The first person will be my favorite actor Johnny Depp, of course…
Birth name: John Christopher Depp II
Nickname:
“Mr. Stench” (self-chosen)
“Colonel” (given to him by Hunter S. Thompson)
Height: 5′ 10″ (1.78 m)
Trade mark: highly defined cheek-bones 
Parents: John Christopher and Betty Sue Palmer. His parents divorced when he was 15.
Descent: He has said in a number of interviews that he is of Cherokee, Irish, and German descent.
Siblings: Danny (D.P. Depp), Christi Dembrowski, and Debbie.
Ex-fiancées: Sherilyn Fenn, Kate Moss, Jennifer Grey and Winona Ryder.
Friends: Christina Ricci.
Salary:
“21 Jump Street” (1987) - $45,000 per episode
“Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl” (2003) - $10,000,000
“Charlie and the Chocolate Factory” (2005) - $18,000,000
Where is he now:
July 2006 - He and his production company, “Infinitum Nihil Productions”, are in the process of getting two in-development projects made, “The Rum Diary” (2008) and “Shantaram” (2008). Looking to reprise his role as Hunter S. Thompson as his first post-’Pirates’ role.
Mini biography:
John Christopher Depp was born in Owensboro, Kentucky, on June 9, 1963. Though highly successful now, Depp’s early life, strangely, was as a rebel, and he took to vandalism and narcotics. Raised in Florida, he dropped out of school at age 15 in the hopes of becoming a rock musician. He fronted a series of garage bands including The Kids, which once opened for Iggy Pop.
Depp got into acting after a visit to Los Angeles, California, with his former wife, Lori Anne Allison, who introduced him to actor Nicolas Cage. He made his film debut in low-budget horror classic “A Nightmare On Elm Street” (1984), where he played a teenager who falls prey to dream-stalking demon Freddy Krueger. In 1987, he shot to stardom when he replaced Jeff Yagher in the role of undercover cop Tommy Hanson in the popular TV series “21 Jump Street” (1987).
In 1990, after numerous roles in teen-oriented films, his first of a handful of great collaborations with director Tim Burton came about when he portrayed the title role in “Edward Scissorhands” (1990), where he played a sad-faced, tragic hero who has scissors for hands.. Following the film’s success, Depp carved a niche for himself as a serious, somewhat dark, idiosyncratic performer, consistently selecting roles that surprised critics and audiences alike. He continued to gain critical acclaim and increasing popularity by appearing in many features before re-joining with Burton in the lead role of “Ed Wood” (1994). In 1997, he played the undercover FBI agent in the factually-based film “Donnie Brasco” (1997), in which he co-starred with Al Pacino. In 1998, he appeared in “Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas” (1998), directed by Terry Gilliam; and then, in 1999, he appeared in the sci-fi/horror film “The Astronaut’s Wife” (1999). The same year, he teamed up again with Burton in “Sleepy Hollow” (1999) with Christina Ricci and Casper Van Dien, brilliantly portraying Ichabod Crane.
During his career, Depp has, unfortunately, gotten himself under bad public scrutiny. He was accused of selling drugs at his own club, The Viper Room, in regard to the legendary celebrity, River Phoenix, who died outside the club due to drug overdose in 1993. The following year, Depp was arrested for smashing and trashing a New York suite. And, in 1999, he was arrested in London for being in a fight with paparazzi outside a restaurant.
Depp has played many characters in his career, including another factually-based character, Inspector Fred Abberline in “From Hell” (2001). He stole the show from screen greats such as Antonio Banderas in the finale to Robert Rodriguez’s Mariachi trilogy, “Once Upon a Time in Mexico” (2003), in the same year as starring in the marvelous family blockbuster “Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl” (2003) with a supporting cast of Orlando Bloom, Keira Knightley, and Geoffrey Rush, playing a character that only the likes of Depp could pull off, Captain Jack Sparrow.
Although he gained popularity since the success of Edward Scissorhands (1990), Depp wasn’t hugely famous for many years until his portrayal of the suave, charming Captain Jack Sparrow in Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl (2003) in 2003. With the film’s enormous success, it has opened several doors for his career and even included an Oscar nomination. He appeared as the central character in the Stephen King-based movie, Secret Window (2004); as the kind-hearted novelist James Barrie in the factually-based Finding Neverland (2004), where he co-starred with Kate Winslet; and most recently as Rochester in the British film, The Libertine (2004).
In 2005 Depp was collaborating again with Tim Burton in a new screen adaptation of Roald Dahl’s novel, “Charlie and the Chocolate Factory” (2005), where he played Willy Wonka.
Apart from his on-screen life, Depp has dated several female celebrities off-screen, including failed engagements to Jennifer Grey, Winona Ryder, and Kate Moss. He was married to Lori Anne Allison in 1983 but then divorced her in 1985. Currently, Depp is living with French singer-actress Vanessa Paradis (he learned French to be able to converse with Vanessa Paradis’ parents), with whom he has two children: Lily-Rose Melody, born in 1999 and Jack, born in 2002. Johnny’s two children have the same names of the two main characters in Legend (1985).
according to IMDb (Earth’s Biggest Movie Databese™ )
http://us.imdb.com
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Yours sincerely,
AlexSandra
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