Johnny Depp biography, age, wife, children, Occupation, movies, Career, net worth

Birth Name                                                  John Christopher Depp II

Born                                                             June 9, 1963 (age 56)

Occupation                                                  Actor, Producer, Musician

Spouse(s)                                                     Amber Heard

Children                                                       2

Genres                                                          Alternative rock, Hard rock

Net Worth                                                   $400 million

Sign:                                                             Gemini

Country:                                                       United States

Son of an engineer and a cleaning lady, Johnny Depp, is passionate about music while attending a gospel show. He then joined the group The Flame, which became The Kids, and made the first part of the Iggy Pop tour. Two years later, the musicians went to Los Angeles, but the group did not achieve the expected success. It was during this period that Depp met Nicolas Cage, who introduced him to his agent. He thus obtains a small role in A Nightmare on Elm Street (1984) by Wes Craven.

Career

Johnny Depp then enrolled at the Loft Studio in Los Angeles to take acting classes. Once out of school, he joined the marines of Platoon (1986), then became famous with the launch, in 1987, of the series 21 jump street. His career launched, he chooses to break with the image conveyed by television, that of a young actor for midinettes, by playing under the direction of John Waters in the satirical Cry-baby (1990). From this film, the actor will not stop being on the sidelines, regularly playing offbeat and unusual characters. Also in 1990, playing Edward with silver hands, he began with director Tim Burton a fruitful collaboration which will continue with Ed Wood (1994), Sleepy Hollow, Charlie and the Chocolate Factory (2004), Corpse Bride (2005), animated film for which he lends his voice, and the musical Sweeney Todd (2007).

A little distance from the Hollywood industry

Johnny Depp collaborates with filmmakers as talented as Emir Kusturica (Arizona dream, 1992), Lasse Hallström (Gilbert Grape, 1993, Chocolat, 2000), or Jim Jarmusch (Dead man, 1995). With this experience, he went on to direct in 1997 with The Brave, which did not achieve the expected success, despite the presence in the credits of his friend Marlon Brando. Back in front of the camera, he moves away from the romantic and poetic characters to play the cops infiltrated in the mafia in Donnie Brasco (1997), the crazy journalists in Las Vegas Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas (1998), the researchers of rare books in prey to the fantastic in The Ninth Gate (1999) or drug traffickers in Blow (2001).

Despite the failure of the thriller

The Astronaut’s Wife (1999) and the abandonment of the chaotic shooting of the Man Who Killed Don Quixote, an unfinished film by Terry Gilliam that will give birth to the documentary Lost in La Mancha (2002), the charismatic Johnny Depp keeps the confidence of the studios. Predisposed to interpret costume films like From Hell (2002), Neverland (2004) and Rochester, the last of the libertines (2006), he returns to success thanks to the ultra-profitable Pirates of the Caribbean (2003-2011), making the inescapable pirate Jack Sparrow one of the most striking characters in mainstream cinema. Despite this colossal success, the actor does not forget his friends and thus plays mad hatter for Tim Burton in Alice in Wonderland as well as one of Tony’s incarnations in The Imaginarium of Doctor Parnassus (2009) by Terry Gilliam.

A chameleon actor

He likes to change registers and appears in the thriller Public Enemies by Michael Mann (in which he plays the famous gangster John Dillinger). In 2010, he was manipulated by Angelina Jolie in the thriller The Tourist, then lent his voice, the following year, to the Rango chameleon (animated movie) in the film by Gore Verbinski, before finding again in 2011 and thirteen years after Las Vegas paranoid, the universe of the writer Hunter S. Thompson. Thompson for the crazy Rhum Express. With the vampire Barnabas from Dark Shadows (2012), Johnny Depp adds yet another wacky and offbeat character to his filmography. In this feature film, while his character discovers the world of the living, the actor finds his friend Tim Burton for their eighth collaboration.

In 2013, the year of his 50th birthday, the actor once again finds Gore Verbinski for the needs of the atypical western Lone Ranger (2013), a big production whose budget is around 250 million dollars, but which results in a big financial failure. His following films, Transcendence, Mortdecai, and Black Mass, are also struggling to find their audience. Depp then finds two characters who have worked wonders at the box office: The Mad Hatter (Alice on the other side of the mirror, 2016) and Jack Sparrow (Pirates of the Caribbean 5, 2017).

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