John Christopher “Johnny” Depp II (born June 9, 1963) is an American actor, producer, and musician. He has won the Golden Globe Award and Screen Actors Guild award for Best Actor. He rose to prominence on the 1980s television series 21 Jump Street, becoming a teen idol.
Depp was born in Owensboro, Kentucky, the youngest of four children of Betty Sue Palmer (née Wells), a waitress, and John Christopher Depp, a civil engineer. Depp moved frequently during his childhood. He and his siblings lived in more than 20 different places, eventually settling in Miramar, Florida in 1970. In 1978, when he was 15, Depp’s parents divorced. His mother remarried to Robert Palmer (died 2000), whom Depp has called “an inspiration to me”.
With the gift of a guitar from his mother when he was 12, Depp began playing in various garage bands. A year after his parents’ divorce, Depp dropped out of high school to become a rock musician. On December 20, 1983 Depp married Lori Anne Allison, the sister of his band’s bass player and singer. During their marriage she worked as a makeup artist while he worked a variety of odd jobs, including a telemarketer for pens. His wife introduced him to actor Nicolas Cage, who advised Depp to pursue an acting career.
Johnny Depp Filmography
2017 Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Men Tell No Tales
2016 Alice Through the Looking Glass
2015 Yoga Hosers
2015 London Fields
2015 Black Mass
2015 Mortdecai
2014 Into the Woods
2014 Tusk
2014 Transcendence
2013 Lucky Them
2013 The Lone Ranger
2012 Dark Shadows
2012 21 Jump Street
2011 Jack and Jill
2011 The Rum Diary
2011 Pirates of the Caribbean: On Stranger Tides
2011 Rango
2010 The Tourist
2010 Alice in Wonderland
2009 Public Enemies
2009 The Imaginarium of Doctor Parnassus
2007 Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street
2007 Pirates of the Caribbean: At World’s End
2006 Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man’s Chest
2005 Corpse Bride
2005 Charlie and the Chocolate Factory
2004 The Libertine
2004 Finding Neverland
2004 …And They Lived Happily Ever After
2004 Secret Window
2003 Once Upon a Time in Mexico
2003 Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl
2001 From Hell
2001 Blow
2000 Chocolat
2000 Before Night Falls
2000 The Man Who Cried
1999 Sleepy Hollow
1999 The Astronaut’s Wife
1999 The Ninth Gate
1998 Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas
1997 The Brave
1997 Donnie Brasco
1995 Nick of Time
1995 Dead Man
1994 Don Juan DeMarco
1994 Ed Wood
1993 What’s Eating Gilbert Grape
1993 Benny & Joon
1992 Arizona Dream
1991 Freddy’s Dead: The Final Nightmare
1990 Edward Scissorhands
1990 Cry-Baby
1988 R.P.G. II (Short)
1986 Platoon
1986 Slow Burn (TV Movie)
1986 R.P.G. (Short)
1985 Private Resort
1985 Dummies (Short)
1984 A Nightmare on Elm Street