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Johnny Depp

John Christopher "Johnny" Depp II is an American actor, producer, and


musician. He has won the Golden Globe Award and Screen Actors Guild
Award for Best Actor. He rose to prominence on the 1980s television
series 21 Jump Street, becoming a teen idol.

Since then, Depp has taken on challenging and "larger-than-life" roles,


starting with a supporting role in Oliver Stone's Vietnam War film Platoon
in 1986, then playing the title character in the romantic dark fantasy
Edward Scissorhands. He later found box office success in the fantasy
adventure film Sleepy Hollow , the fantasy swashbuckler film Pirates of
the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl and its sequels, the musical
adventure film Charlie and the Chocolate Factory , the fantasy film Alice
in Wonderland and voicing the title character in the animated action
comedy western Rango . He has collaborated on eight films with director
and friend Tim Burton
Depp is regarded as one of the world's biggest film stars. He has gained
worldwide critical acclaim for his portrayals of such people as screenwriter-
director Ed Wood in Ed Wood, undercover FBI agent Joseph D. Pistone in Donnie
Brasco, "gonzo" journalist Hunter S. Thompson in Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas,
cocaine kingpin George Jung in Blow, Peter Pan author J. M. Barrie in Finding
Neverland, and the Depression Era outlaw John Dillinger in Michael Mann's
Public Enemies. Films featuring Depp have grossed over $3.1 billion at the United
States box office and over $7.6 billion worldwide. His most commercially
successful films are the Pirates of the Caribbean films, which have grossed $3
billion; Alice in Wonderland which grossed $1 billion; Charlie and the Chocolate
Factory which grossed $474 million; and The Tourist which grossed $278 million
worldwide.

Depp has been nominated for major acting awards, including three nominations
for Academy Award for Best Actor. Depp won the Golden Globe Award for Best
Actor – Motion Picture Musical or Comedy for Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber
of Fleet Street and the Screen Actors Guild Award for Outstanding Performance
by a Male Actor in a Leading Role for Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the
Black Pearl. He has been listed in the 2012 Guinness World Records as the
highest paid actor, with earnings of $75 million. Depp was inducted as a Disney
Legend in 2015.[10]
Golden Globe winner, musician (guitar), French winemaker
and restaurateur, Johnny Depp is authentically touched by
the genuine nature of a child’s request.
Depp made a voice message for a 17-year-old British girl
who had been in a coma for five months; parents of the girl
asked him to tape a voice message because he was the
favorite actor of their daughter and they hoped playing the
message everyday would help wake her up. As an advocate
for sophie’s gift, a growing database of celebrity .
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