Johnny Depp
Jun 9, 1963, Owensboro, Kentucky, USA 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.\nSince 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.\nDepp is regarded as one of the world's biggest movie 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.