Johnny Deep
- Actor
Jun 09, 1963
Jun 09, 1963
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John Christopher Depp II, popularly known as Johnny Depp, has been one of the most versatile actors to have embraced Hollywood cinema. He has donned multiple hats as a musician and even a film producer over the years.
Starting off with being a teen idol after appearing in the TV series 21 Jump Street, Johnny has been regarded as one of the worlds biggest film stars, having delivered stellar performances in movies like Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl and its sequels, Sleepy Hollow, Alice in Wonderland, Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, and The Tourist among many others.
This intense actor has been included in the 2012 Guinness World Records as the highest paid actor with earnings of around $75 million. In 2015, Johnny was inducted as a Disney Legend. He started his own film production company named Infinitum Nihil in 2004. He has featured in several music videos and exhibited his guitar skills for music albums as well as soundtracks for movies like Once Upon a Time in Mexico, and Chocolat.
Did you Know?
People magazine named the good looking actor as the Sexiest Man Alive in 2003 and 2010.
He has written the foreword to Mark Salisbury`s biography of Tim Burton titled Burton on Burton.He has credited Tims belief in him for rescuing him from being a loser, an outcast, just another piece of expendable Hollywood meat.
He was part of the band The Kids as a guitarist and even played in a band named P.
Johnny was the one who convinced Rey-Phillip Santos to take up acting.
Johnny Depp got voted as the Second Greatest Actor (after Marlon Brando) in the Greatest Actor Poll done by Channel 4 British TV channel.
He was the co-editor of the House of Earth novel of folk singer Woody Guthrie.