Born in Owensboro, Kentucky in 1963 to a waitress and a civil engineer, John Christopher Depp II was the youngest of four children. When he was young he'd visit his Pawpaw often, and happily recalls the sunny days of picking tobacco together. It was a terrible shock to the seven-year-old boy when Pawpaw died. After the death he and his family moved to Miramar, Florida, but the family spent a long time living in motels and was constantly shifting from place to place, well over a dozen motels in total. Johnny took this especially hard; he did not take to school and started to act out, once being suspended for mooning the gym teacher. By the time he was 12, he was smoking and very soon to came drinking and drugs, there was even petty theft and vandalism.
He got his first guitar from his mother when he was 12, a $25 Decca electric with a little blue amp. Music saved him in a sense; from that moment all he did was play his guitar. He taught himself and even started a garage band called “the Kids”. When he was 18 he moved to Los Angeles and had only one glory with his band. The band was struggling and Depp had to get a job, selling ballpoint pens over the phone.
When he met Lori Anne Allison, A makeup artist, who would become his first wife, she would introduce him to Nicolas Cage. He persuaded the reluctant Depp to meet with his agent, and she got him an audition for an upcoming movie by Wes Craven, A Nightmare on Elm Street. After the audition Wes Craven turned to his young daughter for casting advice; she liked Depp, and so Johnny made his feature-film debut as a hunky boyfriend devoured by a killer bed in A Nightmare on Elm Street.
Starting out who could have guessed that Johnny Depp would be the sensation that he is today. “th...
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...re unmissable. Indeed, he's arguably the most fascinating actor at work today. “I feel very lucky to have been along for the ride,... Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl.”(Qud. Depp) For a man to start out as just a pretty face and now, He is the oddball of Hollywood! Loved by men and woman alike for the risks he takes!
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chopping wood - introduced him to early rock & roll and rhythm & blues music.
Johnny’s life hasn’t been the easiest to get through. Raised in Kingsland, Arkansas in a small town of Dyess. In his Encyclopedia article about Cash’s life and career, Mcleod explains that his upbringing was in a bible-belt town that published Sunday School Attendance Figures in the weekly newspaper. He was born on February 26,1932 (Bill Miller). While he was a teenager he worked on his family farm and he despised it very much (Kembrew, McLeod). Being born one of seven children, he always had someone to hangout with. During the mid sixties, Johnny became very addicted to drugs, and alcohol. When he got drunk he had a tendency to like to start arguments and to try and fight people. As the author, Bill Miller states, Cash’s reason for his behavior was that he had to keep up with the “hectic world”. The life he lived was definitely was not the easiest but he tried to make the best of it.
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