Vanity Fair Girls

Captain Jack Sparrow, Willy Wonka, the Mad Hatter, Edward Scissorhands, the Earl of Rochester … How many characters can Johnny Depp keep inside himself? And is it safe to do so? After wrapping this month's The Tourist—in which he plays an American math teacher who becomes a pawn for Angelina Jolie—he has plunged back into Caribbean-pirate mode. Friend and rock legend Patti Smith finds him on set, guitar in hand, for a free-floating tour of the inner Depp.

By Patti Smith•Photograph by Annie Leibovitz•Styled by Jessica Diehl
February 2011

Johnny Depp is on set at Pinewood Studios, outside...

Maureen Orth nominates the Shriver siblings for their public service with a smile.

By Maureen Orth•Photograph by Annie Leibovitz
May 2011

Because they are undaunted by having such enormous shoes to fill: Their mother, Eunice Kennedy Shriver, who died in 2009, was a hurricane of energy, possessed of fierce faith and will. She founded the Special Olympics and changed the fate of millions of the intellectually disabled worldwide. Their father, Sargent Shriver, equally iconic, who died in January, was the founding director of the Peace Corps, which celebrates its 50th anniversary this year. He also...

The original Clash of the Titans, starring Harry Hamlin, doesn’t quite hold up when viewed through adult eyes in the year 2010. But for a certain age-range, those born in the mid 1970s, the film is a beloved keepsake of their childhood. This latter group contains the man behind the upcoming remake of the film, French-born director Louis Leterrier.

Leterrier’s vision of Clash of the Titans—which retains some essential plot points (release the Kraken!) while telling a brand new story—hits theaters this Friday against such counter-programming as Tyler Perry’s Why Did I Get Married Too...

Sam Jones and Jim Windolf spotlight Logan Lerman, half divine in Percy Jackson & the Olympians: The Lightning Thief. Plus: VF.com’s exclusive slide show, Logan Lerman, the Quadruple Threat.

By Jim Windolf•Photograph by Sam Jones
January 2010

Logan Lerman is dealing with a question that comes to successful teenage actors and basketball prodigies alike: should he go to college or go to work? Right now he’s not certain what the answer will be. But he knows he wants to stay in the movie business—and not just as an actor. “I feel like almost the only thing I want to do in my life is to...

Angelina Jolie isn’t interested in normal—whether it’s the size of her bed, the creation of her family, or her latest role (originally intended for Tom Cruise), in Salt. On Venice’s Grand Canal, where Jolie, Brad Pitt, and their six kids moved while she filmed The Tourist with Johnny Depp, the author discovers how a modern-day goddess engages with the mortal concepts of marriage, motherhood, and career.

Related: “Angelina, Uninterrupted,” a retrospective of Jolie’s appearances in the pages of Vanity Fair and more photos from the photoshoot.

By Rich Cohen•Photographs by Patrick...

Brett Berk and Paola Kudacki spotlight Dianna Agron, Glee’s Quinn Fabray, who has more than pom-poms up her sleeve.

By Brett Berk•Photographs by Paola Kudacki•Styled by Jessica Diehl
October 2010

Dianna Agron wants to show us another side, and we shouldn’t be surprised that she has one. The 24-year-old Glee star—she plays cheerleader Quinn Fabray, in case you’ve been in cryogenic suspension since 2009—grew up taking ballet lessons, but her nickname was Charlie, for her male alter ego and the star of the short stories she’d write in high school. She revered equally the poised Audrey...