DiCaprio became popular as a teen idol, an image solidified after the success of Titanic. But it also proved a talented actor in films such as What's Eating Gilbert Grape, Gangs of New York or The Aviator.


You could say that Leonardo DiCaprio was destined to be an artist before birth. His mother was given this name by Leonardo Da Vinci, because when he noticed she was pregnant with his kick as he watched a play by the famous painter. Encouraged by his parents, DiCaprio started acting while still very small, and as a teenager made several drama courses.

It began to appear in commercials and educational films in 1988 and debuted that year on the small screen with a new version of the popular series Lassie. After getting roles in several television projects in the following years, eventually became one of the main actors in the sitcom Growing Pains.

DiCaprio film premiered in 1991, forming part of the cast of the sci-fi comedy Critters 3. Michael Caton-Jones for Leonardo achieved after the coveted role of Tobias Wolff in the film adaptation of this best-selling novel, This Boy's Life, where he appeared with Robert De Niro and Ellen Barkin.

In 1993, the director Lasse Hallstrom chose him to give life to the character of Arnie in What's Eating Gilbert Grape? His outstanding work earned him an Oscar nomination for Best Supporting Actor. Two years later starred opposite Sharon Stone in Sam Raimi's western The Quick and deadly, and later starred in The Basketball Diaries, the dramatic and literary biography of rocker Jim Carroll.

Leonardo conquered audiences with his character in Romeo and Juliet by William Shakespeare, a modern adaptation of the classic drama brought to film by Baz Luhrmann. Although the film that cemented him as the star was James Cameron's blockbuster Titanic, which smashed box office in 1997 and won the Oscar.

In his films and other titles include the threshold Lives where she played the troubled poet Rimbaud; Marvin's Room, where the offender was the son of Meryl Streep, The Man in the Iron Mask, starring Gerard Depardieu, Jeremy Irons and John Malkovich, Celebrity, Woody Allen, or The Beach by Danny Boyle.

Besides Gangs of New York, Martin Scorsese, Leonardo recently starred in Catch Me If You Can, a film by Steven Spielberg featuring Tom Hanks as co-star. In The Aviator, Scorsese again gets into the skin of the billionaire and legendary film producer Howard Hughes. A production that has swept across the box office and has brought her Golden Globe for best dramatic actor DiCaprio enlarging the myth.

DiCaprio returns to work with Martin Scorsese in the crime drama The Departed, which earned five Oscar nominations, with Matt Damon and Jack Nicholson. The actor has been nominated for best actor for his role in Blood Diamond, a film by Edward Zwick's adventure set in a Sierra Leone civil war in the middle and opting for an Oscar in four other categories.

In the sentimental, the break with Israeli model Bar Rafaeli, after a year of dating, has pilloried the actor, whose private life has begun to talk. Rumors of an alleged covert homosexuality contrasts with the intimate relations he had with Vanessa models Hyden, Kristen Hang and Gisele Bundchen, with whom he maintained a very long relationship which ended in 2005 after being unfaithful to actress Sienna Miller (former turn Jude Law's). Today alone, hands full in the night carousing.