John Christopher "Johnny" Depp II (Born June 9, 1963) Is An American Actor and

John Christopher "Johnny" Depp II (born June 9, 1963) is an American actor and
musician. He has won the Golden Globe Award and Screen Actors Guild award for
Best Actor. Depp rose to prominence on the 1980s television series 21 Jump Street,
becoming a teen idol. Turning to film, he played the title character of Edward
Scissorhands (1990), and later found box office success in films such as Sleepy
Hollow (1999), Pirates of the Caribbean film series (2003-present), Charlie and the
Chocolate Factory (2005), and Rango (2011). He has collaborated with director and
friend Tim Burton in seven films, including Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of
Fleet Street (2007) and Alice in Wonderland (2010).
Depp has gained acclaim for his portrayals of people such as Edward D. Wood, Jr., in
Ed Wood, Joseph D. Pistone in Donnie Brasco, Hunter S. Thompson in Fear and
Loathing in Las Vegas, George Jung in Blow, and the bank robber John Dillinger in
Michael Mann's Public Enemies. Films featuring Depp have grossed over $3.1 billion
at the United States box office and over $7.6 billion worldwide.[2] He has been
nominated for top awards many times, winning the Best Actor Awards from the
Golden Globes for Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street and from the
Screen Actors Guild for Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl. He
also has garnered a sex symbol status in American cinema, being twice named as
the Sexiest man alive by People magazine[3] in 2003 and 2009.
Film roles
Depp's first major role was in the 1984 horror film A Nightmare on Elm Street, playing
the heroine's boyfriend and one of Freddy Krueger's victims. Depp was the first
choice and was cast to star in the now classic, 1986 American skater drama film
Thrashin', chosen and cast by the director but ultimately rejected by the films
producer.[13][14] In 1986, he appeared in a secondary role as a Vietnamesespeaking private in Oliver Stone's Platoon. In 1990 he undertook the quirky title role
of the Tim Burton film, Edward Scissorhands. The film's success began his long
association with Burton.
Depp, a fan and long-time friend of writer Hunter S. Thompson, played a version of
Thompson (named Raoul Duke) in 1998's Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas, based on
the writer's pseudobiographical novel of the same name. Depp accompanied
Thompson as his road manager on one of the author's last book tours.[15] In 2006,
Depp contributed a foreword to Gonzo: Photographs by Hunter S. Thompson, a
posthumous biography published by ammobooks.com. Depp paid for most of
Thompson's memorial event, complete with fireworks and the shooting of
Thompson's ashes by a cannon, in Aspen, Colorado, where Thompson lived.[16]
Critics have described Depp's roles as characters who are "iconic loners."[17] Depp
has noted this period of his career was full of "studio defined failures" and films that
were "box office poison,"[18] but he thought the studios never understood the films
and did not do a good job of marketing.[17] Depp has chosen roles which he found
interesting, rather than those he thought would succeed at the box office.[17]
Depp wearing a mustache and goatee similar to the style used in Pirates of the
Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl
The 2003 Walt Disney Pictures film Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black
Pearl was a major success,[17] in which Depp's performance as the suave pirate
Captain Jack Sparrow was highly praised. Studio bosses were more ambivalent at
first,[19] but the character became popular with the movie-going public.[17] According
to a survey taken by Fandango, Depp was a major draw for audiences.[20] The film's
director, Gore Verbinski, has said that Depp's character closely resembles the actor's
personality, but Depp said he modeled the character after Rolling Stones guitarist
Keith Richards.[21] Depp was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Actor for
the role.
In 2004, he was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Actor, for playing Scottish
author J. M. Barrie in the film Finding Neverland. Depp next starred as Willy Wonka in
the 2005 film Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, a major success at the box office
and earning him a nomination for the Golden Globe Award for Best Actor in a Musical
or Comedy.[21][22]
Depp returned to the role of Jack Sparrow for the sequel Pirates of the Caribbean:
Dead Man's Chest, which opened on July 7, 2006 and grossed $135.5 million in the
first three days of its U.S. release, breaking a box office record of the highest
weekend tally.[23] The next sequel to Pirates of the Caribbean, At World's End, was
released May 24, 2007. Depp has said that Sparrow is "definitely a big part of me",
and he wants to play the role in further sequels.[24] Depp voiced Sparrow in the
video game, Pirates of the Caribbean: The Legend of Jack Sparrow.[25] Johnny
Depp's swashbuckling sword talents as developed for the character of Jack Sparrow,
were highlighted in the documentary film Reclaiming the Blade. Within the film,
Swordmaster Bob Anderson shared his experiences working with Depp on the
choreography for The Curse of the Black Pearl. Anderson, who also trained Errol
Flynn, another famous Hollywood pirate, described in the film Depp's ability as an
actor to pick up the sword to be "about as good as you can get."[26]

Depp and Gore Verbinski were executive producers of the album Rogues Gallery,
Pirate Ballads, Sea Songs and Chanteys. Depp played the title role of Sweeney Todd
in Tim Burton's film adaptation of the musical, for which he won a Golden Globe
Award for Best Actor Motion Picture Musical or Comedy. Depp thanked the
Hollywood Foreign Press Association and praised Tim Burton for his "unwavering
trust and support."[27]
Depp played the former Heath Ledger character in the 2009 film, The Imaginarium of
Doctor Parnassus along with Jude Law and Colin Farrell. All three actors gave their
salaries from the film to Ledger's daughter, Matilda.[28] He portrayed the Mad Hatter
in Burton's Alice in Wonderland, and the titular character in Rango.

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