Johnny Depp as Scottish author J. M. Barrie in the film "Finding Neverland" (2004). The following year he starred as Willy Wonka in "Charlie and the Chocolate Factory", which reunited him with director Tim Burton, with whom he had not collaborated since "Sleepy Hollow". The film was a box office success and had a positive critical reception, with Depp being nominated for the Golden Globe Award for Best Actor – Motion Picture Musical or Comedy. "Chocolate Factory" was followed by another Burton project, stop-motion animation "Corpse Bride" (2005), in which Depp voiced the character Victor Van Dort. Depp reprised the role of
Johnny Depp Wells), a waitress, and John Christopher Depp, a civil engineer. Depp is of mostly English ancestry, with some Dutch, Belgian, and French. He is descended from a French Huguenot immigrant (Pierre Dieppe, who settled in Virginia around 1700) and from colonial freedom fighter Elizabeth Key Grinstead (1630-1665), daughter of a British nobleman and an indentured African woman. Depp moved frequently during his childhood. He and his siblings lived in more than 20 different places, eventually settling in Miramar, Florida in 1970. Depp's parents divorced in 1978 when he was 15. His mother married Robert Palmer, whom Depp has called "an