Leonardo Wilhelm DiCaprio (innate November 11, 1974), is an U.s. actor.

He was natural around Los Angeles, California, the son of George DiCaprio & Irmalin Idenbirkin. His title allegedly fall out because his pregnant mother was standing before of the Leonardo da Vinci painting at a museum inside Italy when he kicked, which made her decide to title him fallowing a noted creative person.

Leo's father, the distributor of comedian books, is half Italian-Our contries & half German-U.s.. His mother, the previous legal secretary, is German. His parents divorced while he was a year old. He grew higher around Echo Park.

At age 5, he appeared in his preferred television series, Romper Room, and was near discharged for misbehaving. He attended John Marshall High School inside Los Angeles.

He was rejected by an professional early within his career for getting the title that sounded as well foreign, suggesting that it should exist as changed to Lenny Williams, however DiCaprio (pleasantly) refused.

His acting career began around 1990 while he was cast in the role of Garry Buckman on the TV version of the hit film Parenthood, where he met his right friend Tobey Maguire while working on an episode. In this equivalent season, DiCaprio appeared on the detergent opera Santa Barbara in the role of Mason Capwell (in flashbacks as a adolescent). From either 1991 to 1992 he experienced the role of Luke Brower, a homeless sin, on Growing Pains.

Even so, DiCaprio is best known (& respected) for his roles around theatrical motion pictures. His debut role wwhen as Josh around Critters 3 (1991).

2 years late, his break-across come sustaining a role of Toby jug in ''This Boy's Life (1993) co-starring with Robert De Niro and Ellen Barkin, which led the New York Film Critics and the National Society of Film Critics to name him runner-up for Best Supporting Actor. inside the equivalent month he likewise portrayed an autistic son and so convincingly in What's Eating Gilbert Grape (1993) that many people thought he really was. A role earned him an Academy Award nomination.

A black-&-white pic Don's Plum, a low-budget drama featuring the actor and some of his friends (including Tobey Maguire) was filmed between 1995 and 1996. Its release was down the road blocked in the United States and Canada by DiCaprio and Maguire, world health organization argued it never designed to produce it the theatrical feature. Even so, it late premiered within February 10, 2001 in Berlin.

Withwithin 1996, DiCaprio too played a male lead in Romeo + Juliet'', a super slick & updated modern-contemporary version of Shakespeare's beloved play.

A move from either 'star' to 'hotshot' come while DiCaprio played Jack Dawson inside Titanic (1997). A greatest grossing flick ever, it attached by using Ben-Hur (1959) for receiving a virtually all Academy Awards, though DiCaprio himself was not nominated (The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King would later match Ben Hur & Titanic's eleven Oscars).

Leo's rise to stardom did non prevent there, yet. Withinside 2002 DiCaprio starred in both larger-than-life motion picture; Catch me If You Can (directed by Steven Spielberg), and Gangs of New York (directed by Martin Scorsese). Each films were super easily critically received.

DiCaprio last starred in the award-winning film The Aviator directed (again) by Martin Scorsese, portraying the nonconcentric Howard Hughes.

DiCaprio continues his begin sustaining Scorsese (occasionally claim him to exist as Scorsese's 'fresh De Niro') in the approaching pic, The Departed (2006)

Awards

Within 1994, DiCaprio was nominated for an Oscar for 'Right Supporting Actor' for 'What's Eating Gilbert Grape'. The decade within, he was nominated for his 2nd Oscar for his dead breathless performance in 'A Aviator'.

At a Golden Globes over the years, he has been nominated for the 'Right Performance by an Actor around the Supporting Role' for 'What's Eating Gilbert Grape'; 'Right Performance by an Actor' for 'Titanic'; & 'Right Performance by an Actor' for 'Catch Us If You Could' (which co-starred Tom Hanks). Leo was nominated & won a 'Right Actor' award (Drama) at a 'Golden Globes 2005' for 'A Aviator'.

Trivia

DiCaprio sued Playgirl to stop a New York-based each month magazine from either publishing unauthorised pic of him within its July 1998 issue. A select few reports claim a photograph were secretly taken when a actor even was lounging around a au naturel, when others say it come from either either stills of his nude scenes in, or from outtakes of, the picture Total Eclipse (co-starring David Thewlis). A experience was fixate June 29, 1998 for an unrevealed total.

Recently, DiCaprio has taken to political issues. He is especially fond of environmental stimulates & has devoted much of his instance & money to such issues. His official web site (watch hyperlink following) will bring other info on the subject.

Despite far flung hearsay & speculations, he denied commenting in whether he was gay or even epicene.

Filmography
Critters 3 (1991) Poison Ivy (1992) ''This Boy's Life (1993) What's Eating Gilbert Grape (1993) The Foot Shooting Party (1994) A Hundred and One Nights (1995) The Quick and the Dead (1995) The Basketball Diaries (1995) Total Eclipse (1995) Romeo + Juliet (1996) Marvin's Room (1996) Titanic (1997) The Man in the Iron Mask (1998) Celebrity (1998) The Beach (2000) Don's Plum (2001) Gangs of New York (2002) Catch Me If You Can (2002) The Aviator (2004) The Departed (2006) (currently filming) The Chancellor Manuscript (2006) (pre-production) The Blood Diamond'' (2007) (pre-production)

Quotes
"All you math teachers who've been scolding me all my life, HA HA! I laugh."

Trivia
Leo another time "starred" within the Japanese Orico credit card commercial message, where he played the cop/detective, & it punned his title when Dekka Purio (Dekka meaning 'fuzz' inside Japanese). He speaks 1 line "Orico card, ok!"