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Leonardo DiCaprio

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Leonardo DiCaprio and Mayur Bhatkar at an event for Inception (2010)
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Few actors in the world have had a career quite as diverse as Leonardo DiCaprio's. DiCaprio has gone from relatively humble beginnings, as a supporting cast member of the sitcom Growing Pains (1985) and low budget horror movies, such as Critters 3 (1991), to a major teenage heartthrob in the 1990s, as the hunky lead actor in movies such as Romeo + Juliet (1996) and Titanic (1997), to then become a leading man in Hollywood blockbusters, made by internationally renowned directors such as Martin Scorsese and Christopher Nolan.

Leonardo Wilhelm DiCaprio was born November 11, 1974 in Los Angeles, California, the only child of Irmelin DiCaprio (née Indenbirken) and former comic book artist George DiCaprio. His father is of Italian and German descent, and his mother, who is German-born, is of German and Russian ancestry. His middle name, "Wilhelm", was his maternal grandfather's first name. Leonardo's father had achieved minor status as an artist and distributor of cult comic book titles, and was even depicted in several issues of American Splendor, the cult semi-autobiographical comic book series by the late 'Harvey Pekar', a friend of George's. Leonardo's performance skills became obvious to his parents early on, and after signing him up with a talent agent who wanted Leonardo to perform under the stage name "Lenny Williams", DiCaprio began appearing on a number of television commercials and educational programs.

DiCaprio began attracting the attention of producers, who cast him in small roles in a number of television series, such as Roseanne (1988) and The New Lassie (1989), but it wasn't until 1991 that DiCaprio made his film debut in Critters 3 (1991), a low-budget horror movie. While Critters 3 (1991) did little to help showcase DiCaprio's acting abilities, it did help him develop his show-reel, and attract the attention of the people behind the hit sitcom Growing Pains (1985), in which Leonardo was cast in the "Cousin Oliver" role of a young homeless boy who moves in with the Seavers. While DiCaprio's stint on Growing Pains (1985) was very short, as the sitcom was axed the year after he joined, it helped bring DiCaprio into the public's attention and, after the sitcom ended, DiCaprio began auditioning for roles in which he would get the chance to prove his acting chops.

Leonardo took up a diverse range of roles in the early 1990s, including a mentally challenged youth in What's Eating Gilbert Grape (1993), a young gunslinger in The Quick and the Dead (1995) and a drug addict in one of his most challenging roles to date, Jim Carroll in The Basketball Diaries (1995), a role which the late River Phoenix originally expressed interest in. While these diverse roles helped establish Leonardo's reputation as an actor, it wasn't until his role as Romeo Montague in Baz Luhrmann's Romeo + Juliet (1996) that Leonardo became a household name, a true movie star. The following year, DiCaprio starred in another movie about doomed lovers, Titanic (1997), which went on to beat all box office records held before then, as, at the time, Titanic (1997) became the highest grossing movie of all time, and cemented DiCaprio's reputation as a teen heartthrob. Following his work on Titanic (1997), DiCaprio kept a low profile for a number of years, with roles in The Man in the Iron Mask (1998) and the low-budget The Beach (2000) being some of his few notable roles during this period.

In 2002, he burst back into screens throughout the world with leading roles in Catch Me If You Can (2002) and Gangs of New York (2002), his first of many collaborations with director Martin Scorsese. With a current salary of $20 million a movie, DiCaprio is now one of the biggest movie stars in the world. However, he has not limited his professional career to just acting in movies, as DiCaprio is a committed environmentalist, who is actively involved in many environmental causes, and his commitment to this issue led to his involvement in The 11th Hour, a documentary movie about the state of the natural environment. As someone who has gone from small roles in television commercials to one of the most respected actors in the world, DiCaprio has had one of the most diverse careers in cinema. DiCaprio continued to defy conventions about the types of roles he would accept, and with his career now seeing him leading all-star casts in action thrillers such as The Departed (2006), Shutter Island (2010) and Christopher Nolan's Inception (2010), DiCaprio continues to wow audiences by refusing to conform to any cliché about actors.

