His fans compares with the mythical James Dean. From their triumph in Titanic, the critical call the unsinkable to him (the unsinkable one), in spite of dying drowned and congealed in the taquillera film of history (at the moment). Their detractors consider a mocoso him without muscles, beard and denying for the interpretation, reason why they dedicate many bits to him in Internet, to say it finely.

But the certain thing is that Leonardo Wilhelm DiCaprio, a good looking chaval of Italian and German origin that never has studied interpretation, is known anywhere in the world like Leo. Their beginnings were fast and forceful. It always was under the supervision of a mother that administered the finances to him and a papa that ***reflxed mng the scripts and hefted the supplies. The five years it began to walk before the camera, insurance of itself, with some thirty spots of TV and the appearance in several series: “The Problems Grow”, where the star was Kirk Cameron, “Santa Barbara” or “Nueva Lassie”. Before obtaining its first paper in a largometraje of quality, “This Boy's Life” (1993), had to currar it to it and to win to 400 young promises that appeared.

Since then, it has been snatching to the rest of interesting stars in power secondary papers. This has allowed him to suck directly of great actors: Robert de Niro, Meryl Streep, John Malkovich, Jeremy Irons and Woody Allen (in “Celebrity”). Now it is his name the one that goes in great letters in all the posters.

DiCaprio, more or less since River Phoenix did before dying choked of drugs, has demonstrated its dowries of actor putting in papers of certain depth. Most outstanding he is as a child deficient mental one in “ To whom master Gilbert Grape” (next to Johnny Depp), that was worth a nomination to him to the Oscar like better secondary actor. It does not remain short either in his interpretation of the past yonqui of the poet, player of básquet and rocker Jim Carroll in “The Basketball Diaries”. Nor when one puts in the skin of great French poet Rimbaud, who lived a homosexual adventure with his Verlaine teacher, as he shows to the film “Total Eclipse”.

Leo also has felt attracted by the scripts with regustillo historical. “Romeo and Julieta” modern version was the film that sent to the fame, and “Titanic” the one that was worth a nomination to him to the Globe of Gold and consecrated to him.

The result of all this cleverness, that reflects his bent eyebrows so well, has been a curriculum vitae of luxury embroidered in few years, a legion of million admirers, a fiancèe top model (the Brazilian Gisele Bundchen) and a ticket mountain: to carry out “the beach” it received 20 million dollars.

It did not count whereupon the installation of the Seth of running of this film raised the wrath of the Thailander ecologists of the islands Phi Phi. But to Leo, that is recording in Italy “Gangs of New York”, not him pilla by surprise nobody: the boy has his own ecological foundation. Even at the time of taking care of its public image - except for counted reyertas in some celebrations papelón does everything.