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actor/actress of the week: Leonardo DiCaprio

Name: Leonardo Wilhelm DiCaprio
Born: 11th November, 1974, Los Angeles, U.S.
Years active: 1989 - present

Leonardo DiCaprio is one of the most sucessful actors of today. He can be both an critically praised and bankable actor, being a three-times Academy Award nominee, a Golden Globe winner, and a BAFTA and SAG Award nominee actor. He was the star of the highest-grossing movie ever until 2010, but started his career when he was a child in some commercials and on TV projects. He has already worked with some big names like Johnny Depp, Meryl Streep, Diane Keaton, Robert DeNiro, Kate Winslet, Tom Hanks, Amy Adams, Cameron Diaz, Daniel Day-Lewis, Cate Blanchett, Jude Law, Djimon Hounsou, Jennifer Connelly, Matt Damon, Mark Wahlberg, Jack Nicholson, Russell Crowe, Mark Ruffallo, Ben Kingsley, Marion Cotillard and Michael Caine.
His filmography include a lot of praised performances in a lot of critically acclaimed movies like What's Eating Gilbert Grape (1993), Titanic (1997), Catch Me If You Can (2002), The Aviator (2004), Blood Diamond (2006), The Departed (2006), and Inception (2010).


Leonardo DiCaprio is set to play J. Edgar Hoover in an upcoming Clint Eastwood's project, a biopic named Hoover. He's attached to play a serial-killer in a big screen adaptation of The Devil in the White City and also for the male leading role in the upcoming Baz Lhurman's adaptation of The Great Gratsby.

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