In 2012, he played a mustache twirling villain in Django Unchained (2012), and then tragic literary character Jay Gatsby in The Great Gatsby (2013) and Jordan Belfort in The Wolf of Wall Street (2013).

DiCaprio is passionate about environmental and humanitarian causes, having donated $1,000,000 to earthquake relief efforts in 2010, the same year he contributed $1,000,000 to the Wildlife Conservation Society.
BornNovember 11, 1974
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Leonardo DiCaprio in This Boy's Life (1993)
Leonardo DiCaprio in Growing Pains (1985)
Johnny Depp and Leonardo DiCaprio in What's Eating Gilbert Grape (1993)
Leonardo DiCaprio and Kate Winslet in Titanic (1997)
Leonardo DiCaprio and Kate Winslet in Titanic (1997)
Leonardo DiCaprio, Kate Winslet, Billy Zane, Kathy Bates, David Warner, and Bernard Hill in Titanic (1997)
Leonardo DiCaprio and Kate Winslet in Titanic (1997)
Leonardo DiCaprio and Kate Winslet in Titanic (1997)
Leonardo DiCaprio and Kate Winslet in Titanic (1997)
Leonardo DiCaprio and Kate Winslet in Titanic (1997)
Leonardo DiCaprio and Kate Winslet in Titanic (1997)
Leonardo DiCaprio and Kate Winslet in Titanic (1997)

Known for

Leonardo DiCaprio, Tom Berenger, Michael Caine, Lukas Haas, Marion Cotillard, Joseph Gordon-Levitt, Tom Hardy, Elliot Page, Ken Watanabe, and Dileep Rao in Inception (2010)
Inception
8.8
  • Cobb
  • 2010
Leonardo DiCaprio, Kate Winslet, Billy Zane, Kathy Bates, Gloria Stuart, and Frances Fisher in Titanic (1997)
Titanic
7.9
  • Jack Dawson
  • 1997
Leonardo DiCaprio, Jack Nicholson, and Matt Damon in The Departed (2006)
The Departed
8.5
  • Billy
  • 2006
Leonardo DiCaprio and Jonah Hill in The Wolf of Wall Street (2013)
The Wolf of Wall Street
8.2
  • Producer
  • 2013

Credits

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Producer

  • Akira
    • In Production
  • Atari
    • Pre-production
  • Jim Jones
    • Pre-production
  • Captain Planet
    • In Development
  • The Wager: A Tale of Shipwreck, Mutiny, and Murder
    • Pre-production
  • The Devil in the White City
    • Pre-production
  • The Corporation
    • In Development
  • Roosevelt
    • Pre-production
  • The Volcano: Rescue from Whakaari (2022)
    The Volcano: Rescue from Whakaari
  • Elisabeth Moss in Shining Girls (2022)
    Shining Girls
  • Theodore Roosevelt (2022)
    Theodore Roosevelt
  • Dean Martin in King of Cool (2021)
    King of Cool
  • Stay Wild (2021)
    Stay Wild
  • Fin (2021)
    Fin
  • The Loneliest Whale: The Search for 52 (2021)
    The Loneliest Whale: The Search for 52
  • From Devil's Breath (2021)
    From Devil's Breath
  • The Titans That Built America (2021)
    The Titans That Built America
  • Kid 90 (2021)
    Kid 90
  • The Right Stuff (2020)
    The Right Stuff
  • Whose Vote Counts, Explained (2020)
    Whose Vote Counts, Explained
  • Justin Salinger in Grant (2020)
    Grant
  • Kathy Bates, Sam Rockwell, Jon Hamm, Olivia Wilde, and Paul Walter Hauser in Richard Jewell (2019)
    Richard Jewell
  • Lucas di Grassi, Jean-Éric Vergne, and Sam Bird in And We Go Green (2019)
    And We Go Green

