Johnny Depp

(j'ai du enlever des trucs, yen avais trop U_U)

John Christopher Depp







(Images : Chocolat - Charlie et la chocolaterie - Neverland)



Né le 9 Juin 1963 à Owensboro, Kentucky (Etats-Unis)

Fils d'un ingénieur et d'une femme de ménage, Johnny Depp se passionne
pour la musique en assistant à un spectacle de gospel. Il rejoint alors
le groupe The Flame, qui devient The Kids, et fait la première partie
de la tournée d'Iggy Pop. Deux ans plus tard, les musiciens se rendent
à Los Angeles, mais la formation ne remporte pas le succès escompté.
C'est à cette période que Depp fait la connaissance de Nicolas Cage,
qui lui fait rencontrer son agent. Il obtient ainsi un petit rôle dans
Les Griffes de la nuit (1984) de Wes Craven.



Johnny Depp s'inscrit ensuite au Loft Studio de Los Angeles pour suivre
des cours de comédie. Une fois sorti de l'école, il est enrôlé chez les
marines de Platoon, puis connaît la célébrité avec le lancement, en
1987, de la série 21 jump street. Sa carrière lancée, il choisit de
rompre avec l'image véhiculée par la télévision, celle d'un jeune
acteur pour midinettes, en jouant sous la direction de John Waters dans
le satirique Cry-baby (1990). A partir de ce film, l'acteur ne cessera
d'être en marge, incarnant régulièrement des personnages décalés et
hors-normes. Toujours en 1990, en interprétant Edward aux mains
d'argent, il entame avec le réalisateur Tim Burton une fructueuse
collaboration qui se poursuivra en 1994 avec Ed Wood, en 1999 avec
Sleepy hollow, la légende du cavalier sans tête, en 2004 avec Charlie
et la chocolaterie et en 2005 avec Les Noces funèbres, film d'animation
pour lequel il prête sa voix.



Prenant quelque peu ses distances vis-à-vis de l'industrie
hollywoodienne, Johnny Depp collabore avec des cinéastes aussi
talentueux que Emir Kusturica (Arizona dream, 1992), Lasse Hallström
(Gilbert Grape, 1993 ; Le Chocolat, 2001) ou encore Jim Jarmusch (Dead
man, 1995). Fort de cette expérience, il passe à la réalisation en 1997
avec The Brave, qui ne remportera pas le succès escompté, et ce malgré
la présence au générique de son ami Marlon Brando. De retour devant la
caméra, il s'éloigne des personnages romantiques et poétiques pour
jouer les flics infiltrés dans la mafia dans Donnie Brasco (1997), les
journalistes déjantés dans Las Vegas parano (1998), les chercheurs de
livres rares en proie au fantastique dans La Neuvième porte (1999) ou
les trafiquants de drogue dans Blow (2001).



Malgré l'échec du thriller Intrusion (1999) et l'abandon du tournage
chaotique de L'Homme qui tua Don Quichotte, film inachevé de Terry
Gilliam qui donnera naissance au documentaire Lost in la mancha (2003),
le charismatique Johnny Depp garde la confiance des studios. Traquant
Jack l'éventreur dans From hell (2002), il adopte un look proche de
celui de Keith Richards pour les besoins de la saga Pirates des
Caraïbes (2003). En 2004, il se glisse dans le costume cintré du
dramaturge J.M. Barrie, auteur du mythique récit Peter Pan, pour
Neverland. En 2006, il incarne Rochester, le dernier des libertins.



Vie personnelle et anecdotes:



-> Marié à Vanessa Paradis, ils ont une fille ; Lily-Rose Melody Depp et un fils, Jack.

->Ex-fiancées: Sherilyn Fenn, Kate Moss, Jennifer Grey and Winona Ryder.

-> Lorsqu'il était avec Winona Ryder, il avait l'inscrïption "Winona
forever sur son bras, quand il se sont quittés, il a effacé deux
lettres pour qu'il ne reste que "Wino forever"



Citations:



"Anything I've done up till 27 May, 1999 was kind of an illusion,
existing without living. My daughter, the birth of my daughter, gave me
life."



On the money he makes: "You use your money to buy privacy because during most of your life you aren't allowed to be normal."



"I don't pretend to be captain weird. I just do what I do."




"The only creatures that are evolved enough to convey pure love are dogs and infants."



"I was ecstatic when they re-named 'French Fries' as 'Freedom Fries.'
Grown men and women in positions of power in the U.S. government
showing themselves as idiots."



