Acting career
The horror film “A Nightmare on Elm Street” (1984) was Depp's first film. In 1986, he was cast in the lead role of the skating drama Thrashin'. But later, he appeared in a minor supporting role as a Vietnamese-speaking private in Oliver Stone's Vietnam War drama Platoon (1986) other than lead role.
Depp became a popular teen idol during the late 1980s.From1990 to 2019, he starred in several movies like Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man's Chest,The Libertine,Charlie and the Chocolate Factory,Corpse Bride,Finding Neverland,Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl,Blow,Before Night,The Rum Diary,Pirates of the Caribbean:On Stranger Tides,Rango,Alice in Wonderland,The Tourist,When You're Strange,The Imaginarium of Doctor Parnassus,Public Enemies,Pirates of the Caribbean: At World's End,Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street,Deep Sea,Sherlock Gnomes,Murder on the Orient Express,Pirates of the Caribbean: Salazar's Revenge,Alice Through the Looking Glass,Yoga Hosers,Mortdecai,Into the Woods,Black Mass,Transcendence,The Lone Ranger and Waiting for the Barbarians.