Public Enemies
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Bale
- In Christian Bale
In Public Enemies (2009), which also starred Johnny Depp and Marion Cotillard, Bale played Melvin Purvis, an FBI agent on the hunt for gangster John Dillinger. Bale later portrayed the drug-addicted brother of a promising boxer in David O. Russell’s drama The Fighter (2010), a role…
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Cotillard
- In Marion Cotillard
She later starred in Public Enemies (2009) as the girlfriend of criminal mastermind John Dillinger (played by Johnny Depp), who was responsible for robbing a string of American banks during the Great Depression. In 2009 Cotillard also appeared in Nine. The musical featured an all-star cast that included Daniel…
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Crudup
- In Billy Crudup: Screen roles from the late 2000s and the ’10s
… (2006), The Good Shepherd (2006), Public Enemies (2009), and Watchmen (2009). In 2006 he appeared in the first two parts of Stoppard’s trilogy The Coast of Utopia at Lincoln Center, New York City, and won the Tony Award for best featured actor in a play. In the early 2010s he…
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Depp
- In Johnny Depp: John Dillinger, the Mad Hatter, and Tonto
In Public Enemies (2009) Depp played John Dillinger, a criminal who became legendary for robbing a string of American banks during the Great Depression. Depp later joined Colin Farrell and Jude Law in contributing an alternate portrayal of Heath Ledger’s character to The Imaginarium of Doctor…
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discussed in biography
- In Michael Mann
…underbelly of Los Angeles, and Public Enemies (2009), a dense ambitious treatment of the life of notorious gangster John Dillinger (played by Johnny Depp). Mann then directed Blackhat (2015), a thriller that traces the efforts of a hacker and his cohort to track down a cybercriminal.
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