LEONARDO DiCAPRIO
At twenty-three, Leonardo DiCaprio has achieved the kind of success
that most actors strive their entire career for. In addition to receiving an
Academy Award and a Golden Globe nomination for his work in WHAT'S
EATING GILBERT GRAPE, DiCaprio was voted Best Supporting Actor
by the National Board of Review for WHAT'S EATING GILBERT
GRAPE, Most Promising Actor from the Chicago Film Critics for
WHAT'S EATING GILBERT GRAPE and THIS BOY'S LIFE, and was
given the New Generation Award for both films by the Los Angeles Film
Critics. Additionally, he was voted runner-up for Best Supporting Actor of
the year by the New York Film Critics Association and the National
Society of Film Critics. DiCaprio will star this winter in James Cameron's
epic drama TITANIC. This movie will open in Japan on November 1st
and then premier in the US on December 17th. Last year his work in Baz
Luhrmann's ROMEO AND JULIET playing Romeo opposite Claire
Danes as Juliet, and in Miramax's MARVIN'S ROOM, with Diane
Keaton, Meryl Streep, and Robert DeNiro won him critical recognition.
Last summer in Paris, DiCaprio completed work on THE MAN IN THE
IRON MASK, with Gerard Depardieu, John Malkovich, Gabriel Byrne and
Jeremy Irons. The premiere will take place in Berlin, Germany between
February 11 and 22, 1998. This Fall, he completed work on a Woody
Allen movie, yet to be named. A native of Los Angeles, DiCaprio has
been acting since he was fourteen. Beginning with commercials and
educational films, he was soon working on episodic television. His last
work on television was as a series regular on GROWING PAINS
portraying the homeless boy Luke. In addition to his work in THIS BOY'S
LIFE and WHAT'S EATING GILBERT GRAPE, DiCaprio received
critical acclaim for his stunning portrayal of Jim Carroll in New Line's THE
BASKETBALL DIARIES. He also co-starred with Sharon Stone in Sam
Raimi's off-center western, QUICK AND THE DEAD, had a starring role
in Touchstone's twenty minute short entitled THE FOOT SHOOTING
PARTY and co-starred with David Thewlis in Agniezka Holland's TOTAL
ECLIPSE.