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===Early life===
[[Image:Sparrow.jpg|right|thumb|200px|Johnny Depp as [[Jack Sparrow]].]]Depp was born in [[Owensboro, Kentucky]] to John Christopher Depp, Sr. and Betty Sue Wells.<ref name="ancestry">{{cite web | title=Ancestry.com | work=Johnny Depp family tree | url=http://landing.ancestry.com/famoustree/tree.aspx?name=depp&sourceCode=7603 | accessdate=July 10 | accessyear=2006}}</ref> He has one brother, Danny, and two sisters, Christie (who now is Depp's personal manager) and Debbie. The Depp family has mostly [[Irish Americans|Irish]] and [[German Americans|German]] ancestry. Johnny Depp has said he doesn't know the origin of his surname, but he repeatedly jokes that the name translates to "idiot" in German (which is actually true) [http://www.johnnydeppfan.com/interviews/ias.htm]. Depp's maternal great-grandmother, Minnie, was a full-blooded [[Cherokee]],<ref name="heritage">{{cite web | title=Johnny Depp Zone | work=Johnny's Cherokee heritage | url=http://www.johnnydepp-zone.com/deppster/ | accessdate=June 22 | accessyear=2006}}</ref> and his father also has distant [[Cherokee]] heritage. The family was constantly on the move during Depp's childhood, and he and his siblings lived in more than twenty different locations, finally settling in [[Miramar, Florida]] in 1970. Depp has admitted to engaging in self-mutilation as a child, due to the stress of dealing with family problems and his own insecurity. He has seven or eight scars from practicing [[self-harm]]. In a 1993 interview, he explained his self-injury by saying that his "body is a journal in a way. It's like what sailors used to do, where every tattoo meant something, a specific time in your life when you make a mark on yourself, whether you do it yourself with a knife or with a professional tattoo artist".<ref name="injury">{{cite web | title=Self Injury: A Struggle | work=Famous Self-Injurers | url=http://self-injury.net/doyousi/famous/ | accessdate=July 3 | accessyear=2006}}</ref>
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