Johnny Depp

Born:9. juni 1963

Place of Birth:Owensboro, Kentucky, USA

Known For:Acting

Biography

Johnny Depp, born John Christopher Depp II on June 9, 1963, is a versatile American actor, producer, and musician who has left an indelible mark on the entertainment industry. Throughout his career, Depp has garnered numerous awards, including a Golden Globe and a Screen Actors Guild Award, solidifying his reputation as a talented and esteemed performer. His contributions to film and music have captivated audiences worldwide, showcasing his exceptional range and dedication to his craft.

Depp's journey to stardom began with his debut in the horror classic "A Nightmare on Elm Street" in 1984, setting the stage for a remarkable career that would see him transition from a teen idol on the television series "21 Jump Street" to a respected actor in independent cinema. Known for his portrayal of eccentric and complex characters, Depp's performances in films such as "What's Eating Gilbert Grape," "Benny and Joon," and "Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas" demonstrated his unparalleled talent and versatility as an actor.

In the 2000s, Depp reached new heights of fame with his iconic portrayal of Captain Jack Sparrow in the blockbuster "Pirates of the Caribbean" franchise, solidifying his status as one of Hollywood's most bankable stars. His collaborations with acclaimed director Tim Burton in films like "Edward Scissorhands," "Ed Wood," and "Sleepy Hollow" further showcased his ability to inhabit diverse and captivating roles, earning him both critical acclaim and commercial success.

Beyond his acting prowess, Depp has ventured into producing films through his company, Infinitum Nihil, demonstrating his passion for storytelling and creative expression. Additionally, his musical endeavors, including the formation of the rock supergroup Hollywood Vampires alongside Alice Cooper and Joe Perry, highlight his multifaceted talents and artistic pursuits outside of acting.

Despite facing challenges in his personal life, Depp's dedication to his craft remains unwavering, as he continues to captivate audiences with his nuanced performances and commitment to pushing artistic boundaries. With a filmography that spans genres and generations, Depp's impact on the entertainment industry is undeniable, solidifying his legacy as a true cinematic icon.

As one of the world's highest-paid actors, Depp's influence extends far beyond the silver screen, inspiring aspiring performers and filmmakers alike to pursue their artistic ambitions with unwavering dedication and passion. Through his memorable roles, unique style, and enduring charisma, Johnny Depp has secured his place as a beloved and respected figure in the realm of entertainment, leaving an indelible mark on popular culture that will endure for years to come.

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Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl

Jack Sparrow

2003

After Port Royal is attacked and pillaged by a mysterious pirate crew, capturing the governor's daughter Elizabeth Swann in the process, William Turner asks free-willing pirate Jack Sparrow to help him locate the crew's ship—The Black Pearl—so that he can rescue the woman he loves.

Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man's Chest

Jack Sparrow

2006

Captain Jack Sparrow races to recover the heart of Davy Jones to avoid enslaving his soul to Jones' service, as other friends and foes seek the heart for their own agenda as well.

Platoon

Gator Lerner

1986

As a young and naive recruit in Vietnam, Chris Taylor faces a moral crisis when confronted with the horrors of war and the duality of man.

Pirates of the Caribbean: At World's End

Jack Sparrow

2007

Will Turner and Elizabeth Swann join forces with the revived Captain Barbossa to free Jack Sparrow from Davy Jones' locker. The group must navigate dangerous waters, confront many foes and, ultimately, choose sides in a battle wherein piracy itself hangs in the balance.

Charlie and the Chocolate Factory

Willy Wonka

2005

A young boy wins a tour through the most magnificent chocolate factory in the world, led by the world's most unusual candy maker.

Corpse Bride

Victor Van Dort (voice)

2005

In a 19th-century European village, a young man about to be married is whisked away to the underworld and wed to a mysterious corpse bride, while his real bride waits bereft in the land of the living.

Pirates of the Caribbean: On Stranger Tides

Jack Sparrow

2011

Captain Jack Sparrow crosses paths with a woman from his past, and he's not sure if it's love — or if she's a ruthless con artist who's using him to find the fabled Fountain of Youth. When she forces him aboard the Queen Anne's Revenge, the ship of the formidable pirate Blackbeard, Jack finds himself on an unexpected adventure in which he doesn't know who to fear more: Blackbeard or the woman from his past.

