GOOD JOB JOHNNY FOR BEST ACTOR!!! [OSCAR NOMINEE]
[SWEENEY TODD FILM]
John (Christopher) Depp the second was born in Owensboro, Kentucky on June 9th, 1963. He was the youngest of four children with two older sisters(Debbie and Christi), and an older brother (Dan). His father, John Depp senior, was a public servant in Owensboro, working as a city engineer. His mother, Betty Sue, worked as a waitress in a local coffee house. He is currently married to Vanessa Paradis. Johnny is part German, part Irish. On early occasion, Johnny was suspended from school when he exposed his buttocks to a teacher. Ever wonder why he has a tatoo with Betty Sue? That is his mothers name, not a girlfriend. Depp developed an interest in tatoos and self-scarring at about age 12, just before his parents split up. ''I remember carving my initials on my arm, and I've scarred myself from time to time since then. In a way your body is a journal and and the scars are sort of entries to it.'' Johnny was in many films. Here is the filmography of Johnny Depp :Nightmare on Elm Street(1984), Private Resort(1985), Slow Burn(1986), Platoon(1986), 21 Jump Street(1987-90), Cry Baby(1990), Edward Scissorhands(1990), Freddy's Dead: The final Nightmare(1991), Arizona Dream(1991), Benny & Joon(1993), What's Eating Gilbert Grape?(1993), Ed Wood(1994), Don Juan DeMarco(1994), Nick Of Time(1995), Divine Rapture(1995- uncompleted), Dead Man( 1996), Donnie Brasco(1997), The Brave(1997), Fear And Loathing In Las Vegas(1998), The Ninth Gate(1999), The Astronaut's Wife(1999), Sleepy Hollow(1999), The Man Who Cried(2000), Before Night Falls(2000), Chocolat(2000), Blow(2001), From Hell(2001), Pirates of the Caribbean: Curse Of The Black Pearl92003), Once Upon A Time In Mexico(2003), Secret Window(2004), Finding Neverland(2004), Happily Ever After(2004), The Libertine(2004), Charlie And The Chocolate Factory(2005), Tim Burton's Corpse Bride(2005), Pirates Of Th Caribbean 2:Dead Mans Chest(2006), Pirates Of The Caribbean 3(2007), Shantaram(2007), The Rum Diary(2008), Public Enemies(2009)Depp's best friend in Florida was Sal Jenco, later to be a co-star in the TV serries 21 Jump Street, as well as the inspiration for Iggy Pop's character in Dead Man, and manager of Depp's infamous Sunset Strip Hollywood night club, The Viper Room. Shortly before he left highschool, Depp moved out of the house he was sharing with his mother to live with Sal in the back of a car. Sal had nowhere else to live and Depp didn't want his friend to feel abandoned. Moe importantly, it was a way of escaping his parents and the trauma of their split, and begin to make a life for himself, even if it was pretty sordid. The 1967 Impala which Depp now called home had back seats filled with empty beer cans, and the two boys lived by eating submarine sandwiches filched from the local 7-eleven store.Depp finally gave up the uneven struggle with academic acheivement and authority and dropped out of high school in 1979, plunging straight away into a rock and roll career with his band, The Kids. They started on the bottom rung, doing cover songs and warming up the audience for other, bigger bands, but Depp had bigger ambitions in mind. The Kids started to develope their own material, which sounded a bit like U2 maybe mixed with the Sex Pistols'. The Kids were something of a local sensation in Florida, opening for a succesion of bigger names such as the B52s and Talking Heads. ''I played rock'n'roll clubs in Florida,'recalls Depp of his rock music begginings. ''I was underage, but they would let me come in the back door to play, and then I'd have to leave after the first set. That's how I made a living, at about $25 a night. At times we would make $2,100- we used to make that for the entire group and the road crew, which is a lot.''
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