Happy B-Day, Johnny Depp

 

   Happy birthday to a Captain Jack Sparrow, Mad Hatter, Sweeny Todd and many more Characters one man made. Today is his 62nd birthday and he doesn't look a day older. But what was his past like? Well...let's see how Johnny Depp became who we know today.

  Born in a small town in Kentucky, Johnny didn't really get into acting until his teenage years. When he was living with a family that had Jonny move from one state to another eventually divorcing a few years later. He is also the youngest of four of his siblings and the one that is the most recognized. He wanted to start a band, so his mother gave him a guitar when he was a teenager.

  He would soon star in a tv show that made him a household name in the 80's, around the same time he would end up killed in Nightmare on Elm Street, one of his first film appearances. He played alongside Peter DeLuise. They made a movie starring Jonah Hill and Channing Tatum and Johnny Depp and Peter guest starred in it as well...only to be shot

   I remember him playing an emotional brother to Leonardo DiCaprio in a movie called what's eating Gilbert Grape. He played Gilbert and has to watch over his mentally challenged brother played by Leo. I loved this move, and it only showed not only how talented Leo was, but Johnny as well. He started in other movies afterwards

   Edward Scissorhands, Ed Wood, Charlie Chaplin and Hunter S. Thompson in Fear and loathing in Las Vegas. Johnny plays Hunter as he travels through Vegas while stoned off his mind and seeing visions of things that aren't there.

    Sadly Hunter S. Thompson did commit suicide a few years after that movie. As the years went by, Johnny's talent started to shine. But sometimes.... he would take roles in movies that bombed.

   Johnny played a pirate named Jack Sparrow in a few Pirates of the Caribbean movies. I was not a fan of them, and Johnny actually is pretty good at playing a delusion pirate with Orlando Bloom and Kyra Sedgewick in the movie as well.

   In real life, even after the Pirates movies ended, Johnny would dress up as Jack Sparrow and make kids that were in the hospital and cheer them up. 

    Even if Johnny had struggles with alcohol and drugs when he was young, he would have no idea the star he would become. One thing I think he would never portray again...is a clown. The Mad Hatter in the Tim Burton Alice in Wonderland movies were not my cup of tea.

   Plus, Johnny has a clown phobia, and I bet this movie was helping him conquer that phobia.

    Johnny is still acting today. Some of his movie choices aren't as great as his ones back in the 90s and the 2000s. He's done some voice work on movies and an episode of SpongeBob SquarePants He even has been directing starting with a movie he starred in as well. There's no stopping this guy. Now, let's wish this man a very happy birthday because I know....he's not done acting yet.