Leonardo DiCaprio

He's the star of the hit movies William Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet and Titanic. But Leonardo DiCaprio wasn't always famous. In 1988, he was only a boy with no money. Young actors in the United States usually go to Hollywood in California. They go because people make movies there. Leo didn't go to Hollywood-he always lived there. Hollywood was his mome. He liked reading books nad watching movies. He liked animals and he loved the ocean. Leo's brother, Adam Starr, was an actor too. Hemade a lot of money from only one television comercial. At fourteen he got a part in a television commercial and he had small parts in some famous television show-Lussie, Roseanne and The out sides. The director Baz Luhrmann wanted to wake a movie of William Shakespeare's Romeoand Juliet. Luhrmann wanted Leo for Romeo, but Leo didn't wnt the part. That was from a shakespeare story, and Reeves didn't have a problem. Now Leo wanted to play Romeo. The producers were happy and Luhrmann got the money. Now he wants to go to new places. He wants to have fun with his friends. And he wants to make a lot of good movies.