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John Christopher Depp II (born June 9, 1963) is an American actor, producer and musician. He is the recipient of various accolades, including a Golden Globe Award and a Screen Actors Guild Award, in addition to nominations for three Academy Awards and two British Academy Film Awards. He made his debut in the horror film A Nightmare on Elm Street (1984), before rising to prominence as a teen idol on the television series 21 Jump Street (1987–1990). In the 1990s, he acted mostly in independent films, often playing eccentric characters. These included What's Eating Gilbert Grape (1993), Benny and Joon (1993), Dead Man (1995), Donnie Brasco (1997) and Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas (1998). He also began collaborating with director Tim Burton, starring in Edward Scissorhands (1990), Ed Wood (1994), and Sleepy Hollow (1999). In the 2000s, he became one of the most commercially successful film stars by playing Captain Jack Sparrow in the swashbuckler film series Pirates of the Caribbean (2003–present). He received critical praise for Finding Neverland (2004), and continued his commercially successful collaboration with Tim Burton with the films Charlie and the Chocolate Factory (2005), Corpse Bride (2005), Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street (2007), and Alice in Wonderland (2010). In 2012, he was one of the world's biggest film stars, and was listed by the Guinness World Records as the world's highest-paid actor, with earnings of US$75 million. During the 2010s, Depp began producing films through his company, Infinitum Nihil, and formed the rock supergroup Hollywood Vampires with Alice Cooper and Joe Perry.
Johnny Depp
Basil Karlo / Clayface
for Basil Karlo / Clayface in Clayface: The Living Mask (1990s Tim Burton Style)
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A reimagining of Clayface (Basil Karlo specifically) through the gothic, expressionistic lens of Tim Burton’s early 90s superhero films. The story focuses on Basil Karlo, a once-celebrated and handsome Hollywood B-movie actor whose career is destroyed by a horrifying fire on a movie set, scarring him both physically and psychologically. Driven mad by the loss of his livelihood—his face—Karlo descends into the dark, rain-soaked underbelly of Gotham City, obsessed with regaining his former glory. In his madness, Karlo discovers a cache of experimental, volatile clay-based chemicals (a reference to the original comic's backstory), which he uses to create a mask for himself. Instead of a disguise, the chemicals fuse with his damaged body, transforming him into the monstrous, shapeless entity known as Clayface. The film becomes a tragic horror story: Karlo is trapped between his desire for recognition and the monstrous form he now inhabits. He uses his power of shapeshifting to infiltrate Hollywood and exact revenge on the studio heads and actors who abandoned him, only to find that he has no true form left to love or recognize. The climax sees Batman forced to confront a sympathetic but ultimately destructive monster whose deepest desire is simply to be seen as the man he once was.
