Johnny Depp!
Johnny Depp in Paris for the premiere of The Public Enemy - Public Enemies in July 2009.John Christopher Depp II [1] aka Johnny Depp (Owensboro, June 9, 1963) is an actor, director and musician.
He has received three Oscar nominations for films Pirates of the Caribbean, Neverland - A dream for the life and Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street, winning the Golden Globe for Best Actor for the latter film, after being candidate for the prize several times.
In 2010, according to Forbes magazine is the highest paid actor in the world along with Sandra Bullock, earning $ 56 million from June 2009 to June 2010 [citation needed].
[Edit] Biography [edit] Childhood and gioventùJohn Christopher Depp II was born June 9, 1963 in Owensboro, a small industrial center in Kentucky. It is the youngest of four siblings, including a brother, Danny More (called DM) and two sisters, Debbie and Christie Dembrowski (older sister who took care of Johnny) were born from his first marriage of his father. His father John Christopher Depp More Senior is a municipal engineer [2], his mother Betty Sue Palmer worked as a waitress. The Depp family has mostly Irish ancestry, German and Cherokee [3] [4]. However, the book "Johnny Depp: A kind of illusion" (ISBN 1-905287-04-6) states that the Depp family is founded by a Frenchman Pierre Deep or Dieppe, who moved to Virginia around the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. Johnny Depp has said many times not to know the origin of his surname, but jokingly said to be really straight with his personality, because it can be translated into German as an idiot or fool [5] [6]. Johnny's maternal grandmother, Minnie, was a Cherokee Native American, and his father also has distant relatives of these people. As a child he was often next to his beloved grandfather, who transmitted his passion for the gospel and the music but who died shortly after the seventh birthday of Johnny. The same year the family moved to the coastal town of Miramar, Fla., where his father had found employment as Director of Public Works. Horrified by the death of his grandfather and continued by moving (a score, after moving to Florida) that prevented him from finding friends, Johnny boy became a closed, surly and prone to more testing of drugs in the study.
"I started smoking at 12 years, I lost my virginity at 13 and 14 I had already tried every kind of drug. I'm not saying that he was a bad guy, I was just curious. "
(Johnny Depp)
In the church of her uncle, a Presbyterian minister, Johnny discovered the music, thanks to the gospel music played by his cousin. At 12 he caresses his first electric guitar received as a gift from his mother that he had bought second hand (25 $) as his love for music, the boy spent much time studying and practicing the instrument in his room . Soon, Johnny Depp became a good guitarist. Self-taught and quite talented, he founded his first rock band suffered from "garage" called "Flame" in honor of his girlfriend Meredith. His parents divorced in 1978. Johnny goes to live with his mother and on his right bicep is tattooed the head of an Indian chief to emphasize its connection (including blood) with the Cherokee people.
Not much interested in studies, he left home and school just before completing his studies, not brilliant, to live, just sixteen, in his car (a Chevrolet Impala '67) with his best friend Sal Jenco, chasing his dream: becoming a rock star. Still a minor, he began working in nightclubs in Florida. The music is accompanied the first stop for brawl: a habit hard to remove.
[Edit] Los Angeles and beginning in cinemaDopo have turned to various groups, Johnny finally puts his hopes of becoming a professional rocker in "The Kids". The group acquired a reputation in Florida, so that, in the eighties, the band was hired to do by opening and a shoulder to the concerts of famous stars such as Talking Heads, the B52s, Iggy Pop, who is his musical idol . In 1983, seeking a record deal, the band leaves Florida and goes to Los Angeles, but the reality is not revealed to expectations, the band has a considerable success in the region but does not penetrate, and Johnny, always short of money, it arranges can find work as a bricklayer, petrol station, mechanic, printer and telephone seller of pens and advertising (for which he used the name of Edward Quartermaine, a character in the soap opera General Hospital).
On December 24, 1983, just twenty years, married a makeup artist for 5 years older, Lori Ann Allison, the sister of a member of the Kids. Marriage does not work and two years after the two were leaving they were still friends. In 1984, Depp's friend Lori knows, Nicolas Cage, nephew of another of director Francis Ford Coppola, Nicolas Johnny sees a face as an actor and encouraged him to first groped for a career in acting, seeing its potential success , presents the fact that his agent, convinced him to audition, so it starts on the road movie. Johnny goes to audition for the horror film Nightmare on Elm night ("Nightmare on Elm Street"), Wes Craven, he was given a part to learn in one night and the morning after he was hired. The most amazing scene of the film has him as its protagonist, who fell asleep in his room, is literally swallowed by the bed and then regurgitated completely covered with blood.
