Grew up in Miramar Florida.
Johnny once mooned a teacher and was suspended.
Johnny has a bug collection, a fake mustache collection, and a gun collection.
Was the guitarist in bands called The Kids and 'P'.
Got his 'Betty Sue' (his mom's name) tattoo May 31, 1988.
His parents divorced when he was 15.
Is of Cherokee, Irish, and German descent.
Speaks French.
Once painted on a billboard featuring his '21 Jump Street' character because he didn't like his picture or the message the billboard gave. He was stopped by a security guard who actually let him finish what he was doing when he realized it was Johnny's own face

Appears in Tom Petty's 1991 music video Into the Great Wide Open.

Was People Magazine's Sexiest Man Alive in 2003.

TV Shows: 21 Jump Street

Movies: Willy Wonka, Pirates of the Caribbean: Curse of the Black Pearl, Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man's Chest, Pirates of the Caribbean: At Worlds End, Secret Window, Once Upon a Time in Mexico, Finding Neverland, The Libertine, Cry Baby, Chocolat, Blow, From Hell, Seepy Hollow, Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas, Don Juan DeMarco, Ed Wood, What's Eating Gilbert Grape, Benny & Joon, Edward Scissorhands.

Received a Star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame on 19 November 1999.