A Nightmare on Elm Street

Glen Lantz

1984

Teenagers in a small town are dropping like flies, apparently in the grip of mass hysteria causing their suicides. A cop's daughter, Nancy Thompson, traces the cause to child molester Fred Krueger, who was burned alive by angry parents many years before. Krueger has now come back in the dreams of his killers' children, claiming their lives as his revenge. Nancy and her boyfriend, Glen, must devise a plan to lure the monster out of the realm of nightmares and into the real world...

Rango

Rango / Lars (voice)

2011

When Rango, a lost family pet, accidentally winds up in the gritty, gun-slinging town of Dirt, the less-than-courageous lizard suddenly finds he stands out. Welcomed as the last hope the town has been waiting for, new Sheriff Rango is forced to play his new role to the hilt.

Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Men Tell No Tales

Jack Sparrow

2017

Thrust into an all-new adventure, a down-on-his-luck Capt. Jack Sparrow feels the winds of ill-fortune blowing even more strongly when deadly ghost sailors led by his old nemesis, the evil Capt. Salazar, escape from the Devil's Triangle. Jack's only hope of survival lies in seeking out the legendary Trident of Poseidon, but to find it, he must forge an uneasy alliance with a brilliant and beautiful astronomer and a headstrong young man in the British navy.

Murder on the Orient Express

Edward Ratchett

2017

Genius Belgian detective Hercule Poirot investigates the murder of an American tycoon aboard the Orient Express train.

Edward Scissorhands

1990

A small suburban town receives a visit from a castaway unfinished science experiment named Edward.

Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them

Gellert Grindelwald

2016

In 1926, Newt Scamander arrives at the Magical Congress of the United States of America with a magically expanded briefcase, which houses a number of dangerous creatures and their habitats. When the creatures escape from the briefcase, it sends the American wizarding authorities after Newt, and threatens to strain even further the state of magical and non-magical relations.

21 Jump Street

Officer Tom Hanson (uncredited)

2012

When cops Schmidt and Jenko join the secret Jump Street unit, they use their youthful appearances to go undercover as high school students. They trade in their guns and badges for backpacks, and set out to shut down a dangerous drug ring. But, as time goes on, Schmidt and Jenko discover that high school is nothing like it was just a few years earlier -- and, what's more, they must again confront the teenage terror and anxiety they thought they had left behind.

Fantastic Beasts: The Crimes of Grindelwald

Grindelwald

2018

Gellert Grindelwald has escaped imprisonment and has begun gathering followers to his cause—elevating wizards above all non-magical beings. The only one capable of putting a stop to him is the wizard he once called his closest friend, Albus Dumbledore. However, Dumbledore will need to seek help from the wizard who had thwarted Grindelwald once before, his former student Newt Scamander, who agrees to help, unaware of the dangers that lie ahead. Lines are drawn as love and loyalty are tested, even among the truest friends and family, in an increasingly divided wizarding world.

The Tourist

Frank Tupelo

2010

American tourist Frank meets mysterious British woman Elise on the train to Venice. Romance seems to bud, but there's more to her than meets the eye.

Dark Shadows

Barnabas Collins

2012

Vampire Barnabas Collins is inadvertently freed from his tomb and emerges into the very changed world of 1972. He returns to Collinwood Manor to find that his once-grand estate and family have fallen into ruin.

Blow

George Jung

2001

A boy named George Jung grows up in a struggling family in the 1950's. His mother nags at her husband as he is trying to make a living for the family. It is finally revealed that George's father cannot make a living and the family goes bankrupt. George does not want the same thing to happen to him, and his friend Tuna, in the 1960's, suggests that he deal marijuana. He is a big hit in California in the 1960's, yet he goes to jail, where he finds out about the wonders of cocaine. As a result, when released, he gets rich by bringing cocaine to America. However, he soon pays the price.

Donnie Brasco

Donnie Brasco / Joseph D. 'Joe' Pistone

1997

An FBI undercover agent infiltrates the mob and identifies more with the mafia life at the expense of his regular one.

Sleepy Hollow

Ichabod Crane

1999

Skeptical young detective Ichabod Crane gets transferred to the hamlet of Sleepy Hollow, New York, where he is tasked with investigating the decapitations of three people – murders the townsfolk attribute to a legendary specter, The Headless Horseman.

Jack and Jill

Johnny Depp (uncredited)

2011

Jack Sadelstein, a successful advertising executive in Los Angeles with a beautiful wife and kids, dreads one event each year: the Thanksgiving visit of his twin sister Jill. Jill's neediness and passive-aggressiveness is maddening to Jack, turning his normally tranquil life upside down.

