Johnny Depp

ACTOR

John Christopher "Johnny" Depp II is an American actor, film producer, and musician. He has won the Golden Globe Award and Screen Actors Guild award for Best Actor. 

Year by year, all most important facts on Mr. Depp’s life.

1963 – On June 09, John Christopher Depp II was born to Beth Sue and John Depp in Owesboro, Kentucky.

1970 – Moves with his family to Miramar, Florida

1980 – Auditions for a high school talent show with a group called Bitch

1981 – Join The Kids, a local Florida band

1983 – Moved to Los Angeles with his band "The Kids", who subsequently changed names to "Six Gun Method". Coundn’t find any job to pay bills, so took other jobs including telemarketer. Married and divorced Lori Anne Allison, who introduced Johnny to Nicolas Cage, who steered Johnny to his first acting job.

1984 – filmed A Nightmare on Elm Street

1985- filmed Private Resort

1986 – filmed Slow Burn (made for TV)

1986 – Began taking acting classes at The Loft Studios. Johnny’s band breaks up. Began dating actress Sherlyn Fenn

1986 – filmed Platoon

1987 – On 4/12/87 is on air the first 21Jump Street episode.

1988 – Relationship with Sherlyn Fenn dissolves.

1989 – Relationship with actress Jennifer Grey begins and ends. Begins dating Winona Ryder in late 1989.

1989 – filmed Cry-Baby (released in 1990)

1990 – February 26, Johnny and Winona annouce their engagement

1990 – On 7/16/1990 is on air the 21 Jump Street Johnny’s final episode

1990 – Appeared in Concrete Blonde music video "Joey"

1990 – filmed Edward Scissorhands

1990 – Johnny received a Golden Globe nomination for Best Actor in Comedy/Musical for Edward Scissorhands

1991 – Freddy’s Dead: The Final Nightmare

1991 – filmed Arizona Dream (released 1993)

1991 – Appeared in Tom Petty music video "Into the Great Wide Open"

1992 – filmed Benny & Joon (released 1993)

1992- Johnny received a Golden Globe nomination for Best Actor in Comedy/Musical for Benny & Joon

1992 – Johnny received a MTV nomination for Best Comedic Performance and Best On-Screen Duo with Mary Stuart Masterson for Benny & Joon

1992 – Appeared in Lemonheads music video "It’s a Shame about Ray"

1993 – Johnny and Winona Ryder announce their engagement is off on June 21.

1993 – Johnny buys the Viper Room

1993 – filmed What’s Eating Gilbert Grape?

1993 – filmed Ed Wood (released 1994)

1993 – Johnny received a Golden Globe nomination for Best Actor in Comedy/Musical for Ed Wood.

1994 – Johnny mets Kate Moss in January

1994 – Appeared in Shane McGowan music video "That’s Woman’s Got Me Drinking"

1994 – filmed Don Juan DeMarco (released 1995)

1995 – Johnny participates in the United States of Poetry program for PBS

1995 – filmed Dead Man

1995 – filmed Nick of Time

1995 – Divine Rapture begins filming in July, but production ends on the 16th as the funding fell apart

1996 – Johnny wins the London Critic Circle Film Award’s Actor of the Year for his work in Ed Wood and Don Juan DeMarco

1996 – Johnny records the slide guitar work for Oasis’s song "Fade In/Out" on the "Be Here Now" album

1996 – filmed Cannes Man (released 2002)

1996 – filmed The Brave (released 1997)

1996 – filmed Donnie Brasco (released 1997)

1997 /1998 – Johnny’s volatile relationship with model Kate Moss disintegrates.

1997 – filmed Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas (released 1998)

1998 – filmed LA Without a Map

1998 – filmed The Astronaut’s Wife

1998 – filmed The Ninth Gate

1998 – Narrated "Top Secret – National Security Agency, Scotland Yard, and The Mossad"

1998 – Johnny meets Vanessa Paradis in Paris, while filming The Ninth Gate

1998 – filmed Sleepy Hollow (released 1999)

1999 – Johnny received a Golden Satellite Awards nomination for Best Actor in Comedy/Musical for Sleepy Hollow.

1999 – Johnny received a Academy of Science Fiction, Fantasy and Horror Films nomination for Best Actor for Sleepy Hollow.

1999 – Johnny won the Blockbuster Entertainment Awards for Favorite Actor – Horror for Sleepy Hollow

1999 – Lilly-Rose Melody Depp is born on May 27

1999 – filmed The Source

1999 – Appeared in the Red Nose special episode of The Vicar of Dibley

1999 – Wins the French Cesar award for his body of work

1999 – filmed Before Night Falls (released 2000)

1999 – filmed The Man Who Cried (released 2001)

2000 – Appeared in the final episode of BBC comedy The Fast Show

2000 – filmed Chocolat

2000 – filmed Blow (released 2001)

2000 – filmed From Hell (released 2001)

2000 – filmed Lost in La Mancha/The Man Who Killed Don Quixote

2001 – Johnny was nominated for Best Actor by the Academy of Science Fiction, Fantasy and Horror Films

2001 – Directed music videos for Vanessa Paradis – "Portant" and "Que fait la vie?"

2001 – filmed Once Upon a Time in Mexico (released 2003)

2002 – Jack John Christopher Depp III is born in April 9

2002 – filmed J.M. Barrie’s Neverland (current release date: October 22, 2004)

2002 – filmed Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl (released 2003)

2003 – filmed Secret Window (current release date: March 12, 2004)

2003 / 2004 – Nominations for POTC:

Academy Award nomination for Best Actor in a Motion Picture. 

Screen Actor’s Guild nomination for Best Actor. 

BAFTA nomination for Best Actor. 

Golden Globes nomination for Best Actor in a Musical/Comedy 

Golden Satellite nomination for Best Actor in a Comedy/Musical 

Online Film Critics Society nomination for Best Actor 

Film won Broadcast Film Critics Association Award for Best Family

Film – Live Action 

Film won People’s Choice Award for Favorite Motion Picture 

Golden Satellite nomination for Best Motion Picture – Comedy/Musical 

Golden Satellite nomination for Geoffrey Rush – Best Supporting Actor in a Comedy/Musical

2004 – Filmed The Libertine (pre-production)

2004 – Signs Shantaram Deal with G D Roberts

2004 – Filmed Charlie and the Chocolat Factory

2005 – Nominated for Golden Globes and Oscar for Finding Neverland

2005 / 2006 - Pirates of the Caribbean Sequels Filmed

2005 – Sept 22, Johnny Depp, Vanessa Paradis, and his family attend a ceremony in Los Angeles where his footprints and handprints are immortalized on the Hollywood Walk of Fame, Graumann’s Chinese Theater

2006 – Oct 07, Johnny Depp receives the Courage To Care Award from The Children’s Hospital in Los Angeles, in recognition of his work for children’s charities

2007 – Filmed Sweeney Todd

2007 -Jan 28, Johnny playing guitar with the Kids at the Sheila Witkin Memorial Reunion Concert

2008 – Johnny won his first Golden Globe for Sweeney Todd