What is the best Johnny Depp performance of all time?

Eccentric misfits, swaggering pirates, tormented artists, and real-life outlaws — few actors have explored such flamboyant extremes with such commitment and oddball charm. Cast your vote!

1

Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl (2003)

Depp's iconic portrayal of the swaggering, eccentric Captain Jack Sparrow turned a theme park ride into a beloved franchise.

2

Edward Scissorhands (1990)

Depp plays a gentle artificial man with scissors for hands, navigating suburban society with heartbreaking innocence in Tim Burton's fairy tale.

3

Ed Wood (1994)

Depp plays the real-life 'worst director of all time' with genuine warmth and enthusiasm, turning this cult filmmaker into a lovable dreamer.

4

Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas (1998)

Depp plays Hunter S. Thompson's alter ego Raoul Duke, careening through Las Vegas in a drug-fueled frenzy in Terry Gilliam's psychedelic adaptation.

5

Donnie Brasco (1997)

Depp plays undercover FBI agent Joe Pistone, who infiltrates the New York mob and begins losing himself in his own cover identity.

6

What's Eating Gilbert Grape (1993)

Depp plays the quiet, responsible older brother trapped in a small Iowa town, carrying his family's burdens with quiet desperation.

7

Sleepy Hollow (1999)

Depp plays the squeamish but determined Constable Ichabod Crane investigating decapitation murders attributed to the Headless Horseman.

8

Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street (2007)

Depp plays the vengeful barber Benjamin Barker who slits the throats of his customers in Tim Burton's dark and operatic musical.

9

Blow (2001)

Depp plays George Jung, the real-life cocaine smuggler who established the Medellín Cartel's U.S. distribution network in the 1970s.

10

Finding Neverland (2004)

Depp plays J.M. Barrie, the playwright who forms a friendship with a widowed mother and her sons that inspires him to write Peter Pan.

11

Black Mass (2015)

Depp plays notorious Boston crime boss Whitey Bulger in a transformative, chilling performance beneath prosthetics and cold blue contacts.

12

Public Enemies (2009)

Depp plays Depression-era bank robber John Dillinger, whose charisma and daring made him America's most wanted and most celebrated outlaw.

13

Chocolat (2000)

Depp plays Roux, a charming Irish Roma wanderer whose arrival in a conservative French village coincides with a chocolatier's magical shop.