Johnny Depp: The Talented Actor

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Johnny Depp is an American actor and musician known for his images of1)offbeatand strange2)characterssuch as Jack Sparrow in thePirates of the Caribbeanfilm series.

1) offbeat [,ɔf'bɪt] adj.离奇的；标新立异的；弱拍的

约翰尼·德普是美国演员和音乐人，并以他塑造的标新立异、古怪反常的人物形象如《加勒比海盗》系列的杰克船长而闻名。

Depp was born in Owensboro, Kentucky, on June 9, 1963. His mother is a waitress and his father is an engineer. The family moved many times during Depp’s childhood, and he and his3)siblingslived in more than 20 different places.

Depp starred in a lead role on the Fox TV television series,21 Jump Street, which4)premieredin 1987. But after that Depp promised himself that after his5)contracton the series expired, he would only appear in films that he felt were right for him.

Depp6)abandonedhis teen idol image in 1990 with the quirky title role in the Tim Burton film,Edward Scissorhands.

Depp’s status as a superstar was solidi fied with the success of the 2003 Walt Disney Pictures filmPirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearlfor which his lead performance as the interesting pirate Captain Jack Sparrow was highly praised. Many people thought the role as probably being "one of the most popular performances of recent time ".

In 2004, he was again7)nominatedfor an Academy Award for Best Actor for playing

3)sibling ['sɪblɪŋ] n.兄弟姐妹

4)premiere [prɪ'mɪər] v.初 次上演

5)contract ['kantrækt] n.合同，契约

7)nominated ['nɒmɪneɪtɪd] v.提名，推荐Scottish author J. M. Barrie in the filmFinding Neverland. Deep next starred as Willy Wonka in the 2005 filmCharlie and the Chocolate Factory, which was a major success at the box of fice.

List of awards and nominations received by Johnny Depp Nominated for the Academy Award for Best Actor three times and Golden Globe Awards eight times.

Depp won the Best Actor Awards from the Golden Globes for his role inSweeney Todd:The Demon Barber of Fleet Streetand from the Screen Actors8)Guild forPirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl.

8) guild[gɪld] n.行会；协会

德普1963年6月9日出生在肯塔基州的欧文斯伯勒。他的妈妈是一名服务员，他的爸爸是一名工程师。在德普童年时期，他们频繁搬家。他和他的兄弟姐妹在超过20个不同的地方居住过。

德普在1987年首映的福克斯电视系列《21猛鬼街》中担任主演。在那之后德普向自己承诺，当合同到期后，他只会出现在他认为对的电影里。

在1990年德普通过饰演蒂姆·伯顿电影《剪刀手爱德华》里奇怪的角色而摆脱了他青少年偶像的形象。

德普超级巨星的地位是随着2003年迪士尼电影《加勒比海盗：黑珍珠号的诅咒》而奠定的。他因主演古怪有趣的杰克船长得到了高度赞扬。许多人认为这个角色是同时代最受欢迎的表演之一。

2004年，他因出演电影《寻找梦幻岛》中的英格兰作家J.M.Barrie而获奥斯卡最佳男演员奖提名。2005德普又在电影《查理与巧克力工厂》饰演Willy Wonka，票房大获成功。

他曾获得三次奥斯卡最佳男演员奖提名和八次金球奖提名。

德普因主演《理发师陶德》获金球奖最佳男演员奖。因《加勒比海盗：黑珍珠号的诅咒》获得电影协会最佳男演员奖。

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The filmEdward Scissorhandstells the love story of robot Edward who lived alone in the castle until Peg missed the castle and took him home. After falling in love with Peg's daughter Kim, he could not be together.

《剪刀手爱德华》：影片讲述的是机器人爱德华独自在城堡生活，直到佩格误闯城堡把他带回家，他与佩格的女儿金相恋后却无法在一起的爱情故事。

The seriesPirates of the Caribbeanincludes "Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl" "Pirates of the Caribbean: The Gathering of the Spirit" "Pirates of the Caribbean:The End of the World" "Pirates of the Caribbean: The Waves" and "Pirates of the Caribbean:Dead and None" unit.It tells the gratitude of several pirates: Jack was abandoned by another pirate captain on a desert island, and his "Black Pearl" pirate ship was defrauded;Captain Barbosa needed a special thing to unlock the spell that became human skeleton in the moonlight;Blacksmith Will is actually the son of pirates, but he did not know it himself. He just gave the story of the "heirloom" he had left as a child.

《加勒比海盗》系列电影包括《加勒比海盗：黑珍珠号的诅咒》《加勒比海盗：聚魂棺》《加勒比海盗：世界的尽头》《加勒比海盗：惊涛怪浪》《加勒比海盗：死无对证》5部。该系列讲述了几个海盗的恩恩怨怨：杰克被另一个海盗船长抛弃在荒岛上，他的“黑珍珠”海盗船被骗走；巴博萨船长需要一个特殊的东西来解开月光下变成骷髅的咒语；铁匠威尔其实是海盗之子，但他自己并不知情，他只是小时候把留下的“传家宝”送给了心上人的故事。