Sexy Male Celebrities - Leonardo DiCaprio - Movies, Music, Books, Posters, Memorabilia, Biography, Pictures, Reviews & Gossip

This tall, lean, young looking and handsome actor proved charming in television family sitcoms ("Parenthood", "Growing Pains") and endured a cheap horror terror sequel ("Critters 3" 1991) before winning out over six hundred other actors to win the role of Tobias Wolff in "This Boy's Life" (1993) after a six month casting and production search. Based on Wolff's award winning autobiographical story, the film showed a young boy's coming of age in the 1950's in a volatile domestic situation. The film also starred Robert De Niro and Ellen Barkin, but young Leonardo DiCaprio walked away with the strongest applause. While the film sank at the box office, this young boy's career was off and running.

DiCaprio was next cast next to Johnny Depp in "What's Eating Gilbert Grape?" (1993), Lasse Halstrom's variation of Peter Hedges' young teen boy growing up story. The good looks of the green eyed blond nearly lost him the role of the shoddy looking Arnie, Gilbert's mentally challenged but cheery younger brother. The 18 year-old actor again grabbed the best reviews, as well as a Best Supporting Actor Oscar nomination for his performance.

DiCaprio lost out to Christian Slater in his attempt to secure the small but critical role of the young boy reporter in "Interview With the Vampire" (1994) also starring Brad Pitt, Tom Cruise, Kirsten Dunst and Antonio Banderas. DiCaprio then tried his hand at another exceptionally stylish project with a supporting role opposite Sharon Stone in Sam Raimi's rambling western film "The Quick and the Dead" (1995). DiCaprio brought energy and sarcasm to his portrayal of the Kid, a smart young gunslinger who may be the son of bad guy Gene Hackman.

Leo DiCaprio then stared in the much anticipated revision of "The Basketball Diaries" (also 1995) with Mark Wahlberg, Jim Carroll's coarse diary of a young teen that incorporated good grades, local basketball stardom and heroin addiction. DiCaprio won praise for his highly touching performance but the movie was considered listless, petty and normal.

Next, DiCaprio portrayed the young French poet and egotistical genius Arthur Rimbaud in Agnieszka Holland's troubled film version of "Total Eclipse" (1995). This psychological drama followed the complex and very unpleasant sexual relationship between the young Rimbaud and his older mentor, Paul Verlaine (David Thewlis), while failing to take care of their art business. A critical and commercial dud, the movie marked DiCaprio's first disaster since achieving sexy celebrity status.

Leonardo DiCaprio seemed set to bounce back as half of everybody's favorite pair of destined lovers in "William Shakespeare's "Romeo and Juliet" (1996). Paired with established star Claire Danes, DiCaprio tried to create a hard core sexual Romeo for this curiously strange and outdated take on the classic produced by Australian director Baz Luhrmann ("Strictly Ballroom"). Later that year, Leo DiCaprio was featured as Meryl Streep's problematic teenaged son in "Marvin's Room" which also starred Robert De Niro, about young leukemia patient who attempts to end a 20-year feud with her sister to get her bone marrow.

DiCaprio was next hired for the lead role in director James Cameron's lavish spectacle "Titanic," playing Jack Dawson, a courageous, broke American artist who wins a third class ticket on the historically damned luxury liner and enters into a romantic love affair with a young Philadelphia socialite (Kate Winslet). The movie went on to become not only a blockbuster and a true spectacle, but the all time highest grossing film in history. Although some critics didn't like the fact the Leonardo did not receive an Oscar nomination, DiCaprio clearly ruled supreme as the sexiest young male box office celebrity attraction of the moment - a lot of the repeat business was from the legions of young female fans who became spellbound with the actor.

After "Romeo" and "Titanic," Leonardo DiCaprio's young sexy celebrity status was cemented and, despite slowing down a bit on the amount of movie roles he accepted, he became the focus of media and tabloid fascination for many years to come.

DiCaprio was hired next in the dual role of French King Louis XIV and his twin in the 1998 remake of “The Man in the Iron Mask," about the cruel King Louis XIV of France who has a secret twin brother he keeps imprisoned. Can the twin be substituted for the real king?. Leonardo gave another stylish performance but failed to spark "Titanic" type box office return.

In 2000 DiCaprio teamed with director Danny Boyle for "The Beach" (seen as a comeback movie for the actor), about twenty-something Richard who travels to Thailand and finds himself in possession of a strange map. Rumors say that it leads to a solitary beach paradise, a tropical bliss - excited and intrigued, he sets out to find it.