The Ninth Gate

Dean Corso

1999

A rare book dealer finds himself at the heart of a string of paranormal events when he is hired to find the last two copies of a text, The Nine Gates of the Kingdom of Shadows, capable of summoning the Devil.

Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas

Raoul Duke

1998

Raoul Duke and his attorney Dr. Gonzo drive a red convertible across the Mojave desert to Las Vegas with a suitcase full of drugs to cover a motorcycle race. As their consumption of drugs increases at an alarming rate, the stoned duo trash their hotel room and fear legal repercussions. Duke begins to drive back to L.A., but after an odd run-in with a cop, he returns to Sin City and continues his wild drug binge.

Mortdecai

Charlie Mortdecai

2015

An art dealer, Charles Mortdecai, searches for a stolen painting rumored to contain a secret code that gains access to hidden Nazi gold.

The Lone Ranger

Tonto

2013

The Texas Rangers chase down a gang of outlaws led by Butch Cavendish, but the gang ambushes the Rangers, seemingly killing them all. One survivor is found, however, by an American Indian named Tonto, who nurses him back to health. The Ranger, donning a mask and riding a white stallion named Silver, teams up with Tonto to bring the unscrupulous gang and others of that ilk to justice.

The Imaginarium of Doctor Parnassus

Imaginarium Tony 1

2009

A travelling theatre company has more to it than meets the eye.

Public Enemies

John Dillinger

2009

Depression-era bank robber John Dillinger's charm and audacity endear him to much of America's downtrodden public, but he's also a thorn in the side of J. Edgar Hoover and the fledgling FBI. Desperate to capture the elusive outlaw, Hoover makes Dillinger his first Public Enemy Number One and assigns his top agent, Melvin Purvis, the task of bringing him in dead or alive.

The Professor

Richard Brown

2018

A world-weary college professor is given a life-changing diagnosis and decides to throw all pretense and conventions to the wind and live his life as boldly and freely as possible with a biting sense of humor, a reckless streak and a touch of madness.

Ed Wood

1994

The mostly true story of the legendary "worst director of all time", who, with the help of his strange friends, filmed countless B-movies without ever becoming famous or successful.

From Hell

Fred Abberline

2001

Frederick Abberline is an opium-huffing inspector from Scotland Yard who falls for one of Jack the Ripper's prostitute targets in this Hughes brothers adaption of a graphic novel that posits the Ripper's true identity.

Once Upon a Time in Mexico

CIA Agent Jeffrey Sands

2003

A corrupt CIA agent Sands hires hitman El Mariachi to assassinate a Mexican general hired by a drug kingpin attempting a coup d'état of the President of Mexico.

Cry-Baby

1990

A prim and proper schoolgirl goes against her society grandmother's wishes when she dates a motorcycle-riding juvenile delinquent.

Dead Man

William Blake

1995

William Blake, an accountant turned fugitive, is on the run. During his travels, he meets a Native American man called Nobody, who guides him on a journey to the spiritual world.

The Rum Diary

Paul Kemp

2011

Tired of the noise and madness of New York and the crushing conventions of late Eisenhower-era America, itinerant journalist Paul Kemp travels to the pristine island of Puerto Rico to write for a local San Juan newspaper run by the downtrodden editor Lotterman. Adopting the rum-soaked lifestyle of the late ‘50s version of Hemingway’s 'The Lost Generation', Paul soon becomes entangled with a very attractive American woman and her fiancée, a businessman involved in shady property development deals. It is within this world that Kemp ultimately discovers his true voice as a writer and integrity as a man.

Finding Neverland

Sir James Matthew Barrie

2004

During a writing slump, playwright J.M. Barrie meets a widow and her four children, all young boys—who soon become an important part of Barrie’s life and the inspiration that lead him to create his masterpiece. Peter Pan.

Never Sleep Again: The Elm Street Legacy

Self (archive footage)

2010

For decades, Freddy Krueger has slashed his way through the dreams of countless youngsters, scaring up over half a billion dollars at the box office across eight terrifying, spectacular films.

Freddy's Dead: The Final Nightmare

Guy on TV

1991

Just when you thought it was safe to sleep, Freddy Krueger returns in this sixth installment of the Nightmare on Elm Street films, as psychologist Maggie Burroughs, tormented by recurring nightmares, meets a patient with the same horrific dreams. Their quest for answers leads to a certain house on Elm Street -- where the nightmares become reality.

