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Johnny Depp is an Academy Award-nominated actor with a taste for the more eclectic roles, chosing to appear in films that he found personally interesting, rather than those he thought would succeed at the box office.

His film career began in 1984 working in a series of successful movies including A Nightmare on Elm Street, Private Resort, Slowburn, and Platoon before becoming a teen idol playing Officer Tom Hanson in the popular Fox television series, 21 Jump Street.

In the 1990's Depp began a long association with film director Tim Burton. This relationship proved to be a good match, casting Johnny in quirky roles in several of Burton's films including Edward Scissorhands, Ed Wood (1994), Sleepy Hollow (1999), Charlie and the Chocolate Factory (2005), and Corpse Bride (2005).

Depp's status as a major star was solidified with the success of the 2003 Walt Disney Pictures film, Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl, where he was highly praised for his lead performance as the wacky pirate Captain Jack Sparrow, for which he was nominated for an Academy Award.

In 2004, he was once again honored, receiving an Oscar nomination for his work in Finding Neverland.

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Johnny Depp News

Johnny Gives Up Barber Chair  March 20, 2008

Johnny Depp is well-known for a lot of things, one of which is charitable giving. You might even say his giving begins at home.

After learning that fellow Hollywood hunk, David Hasselhoff, was in the middle of a nasty dispute with ex-wife Pamela Bach, over his antique barber's chair… Johnny presented him with the barber chair used on the set of Sweeney Todd. Yet another reason to love Johnny!

Johnny Depp signs on “The Rum Diary”  October 20, 2007

Our favorite wild actor has just finished filming Tim Burton’s “Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street” yet he’s not taking a break. According to reports, Johnny Depp recently signed to star in the film adaptation of Hunter Thompson’s “The Rum Diary”. Infinitum and King are producing the movie with Plan B. The actor will play will play Paul Kemp, a freelance journalist writing for a rundown newspaper in 1950s Puerto Rico. Kemp was 22 (1959) when he wrote the autobiographical novel but was not published until 1998. Johnny Depp previously starred in another adaptation of Thompson’s work, the psychedelic “Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas”. The Pirates of the Caribbean star is set to work on “The Rum Diary” after “Shantaram”, Mira Nair's adaptation of the novel about an Australian drug addict who resumes his life of crime after escaping to India. Imagine that, three back-to-back movies! Johnny Depp is certainly very much in-demand!

Johnny Depp won’t raise children in US  October 7, 2007

Captain Jack Sparrow of the uber-popular Pirates of the Caribbean franchise is a homegrown US talent. He was born, bred and grown in the US of A. But Johnny Depp has vowed that he’ll never return to America if it meant bringing up his children there. The actor currently lives in a tranquil part of France with wife, Vanessa Paradis and their two children Lily-Rose and Jack. The New York Post has reported that Johnny Depp holds a very dim view of his home country. He apparently said, “I'm truly frightened of America in terms of raising my daughter here. I don't believe that is an option at all.”

But it seems he’s not just pessimistic about the US only coz the actor further added, “I'm not particularly optimistic about society. We're in an age where everything has gone too far. It's an ugly world.” Yeah, ugly. Don’t we all know it? Guess this means that Johnny Depp’s corner of France is so far untouched by the “ugliness”; I mean he’s raising his children there right? Hmm, maybe that’s why Brangelina is also buying up properties in France!

Johnny Depp to film in India!  September 29, 2007

Our favorite “Pirates of the Caribbean” actor is back! And he’s gonna be in Mumbai, India within the next few weeks to film a movie. This time, Johnny Depp will be playing a serious role in a movie based on the acclaimed bestselling autobiography ‘Shantaram’ by Gregory ‘Shantaram’ Roberts. Johnny Depp will play Shantaram who comes to India after fleeing a jail in Australia. The movie will revolve around him and his “adventures in Mumbai, which also takes him to the underworld and get him arrested.

According to reports, the first Mumbai visit of Johnny Depp will be an acclimation tour; to help the actor get a feel for the local culture and be familiar with the locations. The actual shooting, say sources, is likely to start only later. And that the itinerary of Depp will include visits to the café which Greg [the book’s author] used to frequent and the slum where he used to stay. Greg shares that “The official date for the start of the movie version of ‘Shantaram’, starring Amitabh Bachchan and Johnny Depp has been set for January 19, 2008.”