Included in Top 100 Celebrities of 2023 American actor and musician Johnny Depp

 

American actor and musician Johnny Depp was born in Owensboro, Kentucky, on June 9, 1963. He was well-known for his unusual and varied taste in movies. In the Pirates of the Caribbean television series, he might have had the most success as Captain Jack Sparrow.

Childhood and vocation

Depp left high school at the age of sixteen in order to focus on his music career. He moved to Los Angeles with his band, the Kids, from Florida, where he had spent most of his life. While Depp was having trouble as a musician, Johnny married Lori Anne Allison, a cosmetics artist, in 1983. When Depp was a teenager, he was eaten by his own bed in A Nightmare on Elm Street (1984), which he made his film debut in. Allison had her friend, actor Nicolas Cage, set up an audition for Depp with director Wes Craven. He separated with Allison the next year.

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Hunter S. Thompson, Tim Burton movies, and 21 Jump Street

Scissorhands Edward

Scissorhands Edward

Tim Burton's 1990 film Edward Scissorhands starred Johnny Depp and Winona Ryder.

John Travolta in Ed Wood

John Travolta in Ed Wood

Johnny Depp in Tim Burton's 1994 film Ed Wood.

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slumber hollow

Tim Burton, director of Sleepy Hollow (1999), stars Johnny Depp and Christina Ricci.

The television police series 21 Jump Street, which starred Depp as Officer Tom Hanson, a young police officer who frequently went undercover in high schools and universities to arrest problematic adolescents, marked Depp's professional debut in 1987. Even though Depp disliked being promoted as a young heartthrob, the show was a success. He departed the series in 1990 andappeared in two films directed by unconventional figures that demonstrated Depp's range: John Waters's Cry-Baby and Tim Burton's Edward Scissorhands.

A lengthy collaboration between the actor and filmmaker began with Scissorhands, and Depp went on to feature in several more Burton productions, such as Ed Wood (1994), Sleepy Hollow (1999), and Charlie and the Chocolate Factory (2005), where he played the withdrawn candy baron Willy Wonka. Furthermore, Depp voiced the unlucky husband in Burton's spooky animated film Corpse Bride (2005).

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In Jim Jarmusch's Dead Man (1995), Depp played a 19th-century accountant; in Donnie Brasco (1997), he plays an FBI agent who infiltrates the Mafia, further showcasing his flexibility. Hunter S. Thompson was a gonzo journalist, and Depp was a lifelong friend and admirer of Thompson. In 1998, Depp starred in Terry Gilliam's Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas, which was based on Thompson's pseudo-autobiographical novel of the same name; Later, in another adaptation of Thompson's work, The Rum Diary (2011), Depp was given the lead role. For No Good Reason (2012), he conducted an interview with gonzo artist Ralph Steadman, who contributed illustrations to a lot of Thompson's writings. Ted Demme's Blow (2001) and Roman Polanski's The Ninth Gate (1999) are two other noteworthy movies.

Pirates of the Caribbean and Academy Award nominations

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(Right to left) Producer Jerry Bruckheimer, Orlando Bloom, and Johnny Depp during the 2003 Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl premiere.

At the End of the World, Pirates of the Caribbean

At the End of the World, Pirates of the Caribbean

Johnny Depp (right) in Pirates of the Caribbean: At World's End (2007) with Keira Knightley and Geoffrey Rush.

Orlando Bloom and Keira Knightley costarred with Johnny Depp in Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl (2003), in which Depp played Captain Jack Sparrow. With a performance based on Rolling Stones guitarist Keith Richards, Depp was nominated for his first Academy Award.

In the next Pirates of the Caribbean movies, Depp played Sparrow again: Dead Man's Chest (2006), At World's End (2007), On Stranger Tides (2011), and Dead Men Tell No Tales (2017), which were some of the highest-grossing movies ever made. During this period, Depp and Burton collaborated once more on the screenplay for Stephen Sondheim's musical Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street (2007). Depp gained critical acclaim for his performance as serial killer Sweeney, as well as an Oscar nomination.

