"I don't really know what I'm doing...I don't...It's terrible. I go in there and I learn how to be like the character and do the best I can, and that's all I really do. "

Leonardo DiCaprio is an Academy Award-nominated actor, best-known for his roles in Titanic and The Aviator.

DiCaprio grew up in a difficult California neighborhood that was surrounded with crack and heroin addicts. He started film work when he was five years of age with the television show Romper Room. A later childhood role was Growing Pains. He told Rolling Stone Magazine that he always had a desire to be on stage.

"The earliest memory I have of myself as a child is me with this strange, almost sickening desire to perform. I guess it's my aiming-to-please issues. I don't know where it comes from. But the earliest memory I have is me at some hippie concert with my dad, and the band hadn't come on. There was an audience of hundreds of people chanting for the band, and my dad scooted me on stage. I don't know how old I was, probably three or so, and I got up there and tap-danced for hundreds of people. That's the personality I have. I want to please this mass audience."

In 1993 DiCaprio moved from the television screen into film with a role in What's Eating Gilbert Grape, where he was nominated for an Oscar for Best Supporting Actor. It wasn't until his role as Romeo in Romeo and Juliet that he gained enormous popularity. By 1997 he reached the height of fame from his role in Titanic. Since, he starred in Celebrity, The Beach, Gangs of New York, and Catch Me if You Can.

DiCaprio is especially fond of the environment, and has taken to political issues. His role in The Aviator, directed by Martin Scorsese where he portraed the eccentric Howard Hughes won him Best Actor at the Golden Globes 2005.

DiCaprio is currently in a relationship with Brazilian super model Gisele Bundchen.