June 9, 1963 John Christopher Depp II was born to Betty Sue and John Depp, Sr. in Owensboro, Kentucky. He joins older siblings Dan, Debbie, and Christy. In 1970 the family moved to Miramar Florida. (See our Bio page)
1983 – 1985 Moved to Las Angeles with The Kids, who subsequently changed their names to Six Gun Method. Couldn’t find enough work to pay bills, so took other jobs including that of telemarketer. Married and divorced Lori Anne Allison, who introduced Johnny to Nicholas Cage, who steered Johnny to his first acting job.
1984 A Nightmare on Elm
Street
Filmed: Finished July, 1984
Premiere: november 9, 1984
Released: November
16, 1984
Box Office: $25,504,513
1985 Private Resort
Filmed: 1985
Released: May 3, 1985
Box Office: $331,816
1985 Dummies
(a film short with Sherilyn Fenn done for AFI)
1985 Lady Blue
October 10 episode "Beast of Prey"
1986 Slow Burn (made
for TV)
Filmed: 1986
Released: 1986
1986 Began taking acting classes at The Loft Studios. Johnny’s band breaks up. Began dating actress Sherlyn Fenn
1986 Platoon
Filmed: started filming March
1986 and went for 10 weeks
Released: December
19, 1986
Box Office: $138,530,565
1987 Hotel
February 4 episode "Unfinished
Business"
1987 – 1990 21 Jump Street
First Episode: 4/12/1987
Johnny’s Final Episode:
7/16/1990
1988 Relationship with Sherlyn Fenn dissolves.
1989 Relationship with actress Jennifer Grey begins and ends. Begins dating Winona Ryder in late 1989.
1990 Cry-Baby:
Filmed: 1989 Spring-Summer
Released: April 6, 1990
Box Office: $8,266,343
James Intveld did the singing for
this movie
1990 February 26, Johnny and Winona
Ryder announce their engagement.
1990 Appeared in Concrete
Blonde music video - "Joey"
1990 Edward Scissorhands
Filmed: Late Spring – Summer,
1990
Released: December 7, 1990
Box Office: $56,362,352
Golden Globe nomination for
Best Actor in Comedy/Musical
1991 Freddy’s Dead:
The Final Nightmare
Released: September
13, 1991
Box Office: $34,872,033
Johnny has a cameo appearance
in this one. He is credited as Oprah Noodlemantra.
Can be seen on the Don Juan DeMarco
DVD under Johnny’s filmography.
Into the Great Wide Open (Tom Petty
Video)
Filmed: July 1991 released August
25 1991 during a break in the filming of "Arizona Dream"
1991 Arizona Dream
Filmed: 1991-1992 Began
May & June '91, then three months off, more work done in '92
Released: Europe –
January 6, 1993
Released: US -June
7, 1995
Box Office: $112,547
Originally released in Europe at
142 minutes. It was recut and released in the US at 119 minutes.
The longer length movie is still not available in the US. Johnny
played Axel Blackmar.
1992 Benny & Joon
Filmed: started July 1992
Released: April 16,
1993
Box Office: $23,261,580
Golden Globe nomination
for Best Actor in Comedy/Musical
MTV nominations for Best Comedic
Performance and Best On-Screen Duo with Mary Stuart Masterson
1992 Appeared in Lemonheads
music video - "It's a Shame About Ray" SIngle released August 1992
1993 Johnny and Winona Ryder announce
their engagement is off on June 21 In August Johnny buys the Viper
Room along with Chuck E. Weiss.
1993 What’s Eating Gilbert
Grape?
Filmed: October 1992-January
1993
Released: December
17, 1993
Box Office: $10,032,765
Leonardo DeCaprio was nominated
for an Academy and Golden Globe award for Best Supporting Actor for this
film.