What began as a simple job to keep making music, Johnny becomes something more significant: he enrolled at the Loft Studio in LA to take acting lessons dramatic. The band broke up. In 1985, he starred in comedy promising position (Private Resort), a comedy poor (There are about 90 films like that around, and this proved to be the worst of all - Johnny Depp - [7]). Then, a turning point came when Oliver Stone chose him in part of a soldier for Platoon (1986), Academy Award winning film of 4, great experience in the jungles of the Philippines who anointed him the desire to act.
In 1987, after the departure of Jeff Yagher in the American television series 21 Jump Street, jumps ahead of all other names for the role of Agent Tom Hanson. Depp's character becomes more popular and beloved series, but especially by young girls. Initially unknown, it becomes a real idol. He receives 10,000 letters a day from his fans.
[Edit] Years novantaLa fame, success, money and fame do not meet the spirit of Johnny impetuous and restless, deeply unhappy and frustrated, who feels trapped in the role of the handsome boy from the small screen [8]. So, after three years, leaves the series 21 Jump Street. For Depp was a release and vowed that from then on would only things he really believed. It will be a chance that the first film that will run while still recited in the series will be John Waters' Cry Baby, released in 1990, a sort of "Grease" that ridicules the star to teen-agers. Johnny begins his career as an outsider ready to get involved in the role of losers and different, rebels and dreamers.
His real artistic mentor was none other than the dark director Tim Burton that he chooses to star in a film taken from one of his stories for children ("The Melancholy Death of Oyster boy and other stories"): Edward Scissorhands (" Edward Scissorshands ") (1990), a post-modern fairy tale. The history of this dark Pinocchio, who grew up in solitude after the death of its creator and lead among the "normal" from a seller Avon, conquer the world, making the actor to face eternal adolescent (which to study the part was inspired by Charlie Chaplin), a star of international renown. On the set of the film, which drew critical acclaim, not only was born long association with director Tim Burton, strong enough to become the alter ego, but also an important relationship with Winona Ryder (his partner for three years) why do you even tattooed "Winona Forever" on his arm, then surgery will transform into "Wino Forever," that is "always drunk".
Getting to know John Waters and Tim Burton, two visionary directors, gives Depp the opportunity to speak truly, to demonstrate his great talent, starting a career worthy to become a full part in the history of cinema. If he had lived in other times would have been one of the great "beautiful and damned" like Marlon Brando and James Dean. Not because it is already entered in the myth, but some similarities: the ever-popular rebellion - mainly addressed to the paparazzi - the passion for cars and motorcycles at high speed, that make dark, closed and inaccessible to the fans that love it.
Very skillful in the selection of roles to play, always atypical, dark and strange, but not so in the selection of friends. In fact, during the early '90s, is that Johnny, along with Jenco, the owner of the legendary club The Viper Room, the number of 8852 Sunset Boulevard, made the camaraderie with River Phoenix and entered in the space of cocaine. It was precisely the latter's death occurred on the sidewalk, from an overdose just outside his room, pushing Depp diametrically changing lifestyle [9]. Johnny had on his left forearm seven or eight self-inflicted scars. In this regard, in 1993, in an interview on Talk, explained the reason for his self-harm:
"My body is a diary in a sense. It is as used by sailors for whom every tattoo meant something. A certain period of life, an event good or bad, is engraved on their flesh. If you do it yourself with a knife or one gets a tattoo from a professional artist is the same thing. "
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Already in the nineties makes its way in his career THAT 'unconventionality that differentiate it from other players Made in Hollywood. If the interpreters of his generation (Tom Cruise, Brad Pitt, Keanu Reeves, Robert Downey Jr.) prefer to appear in commercial films (Interview with the Vampire, Charlie Chaplin, Legends of the Fall), Depp chooses roles that attract him more. Overwhelming, constant use of the method, a philosophy guru beat believed lost, Depp is able to make sense of even drawing a mezzoghigno shot between his thin lips. Actor in very good step into the roles of unconventional characters.
Short-listed candidates for the Golden Globe for best actor for the comedy Benny & Joon (he played a mime who in some strange attitudes recovers sadness chapliniana) Jeremiah S. Chechik, will star alongside Faye Dunaway and Jerry Lewis in Arizona Dream (1993), fantastic film by Emir Kusturica, where, however, often arguing with Vincent Gallo, with disarming candor playing the role of Axel, who rejects the American dream offered to him by his uncle for a series of wacky friends. The same year he starred in's Eating Gilbert Grape by Lasse Hallström, dressed as a young man burdened with a family unbearable in a small town in Iowa. Depp clear his character ever in Ed Wood, Burton realized that in 1994, which embodies the filmmaker of the '50s trash, making credible the character's innocence and optimism.
