Johnny Depp Bio

Johnny Depp was born John Christopher Depp II, in Owensboro, Kentucky, on June 9, 1963, to parents John and Betty Sue Depp. Depp's father worked as a civil engineer and his mother worked as a waitress and homemaker. The youngest of four children, Depp was withdrawn and a self-admitted oddball. Johnny and his family moved frequently to accommodate his father's job. He hated his new home and, by the age of 12 began smoking, experimenting with drugs and engaging in self-harm due to the stress of family problems.

When Johnny was 15, his parents got divorced. As the youngest of four, it became Depp's job to go to his father's office and pick up the weekly child-support money. The split caused a rift between him and his father. At 16, he dropped out of high school and joined a garage band called the Kids.

In1984, After several small roles as an extra, Depp landed his first legitimate movie role in the horror film Nightmare on Elm Street (1984). In 2006, Depp returned as Captain Jack Sparrow for the sequel Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man's Chest, which broke a box office record in reaching the highest weekend tally ever. The third installment fared well, too: Pirates of the Caribbean: At World's End (2007) was released on Memorial Day weekend, bringing in $138.8 million.Depp then took on the role of notorious crime boss Whitey Bulger in the 2015 biopic Black Mass. In 2016, Depp reprised his role as the Mad Hatter in Through The Looking Glass, Burton’s latest take on Carroll’s sequel to Alice's Adventures In Wonderland. The following year, he returned as Jack Sparrow for Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Men Tell No Tales and joined the ensemble cast for an adaptation of Murder on the Orient Express. In 2018, Depp jumped into another major feature film franchise with the part of evil wizard Gellert Grindelwald in Fantastic Beasts: The Crimes of Grindelwald.