Actor

  • Jim Jones
    • Pre-production
  • The Wager: A Tale of Shipwreck, Mutiny, and Murder
    • Pre-production
  • Killers of the Flower Moon
    • Post-production
  • Roosevelt
    • Pre-production
  • Leonardo DiCaprio, Ron Perlman, Meryl Streep, Cate Blanchett, Mark Rylance, Tyler Perry, Jonah Hill, Rob Morgan, Jennifer Lawrence, Timothée Chalamet, Kid Cudi, and Ariana Grande in Don't Look Up (2021)
    Don't Look Up
  • Brad Pitt, Leonardo DiCaprio, Al Pacino, Quentin Tarantino, Kurt Russell, Dakota Fanning, Damon Herriman, Timothy Olyphant, Harley Quinn Smith, Kansas Bowling, Madisen Beaty, Mike Moh, Josephine Valentina Clark, Sydney Sweeney, Michaela Sprague, Margot Robbie, Kayla Radomski, Ryan Ramirez, Margaret Qualley, and Julia Butters in Once Upon a Time in Hollywood (2019)
    Once Upon a Time in Hollywood
  • Dave Burd in Lil Dicky: Earth (2019)
    Lil Dicky: Earth
    • (voice)
  • Leonardo DiCaprio in The Revenant (2015)
    The Revenant
  • The Audition (2015)
    The Audition
  • Leonardo DiCaprio and Jonah Hill in The Wolf of Wall Street (2013)
    The Wolf of Wall Street
  • Leonardo DiCaprio, Tobey Maguire, Joel Edgerton, Isla Fisher, Carey Mulligan, and Elizabeth Debicki in The Great Gatsby (2013)
    The Great Gatsby
  • Titanic: Deleted Scenes (2012)
    Titanic: Deleted Scenes
  • Leonardo DiCaprio, Jamie Foxx, and Christoph Waltz in Django Unchained (2012)
    Django Unchained
  • Leonardo DiCaprio in J. Edgar (2011)
    J. Edgar
  • Inception: The Cobol Job (2010)
    Inception: The Cobol Job
  • Leonardo DiCaprio, Tom Berenger, Michael Caine, Lukas Haas, Marion Cotillard, Joseph Gordon-Levitt, Tom Hardy, Elliot Page, Ken Watanabe, and Dileep Rao in Inception (2010)
    Inception
  • Leonardo DiCaprio in Shutter Island (2010)
    Shutter Island
  • Leonardo DiCaprio and Kate Winslet in Revolutionary Road (2008)
    Revolutionary Road
  • Russell Crowe and Leonardo DiCaprio in Body of Lies (2008)
    Body of Lies

Writer

  • Greensburg (2008)
    Greensburg
  • The 11th Hour (2007)
    The 11th Hour
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How 'Once Upon a Time ... in Hollywood' Connects the TarantinoVerse
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25 Years After 'Pulp Fiction', Tarantino Delivers a 'Hollywood' Masterwork
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Clip: Arrival
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Clip: "I'm the King of the World!"
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Clip: "Don't Let Go of My Hand"
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Clip: "Don't Let Go of My Hand"
Clip: "I Couldn't Go"
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Clip of Jack and Rose: "I'm Flying"
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    • November 11, 1974
    • Hollywood, Los Angeles, California, USA
    • Irmelin DiCaprio
    • (No Children)
  • Other works
    (Late 1990s - 2001) Print ads for Orient Corporation Orico Card (Japan).
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    • 3 Biographical Movies
    • 1 Portrayal
    • 27 Interviews
    • 85 Articles
    • 18 Pictorials
    • 487 Magazine Cover Photos

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    Bought Kate Winslet an inscribed gold ring, after they finished filming Revolutionary Road (2008) together. However, Winslet keeps the inscription a secret.
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    The best thing about acting is that I get to lose myself in another character and actually get paid for it. It's a great outlet. As for myself, I'm not sure who I am. It seems that I change every day.
    • Often appears in the films of Martin Scorsese
    • Killers of the Flower Moon
      $30,000,000

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