Leonardo DiCaprio is an American actor, producer and environmentalist born on November 11, 1974 in Los Angeles, California, United States as Leonardo Wilhelm DiCaprio. DiCaprio has often played unconventional parts, particularly in biopic and period films. As of 2019, DiCaprio’s films have earned $ 7.2 billion worldwide and has placed eight times in the annual rankings of the world’s highest paid actors.
He began his career by appearing in television commercials in the late 1980s. In the early 1990s, DiCaprio played recurring roles in various television series, such as the sitcom Parenthood. DiCaprio had his first major film role in This Boy’s Life (1993) and received accolades for supporting a boy with a developmental disability in What’s Eating Gilbert Grape (1993).
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Childhood
Leonardo DiCaprio entered the world on November 11, 1974 in Los Angeles, California. The father of DiCaprio member of German and Italian descent. Leonardo mixed ethnicity. It was a love match from her parents who met in college and graduated together. Leonardo has no other brothers.
The father of this beautiful boy is a distributor of comics. He completed his life education from Seeds Elementary School and from a John Marshall High School. When DiCaprio was younger, he spent a lot of time in Germany with his grandparents. When he was one year old, his parents separated and this makes his grandparents live together for some time.
The beginning of his career
Leonardo DiCaprio’s first television appearance dates back to when the actor was only three years old. In 1978 he was invited to participate in Romper Room, a children’s television show that aired between 1953 and 1994. In the following years he appeared on television for his first commercial for a milk brand, and at the age aged 16 starred in the television series Parents in Blue Jeans; a minor role was given to him in the soap opera Santa Barbara, where he played the role of Mason Capwell as a boy in some flashbacks.
The first film role is in 1991 with the participation in the b-movie Critters. In the meantime, having found an agent in Hollywood, he refuses the advice from them to change his name to Lenny Williams, considered more American friendly, and in 1999 he protects him by becoming the owner from a commercial point of view.
At the age of 17 years participating in the audition for This Boy’s Life (This Boy’s Life), for the role of a kid to work alongside Robert De Niro in the respective roles of stepson and stepfather. Both the director, Scotsman Michael Caton-Jones, and De Niro appreciate his rebellious spirit and sheer lack of awe of the more experienced actor, and he gets the part. The film, upon its theatrical release, is appreciated by critics.
The following year, DiCaprio plays the role of a boy with disabilities in the movie Lasse Hallström’s Eating Gilbert Grape, with Johnny Depp and Juliette Lewis, for which in 1994 obtained a nomination for Golden Globe and the first nomination for an Oscar for Best Actor not protagonist.
In 1995 he played the role of Kid in the western Ready to die. Although Sony Pictures was dubious about the actor’s choice, Sharon Stone, as producer and lead actor of the film, strongly wanted him, enough to cover the cost of his salary herself. Despite the celebrity cast (in addition to Stone and DiCaprio, Gene Hackman and Russell Crowe and directed by Sam Raimi), the film proved to be a failure in terms of both box office and critics.
In the same year he played the life of Jim Carroll in the film Return from Nothing, directed by Scott Kalvert, and the troubled existence of Arthur Rimbaud (a role inherited by River Phoenix following his untimely death) in Poets from Hell (directed by by Agnieszka Holland), whose story centers on the homosexual relationship between the young man just over a teenager and the more mature Paul Verlaine, played by the English actor David Thewlis. Critics coldly welcome the two films, criticizing their direction and film adaptation.
In 1996 he took part in William Shakespeare’s Romeo + Juliet by Australian Baz Luhrmann, in which Shakespeare’s play is revisited in a modern key, but unchanged in dialogue and content as the classical author had conceived it. With this film he obtained three nominations at the MTV Movie Awards and was awarded at the Berlin Film Festival in the category of best actor. In the same year he obtained the part for Marvin’s Room alongside Meryl Streep, Diane Keaton (the latter nominated for an Oscar) and Robert De Niro. Also in 1996 he was considered for the role of James Dean in a movie, but the actor turned it down because he didn’t feel prepared and experienced enough to take the role.
