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John Christopher Depp II (born June 9, 1963) is an American actor, singer, producer, and musician. He has been nominated for ten Golden Globe Awards, winning one for Best Actor for his performance of the title role in Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street (2008), and has been nominated for three Academy Awards for Best Actor, among other accolades. He is regarded as one of the world's biggest film stars. Depp made his film debut in the 1984 film A Nightmare on Elm Street, before rising to prominence as a teen idol on the television series 21 Jump Street (1987–1990). He had a supporting role in Oliver Stone's 1986 war film Platoon and played the title character in the 1990 romantic fantasy Edward Scissorhands.
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Johnny Depp Film 'Minamata' Sells Wide

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International distributors have focused on Minamata, the period drama, starring Johnny Depp, about the environmental disaster in Minamata, Japan in the 1970s.

HanWay Films closed deals across Europe and Asia for the film, from director Andrew Levitas, which sees Depp play real-life photojournalist W.

Eugene Smith. It was Smith's heartbreaking images of Japanese villagers suffering from mercury poisoning — the result of industrial pollution — that helped bring the story of the Minamata tragedy to the world.

Japanese actress Minami co-stars as Aileen, the Japanese activist who convinces Smith to cover the story. Bill Nighy plays Smith's boss, Life magazine editor Robert Hayes, who first published the Minamata photos.

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