Starting out as a young punk rocker, Johnny Depp first broke through onscreen with the TV series 21, Jump Street. Yet Silver Screen success was still years away, and it took the combined efforts of mavericks John Waters and Tim Burton to make Depp a real star. Thoroughly unpretentious, Depp is far more daring in his choice of roles than he's ever given credit for.

Awards

Screen Actors Guild Award (2003) for Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl 

Best Actor - Motion Picture Musical or Comedy (2007) for Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street