
Nominee Spotlight: Johnny Depp
He's played Ichabod Crane, Willy Wonka, Raul Duke and Don Juan DeMarco.
And those eclectic characters arguably don't even rate among Johnny Depp's five best performances
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Now 44, Depp has his third Best Actor nomination this year as a result of his madcap sixth collaboration with filmmaker Tim Burton. The bizarre envelope-pushing duo have given us a quirky masterpiece with Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber Of Fleet Street, and here's a celebration of the Oscar-nominated role -- the role that made Depp sing.
Read on to meet the demon himself.
Text: Raja Sen | Photograph: Getty Images
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