1993 Ed Wood
Filmed: August – November,1993
Released: September
30, 1994
Box Office: $5,869.802
Martin Landau won the Academy,
Golden Globe, and SAG awards for Best Supporting Actor for his role as
Bela Lugosi in this film. Additionally, Rick Baker, Ve Neill, and
Yolanda Tousieng won oscars for Best Makeup.
Johnny Depp was again nominated
for a Golden Globe for Best Actor in a Comedy/Musical. Available on DVD.
1994 Johnny meets Kate Moss in January.
1994 - The Viper Room opens August 14 1993
1994 Appeared in Shane McGowan music video - "That Woman's Got Me Drinking" released October 3, 1994
1994 Don Juan DeMarco
Filmed: 1994 - ended filming
in July
Released: April 7,
1995
Box Office: $22,150,451
Johnny reportedly agreed to do
this movie only on the condition that Marlon Brando play Dr. Mickler.
1995 Johnny participates in
the United States of Poetry program for PBS.
1995 Dead Man
Filmed: 1994-1995
Released: May 25,
1995 Cannes Film Festival
Released: US May 10,
1996
Box Office: $1,037,847
1995 Nick of Time
Filmed: April – June, 1995
Released: November
22, 1995
Box Office: $8,175,346
1995 Divine Rapture begins filming
in July, but production ends on the 16th as the funding fell apart.
1996 Johnny wins the London Critic
Circle Film Award’s Actor of the Year for his work in Ed Wood and Don Juan
DeMarco.
He records the slide guitar
work for Oasis’s song, Fade in/Out on the Be Here Now album.
1996 Cannes Man
Filmed: May, 1996
Released: Direct to
video in US on March 5, 2002
Johnny appears as himself along
with Jim Jarmush in this quasi-expose of the film industry’s goings-ons
at the film festivals.
1997 Donnie Brasco
Filmed: February -
June, 1996
Released: February
28, 1997
Box Office: $41,909,762
1996 The Brave
Filmed: August to October,
1996 - ?
Released: May 10,
1997 Cannes, France
Released: Not released
in the US
Director: Johnny Depp
Filming Locations:
Los Angeles and Ridgecrest, CA USA
Box Office: Not Available
Nominated for a Golden Palm
at the Cannes Film Festival, France
1997 – 1998 Johnny’s volatile relationship
with model Kate Moss disintegrates.
Oasis Album with track "Fade In
Out" reorded during '98 and '97, released August 27, 1997
1998 LA Without a Map
Filmed: 1998
Released: September
11, 1998 in Canada, never released in the US
Johnny has some small, uncredited
appearances in this one. As I recall one of them is as his
Dead Man poster.
1998 Fear and Loathing
in Las Vegas
Filmed: Summer August -
September, 1997
Released: May 22,
1998
Box Office: $10.680,275
1998 The Astronaut’s Wife
Filmed: January - April,
1998
Released: August 27,
1999
Box Office: $10,672.566
1998 The Ninth Gate
Filmed: Summer,June 10 -
September 1998
Released: March 10,
2000
Box Office: $18,661,336
1998 Narrated "Top Secret - National Security Agency, Scotland Yard, and The Mossad"
1998 While in Paris filming The
Ninth Gate, Johnny meets and falls for singer/actress Vanessa Paradis.
Vicar of Dibley
Appeared and aired on March
12, 1999
Cesar Award
Received on March 6, 1999
MTV Movie Awards(appearance)
September 9, 1999
1999 Sleepy Hollow
Filmed: November, 1998 –
April, 1999
Released: November
19, 1999
Box Office: $101,071,502
+ $105.0 million overseas
Won the Blockbuster Entertainment
Award for Favorite Actor – Horror
Nominated Golden Satellite
Awards, Best Actor in a Comedy/Musical
Nominated Best Actor by
the Academy of Science Fiction, Fantasy, and Horror Films
1999 Lily-Rose Melody Depp
is born on May 27 to Johnny and Vanessa Paradis.
