Depp closed down the Viper Room for two weeks after Phoenix's death and he also closed it on every 31 October until 2004. It's also the place where River Phoenix passed away on 31 October 1993. The building was once owned by infamous gangster Bugsy Siegel.
Weiss, Depp turned the Central Nightclub in Los Angeles, into the famous Viper Room at 8852 Sunset Blvd. The same year he teamed up again with Burton in Sleepy Hollow (Tim Burton, 1999), brilliantly portraying Ichabod Crane. Thompson's alter ego in Terry Gilliam's trippy adaptation of Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas (1998). Then he played a newly-orphaned accountant in the surrealist Western Dead Man (Jim Jarmusch, 1995), and an undercover FBI agent in the fact-based crime drama Donnie Brasco (Mike Newell, 1997), opposite Al Pacino. He rejoined with Burton in the lead role of Ed Wood (Tim Burton, 1994), a biographical film about one of history's most inept film directors. He starred alongside Leonardo DiCaprio and Juliette Lewis in this drama about a dysfunctional family. He continued to gain critical acclaim and increasing popularity by appearing in such features as Lasse Hallström's What's Eating Gilbert Grape (1993). That year, Depp also started his great collaborations with director Tim Burton, playing the title role in the romantic dark fantasy Edward Scissorhands (1990) with Winona Ryder and Christopher Lee.įollowing the film's success, Johnny Depp carved a niche for himself as a serious, somewhat dark, idiosyncratic performer, consistently selecting roles that surprised critics and audiences alike. It has subsequently become a cult classic and spawned a Broadway musical of the same name which was nominated for four Tony Awards. The film received positive reviews from critics, but did not achieve high audience numbers in its initial release. After numerous roles in teen-oriented films, Depp spoofed the genre as 1950s teen rebel 'Cry-Baby' Wade Walker in John Waters' tongue-in-cheek Cry-Baby (John Waters, 1990).
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In 1987 he shot to stardom when he replaced Jeff Yagher as Officer Tom Hanson, who goes on an undercover operation by posing as a student in crime-ridden Los Angeles-area high schools in the TV series 21 Jump Street (1987). He played a supporting role as a Vietnamese-speaking private in Oliver Stone's Vietnam War film Platoon (1986), starring Charlie Sheen. This 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. When he visited Los Angeles with his wife, he met actor Nicolas Cage, who advised him to turn to acting. Depp), he took up the job of being a ballpoint-pen salesman to support himself and his wife during slack times in the music business. When he married Lori Anne Allison (Lori A. The brooding teenager fronted a series of music-garage bands, including the punk rock/New Wave band The Kids, which opened for Iggy Pop, Duran Duran, and The B-52's. He dropped out of school when he was 16 (or 15 - the sources differ), after his parents divorced. John Christopher Depp II was born in Owensboro, Kentucky, in 1963, to Betty Sue (Wells), who worked as a waitress, and John Christopher Depp, a civil engineer. Depp has been nominated for three Oscars and has won the Golden Globe and Screen Actors Guild Awards for Best Actor. He likes to play freakishly eccentric outcasts whose oddities are misunderstood by society. He is now best known for his many wonderful collaborations with director Tim Burton, and for his flamboyant pirate Jack Sparrow in the Pirates of Carribean franchise. With his dark, intense eyes and highly defined cheekbones, he shot to fame as a teen idol in the TV series 21 Jump Street (1987). He made his film debut as one of Freddy Krueger's victims in A Nightmare on Elm Street (1984). American actor Johnny Depp is one of the most versatile actors in today's Hollywood.