Jonny Depp

Born John Christopher Depp in Owensboro, Kentucky, on June 9, 1963. Raised in Florida, he dropped out of school at age 15 in the hopes of becoming a rock musician. He fronted a series of garage bands including The Kids, which once opened for Iggy Pop.

Jonny Depp got into acting after a visit to Los Angeles, California, with his former wife, Lori Anne Allison, who introduced him to actor Nicolas cage. He made his first film in _Nightmare On Elm Street, A (1984)_. In 1987, he shot to stardom when he replaced Jeff Yager in the role of undercover cop Tommy Hanson in the popular TV series 21 Jump Street.In 1990, after numerous roles in teen-oriented films, his first of a handful of great collaborations with director Tim Burton came about when he portrayed the title role in the famous film Edward Scissor hands.

Following the film's success, Jonny Depp carved a niche for himself as a serious, somewhat dark, idiosyncratic performer, consistently selecting roles that surprised critics and audiences alike. He continued to gain critical acclaim and increasing popularity by appearing in many features before re-joining with Burton in the lead role of Ed Wood (1994). In 1997, he played the undercover FBI agent in the factually based film Donnie Brasco (1997), he appeared in Fear and loathing in Las Vagas (1998), and in 1999, he appeared in the sci-fi horror film The Astronaut’s wife. The same year, he teamed up again with Burton in Sleepy Hollow (1999), brilliantly portraying Ichabod Crane.

Depp has played many characters in his career, including another factually based character, Inspector Fred Abberline in From Hell (2001). He stole the show from screen greats such as Antonio Bandera’s in the finale to Robert Rodriguez’s Mariachi trilogy, Once Upon A Time In Mexico (2003), in the same year as starring in the marvellous family blockbuster Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of The Black Pearl (2003), playing a character that only the likes of Johnny Depp could pull off, Captain Jack Sparrow

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