Leonardo DiCaprio is an actor.
Blood Diamond is a 2006 German-American political war thriller film co-produced and directed by Edward Zwick , starring Leonardo DiCaprio , Jennifer Connelly and Djimon Hounsou . Leonardo DiCaprio . He gained public recognition with leading roles in The Basketball Diaries ( 1995 ) and the romantic drama Romeo + Juliet ( 1996 ) , before achieving international fame with James Cameron 's epic romance Titanic ( 1997 ) , which became the highest-grossing film of all time until Cameron 's science fiction film Avatar ( 2009 ) overtook it . The Basketball Diaries is a 1995 American coming of age crime drama film directed by Scott Kalvert , starring Leonardo DiCaprio , Lorraine Bracco , James Madio , and Mark Wahlberg . Titanic is a 1997 American epic romance-disaster film directed , written , co-produced , and co-edited by James Cameron .