Claim: Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Men Tell No Tales is a film.

John Christopher Depp II -LRB- born June 9 , 1963 -RRB- 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 .   Depp has taken on the task of challenging himself to portray `` 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 -LRB- 1990 -RRB- . He later found box office success in the fantasy adventure film Sleepy Hollow -LRB- 1999 -RRB- , the fantasy swashbuckler film Pirates of the Caribbean : The Curse of the Black Pearl -LRB- 2003 -RRB- and its sequels , the fantasy film Charlie and the Chocolate Factory -LRB- 2005 -RRB- , the fantasy film Alice in Wonderland -LRB- 2010 -RRB- and voicing the title character in the animated action comedy western Rango -LRB- 2011 -RRB- . He has collaborated on nine films with director , producer and friend Tim Burton .   Depp is regarded as one of the world 's biggest film 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 Raoul Duke in Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas , cocaine kingpin George Jung in Blow , author J. M. Barrie in Finding Neverland , the Depression-era outlaw John Dillinger in Michael Mann 's Public Enemies , and the Boston gangster Whitey Bulger in Black Mass. . Films featuring Depp have grossed over $ 3.2 billion at the United States box office and over $ 8 billion worldwide . His most commercially successful films are the Pirates of the Caribbean films , which have grossed $ 3 billion , Alice in Wonderland , which grossed $ 1 billion , Charlie and the Chocolate Factory , which grossed $ 474 million , and The Tourist , which grossed $ 278 million .   Depp has been nominated for major acting awards , including three nominations for Academy Award for Best Actor . Depp won the Golden Globe Award for Best Actor -- Motion Picture Musical or Comedy for Sweeney Todd : The Demon Barber of Fleet Street and the Screen Actors Guild Award for Outstanding Performance by a Male Actor in a Leading Role for The Curse of the Black Pearl . He has been listed in the 2012 Guinness World Records as the highest paid actor , with earnings of $ 75 million . Depp was inducted as a Disney Legend in 2015 .