Ya sami yabo daga masu bita don nunawa a matsayin Alice Wood a cikin Ed Wood, wakilin FBI mai ɓoye Joseph D. Pistone a Donnie Brasco, J. M. Barrie a Finding Neverland, da kuma Boston gangster Whitey Bulger a Black Mass. Depp shine ɗan wasan kwaikwayo na uku mafi yawan kuɗi a duniya, kamar yadda fina-finai da ke nuna Depp sun sami fiye da dala biliyan 3.7 a ofishin akwatin Amurka da fiye da dala biliyan 10 a duk duniya. An jera shi a cikin littafin Guinness World Records na 2012 a matsayin ɗan wasan kwaikwayo mafi yawan kuɗi a duniya, tare da samun dala miliyan 75.
Shekaru na 1980