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Johnny Depp: Tim Burton
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In Finding Neverland, Johnny Depp plays Peter Pan author J.M. Barrie with muted, understated ease, and in so doing he may well wind up with his second Oscar nomination. It's been quite some year for Depp, 41, both good and not so good. His friend Marlon Brando died in July. But then came Neverland. He recently finished filming Charlie and the Chocolate Factory for his friend and frequent director Tim Burton.
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Johnny Depp talks about the movie "Corpse Bride," working with Tim Burton, voicing Victor, and relating to his character. Depp ... discusses his career, box office clout, and "Pirates 2 & 3."
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Depp's parents divorced in 1978, and he dropped out of school a year later to become a rock musician. (As he explained on Inside the Actors Studio, he attempted to go back two weeks later, but the principal told him to follow his dream of being a musician, which Depp said was "really sweet.") Depp's mother bought him a guitar at the age of twelve, and he began playing in garage bands. He played with a band named, "The Kids," who had modest local success and set out for Los Angeles, California in pursuit of a record deal. At this time, they changed their name to "Six Gun Method." Depp married Natasha Colangelo, his makeup artist, and the sister of the drummer of the band, on December 20, 1983. The marriage caused friction between the band members, and the group split before signing a record deal.
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Depp meets actress Winona Ryder at a film premiere and is immediately smitten. "There's been nothing in my 27 years that's comparable to the feeling I have with Winona," he tells PEOPLE at the time. Five months after their first date, the couple is engaged; three years later they split. Depp, who alters the "Winona Forever" tattoo on his right biceps to read "Wino Forever," seems to have a fiancée fetish: before Ryder, he was ... briefly engaged to actresses Sherilyn Fenn and Jennifer Grey.
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Revived by a Hollywood producer in 1999, Depp was feeling sleepy and hollow, so he decided to chang he species and become a sea turtle. He moved to London, but found that while the atmosphere was alright, things could've been better off with other co-workers. Pretty soon things quickly turned from bad to worse and the time in London really didn't help Depp to get out of his depression. Upon his return to France he - seemingly shocked by the experience - said to the press that he was back from hell. Following these gruesome events, Johnny decided that he needed to take a vacation in the Caribbean, where he learned how to sail, fight and drink ridiculous amounts of liquor. His time there was well spent and he met a lot of beautiful women who nursed him back to health as a return favor for his Don Juan years.
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Though highly successful now, Depp's early life, strangely, was as a rebel, and he took to vandalism and narcotics. He dropped out of school when he was 15, and he fronted a series of music-garage bands, including one named The Kids. However, it was when he married Lori Anne Allison that he took up the job of being a ballpoint-pen salesman to support himself and his wife. A visit to Los Angeles, California, with his wife... happened to be a blessing in disguise, when he met up with actor Nicolas Cage, who advised him to turn to acting, which culminated in Depp's film debut in the low-budget horror film, A Nightmare on Elm Street (1984), where he played a teenager who falls prey to dream-stalking demon Freddy Krueger. Three years later, Depp achieved fame as police cop Tom Hanson in the series "21 Jump Street" (1987) (1987-90), and in 1990, he was firmly established as a leading Hollywood actor with the Tim Burton movie Edward Scissorhands (1990), where he played a sad-faced, tragic hero who has scissors for hands.
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