Leonardo Wilhelm DiCaprio is a producing Acteur, and American Scénariste born the November 11th 1974 with Hollywood (California, the United States).

Biography

Leonardo DiCaprio was born with Hollywood the November 11th 1974, of Georges DiCaprio (of origin Italy) and of Irmelin Idenbirken (of German origin ). Not having strict education, Leonardo is free to be devoted to any activity as of its more young age, and in particular to the courses of comedy, field in which it can open out fully. It has a half-brother who is called Adam. Recently, a French magazine Interview, let appear of him a video which it would have turned, video homosexual. This information is very disputed of its fans, and is only the conditional one.

Does the Leonardo young person launch out in the adventure in 1988, while starting by turning of the commercials, and very quickly obtains small roles on television, of which in particular What is nine, doctor? (1991), series in which it will be pointed out. But Leonardo sees much further, it is interested by the cinema, it turns its first role in Critters 3 , a film of horror. Then in 1993, it plays the part of the son-in-law maltreated of Robert De Niro in secret Blessures . It is at the time of its film according to whether Leonardo acquires even more attention, Gilbert Grape , where he plays the role of one delayed mental, stealing the high-speed motorboat with some Johnny Depp. It obtains for this film in 1994 a double nomination as a Best supporting role with the Golden Globe, and the Oscars.

Leonardo DiCaprio is at ease in these roles, whatever the register, probably due to her love of the cinema and not of the money, but also thanks to her education, which enabled him to open out, without neglecting the fact that it is in a mixing of several cultures: it spends its holidays in Germany, lives in Los Angeles in a poor district between his German mother and her Italian father. It is illustrated during the year 1995 in various films, such as Mort or sharp , Rimbaud Verlaine in which it plays the role of a gay poet, and that the Entrevue magazine regarded as pornographic gay, or Basketball diaries . In spite of its good services, DiCaprio remains an actor of second plan, but reaches finally a statute of foreground in 1996 with Romeo + Juliette, adaptation removed from rim and modern of the work of William Shakespeare. It connects with Celebrity Woody Allen and the man with the iron mask. But especially, it acquires a statute of “romantic hero”, in the film Titanic of James Cameron, where it plays the lover of “Rose”, interpreted by Kate Winslet. The film is a planetary success which propels DiCaprio to the row of star.

It maintains this statute with the film the Beach , in 2000 (although its character is a Antihéros here). Its image changes with its following films: he plays a swindler in Arrête me if you can of Steven Spielberg, then makes 3 films under the direction of Martin Scorsese: Gangs off New York (2002), Aviator (2004) and especially Infiltrated the , where he plays policeman of state of Boston, infiltrated in the Maffia Irish, at the side of Matt Damon, Jack Nicholson, Mark Wahlberg which places it among the largest actors of the history of Hollywood. The film left in 2007, Blood Diamond confirms this statute, where he interprets a diamond trafficker rhodésien (currently Zimbabwe), in Sierra Leone, thus denouncing with the passage the traffic of the Diamants of blood.

== Catalog of films ==

  • 1985: What is nine, doctor? (Series TV)
  • 1991: Critters 3 - Josh
  • 1992: Fleur of poison ( Poison Ivy ) - Guy
  • 1993: Blessures secrete ( This Boy' S Life ) - Toby
* Gilbert Grape ( What' S Eating Gilbert Grape ) - Arnie Grape * Dead or sharp ( The Quick and the Dead ) - Kid
* Basketball diaries ( The Basketball Diaries ) - Jim Carroll
* Rimbaud Verlaine ( Total Eclipses ) - Arthur Rimbaud
* Romeo + Juliette ( Romeo + Juliet ) - Romeo
  • 1996: Simple secrecies ( Marvin' S Room ) - Hank
  • 1997: Titanic - Jack Dawson
  • 1998: the Man with the iron mask ( The Man in the Iron Mask ) - Louis XIV/Philippe
* Celebrity - Torch Darrow
* the Beach ( The Beach ) - Richard * Arrête me if you can ( Catch Me Yew You Can ) - Frank Abagnale Jr. * Body off Dregs - Roger Ferris

External bonds

  • Leonardo DiCaprio on Internet Movie Database
  • Official site

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