Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street "Sweeney Todd", jointly produced by DreamWorks and Warner Bros., was released on December 21, 2007. Tim Burton directed from a screenplay by John Logan. It stars Johnny Depp as Todd (Depp received an Oscar nomination and a Golden Globe Award for his performance), Helena Bonham Carter as Mrs. Lovett, Alan Rickman as Judge Turpin, Sacha Baron Cohen as Signor Pirelli, Jamie Campbell Bower as Anthony Hope, Laura Michelle Kelly as The Beggar Woman, Jayne Wisener as Johanna, Ed Sanders as Toby, and Timothy Spall as Beadle Bamford. The film was well-received by critics and theatregoers and also won the Golden
Johanna (character) Johanna (character) Johanna is a fictional character appearing in the story of Sweeney Todd. In the original version of the tale, the penny dreadful "The String of Pearls" (1846–7), her name is Johanna Oakley and she is no relation of Todd. In the popular by Stephen Sondheim, inspired by Christopher Bond's play "Sweeney Todd, the Demon Barber of Fleet Street" (1973), she is referred to simply as Johanna and is portrayed as the daughter of Benjamin Barker and his wife, Lucy. In this version she is the ward of Judge Turpin, the man who falsely convicted her father and raped