1999 The Source
Released to video;Traces the Beats from Allen Ginsberg and Jack Kerouac's meeting in 1944 at Columbia University to the deaths of Ginsberg and William S. Burroughs in 1997. Johnny plays Kerouac.
Released: August 29, 1999
1999 Appeared in the Red Nose special episode of The Vicar of Dibley
1999 Deathsquad made an obscene song entitled "My Name is Johnny Depp"
1999 Wins the French Cesar
award for his body of work.
2000 Before Night Falls
Filmed: Fall, September-November
1999
Released: December
22, 2000
Box Office: $4.242,892
Johnny plays two very small (but
amazing) parts in this. He did the work for free as a favor to the
director.
2000 Appeared in the final episode of BBC comedy The Fast Show
2000 The Man Who Cried
Filmed: September 6 – November
25, 1999
Released: May 25,
2001
Box Office: $747,092
Johnny plays the gypsy Cesar
2000 Chocolat
Filmed: May 2 – August,
2000
Released: December 15, 2000
Box Office: $71,509,363
The movie, Juliette Binoche
and Judi Dench were nominated for Academy awards.
Judi Dench won a SAG award
for Best Supporting Actress. The film received an ensemble nomination for
Outstanding Performance by
a Cast in a Motion Picture.
2001 Blow
Filmed: February 2 – April
28, 2000
Released: April 6,
2001
Box Office: $52,990,775
2001 From Hell
Filmed: June5 – September,
2000
Released: October 19, 2001
Box Office: $31,602,566
Nominated for Best Actor
by the Academy of Science Fiction, Fantasy, and Horror Films
2001 Lost in La Mancha/The
Man Who Killed Don Quixote
Filmed: Late Summer, Early
Fall, October 2 - 6, 2000
Box Office: $732,393
2001 Directed music videos for Vanessa Paradis - "Pourtant" and "Que fait la vie?"
2002 Johnny and Vanessa celebrate
the birth of Jack John Christopher Depp III on April 9.
2002 Once Upon a Time in Mexico
Filmed: May – July, 2001 (Johnny worked 9 days in June)
Released: September 12, 2003
Total Gross: $56,359,780
+ Overseas Gross: $37,100,000
Nomination for Golden Satellite Award for Best Supporting Actor in Comedy/Musical
Siente Mi Amor won for best song in the Golden Satellite awards
Johnny plays Agent Sheldon Jeffrey Sands
2003 Pirates of the Caribbean:
The Curse of the Black Pearl
Filmed: October 9, 2002
– March, 2003
Released: July 9,
2003
Box Office: $305,413,918
domestic + $349 million overseas
Johnny won the Screen Actor's
Guild Best Actor Award 2004 for Captain Jack Sparrow
Academy Award nomination
for Best Actor in a Motion Picture.
BAFTA award for Best Actor.
Golden Globes nomination
for Best Actor in a Musical/Comedy
Golden Satellite nomination
for Best Actor in a Comedy/Musical
Online Film Critics Society
nomination for Best Actor
Film won Broadcast Film
Critics Association Award for Best Family Film – Live Action
Film won People’s Choice
Award for Favorite Motion Picture
Golden Satellite nomination
for Best Motion Picture – Comedy/Musical
Golden Satellite nomination
for Geoffrey Rush – Best Supporting Actor in a Comedy/Musical
2003 CHARLIE: THE LIFE AND ART
OF CHARLES CHAPLIN
Documentary on the life
and art of Charlie Chaplain
First shown at the Boston
Film Festival, September 11, 2003
2003 Secret Window
Filmed: July 14 – October,
2003
Release Date: March
12, 2004
US Total as of May 2, 2004:
$47,415,999
DVD release date June 29,
2004
2004 Ils se mari rent et eurent
beaucoup d'enfants
Filmed October - December 2003,
Johnny's cameo shot in November
Release Date -September 15, 2004
(France)(OUT NOW IN FRANCE)
2004 Trois petites filles
Filmed - 2004 currently in post-production
Release Date - This summer 2004
Johnny Depp and Vanessa Paridis
make cameo appearances.
