Johnny Depp
Actor · Producer · Director
Born June 9, 1963 · Owensboro, Kentucky, USA
Johnny Depp made his film debut in A Nightmare on Elm Street (1984) before rising to prominence as a teen idol on TV's 21 Jump Street (1987-1990). He starred in various independent films in the 1990s, including What's Eating Gilbert Grape and Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas. He became a major film star with his portrayal of Captain Jack Sparrow in the Pirates of the Caribbean series beginning in 2003.
Biography
John Christopher Depp II (born June 9, 1963) is an American actor, producer and musician. He is the recipient of various accolades, including a Golden Globe Award and a Screen Actors Guild Award, in addition to nominations for three Academy Awards and two British Academy Film Awards.
He made his debut in the horror film A Nightmare on Elm Street (1984), before rising to prominence as a teen idol on the television series 21 Jump Street (1987–1990). In the 1990s, he acted mostly in independent films, often playing eccentric characters. These included What's Eating Gilbert Grape (1993), Benny and Joon (1993), Dead Man (1995), Donnie Brasco (1997) and Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas (1998). He also began collaborating with director Tim Burton, starring in Edward Scissorhands (1990), Ed Wood (1994), and Sleepy Hollow (1999).
In the 2000s, he became one of the most commercially successful film stars by playing Captain Jack Sparrow in the swashbuckler film series Pirates of the Caribbean (2003–present). He received critical praise for Finding Neverland (2004), and continued his commercially successful collaboration with Tim Burton with the films Charlie and the Chocolate Factory (2005), Corpse Bride (2005), Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street (2007), and Alice in Wonderland (2010).
In 2012, he was one of the world's biggest film stars, and was listed by the Guinness World Records as the world's highest-paid actor, with earnings of US$75 million. During the 2010s, Depp began producing films through his company, Infinitum Nihil, and formed the rock supergroup Hollywood Vampires with Alice Cooper and Joe Perry.
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Selected Filmography
- Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man's Chest(2006)
- Pirates of the Caribbean: At World's End(2007)
- Charlie and the Chocolate Factory(2005)
- Corpse Bride(2005)
- Pirates of the Caribbean: On Stranger Tides(2011)
- Alice in Wonderland(2010)
- Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them(2016)
- A Nightmare on Elm Street(1984)
- Edward Scissorhands(1990)
- Rango(2011)
- Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Men Tell No Tales(2017)
- Sleepy Hollow(1999)
- Fantastic Beasts: The Crimes of Grindelwald(2018)
- 21 Jump Street(2012)
- Alice Through the Looking Glass(2016)
- Platoon(1986)
- Murder on the Orient Express(2017)
- The Ninth Gate(1999)
- Dark Shadows(2012)
- Black Mass(2015)