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 Jennifer Grey and Sherilyn Fenn.

Following his split from Ryder, he datedKate Moss from 1994 to 1998. The Dark Shadows star later moved on with French actress and singer Vanessa Paradis, with whom he shares daughter Lily-Rose (born 1999) and son Jack (born 2002). The pair broke up in 2012.

“We were just very truthful with them and they were just incredibly understanding, incredibly accepting,” Depp told CBS This Morning one year later, recalling how he and Paradis told their children about their separation.

“I was extremely proud of them, the way they dealt with it. … When you have children, there is no room for lies, no room for anything but the truth. Anything other than that is a bad example, I believe.”

While filming 2011’s The Rum Diaries, Depp began a relationship with costar Amber Heard.

The duo were married in a civil ceremony in February 2015, but they pulled the plug on their relationship less than two years later, finalizing their divorce in January 2017.

In the aftermath of their split, Heard wrote an op-ed about allegedly surviving an abusive relationship — without mentioning Depp by name. He sued her for defamation.

The former spouses faced off in a Virginia trial in the spring of 2022, with a jury declaring Depp victorious that June.

“From the very beginning, the goal of bringing this case was to reveal the truth, regardless of the outcome,” he noted in a statement after the verdict made headlines.

“Speaking the truth was something that I owed to my children and to all those who have remained steadfast in their support of me.

I feel at peace knowing I have finally accomplished that.”

Scroll down to see Depp’s career through the years, from teen idol to Oscar nominee:

1984

The Kentucky native made his feature film debut as ​​Glen Lantz in A Nightmare on Elm Street.

The Wes Craven movie also starred Heather Langenkamp, John Saxon, Robert Englund and more.

1987

Fox’s 21 Jump Street helped catapult Depp to mainstream success.

The series ran from 1987 to 1991 and followed a group of youthful police officers who went undercover to investigate crimes at high schools and colleges.

In 2012, a buddy-cop comedy inspired by the show hit theaters starring Channing Tatum and Jonah Hill.

1990

Edward Scissorhands was one of many collaborations between Depp and Burton throughout the ‘90s.

The movie sparked the actor’s real-life romance with Ryder, to whom he proposed in 1990. The costars called it quits three years later.

1999

Following acclaimed performances in What’s Eating Gilbert Grape, Ed Wood, Sleepy Hollow and more, Depp earned a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame.

2000

When the Pirates of the Caribbean kicked off in 2003, Depp became a certified Disney success.

He portrayed the notorious Captain Jack Sparrow for five films, earning nominations for an Oscar, Golden Globe and BAFTA Award.

In 2004, he won the SAG Award for Outstanding Performance by a Male Actor in a Leading Role.

2005

Depp teamed up with Burton once again for the quirky adaptation of Roald Dahl’s Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, which also starred Freddie Highmore, David Kelly, Helena Bonham Carter and more.

2008

After seven nominations, the musician won his first Golden Globe, taking home the Best Actor – Motion Picture Musical or Comedy trophy for his performance in Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street.

He was nominated in the same category twice more in 2011 for roles in both Alice in Wonderland and The Tourist.

2012

Depp formed the rock supergroup Hollywood Vampires with Alice Cooper and Joe Perry, going on to release two studio albums: Hollywood Vampires in 2015 and Rise in 2019.

2016

The actor joined the extension of J.K. Rowling’s Harry Potter universe, starring as Gellert Grindelwald in Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them.

He returned for 2018’s Fantastic Beasts: The Crimes of Grindelwald before being replaced by Mads Mikkelsen in the third installment, 2022’s Fantastic Beasts: The Secrets of Dumbledore, amid his highly publicized legal issues.

2017

Less than two years after tying the knot in February 2015, Depp and Heard called it quits.

She filed for divorce in May 2016, requesting a temporary restraining order against the Finding Neverland star, who she claimed was verbally and physically abusive.

A settlement was reached three months later, with the duo’s divorce being finalized in January 2017.

2020

Depp’s career faced a setback after the Aquaman actress penned an op-ed describing her alleged experience as a survivor of abuse.

Though she did not name Depp in the Washington Post article, he sued his ex for defamation.

Heard later countersued, and a trial began in Fairfax County, Virginia, in April 2022.

The jury reached their verdict two months later, finding that statements from Heard’s op-ed were false, defamed Depp and made with actual malice.

Depp was awarded $10 million in compensatory damages and $5 million in punitive damages.

The punitive amount was later reduced to $350,000 due to Virginia state law. Heard, for her part, won $2 million in compensatory damages.

The exes were previously involved in a U.K. libel lawsuit Depp filed against The Sun, who referred to him as a “wife beater” in an article about Heard’s op-ed.

In November 2020, the High Court of Justice ruled that 12 of the 14 incidents of violence described by Heard were “substantially true.” His petition to appeal the verdict was denied the following March.