Success
With an estimated budget of around $ 200 million, James Cameron, former director of blockbuster films such as Aliens, True Lies and Terminator 2 – Judgment Day, is preparing to shoot the film adaptation of the tragedy of the ocean liner Titanic, a movie which became one of the movies to see at least once in lifetime. Brad Pitt and Gwyneth Paltrow are discarded, Sharon Stone rejects the part, while DiCaprio agrees to play the male lead, Jack Dawson, a nineteen-year-old artist from Wisconsin who has the opportunity to return to America by winning tickets for the third class of the ocean liner.. Playing the female lead was Kate Winslet, known to the public for her participation in Ang Lee’s Sense and Sensibility. Titanic comes out in December 1997; at the time it was the highest-grossing film ($ 1 850 300 000 in 1998) and the highest number of Oscars ever made, on par with only Ben Hur and, later, The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King.
The partnership with Martin Scorsese and his debut as a producer
The year 2000 marks the return of the actor on the scene, who agrees to appear in an English of the controversial film director Danny Boyle, who became famous thanks to the film Trainspotting in 1996. The film is the film adaptation of the novel by Alex Garland The Beach, best seller in the UK, especially among young audiences. DiCaprio actively participates in the making of the film, also improvising himself as a screenwriter and author of a scene in which Richard, his character, in a delirium of omnipotence, is represented as the protagonist in a video game running. DiCaprio is followed by his friends and two of them are hired to play alongside the actor.
Environmentalists make strong accusations against the royal troupe of having devastated the island of Phi Phi Island, used as a set for the film, to better adapt the natural setting to the needs of the production, in particular of having uprooted palm trees and not respecting the ecosystem. local. DiCaprio gets to be received by the competent authority, promising total respect for the place, the recovery of what was believed to be lost and a return of image for the island. The protests subside and the filming of the film is completed, but both critics and audiences reject the film.
Thanks to the signing of Fox, they become one of the most requested tourist destinations in travel agencies all over the world. He later starred in Martin Scorsese’s Gangs of New York, based on the Herbert Asbury novel Gangs of New York, opposite Cameron Diaz. Thus an artistic partnership was born between Scorsese and DiCaprio. In the United States, the box office records a collection of over seventy million dollars, the highest ever among the films of the Italian-American director (at least until 2006, the year of release of The Departed – The good and the bad. The film is released in time to compete for the annual Academy Awards and gets ten nominations, winning no awards.
After filming Gangs of New York , DiCaprio stars in Steven Spielberg’s Catch Me Try, which features thirty-five different locations. The story is true of Frank Abagnale, a sixteen-year-old who manages to scam the state for millions of dollars and thus ends up on the FBI ‘s list of most wanted criminals of all time. Initially, the choice for directing fell on Gore Verbinski (director of The Ring) and that for the role of co-star on James Gandolfini; eventually Tom Hanksaccepts the role of co-star in place of Gandolfini and Spielberg himself decides to direct the film.
The film is released in theaters during the Christmas period, a very short distance from the debut of Gangs of New York, so much so that DiCaprio finds himself competing for the box office command against himself. He is nominated for a Golden Globe in the Best Actor in a Drama category for his role in Catch Me. In the United States, the film far exceeds the threshold of one hundred and sixty million dollars compared to the fifty-five spent on its making and critics praise the film.
The Oscar for Revenant
On 25 December 2015, DiCaprio returns to the big screen together with Tom Hardy in Revenant, a film directed by Oscar winner Alejandro González Iñárritu and based on the novel of the same name by Michael Punke. Filming takes place between September 2014 and April 2015 in the United States, Canada and Argentina.
