Johnny Depp Biography By: Taylor Hutchens & Astrid Pascua He’s a Pirate

Johnny Depp was born in Owensboro, Kentucky in June 9 th 1963 His full name is Christopher Depp Jr. Birth

Father was a civil engineer. Mother was of Cherokee descent and had a career as a waitress and homemaker. “Youngest of four, Depp was withdrawn and a self-admitted oddball. “I made odd noises as a child," he later revealed in an interview. "Just did weird things, like turn off light switches twice. I think my parents thought I had Tourette's syndrome.’” At age 12 began smoking and doing drugs in retaliation of moving into his new home. Locked himself in his room and played guitar all day as he hit puberty. At 15 his parents divorced and, being the youngest, he was forced to go to his father’s office to pick up the weekly-Child support. He dropped out off high school at 16 to join a rock band called ‘The Kids’. He lived in a friend’s car for months. Background

He married at 20 to a 25 year old makeup artist. After marrying he moved to LA in hopes of pursuing a career as a musician. They were still barely making it by so they had to sell pens at a telemarketing company. A year later his wife introduced him to her ex boyfriend Nicolas Cage. Nicolas cage saw potential and introduced him to a Hollywood agent. Road to stardom

Had several small roles, then landed his first big opportunity in Nightmare on Elm Street He lived in a motel for over a year in Miramar, Florida, while his dad was looking for a job. First largely popular role was 21 jump street Early Career

Here he is as Captian Jack Sparrow in pirates of the caribbean.

A picture of him when he was younger

Johnny as Edward Scissorhands

The Tourist

Johnny Depp and his wife Vanessa Paradis

Fun Facts Johnny is allergic to Chocolate. He’s also afraid of Clowns, spiders and ghosts. He also speaks French. He learned French so he could speak to his wife, Vanessa Paradis’s parents. He’s been engaged 4 times, with Sherilyn Fenn, Kate Moss, Jennifer Grey and Winona. He has a Big Heart "Johnny donated the money he earned for The Imaginarium of Doctor Parnassus to the baby daughter of his late co-star, Heath Ledger. After hearing this idea, Johnny's co-stars, Jude Law and Colin Farrell, followed suit. He also has a patch of water on his private island in the Bahamas that he named "Heath's Place" in honor of his friend. ”-Betty Confidential.com

Quick conversation about music How did listening to music become making music? When I was twelve, I talked my mom into picking up a Decca electric guitar for me for twenty-five dollars. It had a little blue plush amp. And then, this is horrible, the first thing I did was steal a Mel Bay chord book. I went to this store, stuffed it down my pants and walked out. It had pictures — that’s why I needed it so badly, because it was immediate gratification. If I could match those photographs, then I was golden. I conquered it in days. I locked the bedroom door, didn’t leave, and taught myself how to play chords. I started learning songs by ear. What was the first song you could play through? Every kid with a guitar at that time, the first things that came up were almost always “Smoke on the Water,” obviously, and “25 or 6 to 4,” by Chicago. But the first song I played all the way through must have been “Stairway to Heaven.” I remember getting through the fingerpicking and just cursing Jimmy Page. What was your first band? When I was about thirteen, I got together with some other kids in the neighborhood. This one guy had a bass, we knew a guy who had a PA system, we made our own lights. It was really ramshackle and great. We’d play at people’s backyard parties. Everything from the Beatles to Led Zeppelin to Cheap Trick to Devo — and “Johnny B. Goode” was the closer. You’ve got that wistful look in your eyes. You’re thirteen years old and you’re playing rock & roll. Loud. Poorly. But somebody’s letting you do it in their back yard. And it was absolute perfection. It was freedom. Right off the bat, there was no question: I had found my future.

Roles Johnny Depp has been in a wide variety of roles, his most popular known would be Pirates of the Caribbean, and Edward Scissorhands. Heres a small list of his movies Nightmare on Elm street 21 Jump street Whats eating Gilbert Grape Ed Wood Pirates of the Caribbean Charlie and the chocolate factory The Tourist And many more.