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A hit movie starring Johnny Depp as a legendary real-life crime figure begins streaming on Netflix this week.

Depp, of course, has played in all sorts of genres throughout his 40-year screen career, from horror (Sleepy Hollow) and action comedies (the Pirates of the Caribbean series) and musicals (Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street) to fantasy (Edward Scissorhands and Alice in Wonderland), dramas (Finding Neverland) and animation (Corpse Bride and Rango).

The three-time Oscar-nominated actor has also starred in some hit crime thrillers as well in his career, including 2011’s Public Enemies—as real-life gangster John Dillinger—and Black Mass in 2015.

The latter, Black Mass—where Depp plays notorious crime boss James “Whitey” Bulger—debuts on Netflix on Thursday, September 12. While Depp’s performance at Bulger did not earn an Oscar nomination, he did earn nods for Best Actor from the Screen Actors Guild and Critics Choice Association.

The logline for Black Mass reads, “The true story of Whitey Bulger, the brother of a state senator and the most infamous violent criminal in the history of South Boston, who became an FBI informant to take down a Mafia family invading his turf.”