Full Name John Christopher Depp Date of Birth 9 June 1963 Birth place Owensboro, Kentucky, USA Height 5'10 Johnny Depp is an Academy Award-nominated and Screen Actors Guild Award-winning American actor.

Johnny Depp was in a band named The Kids. He started trying for acting so his musical career took a backseat. Johnny done a roll in the '80s horror flick, Nightmare on Elm Street. In that movie his character was eaten by his bed.

Johnny has two children, Lily-Rose and Jack, with his partner Vanessa Paradis, who is French singer and actress. Also he and his family divide their time between Los Angeles and a villa in the South of France.

Depp outdid himself in Burton's Ed Wood in 1994 following Gilbert Grape with his outrageous but lovable portrayal of the angora-sweater-worshipping World's Worst Film Director. In the same year, he still keep his way of exercising his versatility playing a 19th century accountant in Dead Man, Jim Jarmusch's otherworldly Western. The titular undercover FBI agent in Mike Newell's 1997 Donnie Brasco, he did it very well.

Johnny won over movie goers as Captain Jack Sparrow in the swashbuckling hit in 2003, in the movie 'Pirates of the Caribbean'. Based on the flick on the Disney ride of the same name and stars Orlando Bloom and Keira Knightly. He takes on the task of playing Willy Wonka in Tim Burton's Charlie and the Chocolate in 2005.