This person was born on the 9 th June 1963 in Owensboro, Kentucky. He was brought up mainly by his grandfather who he affectionately called Paw Paw. But at only 7 years old his precious grandfather died and it was shortly after that he was uprooted to go and live in Florida, but this was just the start of a life on the road moving from one town to another never settling anywhere for very long. He dropped out of school at the age of 16 and was soon into drinking, drugs and Rock and Roll. He taught himself to play the guitar and joined a band called “The Flame” playing in Florida nightclubs. But after changing the bands name to “The Kids” their luck changed as well as they got to back artist such as Iggy Pop , Talking Heads & B52's . it was around this time that he moved to Los Angeles .

But then the music career started to fade and he was advised by his then wife Lori Anne Anderson , to speak to a friend of hers to try and help him get into acting, this person was Nicholas Cage . So Nicholas got him in to see his agent and she got him his first major film role as Glen Lantz . After this he decided to take acting seriously and enrolled at The Loft a Los Angeles Acting School . He got two more film roles after enrolling in which he played the characters Donnie Fleischer in Slow Burn also Private Lerner -Platoon. He then took a TV role playing the character Officer Tom Hanson .

The role as Tom Hanson was very popular with the viewers and it led to more major film roles such as Wade Walker - Cry Baby, Axel Blackmar - Arizona Dream & Sam- Benny & Joon. But his personal life was going off the rails as he was heavily drinking and taking hard core drugs. He had also been arrested a number of times for fighting with hotel security and the Paparazzi also for trashing a hotel room in New York. His relationship with the paparazzi is still as bad to this day.

Even with all this going on in his personal life his work was just getting better and better playing roles such as William Blake - Dead Man, Gene Watson - Nick Of Time, Dean Corso - The Ninth Gate, Constable Crane - Sleepy hollow & Don Juan - Don Juan Demarco. The roles were coming in so quickly he could even turn down the films Legends Of The Fall , Interview With A Vampire & Speed. He did get nominated for many awards over the years but still now he has'nt managed to win one!!

He did disappear for a while after playing the character who was hunting for Jack The Ripper- Inspector Fred Abberline . But then he burst back on to the scene in 2003 playing the pirate Captain Jack Sparrow with Orlando Bloom as his side kick, and finally he is soon to star as Willy Wonka in the re-make of Roald Dahl's Charlie and the Chocolate factory he is of course