The Tourist
The very lovely Johnny Depp is back on the big screen this week as he joins forces with Oscar winner Angelina Jolie for The Tourist.
Depp has already enjoyed major box office success this year with Alice In Wonderland, which broke $1 billion at the box office - the second of his movies to achieve this feat.
To celebrate the release of The Tourist we take a look at some of the best performances from the actor.
Edward Scissorhands (1990)
1990 saw Depp team up with filmmaker Tim Burton for the first time as he starred in Edward Scissorhands.
Edward Scissorhands follows Peg, an Avon lady, encounters a shy young man called Edward when she is doing her Avon round in the neighbourhood.
The man, who was living in a decaying mansion and appears to have scissors for hands, is adopted into Peg's typical all American family.
Burton's casting of Depp in Scissorhands proved to be the young actor's breakthrough performance and kicked off his fascination with off the wall loner characters, for which he has become famous.
The movie was Burton's chance to return to the small budget movies after the success of Batman and it was an opportunity for Depp to shed the pin up status that he was uncomfortable with.
The movie was met well by the critics and remains one of the pair's best movies.
Sleepy Hollow (1999)
There was a third collaboration with Burton in 1999 when he starred as Ichabod Crane in Sleepy Hollow.
Ichabod Crane is a squeamish, bookish 18th century New York City investigator sent to a small town in lower Westchester county to look into three mysterious decapitations.
When the always rational Crane arrives at the little Dutch village, he finds that most of the townsfolk believe the culprit to be the Headless Horseman, the ghost of a monstrous Hessian soldier (Christopher Walken), who seems to be mysteriously tied in to one of the town's most prominent families.
The film grossed over $200 million worldwide, despite being criticised for the amount of violence and bloodshed. It was, at the time the most successful film of Depp’s career.
Pirates of the Caribbean
Needless to say there were some doubts raised when it was announced that Disney would be shooting a pirates movie. Not only had pirate movies bombed at the box office but this one would be based on a theme park ride.
So there were quite a few sceptics before the movie was released but they were soon proved wrong as Pirates of the Caribbean: Curse of the Black Pearl turned Depp’s career around.
Blacksmith Will Turner teams up with eccentric pirate "Captain" Jack Sparrow to save his love, the governor's daughter, from Jack's former pirate allies, who are now undead.
The movie was a huge critical and commercial success as it went on to gross in excess of $654 million and a Best Actor Oscar nomination for his performance as well as spawning two even bigger sequels.
Dead Man’s Chest broke $1 billion while At World’s End grossed $960 million and turned Depp into one of Hollywood’s biggest and most bankable stars.
He is set to return as Jack Sparrow, one of the biggest cinema icons of the last decade, in Fountain of Youth, which is due out next year.
Finding Neverland (2004)
Finding Neverland saw Depp return to the dramatic role as he became J.M. Barrie in the story of the writing of Peter Pan.
Depp led an all star cast of Kate Winslet, Dustin Hoffman and Julie Christie and was based on the play The Man Who Was Peter Pan by Allan Knee.
The central performance from Depp brought him a second Best Actor Oscar nomination, sadly losing out to Jamie Foxx from Ray.
The movie also picked up six other Oscar nods, including Best Picture.
Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street.
2008 saw Depp team up with Burton once again for Sweeney Todd, in which he took on the role of the murderous barber.
Benjamin Barker is a simple barber with a beautiful wife and child. But he is falsely imprisoned by Judge Turpin who has an eye on Barker's wife.
Fifteen years later Barker returns to London under the guise of Sweeney Todd. Recognised by pie maker Mrs Lovett Todd is informed that he wife is dead and his now teenage daughter is Judge Turpin's ward.
Together they devise a plan of revenge, with Todd practicing his murderous barbering skills on an unsuspecting general public, with the remains made into meat pie filling by Mrs Lovett.
On paper this movie should not work a tale of betrayal, murder, revenge and passion all set to Stephen Sondheim's music, with lead actors who have never sung before.
But the film stormed the box office and Depp was recognised with a Best Actor Oscar nomination as well as winning a Golden Globe for Best Actor in a Comedy or Musical.
The Tourist is released 10th December
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