2004
Finding Neverland
Filmed June 14 - August
27 2002
As of Feb 18, 2005 Worldwide:
$77,821,000
Johnny plays J. M. Barrie, author
of Peter Pan
Nominated for Oscar - Best Picture
Nominated for SAG - Best Ensemble
Johnny Depp Nominated for Oscar
- Best Actor Male
Johnny Depp Nominated for SAG
- Best Male Actor
(See Finding Neverland pages
for complete lists)
2004 Libertine(more info at
the Libertine pages HERE)
In post production (May 16, 2004)
Johnny Depp portrays John Wilmot,
a. k. a. the Earl of Rochester, a 17th century poet who famously drank
and debauched his way to an early grave -- succumbing to syphilis at the
age of 33 -- only to earn posthumous critical acclaim for his life's work.
Odyssey Entertainment presents
a Mr Mudd production, in association with First Choice and Isle of Man
Film
Prod: John Malkovich, Lianne Halfon,
Russell Smith;
Exec prod: Donald A Starr, Colin
Leventhal, Daniel JB Taylor, Marc Samuelson, Peter Samuelson, Steve Christian,
Chase Bailey;
Dir: Laurence Dunmore;
Scr: Stephen Jeffreys, based on
his own play;
Ph: Alexander Melman;
Prod des: Ben Van Os;
Cost des: Dien Van Straalen;
Ed: Jill Bilcock;
Casting: Mary Selway
Mus: Michael Nyman.
Cast (in alphabetical order)
Johnny Depp .... Rochester
Tom Hollander .... George
Etherege
Shane MacGowan .... 16th
Century Bard
John Malkovich .... King
Charles II
Samantha Morton .... Elizabeth
Barry
Rosamund Pike .... Elizabeth
Malet
Johnny Vegas .... Charles
Sackville
Release date: UK October 29, 2004
(No US release date yet)
Charlie and the Chocolate Factory
In Production as of July 28, 2004,
Premier Hollywood, CA July 10, 2005
Release Date July 15, 2005
Director: Tim Burton (Edward Scissorhands,
Ed Wood, Sleepy Hollow)
Cast: Johnny DeppWilly Wonka),
Freddie Highmore (Charlie Bucket), Annasophia Robb (Violet Beauregarde),
Julia Winter (Veruca Salt); other cast not announced yet
Production Company: Basic Entertainment
(City by the Sea), Plan B Films
Distributor: Warner Bros.
THE CORPSE BRIDE
Check out the Tim
Burton Collective for more news
Johnny Depp to do the lead vocals
along with Helena Bonham Carter
Studio: Will Vinton Studios / Warner
Bros.
Director: Mike Johnson & Tim
Burton
Screenplay by Pamela Pettler /
Caroline Thompson
Produced by Tim Burton
Production Design: Alex McDowell
Cinematography: Pete Kozachik
Release date: September 23, 2005
Synopsis:
Set in a 19th century European village,
this stop-motion, animated feature follows the story of Victor (Johnny
Depp), a young man who is whisked away to the underworld and wed to a mysterious
Corpse Bride (Helena Bonham-Carter), while his real bride, Victoria (Emily
Watson), waits bereft in the land of the living. Though life in the Land
of the Dead proves to be a lot more colorful than his strict Victorian
upbringing, Victor learns that there is nothing in this world, or the next,
that can keep him away from his one true love.
Pirates of the Caribbean 2:
Dead Man's Chest
Released July 9, 2006
Synopsis: Jack Sparrow, we learn
bartered his sould to Davy Jones 12 years prior to Curse of the Black Pearl,
in order to have Davy raise the Black Pearl from the sea and make Jack
the Captain. Now his time is up, Davy wants Jack's soul, and Jack
has to figure out how to get out of the bargain. Will and Elizabeth's
wedding plans are ruined by a greedy East India agent named Lord Cutler
Bennett, who wants to get Jack's compass and everyone is searching for
the chest of Davy Jones.
