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BIOGRAPHY OF LEONARDO DICAPRIO

(Leonardo Wilhelm DiCaprio; Los Angeles, 1974) American actor. His father, George DiCaprio, was a comic book distributor; Over time, and thanks to her son's success and popularity, she has managed his son's professional affairs, while also taking care of his finances. His mother, named Imerline, separated from his father when Leonardo was only one year old. Both spouses shared custody of the son, until he decided to emancipate himself in 1997.

His debut as a protagonist was in This Boy's Life (1993), directed by Michael Caton-Jones, where he shared the bill with Robert De Niro; He was barely 19 years old. The film earned him the New Generation Award and the respective nominations for the Golden Globe and the Oscar for best actor. That title was followed by a relatively abundant series of productions that in some way contributed to pave the way for him on the tortuous path to stardom in North American cinema. Thus, he participated in What's Eating Gilbert Grape? (1994), as Johnny Depp's disabled brother; and in Fast and Deadly (1995), alongside Sharon Stone and Gene Hackman, a western that was intended to be innovative, to the greater glory of the leading actress, but that did not go beyond discreet. He participated in a curious version of Romeo and Juliet (1996), with Claire Danes, where the eternal myth that William Shakespeare conceived and that has given so much play in the cinema was recreated in a particular way, in which reality and the dreamlike and The games were mixed over time in order to bring the story closer to our time and for it to be accepted by a young audience. This trajectory helped DiCaprio carve out a history as an eminently intuitive actor, without academic training, but who achieved good performances, without giving up in the slightest to actors of more established fame. His prestige was also increased thanks to his physique: blonde, boyish-looking, somewhere between sweet and modern, with expressive light eyes that can sometimes give his look a touch of hardness and rebellion.

However, his big chance came when the not always highly regarded James Cameron offered him the role of male lead in Titanic (1997). The film not only won a considerable number of Oscars from the Academy - not precisely the one for acting - but also became a social phenomenon far above its undoubted cinematographic values. Without a doubt, one of Cameron's successes was to entrust the two main roles to a couple like DiCaprio and Kate Winslet. They knew how to imbue with romanticism and poetry a sentimental relationship that, in the end, was nothing more than a remake of Romeo and Juliet, with antagonistic social classes (instead of clans), with the sinking of the ship and a social and historical picture like Background curtain. All this accompanied by a deployment of media and technology that was used intelligently, without hiding the history at whose service they were. The success for the film and its protagonists, especially DiCaprio, can be described as great.

The commercial failure of The Beach (1999) kept the young actor away from big film projects for a long time until in 2002 he returned to the big screen with the help of two of Hollywood's best directors, Martin Scorsese, who gave him an extraordinary role in Gangs of New York, and Steven Spielberg, who also had DiCaprio to star in the thriller Catch Me If You Can. In 2005 he worked again under Scorsese in The Aviator, a film in which he played the film director, businessman and adventurer Howard Hughes, a role for which he earned an Oscar nomination and the Golden Globe for best actor.

NAME: KEVIN JOSUE BENITES JAME

COURSE: SEGUNDO "D"

DATE:23 de Septiembre del 2023