"America is dumb. It's like a dumb puppy that has big teeth that can
stouquette and hurt you, aggressive. My daughter is four, my boy is one. I'd
like them to see America as a toy, a broken toy. Investigate it a
little, check it out, get this feeling and then get out."



"France and the whole of Europe have a great culture and an amazing
history. Most important thing though is that people there know how to
live! In America they've forgotten all about it. I'm afraid that the
American culture is a disaster."



On his character in the film Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the
Black Pearl (2003): "Captain Jack Sparrow is like a cross between Keith
Richards and Pepe Le Pew."



"With any part you play, there is a certain amount of yourself in it.
There has to be, otherwise it's just not acting. It's lying."



"The only gossip I'm interested in is things from the Weekly World News - 'Woman's bra bursts, 11 injured.' That kind of thing."



"I'm an old-fashioned guy... I want to be an old man with a beer belly sitting on a porch, looking at a lake or something."



When asked by James Lipton on _"Inside The Actor's Studio" (1987)_ what
attracts him to funny hats: "I don't know, maybe I just read too much
Dr. Seuss as a kid."



After being asked if he is a romantic: "Am I a romantic? I've seen 'Wuthering Heights' ten times. I'm a romantic."



Talking on the Sleepy Hollow (1999) set about what it was like being
dragged behind a carriage in the woods: "I wasn't afraid of getting
hurt. I was just afraid that the horses may relieve themselves on the
journey."



"I'm shy, paranoid, whatever word you want to use. I hate fame. I've done everything I can to avoid it."



"When kids hit 1 year old, it's like hanging out with a miniature
drunk. You have to hold onto them. They bump into things. They laugh
and cry. They urinate. They vomit."



"This is a rumor-filled society and if people want to sit around and
talk about whom I've dated, then I'd say they have a lot of spare time
and should consider other topics... or masturbation."



"The character I've played, that I've responded to, there has been a lost-soul quality to them."



"Sure, I find it touching, honestly, but awards are not as important to
me as when I meet a 10-year-old kid who says, 'I love Captain Jack
Sparrow' ... That's real magic for me."



"The term 'serious actor' is kind of an oxymoron, isn't it? [Like] 'Republican party' [or] 'airplane food.'"



"On a film you start to get closer and closer with the people you're
working with, and it becomes like this circus act or this travelling
family."



"If you turn on the television and see the horrors that are happening
to people in the world right now, I think there's no better time to
strive to have some kind of hope through imagination. I think it's a
time to close your eyes and try to make a change, or at least hope to
make a change, or we're going to explode."



"I suppose nowadays it's all a question of surgery, isn't it? Of course
the notion is beautiful, the idea of staying a boy and a child forever,
and I think you can. I have known plenty of people who, in their later
years, had the energy of children and the kind of curiosity and
fascination with things like little children. I think we can keep that,
and I think it's important to keep that part of staying young. But I
also think it's great fun growing old."



"All the little films I've done that were perceived by Hollywood as
these obscure, weird things, I always thought could appeal to a larger
audience. I mean, box office is such a mystery to me that I can't...
you know... I have enough -trouble doing my own gig. "

"He can ask me everything. If he wants me to have sex with an aardvark
in one of his next movies, then I will do that." - on director Tim
Burton.


[On reactions to his directorial debut] "You know what was
traumatizing, what was very, very strange in terms of this film I
directed a few years back called The Brave. Well, I guess I wouldn't
say traumatizing, but I would say weird: at the premiere of the film
the reception of it was beyond any expectation that I had. I had no
idea I'd be looking at Bertolucci or Antonioni sitting there watching
my film. And then to receive the applause that my film got, it was so
incredible. And then the next day the majority of the American press,
just turn it into this horrible thing. Once again, everybody is
entitled to their opinion, man. Maybe it's a bad film? Maybe it's a
good film? To me it's just a film. It's something I needed to make."



"I don't have a mental picture of the houses we lived in because there were so many."


Marlon Brando is maybe the greatest actor of the last two centuries.
But his mind is much more important than the acting thing. The way that
he looks at things, doesn't judge things, the way that he assesses
things. He's as important as, uh... who's important today? Jesus, not
many people... Stephen Hawking!



"As a teenager I was so insecure. I was the type of guy that never
fitted in because he never dared to choose. I was convinced I had
absolutely no talent at all. For nothing. And that thought took away
all my ambition too."



