Best known for his challenging and “larger-than-life” roles, Johnny Depp is regarded as one of the world’s biggest movie stars with an estimated net worth of $400 million.
Depp has won the Golden Globe Award and Screen Actors Guild award for Best Actor. He rose to prominence on the 1980s television series 21 Jump Street, becoming a teen idol.
He rose to fame with a supporting role in Oliver Stone’s Platoon in 1986, then playing the title character in Edward Scissorhands. Sleepy Hollow, Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl and its sequels, Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, Alice in Wonderland and Rango. He has collaborated on eight films with director and friend Tim Burton.
Johnny Depp’s Net Worth
Johnny Depp has gained worldwide critical acclaim for his portrayals of such people as Ed Wood in Ed Wood, Joseph D. Pistone in Donnie Brasco, Hunter S. Thompson in Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas etc. Films featuring Depp have grossed over $3.1 billion at the United States box office and over $7.6 billion worldwide. His most commercially successful films are the Pirates of the Caribbean films, which have grossed $3 billion; Alice in Wonderland which grossed $1 billion; Charlie and the Chocolate Factory which grossed $474 million; and The Tourist which grossed $278 million worldwide.
Via this efforts, Depp is worth $400 million.
Johnny Depp Movies
Depp has been nominated for major acting awards, including three nominations for Academy Award for Best Actor. He won the Golden Globe Award for Best Actor – Motion Picture Musical or Comedy for Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street and the Screen Actors Guild Award for Outstanding Performance by a Male Actor in a Leading Role for Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl. He also has garnered a sex symbol status in American cinema, being twice named as the “Sexiest Man Alive” by People magazine in 2003 and 2009. He has been listed in the 2012 Guinness World Records as the highest paid actor, with $75 million.
Depp continued to receive critical and commercial acclaim. He appeared in Benny & Joon, which became a sleeper hit. He has generally chosen roles which he found interesting, rather than those he thought would succeed at the box office. Johnny Depp has referred to some of his less-successful films as “studio-defined failures” and “box office poison”, and that he thought the studios neither understood the films nor did a good job of marketing them but the character became popular with the movie-going public.
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Depp reprised the role of Jack Sparrow in the Pirates sequels Dead Man’s Chest, At World’s End and On Stranger Tides, each of which were major successes as well. Depp has said that Sparrow is “definitely a big part of me,” and he even voiced the character in the video game Pirates of the Caribbean: The Legend of Jack Sparrow.
Depp played the title role of Sweeney Todd in Tim Burton’s film adaptation of the musical, for which he won a Golden Globe Award for Best Actor – Motion Picture Musical or Comedy. Johnny Depp thanked the Hollywood Foreign Press Association and praised Tim Burton for his “unwavering trust and support.”
Depp stated in a BBC radio interview on July 29, 2013, that he hopes to be involved with “quieter things” at some point in the near future, implying that he will retire from acting. Depp explained in further detail during the interview: “I wouldn’t say I’m dropping out any second, but I would say it’s probably not too far away. When you add up the amount of dialogue that you say per year and you realize that you’ve said written words more than you’ve had a chance to say your own words, you start thinking about that as an insane option for a human being.”
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Johnny Depp has signed on to play convicted Boston crime boss Whitey Bulgar in director Scott Cooper’s Black Mass.
Other Interests
As a guitar player, Johnny Depp has played slide guitar on the Oasis song “Fade In-Out”, as well as on “Fade Away“. He also played acoustic guitar in the movie Chocolate and on the soundtrack to Once Upon a Time in Mexico. He is a friend of The Pogues’ Shane MacGowan and performed on MacGowan’s first solo album.
He was also a member of P, a group featuring Butt-hole Surfers singer Gibby Haynes, Red Hot Chili Peppers bassist Flea and Sex Pistols guitarist Steve Jones. He performed lead guitar and drums for a cover of Carly Simon’s “You’re So Vain”, which appeared as a bonus track on some editions of Marilyn Manson’s 2012 album Born Villain., also performing live with Marilyn Manson in the Revolver Golden Gods Awards 2012, performing various songs of Marilyn Manson.
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Along with Sean Penn, John Malkovich and Mick Hucknall, Depp co-owned the French restaurant-bar Man Ray, located near the Champs-Élysées. Depp also announced he would be co-editor, alongside Douglas Brinkley, of folk singer Woody Guthrie’s unpublished novel House of Earth. The book was published in 2013.
Depp may be eccentric, but he has proven to be one of the kindest and most charitable stars in Hollywood. The actor has donated his time, money and autographed items to a variety of causes and charities. Depp has also been known to make surprise appearances at schools and hospitals dressed as his “Pirates of the Caribbean” character Captain Jack Sparrow.
Even the actor’s fans, who have been touched by his generosity, formed a group called Johnny’s Angels: Depp Fans for Charity, which raises funds for Children’s Hospice & Palliative Care Coalition. Depp often matches the group’s donations.
Johnny Depp’s Quote
Depp has inspired generations with his acting skills. Besides that, he can pass for a mini-philosopher with his quotes, some of which include:
“I like the challenge of trying different things and wondering whether it’s going to work or whether I’m going to fall flat on my face.”
“Laugh as much as you breathe and love as much as yiu live.”
“Just keep moving forward, and don’t give a shit about what anyone thinks. Do what you have to do, for you.”
“Love is not blind. It simply enables one to see things others fail to see.”
“One day the people that didn’t believe in you will tell everyone how they met you.”
“One day the people that didn’t believe in you will tell everyone how they met you.”
“You can close your eyes to the things you don’t want to see, but you can’t close your heart to the things you don’t want to feel.”
Johnny Depp’s Wedding, Wife, and Divorce
Depp is a serial “marrier”, if there is anything like that (well, he is, so there is). He got married to Lori Anne Allison in 1983 and divorced her in 1985; he was engaged to Jennifer Grey he didn’t marry her; he engaged Sherilyn Fenn and didn’t marry her. In 1990, he got married to Winona Ryder in 1990 and tattooed “WINONA FOREVER” on his right arm. The tattoo, of course, outlasted this marriage. He dated English model, Kate Moss for four years. After Moss, Depp went French, dating singer and actor Vanessa Paradise. This is his most fruitful relationship. It produced two children and lasted fourteen years which is an eternity in Depp’s standard. Since 2011, Depp dates Amber Heard.
Quick Facts about Johnny Depp
Full Name: John Christopher Depp
Profession: Actor, film producer, screenwriter, director and musician
Height: 5ft 9in or 175 cm
Weight: 130lbs (59kg)
Ethnicity: White (he claims to have Native American)
Nationality: American
Date of Birth: June 9, 1963
Place of Birth: Owensboro, Kentucky
Education: Miramar High School, Miramar, Florida, USA.
Marital Status: Divorced (Lori Anne Allison ); currently dating (Amber Heard)
Children: 2 (Daughter Lily-Rose Melody Depp and son John “Jack” Christopher Depp III)
