American actor of Edward Scissorhands and Pirates of the Caribbean — photos, style and news
John Christopher “Johnny” Depp II (born June 9, 1963) is an American actor, film producer, 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. Dissatisfied with that status, Depp turned to film for more challenging roles; he played the title character of the acclaimed Edward Scissorhands (1990) and later found box office success in the Pirates of the Caribbean film series (2003–present). He has collaborated with director and friend Tim Burton in at least eight films.
John Christopher "Johnny" Depp II (born June 9, 1963) is an American actor, film producer, 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. Dissatisfied with that status, Depp turned to film for more challenging roles; he played the title character of the acclaimed Edward Scissorhands (1990) and later found box office success in films such as Sleepy Hollow (1999), Charlie and the Chocolate Factory (2005), Alice in Wonderland (2010), Rango (2011) and the Pirates of the Caribbean film series (2003–present). He has collaborated with director and friend Tim Burton in at least eight films; including Dark Shadows in 2012.
Depp has gained acclaim for his portrayals of such people as Ed Wood 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. He also has garnered a sex symbol status in American cinema, being twice named as the "Sexiest Man Alive" by People magazine.
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Depp's record is framed as a refusal: 21 Jump Street made him a teen idol in the 1980s, and being dissatisfied with that status, he turned to film for more challenging roles. The roles that followed define the strategy — Edward Scissorhands as the first Burton collaboration, then a run of portraits of real, often disreputable men: Ed Wood, Joseph D. Pistone, Hunter S. Thompson, George Jung and John Dillinger. The Pirates of the Caribbean series then made the challenger a box office fixture without ending the pattern, and the page's own aside — wondering why critics graded The Lone Ranger poorly when the movie was, in its view, well done for a comedy western — keeps the argument going.
This page gathers Johnny Depp photos, videos, news and blog posts, with search routes to each through Bing, Google and YouTube. He is filed in the J letter of the Male Fashion Celebrities H–P range alongside Justin Bieber and Justin Timberlake. A fashion celebrity in this guide is a person with celebrity status who is often watched and judged for what they wear, and Depp — twice named People's “Sexiest Man Alive” while building a career on disappearing into costume — is the range's clearest case of style as character work.
Depp rose to prominence on the 1980s television series 21 Jump Street, becoming a teen idol. Dissatisfied with that status, he turned to film for more challenging roles, playing the title character of the acclaimed Edward Scissorhands (1990).
Depp has collaborated with director and friend Tim Burton in at least eight films, including Dark Shadows in 2012. His other box office successes include Sleepy Hollow (1999), Charlie and the Chocolate Factory (2005), Alice in Wonderland (2010), Rango (2011) and the Pirates of the Caribbean series.
Depp has gained acclaim for his portrayals of Ed Wood 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. He has twice been named the “Sexiest Man Alive” by People magazine.