This essay maps the cultural and political coordinates of Johnny Depp’s film performances during a period from 1998 onwards when he was largely, by choice, exiled in Europe. Focusing in particular upon work he did in France and in England, the essay unveils a complex transnational performativity. If, at times, Depp’s acting expresses the economic and cultural power of the US, in other places it contributes to the destabilizing of American and European identities alike and to the troubling of the category of the nation itself. © W. S. Maney&Son Ltd 2014.

Exile globalization Transnationalism Hollywood Stardom performance

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