

Moving to Los Angeles to pursue this line of work, he began collaborating with a local rock band by the name of Rock City Angels in the early 1980s. Initially inspired by the pursuit of music, Depp dropped out of high school at the age of 16 to become a rock musician.
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Johnny Depp as Officer Tom Hanson, Steven Williams as Captain Adam Fuller, Peter DeLuise as Officer Doug Penhall, Dustin Nguyen as Officer Harry Truman Ioki, Holly Robinson Peete as Officer Judy Hoffs, and Richard Grieco as Detective Dennis Booker in the American police procedural television series 21 Jump Street (Credit: 20th Century Fox Television)ĭepp was born in 1963 in the small town of Owensboro, Kentucky, before finally settling down with his family in 1970 in the town of Miramar, Florida.

The series was particularly notable for reigniting the acting career of Johnny Depp, its first protagonist and main star. Wrapping up after a successful five-season run, 21 Jump Street proved to be a hit with audiences of the late 80s, and ran from 1987 to 1991, with a total of 103 episodes produced. Desperate to create a successful TV pilot for their fledgling television network, Fox Network greenlights a series involving youthful-looking undercover police officers whose primary line of work involves clandestinely infiltrating high schools and colleges, to crack down on crimes such as drug trafficking, hate crimes, and child abuse.
