Johnny Christopher Depp & Everything You Need To Know About Him

 

John Christopher Depp II (born June 9, 1963) is an American actor, manufacturer and musician. 

He is the recipient of a couple of accolades, together with a Golden Globe Award and a Screen Actors Guild Award, similarly to nominations for 3 Academy Awards and  BAFTA awards.

Johnny Depp

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Depp in 2020

Born

John Christopher Depp II

June 9, 1963 (age 59)

Owensboro, Kentucky, U.S.

Occupation

Actorfilm producersingerwriter

Years active

1984–present

Works

FilmographyDiscography

Spouse(s)

Lori Allison

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​(m. 1983; div. 1985)​

Amber Heard

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​(m. 2015; div. 2017)​

Partner(s)

Vanessa Paradis (1998–2012)

Children

2, together with Lily-Rose

Awards

Full list

Musical career

Genres

Alternative rockhard rock

Instruments

Guitar

Labels

RepublicCapitol

Member of

Rock City AngelsPHollywood Vampires

Signature

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Depp made his characteristic movie debut withinside the horror movie A Nightmare on Elm Street (1984) and regarded in Platoon (1986), earlier than growing to prominence as a youngsterager idol at the tv collection 21 Jump Street (1987–1990). In the 1990s, Depp acted on the whole in unbiased movies with auteur directors, regularly gambling eccentric characters. These blanketed Cry-Baby (1990), What's Eating Gilbert Grape (1993), Benny and Joon (1993), Dead Man (1995), Donnie Brasco (1997), and Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas (1998). Depp additionally started out his longtime collaboration with director Tim Burton, portraying the leads withinside the movies Edward Scissorhands (1990), Ed Wood (1994), and Sleepy Hollow (1999).

In the 2000s, Depp have become one of the maximum commercially a hit movie stars through gambling Captain Jack Sparrow withinside the Walt Disney swashbuckler movie collection Pirates of the Caribbean (2003–2017). He additionally acquired vital reward for Chocolat (2000), Finding Neverland (2004) and Public Enemies (2009), even as additionally persevering with his commercially a hit collaboration with Tim Burton with the movies Charlie and the Chocolate Factory (2005), wherein he portrayed Willy Wonka, Corpse Bride (2005), Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street (2007), and Alice in Wonderland (2010).

In 2012, Depp turned into one of the world's largest movie stars,[1][2] and turned into indexed through the Guinness World Records because the world's highest-paid actor, with profits of US$seventy five million in a year.[3] During the 2010s Depp started out generating movies thru his organization Infinitum Nihil. He additionally acquired vital reward for Black Mass (2015) and fashioned the rock supergroup Hollywood Vampires with Alice Cooper and Joe Perry, earlier than starring as Gellert Grindelwald withinside the Wizarding World movies Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them (2016), and Fantastic Beasts: The Crimes of Grindelwald (2018).

Between 1998 and 2012, Depp turned into in a courting with French singer Vanessa Paradis and collectively that they'd  kids, together with actress Lily-Rose Depp. From 2015 to 2017, Depp turned into married to actress Amber Heard. Their divorce drew tons media interest as each alleged abuse in opposition to every other. In 2018, Depp unsuccessfully sued the publishers of British tabloid The Sun for defamation below English law; a choose dominated the booklet labelling him a "spouse beater" turned into "drastically true". Depp later efficaciously sued Heard in a 2022 trial in Virginia; a seven-member jury dominated that Heard's allegations of "sexual violence" and "home abuse" have been fake and defamed Depp below American law.[4][5]

Early life

John Christopher Depp II turned into born on June 9, 1963, in Owensboro, Kentucky,[6][7][8] the youngest of 4 kids of waitress Betty Sue Palmer (née Wells)[9] and civil engineer John Christopher Depp.[10][11] Depp's own circle of relatives moved regularly at some point of his childhood, in the end settling in Miramar, Florida, in 1970.[12] His dad and mom divorced in 1978 while he turned into 15,[12][13] and his mom later married Robert Palmer, whom Depp has known as "an inspiration".[14][15]

Depp's mom gave him a guitar while he turned into 12, and he started out gambling in diverse bands.[12] He dropped out of Miramar High School at sixteen in 1979 to end up a rock musician. He tried to move returned to high school  weeks later, however the most important advised him to comply with his dream of being a musician.[12] In 1980, Depp started out gambling in a band known as The Kids. After modest nearby achievement in Florida, the band moved to Los Angeles in pursuit of a document deal, converting its call to Six Gun Method. In addition to the band, Depp labored plenty of abnormal jobs, which include in telemarketing. In December 1983, Depp married make-up artist Lori Anne Allison,[7] the sister of his band's bassist and singer. The Kids break up up earlier than signing a document deal in 1984, and Depp started out taking part with the band Rock City Angels.[16] He co-wrote their song "Mary", which regarded on their debut Geffen Records album Young Man's Blues.[17] Depp and Allison divorced in 1985.[7]

Depp is of generally English descent, with a few French, German, and Irish ancestry.[18] His surname comes from a French Huguenot immigrant, Pierre Dieppe, who settled in Virginia round 1700. In interviews in 2002 and 2011, Depp claimed to have Native American ancestry, saying: "I wager I even have a few Native American someplace down the line. My great-grandmother turned into pretty a piece of Native American. She grew up Cherokee or perhaps Creek Indian. Makes experience in phrases of coming from Kentucky, that's rife with Cherokee and Creek Indian".[19] Depp's claims got here below scrutiny while Indian Country Today wrote that Depp had in no way inquired approximately his history or been identified as a member of the Cherokee Nation.[20] This caused grievance from the Native American network, as Depp has no documented Native ancestry,[20] and Native network leaders remember him "a non-Indian"[20][21] and a pretendian.[22][23][24] Depp's desire to painting Tonto, a Native American character, in The Lone Ranger turned into criticized,[20][21] alongside together along with his desire to call his rock band "Tonto's Giant Nuts".[25][26][27][28] During the advertising for The Lone Ranger, Depp turned into officially followed as an honorary son through LaDonna Harris, a member of the Comanche Nation, making him an honorary member of her own circle of relatives however now no longer a member of any tribe.[29][30] Depp's Comanche call given on the adoption turned into "Mah Woo May", this means that form shifter.[31] Critical reaction to his claims from the Native network elevated after this, together with satirical portrayals of Depp through Native comedians.[26][27][28] An advert presenting Depp and Native American imagery, through Dior for the fragrance "Sauvage", turned into pulled in 2019 after being accused of cultural appropriation and racism.[