Actor: Johnny Depp

Johnny Depp built a career on character work inside leading roles, in Edward Scissorhands, Ed Wood, Donnie Brasco and Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas, consistently choosing eccentricity over conventional stardom.

Pirates of the Caribbean was the exception that became the rule. Jack Sparrow was reportedly resisted by the studio and earned him a nomination, and the character then occupied a decade.

He has worked with Tim Burton eight times.

Allegations of domestic abuse by Amber Heard, a lost libel case in the UK and a won defamation case in the United States dominated the last decade, and the film career has only partially resumed.