Its not exactly docile nature gives him various mishaps such as the arrest on the night between 12 and 13 September 1994. Following a furious argument with his girlfriend Kate Moss, Johnny began to mess the suite, from $ 2200 per night, New York City the hotel that hosted them [11]. Curiously, to report the noise, is his neighbor's room: Roger Daltrey, former lead singer of The Who, famous then for their own acts of vandalism in hotels. The incident earned him the nickname Mr. Satan and became his motto: Live fast, die young. Later that year, alongside Marlon Brando in the role of an aspiring suicide and self-styled great seducer, full of imagination in Don Juan De Marco maestro of love. He enchanted the director Jim Jarmusch in 1995 as he played the ghost cowboy "Dead Man has agreed to shoot Nick of Time, by John Badham only to work with Christopher Walken. Now they want it in many it is loved by women (it is always in the lead in the rankings of the sexiest stars) and the directors of worship has also been called the best actor of his generation for the role of misfit (and shocking) in Donnie Brasco that he is the protagonist opposite Al Pacino. 1997 is the year of his directorial debut with the film The Brave, the novel by Gregory MacDonald, where he plays the 'Indian Raphael alongside Marlon Brando. Terry Gilliam has softened as it has fallen into the character of Hunter Thompson in Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas.
After the troubled relationship with model Kate Moss and her colleagues Sherilyn Fenn, Jennifer Grey and Juliette Lewis, seems to have finally found a companion fixed: Vanessa Paradis French actress and singer known in Paris and with whom he has lived since 1998. On May 27, 1999 was born their first child, Lily-Rose Melody. Johnny is so tied to his daughter by having declared that he only really began to live after his birth. On 19 November 1999 he received a "star" the Hollywood Walk of Fame, on this occasion said, "Now everyone can step on," sarcastically pointing out his vision of the world of Hollywood.
Despite being arrested in 1999 for the second time after a fight with the paparazzi leaving a London restaurant where he was with his girlfriend Vanessa Paradis [12], his professional reputation is impeccable, so much so that France decided to pay homage with an honorary César. Also in 1999, plays Jack Kerouac in The Source, the researcher Dean Corso struggling with the paranormal in The Ninth Gate by Roman Polanski and the unsettling and mysterious Commander Spencer Armacost in The Astronaut's Wife (film but certainly not memorable).
Despite the frenetic activity in the film, his real passion is the guitar to the point that he played for the English group of the Oasis song Fade In-Out, and his name also appears in the credits of the album Be Here Now. Unconventional, charismatic, full of tattoos (13) and earrings, just like the directors and entered immediately in the Hall of Antide, myths tender, brilliant but who can rough with a nod to attract public attention and guide the tastes of an entire generation.
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Johnny Depp at the London premiere of Dead Man's Chest fantasma.Ad early 2000 and in Italian cinemas with a thriller epic, legendary, dark, entitled Sleepy Hollow, where he plays Ichabod Crane, which was attended film after refusing even the role of Neo in the Matrix. Depp is the contrast and its original nickname, autoscelto helps to identify the nature of the artist: Mr. Stench or Mr. Puzzo.
Movies aside, in the late 90s remained in the spotlight partly because of the many scandals and arrests in a few years earlier: the paparazzi for having beaten up, destroying the room in a hotel in New York and the strong political commentary the United States. It is often seen by some as a sex symbol, although he has said he hates to be called such. It is also well known for his incredible ability to play roles in a perfect way out of town and have always chosen roles difficult to understand regardless of public opinion. But the phenomenon is unstoppable Depp, his fame grows film after film: In 2000, American actor starred in the gypsy Cesar in The Man Who Cried - The Man Who Cried by Sally Potter, Lt. Victor in Before Night Falls Julian Schnabel and stars opposite actress Juliette Binoche in the romantic comedy Chocolat. Blow Back with carrying on with the true story of Jack the Ripper.
On April 9, 2002 the couple Depp-Paradis was born the second son, Jack John Christopher Depp III. It seems that fatherhood has transformed the rebel in a quiet family man who has chosen to live in the countryside in France [13]
"Do not ever give my children grow up in Hollywood. No child should grow up there [14] "
Johnny Depp signs autographs while the presentations of Pirates of the Caribbean - At mondo.Johnny is also the owner (with Sean Penn, John Malkovich and Mick Hucknall) of the restaurant "Man-Ray", located in central Paris and has a pseudo-castle rather unique on Sunset Boulevard in Beverly Hills bought in 1995, after years of wandering, for a "modest" figure of 2 million and $ 300,000, and previously belonged to the actor who played Dracula in the cinema, Bela Lugosi.
