Johnny Depp

John Christopher Depp II (Johnny Depp) was born on the 9th of June in 1963 in Owensboro, Kentucky. He is the son of John and Betty Sue Depp. His father worked as an engineer and his mother was a waitress and homemaker. His family moved around a lot due to his father’s work. When Johnny was 7, they lived in Miramar, Florida and there his father had found a job. Johnny hated his home there and at 12 years of age her started smoking and taking drugs, he also started self-harming due to family problems and stress. When he was 15, his parents got divorced. When he was 16, he dropped out of high school and joined a garage band called The Kids. The group was very successful and were even able to be opening acts for many groups and singers. In 1983, he was 20 and he married a 25 year old make up artist named Lori Allison. In that year they both moved to Los Angeles. A year after his marriage, he started acting when his wife had introduced him to her ex-boyfriend who is a actor, Nicolas Cage. Nicolas saw potential in him and introduced him to a Hollywood agent. Johnny got many small roles and then he landed huge movie role in a horror film, Nightmare On Elm Street. In 1985, his band , The Kids, had broken up and so did his marriage. After Allison and Depp split up, he met an actress called Sherilyn Fenn, they dated but also broke up after a while.