Tusk

Guy Lapointe

2014

When his best friend and podcast co-host goes missing in the backwoods of Canada, a young guy joins forces with his friend's girlfriend to search for him.

Don Juan DeMarco

1994

John Arnold DeMarco is a man who believes he is Don Juan, the greatest lover in the world. Clad in a cape and mask, DeMarco undergoes psychiatric treatment with Dr. Jack Mickler to cure him of his apparent delusion. But the psychiatric sessions have an unexpected effect on the psychiatric staff and, most profoundly, Dr Mickler, who rekindles the romance in his complacent marriage.

Yoga Hosers

Guy Lapointe

2016

Two teenage yoga enthusiasts team up with a legendary man-hunter to battle with an ancient evil presence that is threatening their major party plans.

Jeanne du Barry

Louis XV

2023

The life of Jeanne Bécu, who was born as the illegitimate daughter of an impoverished seamstress in 1743 and went on to rise through the Court of Louis XV to become his last official mistress.

Secret Window

Mort Rainey

2004

Mort Rainey, a writer just emerging from a painful divorce with his ex-wife, is stalked at his remote lake house by a psychotic stranger and would-be scribe who claims Rainey swiped his best story idea. But as Rainey endeavors to prove his innocence, he begins to question his own sanity.

The Libertine

Rochester

2004

The story of John Wilmot, a.k.a. the Earl of Rochester, a 17th century poet who famously drank and debauched his way to an early grave, only to earn posthumous critical acclaim for his life's work.

Benny & Joon

Sam

1993

A mentally ill young woman finds her love in an eccentric man who models himself after Buster Keaton.

Into the Woods

Big Bad Wolf

2014

In a woods filled with magic and fairy tale characters, a baker and his wife set out to end the curse put on them by their neighbor, a spiteful witch.

Sherlock Gnomes

Sherlock Gnomes (voice)

2018

Garden gnomes Gnomeo & Juliet recruit renown detective Sherlock Gnomes to investigate the mysterious disappearance of other garden ornaments.

Arizona Dream

Axel Blackmar

1993

An Inuit hunter races his sled home with a fresh-caught halibut. This fish pervades the entire film, in real and imaginary form. Meanwhile, Axel tags fish in New York as a naturalist's gofer. He's happy there, but a messenger arrives to bring him to Arizona for his uncle's wedding. It's a ruse to get Axel into the family business. In Arizona, Axel meets two odd women: vivacious, needy, and plagued by neuroses and familial discord. He gets romantically involved with one, while the other, rich but depressed, plays accordion tunes to a gaggle of pet turtles.

Waiting for the Barbarians

Colonel Joll

2019

At an isolated frontier outpost, a colonial magistrate suffers a crisis of conscience when an army colonel arrives looking to interrogate the locals about an impending uprising, using cruel tactics that horrify the magistrate.

Gonzo: The Life and Work of Dr. Hunter S. Thompson

Narrator (voice)

2008

Fueled by a raging libido, Wild Turkey, and superhuman doses of drugs, Thompson was a true "free lance, " goring sacred cows with impunity, hilarity, and a steel-eyed conviction for writing wrongs. Focusing on the good doctor's heyday, 1965 to 1975, the film includes clips of never-before-seen (nor heard) home movies, audiotapes, and passages from unpublished manuscripts.

Produktion

Dark Shadows

Producer

2012

Hugo

Producer

2011

Orphaned and alone except for an uncle, Hugo Cabret lives in the walls of a train station in 1930s Paris. Hugo's job is to oil and maintain the station's clocks, but to him, his more important task is to protect a broken automaton and notebook left to him by his late father. Accompanied by the goddaughter of an embittered toy merchant, Hugo embarks on a quest to solve the mystery of the automaton and find a place he can call home.

Mortdecai

Producer

2015

An art dealer, Charles Mortdecai, searches for a stolen painting rumored to contain a secret code that gains access to hidden Nazi gold.

The Lone Ranger

Executive Producer

2013

The Rum Diary

Producer

2011

Jeanne du Barry

Co-Producer

2023

The life of Jeanne Bécu, who was born as the illegitimate daughter of an impoverished seamstress in 1743 and went on to rise through the Court of Louis XV to become his last official mistress.