Things were looking up in 2001 when Leo was hired in director Martin Scorsese's 19th Century drama "Gangs of New York," playing Irish American immigrant Amsterdam Vallon, let out of prison and determined to take on the gangs that killed his father. Starring along side Cameron Diaz the movie was hit with several production issues, and reported fights between Scorsese and the studio delayed the film by nearly a year to the 2002 holiday season. Also that year, Leo starred in the film drama "Don's Plum" with Tobey Maguire about a group of Los Angeles young teenagers who meet every day at their local diner hangout to discus their latest misadventures with their miserable lives.

DiCaprio found success in director Steven Spielberg's "Catch Me If You Can," with Tom Hanks, Jennifer Garner and Martin Sheen - in which Leo played real world con artist Frank W. Abagnale, who successfully pulled off dozens of scams in an assortment of identities, and became the youngest man on the FBI's most wanted list. Perfectly cast, DiCaprio gave his most appealing and mature performance to date, showing himself again as both movie star and celebrity actor.

DiCaprio joined again with Scorsese on "The Aviator" (2004) starring with Cate Blanchett, Kate Beckinsale, Gwen Stefani and Jude Law - a project the actor initially planned to do with director Michael Mann focusing on the important years of the famous billionaire Howard Hughes. Although many felt DiCaprio's young looks were not the best fit for the part, the actor gave one of his strongest performances yet, credibly portraying Hughes' versatile qualities: as a young movie producer taking Hollywood by storm; as one of Hollywood's most famous ladies' men; as a pioneer of aviation and an creative eccentric who took on the United States government; and most impressively as a man whose capability is crippled by obsessive compulsive disorder.

As the lead actor in Scorsese's strongest, most forward work in nearly ten years, DiCaprio again delivered on his own early promise, effortlessly budding into more adult and more challenging roles, and he was rewarded with a Golden Globe award for Best Performance by an Actor in a Motion Picture - Drama. His magnificent performance also earned Leo DiCaprio his second career Academy Award nomination - and first in the Best Actor category.

After the success of "The Aviator" Leo at once reunited with Scorsese to join an star studded cast that included Matt Damon, Mark Wahlberg and Jack Nicholson for "The Departed" (2006), playing a Boston police officer assigned to work undercover inside a disreputable Irish American mob who rises up the ladder to a senior level, even as a member of the gang infiltrates the police force, a plot based on the brilliant Hong Kong action adventure thriller “Infernal Affairs” (2002).

As “The Departed” earned typically good reviews before its early November debut, DiCaprio awaited the release of his next movie, “Blood Diamond” with Jennifer Connelly (2006), a comprehensive story directed by Edward Zwick about a South African diamond smuggler (Leo DiCaprio) and a poor fisherman (Djimon Hounsou) who join forces in order to find a rare pink diamond that can alter both their lives. DiCaprio earned Golden Globe Award nominations for Best Performance by an Actor in a Motion Picture for both “The Departed” and “Blood Diamond.”

He also garnered an Academy Award nomination for Best Actor, astounding many that he didn't get a nomination for "The Departed." Then in an effort to "go-green", DiCaprio was hired by Al Gore to narrate “11th Hour” (2006), a documentary that examined global warming and potential solutions to re-establish the planet’s crumbling ecosystems.

Leo started 2008 with the drama "Revolutionary Road" (2008) with Kate Winslet about a young couple living in a Connecticut suburb during the mid-1950s who struggle to come to terms with their personal problems while trying to raise their two children. Based on a novel by Richard Yates. Next for DiCaprio was the drama "Body Of Lies" (2008) starring Lea and Russell Crowe about a former journalist injured in the Iraq war who is hired by the CIA to track down an Al Qaeda leader in Jordan. Based on the novel "Body of Lies" by David Ignatius. DiCaprio was then hired and cast for the mystery thriller "Shutter Island" (2009) a drama set in 1954, where U.S. Marshal Teddy Daniels is investigating the disappearance of a murderess who escaped from a hospital for the criminally insane and is presumed to be hiding on the remote Shutter Island.

Filming, in the can, or awaiting release are four projects showcasing Leo DiCaprio's celebrity talent. First is "The Rise of Theodore Roosevelt" (2009) - a look at the formative years of the 26th President of the United States, from his transformation from a privileged New York politician to commander of the Rough Riders during the Spanish-American War. Next is the action film "Akira" (2009), part one of a two-part live action adaptation of the 1988 anime film, "Akira", in which the leader of a biker leader tries to save his kidnapped friend from a powerful supernatural experiment. Announced for 2009 is the historical drama "Freedom Within the Heart" (2009) about a young Irish revolutionary who leads his people to freedom against the marauding Vikings. And finally in production is "The Chancellor Manuscript" (2009) about Peter Chancellor's life an how it becomes a mirror of his latest novel, as he becomes tangled in a web involving Washington power brokers and a blackmailed plot targeted to alter U.S. policy.

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