People's Choice Award for Best
Actor of 2006
Nominated for Golden Globe Best
Male Actor in a Comedy for POTC:DMC
and
Pirates of the Caribbean 3: At
World's End
In Production since February 14,
2005 - was filmed alongside Dead Man's Chest.
Release date: May 25, 2007
I have moved the rumors/news on
these movies to their own page:
POTC2
News and the Rumors
Central Page is HERE
Sweeney Todd
In Pre-production. Tim Burton directing.
Due to start filming February 2007
Credited Cast
Johnny Depp ................Sweeney Tood
Helena Bonham Carter...Mrs. Lovett
Shantaram
In Pre-Production
Author Greg Roberts' autobiographical tale of his imprisonment
in Austrailia and flight to India, where he lived with the poor and acted
as their doctor, while at the same time working for the crime bosses and
falling in love.
Release date: 2008
The Rum Diaries (Continuous hold-ups
in production, it may not be made)
In Pre-Production
Begun in 1959 by a then-twenty-two-year-old
Hunter S. Thompson, The Rum Diary is a brilliantly tangled love story of
jealousy, treachery and violent alcoholic lust in the Caribbean boomtown
that was San Juan, Puerto Rico, in the late 1950s.
Credited cast:
Johnny Depp .... Paul Kemp
Josh Hartnett .... Addison
Fritz Yeamon
Benicio Del Toro .... Bob
Sala (Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas)
Nick Nolte .... Lotterman
Rex Mundi
In Pre-Production
From the graphic novel serices
published by Dark Horse.
Johnny is to play Dr. Julien Sauniere
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Awards
1990 - ShoWest - Male Star of Tomorrow
2004 - Lee Strasberg Artistic Achievement
Award. from the Actors Fund
2005 - People's Choice - Best Actor Finding Neverland
2004 - SAG Best Performance by an Actor POTC
2006 - Grand Medaille de Vermeil
2006- Teen Choice Award
2006 - Scream Award
2006- Childrens Hospital Courage to Care Award
Nominations
2006 - Golden GLobe - Best Performance
by an Actor in a Motion Picture - Comedy/Musical - "POTC:DMC"
2005 - Critic's Choice - Best Performance
by an Actor in a Motion Picture - Drama Finding Neverland
2005 - BAFTA - Best Performance
by an Actor in a Motion Picture Finding Neverland
2005 - Golden Globe - Best Performance
by an Actor in a Motion Picture - Drama Finding Neverland
2004 - Oscar - Best Peformance
by an Actor in a Motion Picture POTC
2004 - Critic's Choice - Best Performance
by an Actor in a Motion Picture - Family Film - POTC
2004 - Golden Globe - Best Performance
by an Actor in a Motion Picture - Drama POTC
1997 - Cannes Film Festival - Golden
Camera - "The Brave"
1997 - Cannes Film Festival - Golden
Palm - "The Brave"
1995 - Golden Globe - Best Performance
by an Actor in a Motion Picture - Comedy/Musical - "Ed Wood"
1994 - Golden Globe - Best Performance
by an Actor in a Motion Picture - Comedy/Musical - "Benny & Joon"
1991 - Golden Globe - Best Performance
by an Actor in a Motion Picture - Comedy/Musical - "Edward Scissorhands"
Films
2008 - Sweeney Todd
2007 - Pirates of the Caribbean:
At World's End
2006 - Pirates of the Caribbean:Dead
Man's Chest..Captian Jack Sparrow
2005 - Charlie and the Chocolate
Factory.. Willy Wonka
2005 - Libertine...John Wilmot
Second Earl of Rochester
2004 - Trois petites filles
2004 - Ils se mari rent et eurent
beaucoup d'enfants
2004 - Finding Neverland...J. M.
