Leonardo DiCaprio: biography, news, photos and videos

Born in Hollywood in 1974 to an Italian father and a German mother, Leonardo DiCaprio made a few appearances on television at a very young age (the series What's up Doc ?) before getting his first film role in a horror film, Critters 3in 1991. His talent burst forth at the age of 19. when he plays Robert De Niro's abused stepson In Secret wounds (1993). His portrayal of a mentally handicapped person alongside Johnny Depp in Gilbert Grape earned him a double nomination for best supporting actor at the Golden Globes and the 1994 Oscars. Sharon Stone pushed him for the western Dead or alive by Sam Raimi. He then played Arthur Rimbaud in Rimbaud Verlaine by Agnieszka Holland and a junkie in Basketball Diaries.

The actor with the feverish acting rose to star status in 1996 thanks to Romeo + JulietBaz Luhrmann's baroque version of William Shakespeare's work, which won him the Silver Bear at the Berlin Festival (he would reunite with the director in 2012 for a new version of Gatsby the magnificent). Woody Allen then directed him in Celebrity and he plays Louis XIV in the swashbuckling film The Man in the Iron Mask. TitanicJames Cameron's triumphant and multi-Oscar-winning fresco, definitely imposes it. From 2.5 million dollars, its fee increases to 20 million for the initiatory journey of The beach (2000) by Danny Boyle. The greatest directors made eyes at him, like Steven Spielberg who gave him a role as a crook in Stop me if you can : thanks to these filmmakers, he went from being a promising young actor to a respected actor.

Demanding, the actor accepts commercial films provided that they make sense. Thus, Blood Diamond (2006) tackles diamond trafficking in Africa and State lies (2008), by Ridley Scott, denounces the methods of the Americans in the fight against terrorism. Very involved in ecologyLeonardo DiCaprio is the producer and narrator of the documentary. The Eleventh Hour, the final turn (2007). In 2009, more than ten years later Titanicthe couple he formed on screen with Kate Winslet is recomposed for the needs of the sentimental drama The Rebel Weddingdirected by Sam Mendes. The following year, he returned his favorite filmmaker, Martin Scorsesefor a psychological thriller, Shutter Island, adaptation of the eponymous novel by Dennis Lehane. This is their fourth collaboration after Gangs of New Yorkrk (2003), Aviator (2004, a Golden Globe for his portrayal of the eccentric billionaire Howard Hughes) and Infiltratorswhich won four Oscars including Best Picture and Best Director in 2007.

Leonardo DiCaprio is impressive again in Inception (2010), a mental thriller by Christopher Nolan, then in J. Edgar (2012) by Clint Eastwood, where he plays Hoover, the controversial director of the FBI. In 2013, the actor plays the role of a villain in Django UnchainedQuentin Tarantino's spaghetti western, and the same year, it is for Scorsese The wolf of Wall Street. But it is under the direction of Alejandro Gonzalez Iñaritu that he interprets the Revenantthe role that won him the Oscar for best actor in 2016 which had escaped him until then.

Heart side, Leonardo DiCaprio has dated a lot of modelsincluding Bridget Hall, Gisele Bündchen, Bar Refaeli, Erin Heatherton, Toni Garrn, from 2013 to 2014, and Kelly Rohrbach, in 2015. He also had a relationship with actress Blake Lively.