Oscar Nominee: Johnny Depp

Age: 40

Starsign: Gemini

Loved-up with: French chanteuse Vanessa Paradis

Career high: Now! Raising the bar of Pirates of the Caribbean with his eccentric, scene-stealing turn as Capt. Jack Sparrow

Career low: He made an inauspicious movie debut getting swallowed by a bed in Nightmare on Elm Street

Nominated for playing? Captain Jack Sparrow in Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl

Chances of winning? Not great. Oscar luvvies don't tend to reward comic performances.

Says: "I don't pretend to be Captain Weird. I just do what I do."

Not to be confused with: Johnny Vegas, Johnny Lydon or the Deptford Tunnel