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Johnny Depp
Born	John Christopher Depp II
Occupation(s)	actor, screenwriter, director, producer, musician
Years active	1984 - present
Spouse	Lori Anne Allison (1983-1986)
Partner(s)	Sherilyn Fenn (1985-1989) Vanessa Paradis (1998-)
Children	Lily-Rose Depp (b.1999) Jack Depp (b.2002)

John Christopher Depp II (born June 9 1963) is an American actor, best known for his frequent portrayals of offbeat and eccentric characters such as Jack Sparrow in the Pirates of the Caribbean trilogy and the titular character of Tim Burton's Edward Scissorhands.

Biography

Early life

Depp was born in Owensboro, Kentucky, the son of Betty Sue (née Wells), a waitress, and John Christopher Depp Sr., a city engineer. He has one brother, Danny, and two sisters, Christie (who was formerly Johnny's personal manager) and Debbie. Depp has German, Cherokee (from a great-grandmother), and Irish ancestry. The book Johnny Depp: A Kind of Illusion (ISBN 1-905287-04-6) states that the Depp family originated with a French Huguenot Pierre Deppe or Dieppe who settled in Virginia around 1700. Depp has said he doesn't know the origin of his surname, but jokes that the name translates to "idiot" in German (it is actually a minor insult meaning fool or hungry). The family moved frequently during Depp's childhood, and he and his siblings lived in more than twenty different locations, settling in Miramar, Florida, in 1970, when he was 7. In 1978, when Depp was 15, his parents were divorced. He engaged in self-harm as a child, due to the stress of dealing with family problems and his own insecurity. He has seven or eight scars from practicing self-harm. In a 1993 interview, he explained his self-injury by saying, "My body is a journal in a way. It's like what sailors used to do, where every tattoo meant something, a specific time in your life when you make a mark on yourself, whether you do it yourself with a knife or with a professional tattoo artist".

Depp married Lori Anne Allison, his makeup artist and sister of his band's drummer, on December 24 1983. During Depp's marriage his wife worked as a makeup artist while he worked a variety of odd jobs, including a telemarketer for ink pens. Later, his wife introduced him to actor Nicolas Cage, who advised Depp to pursue an acting career. In 1985, Depp and Allison divorced.

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