Barrie
2004 - Secret Window...Mort Rainey
2003 - Charlie:The Life and Art
of Charles Chaplin...himself
2003 - Once Upon a Time in Mexico...Sheldon
Jeffrey Sands
2003 - Pirates of the Caribbean
the Curse of the Black Pearl...Capt. Jack Sparrow
2001 - Blow..George Jung
2001 - From Hell...Frederick Abberline
2001 - Lost in La Mancha...himself
2000 - Before Night Falls..BonBon
& the Major
2000 - The Man Who Cried...Cesar
2000 - Chocolate... Roux
1999 - The Astronaut's Wife ...
Spencer Armacost
1999 - The Ninth Gate ... Dean
Corso
1999 - Sleepy Hollow ... Ichabod
Crane
1999 - The Source ... Jack Kerouac
1998 - Fear and Loathing in Las
Vegas .... Raoul Duke
1998 - L.A. Without A Map ....
Himself
1997 - Donnie Brasco .... Donnie
1997 - The Brave .... Raphael
1996 - Cannes Man .... Himself
1995 - Nick of Time .... Gene Watson
1995 - Don Juan DeMarco .... Don
Juan
1995 - Dead Man .... William Blake
1994 - Ed Wood .... Ed Wood
1993 - What's Eating Gilbert Grape
.... Gilbert Grape
1993 - Benny & Joon .... Sam
1993 - Arizona Dream ....
Axel Blackmar
1991 - Freddy's Dead: The Final
Nightmare (uncredited) .... Teen on TV
1990 - Edward Scissorhands ....
Edward Scissorhands
1990 - Cry-Baby .... Wade "Cry-Baby"
Walker
1986 - Platoon .... Lerner
1985 - Private Resort .... Jack
1984 - A Nightmare on Elm Street
.... Glen Lantz
TV Projects
1987 - "21 Jump Street" TV Series
.... Off. Tom Hanson (1987-1990)
1986 - Slow Burn .... Donnie Fleischer
Bio
Johnny Depp
John Christopher Depp II
June 9, 1963
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MOVIES AT A GLANCE
LIBERTINE 2005
FINDING NEVERLAND 2004
SECRET WINDOW 2004
CHARLIE: THE LIFE AND ART OF CHARLES CHAPLIN 2003
LOST IN LA MANCHA 2003
ONCE UPON A TIME IN MEXICO 2003
PIRATES OF THE CARIBBEAN: THE CURSE OF THE BLACK PEARL 2003
BLOW 2001
FROM HELL 2001
BEFORE NIGHT FALLS 2000
CHOCOLAT 2000
MAN WHO CRIED, THE 2000
ASTRONAUT'S WIFE, THE 1999
NINTH GATE, THE 1999
SLEEPY HOLLOW 1999
SOURCE, THE 1999
FEAR AND LOATHING IN LAS VEGAS 1998
DONNIE BRASCO 1997
DEAD MAN 1996
DON JUAN DEMARCO 1995
NICK OF TIME 1995
ED WOOD 1994
BENNY & JOON 1993
WHAT'S EATING GILBERT GRAPE? 1993
ARIZONA DREAM 1991
FREDDY'S DEAD: THE FINAL NIGHTMARE 1991
CRY-BABY 1990
EDWARD SCISSORHANDS 1990
PLATOON 1986
PRIVATE RESORT 1985
NIGHTMARE ON ELM STREET, A 1984
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http://movies.yahoo.com/upcoming/
http://www.imdb.com/
http://www.johnnydeppzone.com/
http://www.johnnydeppfan.com/
http://launch.yahoo.com
Burton, Tim. Burton on Burton.
Ed. By Mark Salisbury: Faber & Faber, 2000.
Heard, Christoper. Depp.
ECW Press, 2001.
Robb, Brian J. Johnny Depp
A Modern Rebel. Plexus Publishing Limited, 1996.
Creation Books & Individual
Contributions, Johnny Depp: Movie Top Ten. Ed. By Jack Hunter: Creation
Books International, 1999.
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