John Dillinger, the Mad Hatter, and Tonto

Johnny Depp in the film Enemy

Michael Mann's 2009 film Public Enemies, starring Johnny Depp.

In the 2009 film Public Enemies, Johnny Dillinger was portrayed by Depp as a renowned robber who gained notoriety for stealing several American banks amid the Great Depression. Later, Depp collaborated with Jude Law and Colin Farrell to provide a different interpretation of Heath Ledger's character for The Imaginarium of Doctor Parnassus (2009). The film's fantastical premise made this conceit feasible and allowed Ledger to salvage his unfinished final performance.

In Burton's 2010 version of Lewis Carroll's beloved tale Alice's Adventures in Wonderland (1865), Depp played the Mad Hatter. He starred in the thriller The Tourist with Angelina Jolie later that year. Depp voiced the title character, a chameleon who rises to become the sheriff of a vibrant desert town, in the 2011 animated western Rango. In Burton's humorous take on the beloved soap opera Dark Shadows (2012), he portrayed an awakened vampire from the 18th century during the 1970s. In the 2013 film The Lone Ranger, Depp played Tonto, the reticent Native American sidekick of the title lawman, donning a headdress and war paint.

Later motion pictures

In 2014, Depp played a detective in the horror movie Tusk, a wolf in the movie adaptation of Stephen Sondheim's musical fairy tale Into the Woods, and an artificial intelligence researcher in the thriller Transcendence. 2015 saw Depp show off his comedic skills as the titular character in the comedy espionage caper Mortdecai. Later that year, he looked menacing in Black Mass as criminal Whitey Bulger. 

In Alice Through the Looking Glass (2016), he played the Mad Hatter with the same cheery lunacy as before, and in Murder on the Orient Express (2017), which was based on Agatha Christie's 1933 novel, he was a member of an all-star cast. In the animated film Sherlock Gnomes released in 2018, Depp provided the voice of the film's protagonist. Later same year, he starred in Fantastic Beasts: The Crimes of Grindelwald, the second film in a film series based on J.K. Rowling's Harry Potter universe, as the title character. In Minamata (2020), Depp played photojournalist W. Eugene Smith, who recorded the effects of industrial contamination on a Japanese village's inhabitants in the early 1970s.

Both personal life and music

Retaining his early passion for music, Depp performed on the Once upon a Time in Mexico (2003) album and in the movie Chocolat (2000). His guitar skills can also be heard on albums by Oasis and the Pogues. He met French singer and actress Vanessa Paradis while working on The Ninth Gate. He dated her for ten years (1998–2012) and had two children with her.

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After Depp married actress Amber Heard in 2015, their turbulent marriage was featured in tabloids. Notably, Heard claimed that he had substance abuse problems and accused him of physically abusing her. After their 2016 divorce, Heard claimed to be a “public figure representing domestic abuse” in an opinion piece she penned for The Washington Post two years later. The British daily The Sun also called Depp a "wife beater" in 2018. He filed a libel lawsuit against the newspaper, and in 2020 the judge found against Depp, saying, "I acknowledge that Mr. Depp made [Heard] fear for her life."Additionally, Depp filed a defamation lawsuit against Heard at this time due to her Post piece. She then filed a countersuit, claiming that when one of Depp's attorneys referred to her abuse claims as a fake, she was defamed. The trial went on television in April 2022 and quickly gained popularity on social media, resembling a media circus. A jury decided in favor of Depp in his complaint after six weeks of testimony, during which time both sides accused one another of domestic abuse. The jury concluded that Heard had acted with "actual malice." The judge reduced Depp's compensatory and punitive damages award from $15 million to $10.35 million. The jury concluded that Heard had been falsely accused by Depp's lawyer, although she lost on two counts.