The film immediately received positive responses from critics and DiCaprio’s performance was appreciated, so much so that it earned him his third victory (after those of 2005 for The Aviator and 2014 for The Wolf of Wall Street) at the 2016 Golden Globes for Best Actor in a drama, while The Revenant was awarded Best Director and Best Drama. On January 31, 2016, after nine nominations, DiCaprio won the Screen Actors Guild Award for Best Motion Picture Actor. The following February 14, The Revenant won five awards at the BAFTA Awardsand DiCaprio wins the Best Actor Award. Finally, on February 21 he won the Satellite Awards, making him the favorite for the 2016 Oscars race.
At the Oscars Revenant receives twelve nominations, making it the film with the most nominations. On the night of the awards ceremony, February 28, 2016, DiCaprio finally won the Oscar for Best Actor after twenty-two years and five nominations. The film The Revenant also won two other awards: best direction to Iñarritu and best photography to Emmanuel Lubezki.
In February 2018, together with Brad Pitt, he officially entered the cast of the film directed by Quentin Tarantino, Once upon a time in … Hollywood. The film, based on a true story, will tell the story of the Manson Family and the murders they committed; the actor will play Rick Dalton, a former star of a western TV series. The film, initially scheduled in cinemas on August 9, 2019, on the 50th anniversary of the massacre that took place at Cielo Drive, was anticipated in the United States on July 26, 2019. The director defined the DiCaprio-Pitt duo as “The most exciting star couple since Paul Newman and Robert Redford.”
Personal Life
From 1995 to 1997 he had a relationship with model Kristen Zang. In 2000 he met the Brazilian model Gisele Bündchen, with whom he had a relationship until 2005. He was engaged to Israeli model Bar Refaeli from 2005 to 2011, and to Toni Garrn from May 2013 to December 2014. Also in 2011 he has a very short history with Blake Lively. Since December 2017 he has a relationship with Camila Morrone, an Argentine model and daughter of Al Pacino’s ex-partner. He is very active in the field of environmental protection. He supports the US Democratic Party, for which he attended John Kerry’s electoral campaign in the 2004 elections.
DiCaprio owns a home in Los Angeles, California, and an apartment in Battery Park, New York. In 2009 he bought an island off the coast of Belize, where he plans to build an eco-resort. In 2014 he bought the Dinah Shore residence designed by architect Donald Wexler in Palm Springs, California.
He has been close friends since his youth with colleagues Tobey Maguire, Kevin Connolly and Lukas Haas. After starring together in Titanic, DiCaprio made a strong friendship with co-star Kate Winslet, so much so that he accompanied her to the altar at her third wedding in December 2012 and was chosen as the godfather of her third child.
In January 2016 he released an interview in Rolling Stone magazine, in which he revealed the episode in which, during the filming of Before the Flood, a documentary by Fisher Stevens shot in the Galápagos, he was about to drown in a dive. Edward Norton saved his life.
Activism
In 1998, after his success with Titanic, he founded the Leonardo DiCaprio Foundation, a non-profit organization dedicated to promoting environmental awareness. Although he is interested in all areas of the environment, his commitment focuses on global warming, preserving the Earth’s biodiversity and supporting renewable energy. The DiCaprio Foundation supports marine life protection organization Sea Shepherd in their fight to save the world’s smallest marine mammals, the vaquitas. To protect the last of the Sea Shepherd vaquitas, journalist Carlos Loret de Mola and the Mexican navy fight against the underworld cartels. DiCaprio, along with Terra Mater Factual Studios, produced the documentary and echo thriller Sea of Shadows in which he shows the latest vaquitas and what is being done to save them from poachers.
In 1999 he devoted himself to travel, especially in South America, making documentaries that illustrate the emergencies of the Earth; opens its own official website where ample space is dedicated to the environment and animals in danger of extinction; participates in world conferences on the increasingly scarce water supply and on the risk of desertification and wild deforestation; finally he meets the then president of the United States Bill Clinton, with whom he discusses the issues of environmentalism. TIME and Playgirl magazines dedicate a cover to him. In 2010 he donated one million dollars to the WWFto save tigers from extinction and protect their habitat, and another million in Haiti following the earthquake. In 2013, he donated three million to the conservation of 3 200 Nepalese tigers. Within these activities we find participation in charity auctions and WWF campaigns, for example to stop the illegal ivory trade and poaching, or to save whales, for which the actor donated 15 million dollars.
