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Johnny Depp

Johnny Depp

Birthday: 1963-06-09 | Place of Birth: Owensboro, Kentucky, USA

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. Depp 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, Depp 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). Depp also began collaborating with director Tim Burton, starring in Edward Scissorhands (1990), Ed Wood (1994) and Sleepy Hollow (1999). In the 2000s, Depp 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, Depp 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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Known For

Acting

Year
Title

Role

2022
Tell Me Iggy

as    Self

2021
Puffins - Sinfonie Artiche

as    Johnny Puff

2021
City of Lies

as    Russell Poole

2021
Johnny vs Amber

as    Self (archive footage)

2021
Minamata

as    W. Eugene Smith

2020
Crock of Gold: A Few Rounds with Shane MacGowan

as    Self (archive footage)

2019
Waiting for the Barbarians

as    Colonel Joll

2018
London Fields

as    Chick Purchase

2018
Fantastic Beasts: The Crimes of Grindelwald

as    Gellert Grindelwald

2018
The Professor

as    Richard Brown

2018
Sherlock Gnomes

as    Sherlock Gnomes (voice)

2017
Murder on the Orient Express

as    Edward Ratchett

2016
2016
Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them

as    Gellert Grindelwald

2016
Alice Through the Looking Glass

as    Mad Hatter

2015
Mortdecai

as    Charlie Mortdecai

2015
Black Mass

as    James 'Whitey' Bulger

2015
Hollywood Vampires - Rock in Rio 2015

as    Self - Guitars

2014
Into the Woods

as    Big Bad Wolf

2014
Transcendence

as    Dr. Will Caster

2014
Tusk

as    Guy Lapointe

2014
Lucky Them

as    Matthew Smith

2014
For No Good Reason

as    Self

2013
The Lone Ranger

as    Tonto

2012
Dark Shadows

as    Barnabas Collins

2011