Johnny Depp

The 1984 horror classic ‘A Nightmare on Elm Street’ introduced the world to Johnny Depp. The then 21-year-old actor played Glen, the boyfriend of protagonist Nancy, in the supernatural slasher film. Before landing this role, Depp was focused on music and his band The Kids. But then his friend Nicolas Cage introduced him to his agent, and she sent him to an audition.

Speaking to Interview magazine in 2014, Depp said: "I read for ‘Nightmare on Elm Street', and I was just totally not what Wes had written for the story. He had written the part of a big, blond, beach-jock, football player guy. And I was sort of emaciated, with old hairspray and spiky hair, earrings, a little catacomb dweller. And then five hours later that agent called me and said, ‘You’re an actor.’”