Random fun facts about Johnny!

• Johnny is Godfather to Helena Bonham-Carter and Tim Burton’s son, Billy Ray.

• Johnny won his first Golden Globe for portraying the revenge seeking, throat cutting barber in Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street.

• Johnny commercially promotes ‘Trojan Condoms’. The slogan for the campaign is “Stand up with Johnny for safer sex.”

• Johnny invited the nurse who treated his daughter for her illness to the London premiere of Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street.

• Johnny did all his own singing in Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street.

• Producers and Johnny used a fart machine during a scene in the movie Finding Neverland to make the children laugh more.

• Johnny is the only actor to ever be nominated for an Oscar in the Leading Actor category in a Disney Film for his portrayal of Jack Sparrow in Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl (2003).

• Johnny modeled his character, Captain Jack Sparrow, after Keith Richards and Pepe le Peu.

• Several magazines have praised Johnny for being one of the friendliest, most respectful actors in the business when it comes to signing autographs.

• Johnny was awarded the freedom of Paris in July 2006. A city official said: “The freedom is given only to those who demonstrate devotion to Paris.”

• Johnny wanted to have his salary for Charlie and the Chocolate Factory in red jelly beans! But was turned down for tax reasons!

• Johnny’s nicknames as a child were Dipp and Deppity Dawg. He often signs in to hotels using the fake names of ‘Mr Satan’ or ‘Mr Donkey Penis’. He is also credited as Oprah Noodlemantra occasionally.

• Johnny cannot grow any facial hair, due to a disease. When he is on camera, he is often wearing fake hair.

• In the past, Johnny has held jobs as a gas attendant, and as a pen salesman.

• Johnny’s sister, Christie, is his personal manager. His brother, Danny, works as a screenwriter. Johnny’s tattoo “Betty Sue” is in dedication to his mother.

• Johnny provided the voice over for his character, Captain Jack Sparrow, on the video game Pirates of the Caribbean.

• Johnny is featured on the cover of a special edition of Ronald Dahl’s Charlie and the Chocolate Factory as the character, Willy Wonka.

• Johnny’s long-time girlfriend, Vanessa Paradis, is a popular singer-songwriter in her native France, as well as an aspiring actress. Johnny directed the music videos for her songs, Que fait la vie? and Pourtant.

• When Johnny was a child, he used to train lizards as pets and to do tricks.

• Johnny learned French just to be able to converse with his girlfriend Vanessa Paradis’ parents.

• Johnny received a Star on the ‘Hollywood Walk of Fame’ on 19 November 1999. Tim Burton and Martin Landau were guest speakers. Johnny also has his handprints and footprints located in front of Hollywood’s legendary ‘Grauman’s Chinese Theatre’.

• Johnny wrote the foreword to Mark Salisbury’s biography of Tim Burton, Burton on Burton. He credits Burton’s belief in him for rescuing him from being “a loser, an outcast, just another piece of expendable Hollywood meat.”

• Johnny lists British comedy The Fast Show (1994) – renamed Brilliant for US television – as his favourite TV program of all time. He used to take tapes of the series on tour with him to keep him amused. Made a guest appearance in the last-ever sketch in its last episode.

• Johnny adopted Goldeneye, the one-eyed Andalusian horse who played Gunpowder, Ichabod Crane’s steed in Sleepy Hollow (1999), thereby saving him from the glue factory.

• When Johnny was a child, he had an allergy to chocolate.

• Johnny enjoys watching Shrek and Finding Nemo with his daughter.

• Johnny shares his birthday with Michael J. Fox and Natalie Portman.

• Johnny’s parents are John Christopher and Betty Sue Palmer. His siblings are Danny, Christy, and Debbie.

• Johnny was in a band called P.

• Johnny is co-owner of the club The Viper Room in Los Angeles. Actor River Phoenix died of drug-induced heart failure outside of the club in 1993. Before he turned it into The Viper Room, the building in which the club is housed was owned by famous gangster Bugsy Siegel.

• Johnny co-owns a restaurant/club in Paris called Man Ray with actors Sean Penn and John Malkovich. The restaurant is located in a renovated theater and serves Tibetan cuisine.

• Johnny purchased Bela Lugosi’s Los Angeles home.

• Johnny played guitar on the soundtrack for the film Chocolat (2000).

• Johnny was close friends with Hunter S. Thompson who nicknamed him “Colonel.”

• Johnny has always been scared of clowns.

• Johnny was slimed at the Kids Choice Awards in 2005.

• Johnny was considered for the role in Signs that Mel Gibson played. He turned it down, because it “wasn’t worth it”.

• Johnny has admited that he only did the film Secret Window because he always wanted to play a character named Mort.

• As of May 2007, Johnny resides in both France and Los Angeles.

• Johnny appeared at the Tsunami Aid: A Concert of Hope in 2005.

• Johnny, along with Colin Farrell and Jude Law gave all the income they received for the movie The Imaginarium of Doctor Parnassus to Heath Ledger’s daughter Matilda so that her economic future would be secure.