"Marlon wanted me to escape movies for a while - 'Take a year off. Go
on. Study Shakespeare.' So it's one of the things that keep ricocheting
around in my head. He told me that by the time he had got to the point
where he felt he could do Hamlet, it was too late. So he said, 'Do it
now, do it while you can.' And I would like to do it - although it's
one of the more frightening ideas I've had. I think as an actor it is
good to feel the fear of failing miserably. I think you should take
that risk. Fear is a necessary ingredient in everything I do. But if I
do Hamlet it will probably be in a small theater on a small stage and
it will have to be very, very soon because I'm getting a little long in
the tooth for it."



Filmographie:



Shantaram (Prochainement), de Mira Nair- Lindsay -



The Rum Diary (Prochainement), de Bruce Robinson -Paul Kemp-



Sweeney Todd (Prochainement), de Tim Burton -Sweeney Todd-



In Search of Ted Demme (Prochainement) -Lui-même-



Charlie : The Life and Art of Charlie Chaplin (Prochainement), de Richard Schickel -lui-même -



Pirates des Caraïbes, jusqu'au bout du monde (2007), de Gore Verbinski -Jack Sparrow -



Pirates des Caraïbes, le secret du coffre maudit (2006), de Gore Verbinski -Jack Sparrow -



Rochester, le dernier des libertins (2006), de Laurence Dunmore -le comte de Rochester -



Les Noces funèbres de Tim Burton (2005), de Mike Johnson -Victor (voix) -



Charlie et la chocolaterie (2005), de Tim Burton -Willy Wonka-



Neverland (2005), de Marc Forster -James M. Barrie-



Ils se marièrent et eurent beaucoup d'enfants (2004), de Yvan Attal -L'Inconnu -



Fenêtre secrète (2004), de David Koepp -Mort Rainey -



Il était une fois au Mexique Desperado 2 (2003), de Robert Rodriguez -l'agent de la CIA Sands -



Pirates des Caraïbes, la malédiction du Black Pearl (2003), de Gore Verbinski -Jack Sparrow -



Lost in La Mancha (2003), de Keith Fulton- Lui-même -



From hell (2002), de Allen Hughes -L'inspecteur Fred Abberline-



Blow (2001), de Ted Demme -George Jung -



Avant la nuit (2001), de Julian Schnabel -Bon Bon / le lieutenant Victor -



Chocolat (2001), de Lasse Hallström -Roux-



The Man Who Cried (2001), de Sally Potter Cesar



Sleepy Hollow, la légende du cavalier sans tête (2000), de Tim Burton -Constable Ichabod Crane -



Intrusion (1999), de Rand Ravich -Commandant Spencer Armacost -



La Neuvième Porte (1999), de Roman Polanski -Dean corso-



I Love L. A. (1999), de Mika Kaurismäki -lui-même-



The Source (1999), de Chuck Workman -Jack Kerouac-



Las Vegas parano (1998), de Terry Gilliam -'Oncle' Raoul Duke-



The Brave (1997), de Johnny Depp -Raphael -



Donnie Brasco (1997), de Mike Newell -Joe Pistone / Donnie -



Meurtre en suspens (1996), de John Badham -Gene Watson-



Dead Man (1996), de Jim Jarmusch- William Blake -



Cannes man (1996), de Richard Martini -lui même -



Ed Wood (1995), de Tim Burton -Ed Wood-



Don Juan DeMarco (1995), de Jeremy Leven -Don Juan -



Gilbert Grape (1994), de Lasse Hallström -Gilbert Grape-



Benny & Joon (1993), de Jeremiah Chechik- Sam -



Arizona Dream (1993), de Emir Kusturica- Axel Blackmar -



La Fin de Freddy, l'ultime cauchemar (1992), de Rachel Talalay -L'adolescent à la télé -



Edward aux mains d'argent (1991), de Tim Burton)- Edward aux mains d'argent -



Cry-Baby (1990), de John Waters Wade -"Cry Baby" Walker -



21 Jump Street saison 1 à 4 - tom Hanson -



Platoon (1987), de Oliver Stone -Lerner -



Private Resort (1987), de George Bowers -Jack -



Les Griffes de la nuit (1985), de Wes Craven -Glen Lantz -



Quelques awards et nominations:



-> Nominé aux Golden Globes a chaque fois dans la catégorie
meilleur acteur pour : Pirates des caraibes II, Charlie et la
Chocolaterie, Finding Neverland, Pirates des caraibes I, Ed Wood, Benny
et Joon, Edward auw mains d'argent.

-> Nominé à la palme d'or en 1997 à Canne pour son film "The Brave"