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Johnny Depp (born John Christopher Depp II on June 9, 1963) is an Academy Award-nominated American actor. After making his film debut in 1984's A Nightmare on Elm Street, Depp came to fame on the television series 21 Jump Street, before establishing a career in Hollywood films, including well-received starring roles in the 1990s films Edward Scissorhands, Donnie Brasco and Sleepy Hollow. In 2003, Depp's Oscar-nominated performance in Curse of the Black Pearl re-established him as a leading man, leading to roles in the successful films Finding Neverland, Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, and his latest, Dead Man's Chest.
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Early life
Depp was born in Owensboro, Kentucky to John Christopher Depp, Sr. and Betty Sue Wells. He has one brother, Danny, and two sisters, Christie (who now is Depp's personal manager) and Debbie. The Depp family has Cherokee, French, Irish and German ancestry; The name Depp is French in origin. Depp's maternal great-grandmother, Minnie, was a full-blooded Cherokee, and his father also has distant Cherokee heritage. The family was constantly on the move during Depp's childhood, and he and his siblings lived in more than twenty different locations, finally settling in Miramar, Florida in 1970. Depp has admitted to engaging in self-mutilation 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 that his "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 has stated that he lost his virginity at the age of thirteen and "did every kind of drug there was by fourteen, swiped a few six-packs, broke into a few classrooms, just to see what was on the other side of that locked door".
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