In July 2014 he organized a fundraiser in Saint-Tropez in which both he and other celebrities auctioned off personal items: he managed to raise 25 million dollars used for the protection of oceans, forests, natural reserves and endangered species. In July 2016, his foundation allocated $ 15.6 million to help protect wildlife and Native American rights, along with tackling climate change. In 2017, through his foundation, he donated one million dollars to the victims of Hurricane Harvey.
Filmography
●Critters 3, by Kristine Peterson (1991)
●My Worst Friend ( Poison Ivy ), by Katt Shea (1992) – extra
●This Boy’s Life ( This Boy’s Life ), directed by Michael Caton-Jones (1993)
●Happy Birthday Mr. Grape (What’s Eating Gilbert Grape), directed by Lasse Hallström (1993)
●Ready to die (The Quick and the Dead), directed by Sam Raimi (1995)
●The Basketball Diaries ( The Basketball Diaries ), directed by Scott Kalvert (1995)
●Poets from Hell (Total Eclipse), by Agnieszka Holland (1995)
●One hundred and one night ( Les cent et une nuits de Simon Cinéma ), directed by Agnès Varda (1995) – cameo
●Romeo + Juliet by William Shakespeare ( William Shakespeare’s Romeo + Juliet ), directed by Baz Luhrmann (1996)
●Marvin’s Room ( Marvin’s Room ), directed by Jerry Zaks (1996)
●Titanic, by James Cameron (1997)
●The Iron Mask ( The Man in the Iron Mask ), directed by Randall Wallace (1998)
●Celebrity, by Woody Allen (1998)
●The Beach, by Danny Boyle (2000)
●Don’s Plum, by RD Robb (2001)
●Gangs of New York, by Martin Scorsese (2002)
●Catch (Catch Me If You Can), director Steven Spielberg (2002)
●The Aviator, by Martin Scorsese (2004)
●The Departed – Il bene e il male (The Departed), directed by Martin Scorsese (2006)
●Blood Diamond – Blood Diamonds ( Blood Diamond ), directed by Edward Zwick (2006)
●Body of Lies (Body of Lies), directed by Ridley Scott (2008)
●Revolutionary Road, by Sam Mendes (2008)
●Shutter Island, directed by Martin Scorsese (2010)
●Inception, by Christopher Nolan (2010)
●J. Edgar, by Clint Eastwood (2011)
●Django Unchained, by Quentin Tarantino (2012)
●The Great Gatsby ( The Great Gatsby ), by Baz Luhrmann (2013)
●The Wolf of Wall Street, directed by Martin Scorsese (2013)
●Revenant – Redivivo ( The Revenant ), directed by Alejandro González Iñárritu (2015)
●Once upon a time in Hollywood … ( Once Upon a Time in Hollywood … ), director Quentin Tarantino (2019)
●Don’t Look Up, by Adam McKay (2021)
●Killers of the Flower Moon by Martin Scorsese (2022)
Net worth and statistics
The famous Hollywood actor and producer struggled a lot to achieve the goals. It is the result of his struggle that he is now enjoying life with the highest paid actor title in the world. For the past 20 years, this amazing personality has been doing new and new things in the film industry and that’s really fantastic accomplishment. Leonardo DiCaprio’s net worth is estimated to be $ 260 million which he also won an Academy Award for the movie “The Revenant”.
Physical Statistics
The film industry is full of beauty and glamor. Leonardo DiCaprio is the name of a handsome boy of Hollywood that has a height of 6 feet. Most girls love to admire the beauty of this handsome man and die after him. The eye color of this famous actor is blue which gives him an attractive look. The hair color of Leonardo’s smoky brown. He is 6 feet tall.