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.