He became famous already as a child and was then hunted of a lot of women, because he so handsome. But has grown up to be one of the greatast actors and has shown a big solidarity for environmental issues.
Leonardo Wilhelm DiCaprio (born November 11, 1974 is a three-time Academy Award-nominated and Golden Globe Award-winning American actor well known for his roles in blockbuster movies such as William Shakespeare's Romeo + Juliet (1996), Titanic (1997), The Beach (2000), Catch Me If You Can (2002), Gangs of New York (2002), The Aviator (2004), The Departed (2006), and Blood Diamond (2006), and was, as a young man, famed for his global celebrity influence dubbed as "Leomania" in the late 1990s following his role as heartthrob protagonist Jack Dawson in Titanic. More recently, he has worked regularly with director Martin Scorsese which has led some to compare their partnership to that of Scorsese and actor Robert De Niro.
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DiCaprio was born in Hollywood, Los Angeles, California, the son of George DiCaprio, a distributor of comic books, and Irmelin Indenbirken, a former legal secretary. DiCaprio's German mother moved from Oer-Erkenschwick, Germany to the U.S. during her childhood, while his father is of half Italian and half German descent.
DiCaprio's parents met while attending college together and subsequently moved to Los Angeles.[1] His last name means "from Capri" in Italian; he was named after artist Leonardo da Vinci, as his pregnant mother was standing in front of a da Vinci painting at a museum in Italy when DiCaprio first kicked; his mother named him Leonardo[1] DiCaprio's parents divorced when he was a year old, and he subsequently lived mostly with his mother, although his father was also around. During his childhood, DiCaprio was interested in baseball cards, comic books and frequently visited museums, often with his father.[1] He also spent part of his childhood in Germany, where his maternal grandparents, Wilhelm and Helene, still lived, and still speaks German fluently. DiCaprio and his mother lived in several poor neighborhoods, predominantly Echo Park, (which DiCaprio has described as the "Ghettos of Hollywood"), and his mother worked several jobs to support them.DiCaprio was inspired to become an actor after Adam Starr (a stepson of his father's from his father's re-marriage), began appearing in commercials.
DiCaprio began looking for an agent at the age of twelve, but was initially turned down several times; one agent suggested that he anglicize his name to "Lenny Williams", which DiCaprio rejected.
DiCaprio attended Canterbury Elementary and John Marshall High School(in which Jacques Williams was his inspirational performing arts teacher), before attending the Los Angeles Center for Enriched Studies.
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