Johnny Depp Through the Years: From Teen Idol to Oscar Nominee

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Decades of Depp! Since the 1980s, Johnny Depp has made a name for himself as a leading man.The actor got his start in 1984’s A Nightmare on Elm Street before scoring a regular role on Fox’s 21 Jump Street.

The series launched him into the mainstream, solidifying his success as a teen idol. Depp went on to challenge himself in eccentric, independent films, frequently working with Tim Burton throughout the ‘90s.“You don’t get that many times in your life where you just connect with somebody and it’s really simple … it’s just there,” Burton once told the Los Angeles Times of the Corpse Bride actor, whom he met at a coffee shop before making their first film together, Edward Scissorhands.During a Comic Con appearance in 2009, Burton further detailed his friendship with Depp. “It’s very nice to have someone that you can have a completely abstract conversation with and leave the room, feel like everything’s fine, and then realize that if you pick it apart, you have absolutely no idea what either of you said,” the filmmaker said at the time.Edward Scissorhands was a pivotal moment in Depp’s career — and not only for the way it shot him to stardom.

He sparked a romance with costar Winona Ryder, and the twosome got engaged in 1990. Three years later, however, they called it quits.“It’s very hard to have a personal life in this town,” the Black Mass actor told the Los Angeles Times after the breakup. “My relationship with Winona, it was my mistake to be as open as we were, but I thought if we were honest it would destroy that curiosity monster.

Instead it fed it, gave people license to feel they were part of it.”Depp was previously married to makeup artist Lori Anne Allison from 1983 until 1985 before his brief engagements to Jenn