Leonardo Dicaprio Biography

MARITAL STATUS
Professions Actor , Producer , Executive Producer more
Birth name Leonardo Wilhelm DiCaprio
Nationality American
Birth November 11, 1974 (Hollywood, California – United States)

BIOGRAPHY
Born to an Italian father and a German mother who best favored his artistic abilities, Leonardo DiCaprio took acting lessons from primary school. Auditioning for the first time in 1988, he began by shooting commercials, then quickly obtained a few small roles on television ( The New Adventures of Lassie , Santa Barbara ), before getting noticed in the series What’s New, Doctor ? in 1991. But he was especially interested in cinema, and after a first horror film ( Critters 3 ), Leonardo DiCaprio was chosen from four hundred candidates to play Robert De Niro ‘s abused stepson in Secret Wounds (1993). .

Subsequently, he surprised by playing a mentally retarded person in Gilbert Grape (1993), where he stole the show from Johnny Depp . His composition earned him a double nomination for Best Supporting Role at the Golden Globes and the 1994 Oscars. Comfortable in all registers, this gifted artist released a western ( Dead or Alive ) in 1995, an evocation of life of Arthur Rimbaud ( Rimbaud Verlaine ) and the story of a junkie ( Basketball diaries ). Choosing his films more on artistic than economic criteria, Leonardo, relegated to the rank of secondary actor, achieved star status in 1996 when Romeo + Juliet , a contemporary and crazy version of the work of William Shakespeare, was released on screens. directed by Australian Baz Luhrmann . A risky bet, the film was an international success.

But the best is yet to come with Titanic (1997), James Cameron ‘s unforgettable fresco , whose revenues in the United States amount to more than 600 million dollars. Lover of Claire Danes then of Kate Winslet on screen, he appears as a new romantic hero and becomes the object of a real “DiCaprio mania”. The releases of the films Celebrity by Woody Allen and The Man in the Iron Mask , filmed before the Titanic phenomenon , benefited from this surge. From 2.5 million dollars, its fee rose to 20 million for the initiatory journey of The Beach (2000) by British director Danny Boyle .

His collaboration with Martin Scorsese , which began with Gangs of New York (2003), continued brilliantly over the years, and gave rise to several quality films such as Aviator (2004), The Departed (2006), Shutter Island (2010) and The Wolf of Wall Street (2013). Success is constantly there.

Most often, the characters he plays are plagued by permanent tensions. This is evidenced by his performances as a mercenary in Blood Diamond (2006), a spy in Lies of the State (2008) and a husband facing the crisis his couple is going through in Les Noces rebels (2009) where he finds Kate Winslet. Constantly filming with the greatest directors and fully investing in his roles, Leonardo DiCaprio collaborates successively with Christopher Nolan ( Inception ), Clint Eastwood ( J. Edgar ), Quentin Tarantino ( Django Unchained ), Baz Luhrmann ( Gatsby the Magnificent ) and Alejandro González Iñárritu ( The Revenant ). The latter’s western, in which the actor delivered an anthological performance, finally allowed him to win the Oscar for best leading role.

Following this consecration, the Californian became rarer. In 2019, he found another cult role in Once Upon a Time… in Hollywood directed by Quentin Tarantino . In this film set in 1969 Hollywood, Leonardo plays an actor in decline, able to count on the loyalty of his stuntman played by a Brad Pitt in very good form. In addition to considerable critical success, the feature film grossed $377 million in worldwide revenue. He is next seen in the crazy Netflix comedy Don’t Look Up: Cosmic Denial , alongside Jennifer Lawrence . In 2023, he once again reunited with Scorsese for Killers of the Flower Moon , a historical fresco which highlights a dark part of American history: the series of murders of the native Osage tribe, in Oklahoma, in the 1920s.