the opening act for Iggy Pop. But in the slack times in his music business, he had to sold pens by phone.

Soon Depp got introduced to acting when he visited to L.A. with his former wife, then his wife introduced him to actor Nicolas Cage, finally who encouraged Depp to give it a try. Depp made his film debut in 1984's A Nightmare on Elm Street and the way to success and fame for him came in 1987, when he replaced Jeff Yagher in the role of "undercover cop" named Tommy Hanson in the Canadian-filmed TV series 21 Jump Street.

He was successful to manage his time in "teen heartthrob" roles, Depp was first given a chance in the title role of Tim Burton's fantasy Edward Scissorhands to show his versatility in 1990. Following that success, the actor Johnny Depp made a successful effort never to repeat himself in his subsequent characterizations. He kept constantly working to maintain and gain increasing popularity for his acting. He played a troubled young man who fancies himself the reincarnation of Charlie Chaplin and Buster Keaton in 1993 and he was most notable in Benny & Joon. In 1993 Eating Gilbert Grape (1993), which cast him as its title character, a young man dissatisfied with the confines of his small-town life.

Depp outdid himself in Burton's Ed Wood in 1994 following Gilbert Grape with his outrageous but lovable portrayal of the angora-sweater-worshipping World's Worst Film Director. In the same year, he still keep his way of exercising his versatility playing a 19th century accountant in Dead Man, Jim Jarmusch's otherworldly Western. The titular undercover FBI agent in Mike Newell's 1997 Donnie Brasco, he did it very well.

In 1998 Johnny Depp thus continued to ascend the Hollywood ranks. After a starring turn as Hunter S. Thompson's alter ego in Terry Gilliam's trippy adaptation of Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas, he also tried his hand at sci-fi horror with The Astronaut's Wife. In 1999 he again collaborated with Burton on Sleepy Hollow, starring as a prim, driven Ichabod Crane in the remake of Washington Irving's classic tale of gothic terror.

In 2001 the small but popular romantic drama Chocolat, he jumped back into the big time with his role as real-life cocaine kingpin George Jung in Blow. Then before gearing up for roles in the Jack the Ripper thriller From Hell in 2001 and Robert Rodriguez's Once Upon a Time in Mexico in 2003. That was his most surprising departure since Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas, he shed his oftentimes angst-ridden persona for a flamboyant role as a long undead pirate in the 2003's "Pirates of the Caribbean".

He also own the Viper Room which is a popular L.A. nightspot which gained notoriety in 1993 when actor River Phoenix died of a drug overdose there. Just like his acting, Johnny Depp has also own a fame for his romantic involvements with many female celebrities, which include Sherilyn Fenn, Winona Ryder, and Kate Moss, and in 1999, he had a daughter with French singer and actress Vanessa Paradis and a son in 2002.