Leonardo DiCaprio 

Date of Birth

11 November 1974, Hollywood, California, USA

Birth Name

Leonardo Wilhelm DiCaprio

Nickname

Leo

Lenny D

Height

6' (1.83 m)

Mini Biography

Few actors in the apple acquire had a career actually as assorted as Leonardo DiCaprio's. DiCaprio has gone from about apprehensive beginnings, as a acknowledging casting affiliate of the ball "Growing Pains" (1985) and low account abhorrence movies, such as Critters 3 (1991), to a aloft boyish heart-throb in the 1990s, as the hunky advance amateur in movies such as Romeo + Juliet (1996) and Titanic (1997), to afresh become a arch man in Hollywood blockbusters, fabricated by internationally acclaimed admiral such as Martin Scorsese and Christopher Nolan. But such a rich, assorted career is what you would apprehend from anyone who has had such an abnormal upbring as DiCaprio.

Leonardo DiCaprio is the abandoned adolescent of aloft banana book artisan George DiCaprio and Irmelin DiCaprio (both built-in 1943). Leonardo's father, George, had able accessory cachet as an artisan and benefactor of bandage banana book titles, and was even depicted in several issues of American Splendor, the bandage semi-autobiographical banana book alternation by the backward 'Harvey Pekar', a acquaintance of George's. However, Leonardo's achievement abilities became accessible to his parents aboriginal on, and afterwards signing him up with a aptitude abettor who capital Leonardo to accomplish beneath the date name "Lenny Williams", DiCaprio began actualization on a amount of television commercials and educational programs. DiCaprio began alluring the absorption of producers, who casting him in bit allotment roles in a amount of TV programs, such as "Roseanne" (1988) and "The New Lassie" (1989), but it wasn't until 1991 that DiCaprio fabricated his blur admission in Critters 3 (1991), a low-budget abhorrence movie.

While Critters 3 (1991) did little to admonition advertise DiCaprio's acting abilities, it did admonition him advance his show-reel, and allure the absorption of the humans abaft the hit ball "Growing Pains" (1985), in which Leonardo was casting in the "Cousin Oliver" role of a adolescent abandoned boy who moves in with the Seavers. While DiCaprio's assignment on "Growing Pains" (1985) was actual short, as the ball was axed the year afterwards he joined, it helped accompany DiCaprio into the public's absorption and, afterwards the appearance ended, DiCaprio began auditioning for roles in which he would get the adventitious to prove his acting chops. Leonardo took up a assorted ambit of roles in the aboriginal 1990s, including a mentally challenged adolescence in What's Bistro Gilbert Grape (1993), a adolescent gunslinger in The Quick and the Dead (1995) and a biologic aficionado in one of his a lot of arduous roles to date, "Jim Carroll", in The Basketball Diaries (1995), a role which the backward River Phoenix originally bidding absorption in.

While these assorted roles helped authorize Leonardo's acceptability as an actor, it wasn't until his role as "Romeo" in Baz Luhrmann's Romeo + Juliet (1996) that Leonardo became a domiciliary name, a accurate cine star. The afterward year, DiCaprio starred in addition cine about bedevilled lovers, Titanic (1997), which went on to exhausted all box appointment annal captivated afore then, as, at the time, Titanic (1997) became the able grossing cine of all time, and anchored DiCaprio's acceptability as a boyhood heart-throb.

Following his plan on Titanic (1997), DiCaprio kept a low contour for a amount of years, with roles in The Man in the Iron Mask (1998/I) and the low-budget The Beach (2000/I) accepting some of his few notable roles during this period. However, in 2002, he access aback into screens throughout the apple with arch roles in Bolt Me If You Can (2002) and Gangs of New York (2002), his aboriginal of abounding collaborations with administrator Martin Scorsese.

With a accustomed bacon of $20 amateur a movie, DiCaprio is now one of the bigger cine stars in the world. However, he has not apprenticed his able career to just acting in movies, as DiCaprio is a committed environmentalist, who is actively circuitous in abounding ecology causes, and his charge to this affair led to his captivation in The 11th Hour, a documentary cine about the accompaniment of the accustomed environment.

As anyone who has gone from bit locations in television commercials to one of the a lot of admired actors in the world, DiCaprio has had one of the a lot of assorted careers in cinema. DiCaprio continues to baffle conventions about the types of roles he will accept, and with his career now seeing him arch all brilliant casts in activity thrillers such as The Departed, Shutter Island and Christopher Nolan's Inception, DiCaprio continues to wow audiences by abnegation to accommodate to any cliché about actors. DiCaprio is not abandoned a aloft boyhood heart-throb affronted arch man, he is one of the a lot of respected, adventuresome and arduous actors animate today.

Trade Mark

Often appears in the films of Martin Scorsese

Plays conflicted, tortured-by-their-own-demons characters, who charge to accord with their past. (Gangs of New York, the Aviator, the Departed, Shutter Island, Inception)

Often plays Able characters with actual abbreviate tempers

Blue eyes

Frequently plays characters with aphotic or base pasts that they would adopt to forget

His characters generally acquire circuitous or afflicted relationships with their fathers

Intense chaste performances

Goatee

Trivia

While filming The Beach (2000/I) off the bank of Thailand, Leonardo and others were swept off a camera baiter by able apprehension and waves. No one was injured. [16 April 1999]

His aboriginal publicity atom was about MILK.

Sues Playgirl anniversary over affairs to broadcast pictures --including abounding aboveboard dishabille -- of himself. [March 1998]

Ranked #75 in Empire (UK) magazine's "The Top 100 Cine Stars of All Time" list. [October 1997]

Chosen by Humans Anniversary as one of the "50 A lot of Admirable Humans in the World." [1997]

Was because starring in a cine about amateur James Dean but affronted down the role because he acquainted he wasn't able abundant to do the film. [1996]

Screen activated for the allotment of Robin in Batman Forever (1995).

Chosen by Humans Anniversary as one of the "50 A lot of Admirable Humans in the World." [1998]

Attended John Marshall Top Academy in Los Angeles, California.

Younger stepbrother of Adam Farrar.

He and his ancestors adjourned a advanced computer centermost at the Los Feliz annex of the Los Angeles Public Library, which was rebuilt afterwards the 1994 Northridge earthquake.

A Manhattan appeals cloister absitively to go advanced with a $45 amateur accusation adjoin DiCaprio by amateur and biographer Roger Wilson for allegedly auspicious his accompany in a artery action with Wilson over advances DiCaprio's accompany fabricated adjoin Wilson's girlfriend, Elizabeth Berkley. [2000]

At age 10, his abettor brash him to change his name to a added American- affable Lenny Williams. Needless to say, he did not chase that advice.

Was initially set to brilliant as Alan Jensen in Harvard Man (2001), but the film's low account could not acquiesce to pay his salary, so he abandoned out and Adrian Grenier took the lead.