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Life
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Career
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Education
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Awards
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How they inspire me
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Johnny Depp's Life
Johnny Depp's full name is in fact John Christopher Depp II. He was born in Owensboro Kentucky June 9, 1984. his mother was a woman called Betty Sue who was a waitress and his father was an engineer and his name is John Depp. Growing up Johnny Depp had a strong love for music, having had shared a room with his older brother who was into rock, his brother opened him up to artists like Van Morrison, Kiss and Bob Dylan. Debbie Depp, Daniel Depp, Christi Dembrowski where his three elder siblings.
Around the age of 12 Johnny Depp began to hang out with the “bad crowd” because of a feeling of not belonging, and because of his outsider treatment at school. After being suspended, he was labelled a troublemaker and lived up to his label, pulling stunts with his friends and skipping classes. By 1978 his parents divorced. Johnny took a hard hit from this, in turn this caused a rift between him and his father because he had to collect the weekly child support money from his fathers office. At the ripe age of 16 he dropped out of school for a group called “The Kids”.
Soon after Johnny Depp realised that he would have to change for his own benefit and if he wanted a future. In 1983, at the age of 20, Johnny met and married 25-year-old makeup artist Lori Allison. That same year, the couple moved to L.A. with Depp's band in the hopes of striking it big. A year later Johnny Depp was introduced to acting and met Nicolas Cage who saw real potential in him and introduced him to a Hollywood agent. By 1985, "the Kids" had broken up and so had Depp's marriage with Lori Allison.
In 1987 Johnny Depp replaced actor Jeff Yagher in the role of undercover cop Tommy Hanson in the popular television series 21 Jump Street. This movie almost instantly put Johnny Depp in the spotlight becoming a teen sensation. After 21 jump street Johnny Depp continued with his acting landing many roles in big movies, like jack sparrow from the pirates of the Caribbean.
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Johnny Depp's Career
At the very beginning Johnny Depp had only played small roles in films as an extra. Soon Johnny Depp landed a role in Nightmare of Elm street in 1984. After his break up with his wife and the break up of "The kids" Johnny thrusted himself into acting and soon began taking classes at the loft studio in Los Angeles and then had further acting classes with a private coach. That all payed off because in 1990 he landed a role in Edward Scissorhands in partnership with Tim Burton, he played none other then Edward Scissorhands himself.
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Johnny Depp has played many characters in his career, including Fred Abberline in From Hell (2001). In 2003 he starred in the family blockbuster Pirates of the Caribbean the curse of Black Pearl (2003), playing a character that only the likes of Depp could pull off Captain Jack Sparrow. The film's enormous success has opened several doors for his career and included an Oscar nomination. In 2004 he won an award for MTV's movie award best male performance. He then collaborated again with Tim Burton in a screen adaptation of Roald Dahl's novel, Charlie and the chocolate factory (2005) playing the iconic Mr Willy Wonker. He once again collaborated with Tim Burton for Alice in wonderland (2010), playing the mad hatter.
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Maintaining his early interest in music, Depp played acoustic guitar in the film Chocolat (2000) and on the sound track to Once Upon a Time in Mexico (2003). His work as a guitarist also appears on albums by the Pogues and Oasis. Even after roles in movies like A Nightmare on Elm Street and Platoon he still wasn’t ready to give up on music, so he joined the glam outfit Rock City Angels.
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Johnny Depp's Education
Growing up Johnny Depp wasn’t very into school and so he never really tired hard at it. He was a troublemaker and played pranks and skipped classes along side this. As a teen Johnny Depp was in love with music. He listened to just about anything he could get his hands on, enjoying and savouring every second of each song. In 1970, the family was living in Miramar, Florida. Eight years later, the family circumstances changed considerably as the parents divorced. Johnny was the one who had to pick up the child support money. All of this stress was very troubling to Johnny who turned to self inflecting cuttings on his body as a way to cope. A year later he dropped out of school.
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Although Johnny Depp had dropped out of school he still found his way and managed to get back on his feet, even without graduating. Instead he took acting lessons so he still had the education and the coaching from an acting teacher even though he didn’t go to school and get it there.
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Johnny Depp first went to Henry D. Perry Middle School in Broward County, Florida (this being from grade six to eight). After finishing his studies here he then moved to Miramar High School which is a public high school in Miramar, Florida ( this being from ninth to tenth grade). Sadly at the age of 16 he dropped out of Miramar High school, deciding to stop his studies altogether to join a band called “The Kids”.
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Johnny Depp's Awards
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Overall Johnny Depp has both won and been nominated for a large amount of awards. His movie Pirates of the Caribbean (2004) was a box office smash, soon after the rest of the pirates of the Caribbean movies continued as massive hits.
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How Johnny Depp has inspired me.
Johnny Depp has inspired me in many ways, one of them being that even as a rather troubled student he managed to bring himself together and made a name for himself in doing so. He had a rocky start but still got back on his feet after going through his parents divorce and depression he's still picked himself up each and every time, never letting anything get in the way of him and his career.
Johnny Depp is well known for sometimes playing very dark and strange characters. He got this image because of the roles he's played and because he was never afraid to truly embrace his characters and to perform to his full potential. He doesn’t are about if some people look at him as a lunatic for some of his roles, he doesn’t care if people judge him and I think that’s why he's such a good actor. Since even though what he does can seem embarrassing he does it so well that it isn’t, and it's seen as good acting.
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