John Christopher Depp II, an American actor, and musician was born on June 9, 1963. In addition to being nominated for three Academy Awards and two BAFTA awards, he has won other honors, including a Golden Globe Award and a Screen Actors Guild Award.
Before becoming well-known as a teen idol on the television program 21 Jump Street, Depp made his feature film debut in the 1984 horror movie A Nightmare on Elm Street. He next made an appearance in Platoon in 1986. (1987–1990). Depp primarily appeared in independent films with auteur directors in the 1990s, frequently portraying oddball characters. They included Cry-Baby (1990), Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas (1997), What’s Eating Gilbert Grape (1993), Benny and Joon (1993), Dead Man (1995), and (1998). Depp also started working with filmmaker Tim Burton, playing the main characters in the movies Edward Scissorhands (1990), Ed Wood (1994), and Sleepy Hollow (1999).
By playing Captain Jack Sparrow in the Walt Disney swashbuckler series Pirates of the Caribbean, Depp became one of the most financially successful movie stars of the 2000s (2003–2017). While continuing his commercially successful partnership with Tim Burton in the movies Charlie and the Chocolate Factory (2005), in which he played Willy Wonka, Corpse Bride (2005), Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street (2007), and Alice in Wonderland, he also received praise from critics for Chocolat (2000), Finding Neverland (2004), and Public Enemies (2009). (2010).
With revenues of US$75 million per year, Depp was one of the top cinema stars in the world in 2012 and was recognized as the highest-paid actor in the world by Guinness World Records. In the 2010s, Depp started making movies under his firm Infinitum Nihil. In addition, he received positive reviews for Black Mass (2015). He then joined forces with Alice Cooper and Joe Perry to form the rock supergroup Hollywood Vampires before playing Gellert Grindelwald in the Wizarding World movies Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them (2016) and Fantastic Beasts: The Crimes of Grindelwald (2017). (2018).
