Johnny Depp: The Illustrated Biography - Softcover

Johnstone, Nick

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1844421317 ISBN 13: 9781844421312

Publisher: Carlton Books Ltd, 2006

Synopsis

As a child, Johnny Depp was an outsider. He found expression through music, and by thirteen he was playing in bands at clubs. He had taken every kind of drug there was by the age of fourteen, and had found himself on the wrong side of the law in petty-crime offences. As an adult he turned to acting, but continued to live by his own rules, confounding and delighting critics and fans alike with his choice of roles. He has only played parts that speak to him ? from Edward Scissorhands to Captain Jack, a colorful array of misfits, outsiders and renegades ? and commits only to films that he believes posses value. And now, with the staggering box-office success of Pirates of the Caribbean, he has achieved a formidable position in Hollywood without compromising along the way. This book traces that extraordinary journey from wild-child rebel to Hollywood mogul. Compelling, charismatic and edgy, Johnny Depp has become one of the world's most bankable stars, but more despite his artistic in

About this title

About the Author:

Music and film journalist Nick Johnstone is a regular contributor to one of the UK's leading film and music monthlies, Uncut magazine, and also to national newspapers the Observer, the Guardian and the Daily Telegraph. He is the author of six other books, including biographies of Sean Penn, Patti Smith and Radiohead, and is currently writing his first novel. He lives in London.

About this edition

• Publisher: Carlton Books Ltd
• Publication date: 2006
• ISBN 10: 1844421317
• ISBN 13: 9781844421312
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 128