Jonny Depp

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Johnny Depp’s full name is John Christopher Depp II, and he was born into a typical American “blue-collar” family in Owensboro, Kentucky, a town that’s sometimes called “the barbecue capital of the world.” His father, John senior, was a city engineer and his mother, Betty Sue, was a waitress. His siblings are Danny, (aka DP, who now works as a scriptwriter), and sisters Debbie, who is now Depp’s personal manager, and Christine.

Depp was always closer to his mother than his father, and perhaps closest of all to his grandfather, whom he nicknamed Pawpaw. He visited his grandfather often and recalls happy times picking tobacco together. As a sensitive seven-year old boy, Depp was utterly devastated when his beloved grandfather died. Further upheaval came when the family relocated to Florida shortly afterwards and he moved away from the only secure home he had ever known. It took John senior quite some time to find work, and the Depp family were forced to live in a succession motel rooms, moving no less than twelve times until their fortunes improved.

At the age of 16, Depp dropped out of high school so that he could focus on his music full-time. It was the late 1970s and punk rock was at the height of its popularity. He joined a punk band called The Flame, who soon succeeded in securing gigs at a string of Florida nightclubs. The band’s fortunes prospered, and after changing their name to The Kids, they were soon playing support to such big names as Iggy Pop, Talking Heads and The B52s. The band then relocated to Los Angeles in search of a recording contract, where Depp’s future destiny awaited him. 

Depp’s career went from strength to strength during the 1990s, as he starred in an impressive line-up of successful movies. In ‘What’s Eating Gilbert Grape’ he acted alongside Leonardo DiCaprio, who played his disabled brother. He then starred in ‘Benny and Joon’, where he portrayed the life and work of Charlie Chaplin and Buster Keaton. But whilst Depp’s reputation as a brilliant actor was growing year by year, his private life was becoming increasingly rocky. He became involved in a volatile on-off relationship with supermodel Kate Moss and rumours of his heavy drinking and drug-taking abounded. Depp’s private reputation hit rock bottom when actor River Phoenix died of a drug overdose outside his night-club, The Viper Room, in Los Angeles. Depp finally split with Kate Moss in 1998, and soon afterwards met French singer and actor Vanessa Paradis: the couple married soon afterwards, and have lived happily together ever since.

Depp then played a series of controversial, challenging roles in which he explored the darker side of human nature through the lens of a succession of troubled screen heroes. He played Hunter S. Thompson in Terry Gilliam’s wacky ‘Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas’, a role he also researched by actually living with Thompson himself and going hunting with him! He then played Jack Kerouac in a film called ‘The Source’, followed by the role of a rare book dealer in Roman Polanski’s chiller-thriller, ‘The 9th Gate’. After the sci-fi movie, ‘The Astronaut’s Wife’, Depp was invited to star in a new Tim Burton film, ‘Sleepy Hollow’, where he played the role of Ichabod Crane, a Victorian sleuth on the trail of a headless horseman who is terrorising a small New England town and murdering its inhabitants one by one. Although Depp was criticised by some reviewers for bringing humour to the role, his portrayal of the shy detective was widely recognised as masterful.

Sleepy Hollow was a huge Hollywood success, but Depp then shunned the limelight for a while, and took a role in the art house director Sally Potter’s film, ‘The Man Who Cried’. Before long, however, he was back in the limelight and playing the guitar on screen in the role of Roux in ‘Chocolat’ (2000), which led to his being nominated for an Oscar. Depp apparently modelled the Irish brogue he used for this character on his friend Shane McGowan of The Pogues, with whom he also appeared on Top of The Pops.

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