

Jack helmed the Wicked Wench, an EITC merchant vessel, performing odd jobs for Cutler Beckett. Screenwriters Ted Elliott and Terry Rossio compared his character to Bugs Bunny and Groucho Marx on the DVD commentary for the first film.Īccording to the official Disney website and the game based on the film series, Jack Sparrow, the son of Captain Teague was born during a storm on board a ship and was once employed by the East India Trading Company.

This performance made Johnny Depp the only man to be nominated for Best Actor in a Leading Role for a Disney movie. The part earned him an Academy Award nomination for Best Actor, a rarity for a comic performance. Depp has also said that he imagined pirates as being "like the rock stars of their day" and that he likes to portray Sparrow as "sexually ambiguous".

Jack also appeared in two prequel books, a full-length novel, video games, and even in two Disney theme park attractions, one of which had inspired the film series. Following the sudden popularity of the character after his debut in The Curse of the Black Pearl, Jack Sparrow reappeared in the following sequels, including the second and third, which were produced back-to-back, and fourth. Johnny Depp portrays Sparrow and won great acclaim for his comic performance, basing the character off Keith Richards. Captain Jack Sparrow is a fictional pirate and one of the primary characters of the Pirates of the Caribbean film series: The Curse of the Black Pearl (2003), Dead Man's Chest (2006), At World's End (2007), On Stranger Tides (2011), and Dead Men Tell No Tales (2017).
