Johnny Depp Johnny Depp John Christopher Depp II (born June 9, 1963) is an American actor, producer, and musician. He has been nominated for three Academy Awards and has won the Golden Globe and Screen Actors Guild Awards for Best Actor. Depp rose to prominence on the 1980s television series "21 Jump Street", becoming a teen idol. Depp has challenged himself by playing larger-than-life roles, including a supporting role in Oliver Stone's 1986 Vietnam War film "Platoon" and the title character in the 1990 romantic dark fantasy "Edward Scissorhands". He later found box office success in the adventure film "Sleepy Hollow" (1999),
Johnny Depp filmography his roles in "The Curse of the Black Pearl", "Finding Neverland", and "Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street", Depp was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Actor. In 2010, Depp was cast as the Mad Hatter in the live-action film "Alice in Wonderland". The same year, he went on to star in "The Tourist" with Angelina Jolie and was nominated for a Golden Globe Award for Best Actor in a Motion Picture Comedy. He has starred in "The Rum Diary" with Amber Heard (2011), "Dark Shadows" with Michelle Pfeiffer (2012), "The Lone Ranger" with Armie Hammer (2013),