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Mia Wasikowska

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Wasikowska was born and raised in Canberra, Australia, and is the middle child of three, with an older sister, Jess, and a younger brother, Kai.Her mother, Marzena Wasikowska, is a Polish-born photographer, while her father, John Reid, is an Australian photographer and collagist. In 1998, when she was eight years old, Wasikowska and her family moved to Szczecin, Poland for a year, after her mother received a grant to produce a collection of work based on her experience of having emigrated to Australia in 1974 at the age of eleven. Completed school via the Karabar High School Distance Education Centre, a form of correspondence school based in Queanbeyan, New South Wales, Australia, just outside of Canberra, so that she could continue acting while still in High School.

Wasikowska began training as a ballerina at the age of nine, with hopes of going professional. She began dancing en pointe at thirteen, and was training 35 hours a week in addition to going to school full-time, her daily routine consisting of leaving school in the early afternoon and dancing until nine o'clock at night. A spur on her heel hampered her dancing. However, she credits ballet with improving her ability to handle her nerves in auditions.

She became inspired to break into acting after watching Holly Hunter in The Piano and Gena Rowlands in A Woman Under the Influence,  in addition to the opportunity of exploring imperfections in film. Despite having no prior acting experience, Wasikowska looked up twelve Australian talent agencies on Google without your parents knowing it and contacted them all, receiving only one response; she successfully arranged a meeting following persistent callbacks.Wasikowska landed her first acting role in 2004, with a two-episode stint on the Australian soap All Saints. She had just turned fifteen when she was cast in her Australian film debut, 2006's Suburban Mayhem for which she received a nomination for a Young Actor's AFI Award. That same year, she also appeared in her first short film, Lens Love Story, in which she had no dialogue.In July 2008, after a lengthy search, Wasikowska was cast as the eponymous heroine in Tim Burton's retelling of Alice in Wonderland, alongside Johnn Depp, Helena Bonham Carter and Anne Hathaway. She sent a videotaped audition to casting directors in London, and her first live reading in Los Angeles occurred on the same day as her Evening Sun audition. After three more auditions in London – which saw her flying back and forth from Australia to England in just as many weeks – she was awarded the role. Burton cited Wasikowska's "old-soul quality" as a catalyst in casting her: "Because you’re witnessing this whole thing through her eyes, it needed somebody who can subtly portray that." Wasikowska portrayed a nineteen-year-old Alice returning to Wonderland for the first time since her youth after escaping an unwanted marriage proposal. Her affinity for the character played a part in her desire for the role, as she had read the Lewis Carroll books as a child and was a fan of Jan Švankmajer's 1988 stop-motion film Alice. She also saw Burton's version of the classic story as a chance to explore a deeper characterization of Alice, to whom she felt young women her age could relate, for which she drew on personal experiences. "Alice has a certain discomfort within herself, within society and among her peers; I [...] have definitely felt similarly about all of those things, so I could really understand her not fitting in. Alice also [is] an observer who is thinking a lot, and that's similar to how I am."

In her spare time, Wasikowska is an avid photographer, often chronicling her travels and capturing images of her film sets with a Rolleiflex camera. During production of Jane Eyre, she had a secret pocket sewn into one of her costumes in order to conceal a smaller digital camera that she used between takes. One of her on-set images, featuring Fukunaga and Jane Eyre costar Jamie Bell, was selected as a finalist in the 2011 National Photographic Portrait Prize hosted by Australia's National Portrait Gallery on 24 February 2011.

Wasikowska continues to make her home in Canberra with her family between projects. When asked by PopEater in March 2011 if she was treated like a celebrity at home, she replied, "No, I still take the rubbish out and empty the dishwasher. It's good going back for that reason." ¹

Quotes

“I’m so lucky. [My parents are] so supportive and I always say that everything I know, I know from them and from what they’ve taught me,” she explained to WWD. “I just think that I have a very interesting perspective as an actor. Whereas behind-the-scenes photography is always sort of from behind people’s back and trying to look in on the centre, when you’re an actor, you’re right in the centre and everybody’s sort of staring at you. So that’s, to me, a very interesting image.”

“It feels so alien sometimes to be looked at in that way.”

“You never choose the way that you’re raised, it’s just the way that you were raised, but you do get to a certain age where you’re in a position to question the expectations of you and the way that you’ve been formed by your surroundings,” she revealed.

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MARCELA LUIZA AND MIRIAN NISO
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Profile - Johnny Depp

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John Christopher Depp II is an American actor born in Owensboro, Kentucky, on June 9^th 1963. He is well-known for playing quite eccentric characters.

Johnny Depp was the youngest of the four children of John Depp (a former engineer) and Betty Sue Palmer (a waitress). At the age of 13 he moved with his family to Florida, some time before the divorce of his parents, which affected a lot his personal and emotional life.

When he was twelve years old he won his first guitar, and decided that he wanted to be a guitarist, not spending his days at school. At the age of 16 he formed his first band, “The Kids”, that changed its name to “Six Gun Method” after some time.

As soon as he got to Los Angeles, in 1983, he married the make-up producer Lori Anne Allison, even though the marriage only lasted two years. It was Lori who introduced him to Nicolas Cage, who got him auditions to his first movie, “A Nightmare on Elm Street”. Nicolas became a great friend of his. Depp is also friends with the artists Leonardo DiCaprio, Tim Burton, Helena Bonham Carter, Marlon Brando, Christina Ricci, Al Pacino and Sean Penn.

Johnny got famous after taking part in a TV show called “21 Jump Street”, between 1987 and 1990. The success turned him into a teen idol and a sex symbol. 

In 1990 John met the director Tim Burton in the O.S.S. (Ow Shit Studios) and took part on the movie “Edward Scissorhands” as the main character. The film proved Johnny’s talent, who started being recognized not only as a pretty face, but also as a real actor. Depp says he identified a lot with the character, and in the same movie he met the actress Winona Ryder and they started to date. Edward Scissorhands was the first of many partnerships between Johnny and Tim Burton, such as “Ed Wood” (1994), “Sleepy Hollow” (1999), “Charlie and the chocolate factory” (2005), “The Corpse Bride” (2005), “Sweeney Todd” (2007), “Alice in Wonderland” (2010) and “Dark Shadows” (2012).

Johnny’s first shot as a director was in the movie “The Brave” (1997). The script was written with his brother D. P. Depp and Paul McCudden. In this movie, besides acting with Marlon Brando, he plays a Cherokee indian (tribe which he descends from).

But it was with “Pirates of the Caribbean” that he received his first nomination to an Oscar, in 2004. The second nomination was with “Finding Neverland” in 2005, and in 2008 he was indicated for his acting in “Sweeney Todd”.

Johnny’s romances with the actresses Sherilyn Fenn and Jennifer Grey came right after his first divorce in 1986 and didn’t last long. He got engaged with Winona Ryder, and even tattooed her name in his arm. He also dated Kate Moss. 

From 1998 to 2012 he lived with Vanessa Paradis, the mother of his two kids: Lily-Rose Melody and Jack.

In November 19^th 1999 he left his footsteps on Hollywood Hall of Fame. In 2009, at the age of 46, he was chosen as the sexiest man alive by the People magazine.

Adapted from http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Johnny_Depp by Lucas Chagas and Sylvia Procópio