Depp's position as a major star was finally decided by the success of the 2003 film The Curse of the Walt Disney Pictures [15] in which he played Captain Jack Sparrow. His performance was initially received negatively by the boss who saw the Disney film premiere, but with the public release of the film Jack Sparrow became very popular. In 2006, the co-star Depp in the sequel Pirates of the Caribbean, Bill Nighy, described the role of Johnny as "one of the most popular roles of recent times" [16]. According to a report in "Fandango," Johnny Depp is considered one of the reasons that the public wants to see the film [17]. The film's director, Gore Verbinski, said Jack Sparrow looks like the real personality of the actor while Johnny himself says it has shaped the character inspired by Keith Richards, guitarist of the Rolling Stones [18] and the attitude of the character of the Looney Tunes, Pepe the skunk. Depp, who was surprised and touched by the positive reception with which the film was accepted, he received an Oscar nomination for this role.
In 2004 he received another Oscar nomination for the role of Scottish author James Matthew Barrie Peter Pan in the movie Neverland - A Neverland (Finding Neverland) alongside Kate Winslet. In 2005 was released in theaters with The Libertine and the friend went back to work and director Tim Burton in a double role: in the flesh for the role of Willy Wonka in the film and the Chocolate Factory (Charlie and the Chocolate Factory) and as a voice actor a character modeled on his features in The Corpse Bride, two public and critical success.
The fingerprints of Johnny Depp on the forecourt of Grauman's Chinese Theatre, Los Angeles (California) In 2006, Depp returned to play the role of Jack Sparrow. On July 7, 2006 was released in U.S. theaters Pirates of the Caribbean - Dead Man's Chest (Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man's Chest), which grossed 135.5 million U.S. dollars in the first three days of screening making it the film that grossed more in the first weekend. The third installment, Pirates of the Caribbean - At World's End (Pirates of the Caribbean: At World's End "), was released in U.S. theaters May 24, 2007. Depp showed his attachment to the Captain Jack Sparrow saying that Sparrow is "definitely a big part of me" and expressing a desire to reprise the role. Depp has also voiced the character of Sparrow in the video game Pirates of the Caribbean: The Legend of Jack Sparrow.
About his experience in the role of Captain Jack Sparrow, Johnny Depp says:
"The romantic image of pirates is in me since I was little. And my daughter, who is nine years old when he saw the trailer has gone mad. It is now convinced that I am a pirate seriously. Is thrilled to have a dad pirate. The other evening, a dinner, the lady addressed a bit 'of those stupid questions that make children and that classic, the job of parents responded: My mother is a singer, my dad does pirate '
In 2007 he starred in Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street, directed by Tim Burton and supported for the third time by actress Helena Bonham Carter, where he plays an unjustly imprisoned barber in Victorian England, and eager for revenge, and this role which earned him a third Oscar nomination and winning a Golden Globe for Best Actor in a Musical or Comedy.
Following the death of actor Heath Ledger, Depp starred alongside Jude Law and Colin Farrell's role in the film Parnassus Ledger - The man who would cheat the devil. In 2009, Depp has also starred in the American criminal John Dillinger in the film Public Enemy - Public Enemies and worked on the film The Rum Diary, to be released in 2011 in which he plays the part of the alcoholic journalist Paul Kemp. "The Rum Diary" is based on the novel by Hunter S. Thompson [19].
Also recently circulating rumors that it is preparing a feature film about the life of Queen singer Freddie Mercury and it seems that Johnny Depp has been chosen to represent the late charismatic singer. Confirmation also came from Brian May, guitarist of Queen.
They recently brought the actor $ 10 million for being the testimonial advertising of condoms to prevent AIDS deaths in Third World countries [citation needed].
In 2008, they have been allocated two MTV Movie Awards as best comedy actor for the role of the great Jack Sparrow in Pirates of the Caribbean - At World's End and best villain for his role as murderess barber in horror musical Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street.
[Edit] 2010 2010Nel Depp part in Alice in Wonderland by Tim Burton. Here the actor using the motion-capture plays the Mad Hatter. For Depp and Burton suggests a new project in which he discussed the producer Richard Zanuck, it would be a movie version of soap-opera-like a little horror called "Dark Shadows" aired in the United States from 1966 to 1971. Depp, in the new project should assume the role of the vampire Barnabas Collins, the central character of the original production. Filming could begin as early as summer 2009, screenplay by John August. [20]
Through her production company, Infinitum Nihil, the Johnny Depp has secured the film rights of the novel by Nick Tosches the Hand of Dante, a complex noir published in Italy by Mondadori in a long time Depp has said fans. In the film, which will feature the same Depp should be among the main performers, dressed as Tosches [21].
In 2010, starred opposite Angelina Jolie in the film The Tourist, released in theaters December 10, 2010. In the same year he took part in the sequel to Pirates of the Caribbean - At World's End, entitled Pirates of the Caribbean - Beyond the Sea.
