Leonardo Dicaprio Biography
Leonardo Dicaprio is an famous Hollywood Actor and he also Produced some od Films too. He was born on November 11 in 1974). His Original name is Leonardo Wilhelm Dicaprio.
Leonardo was born and raised in Los Angeles, California. He started his film career by appearing in television commercials prior to landing recurring roles in TV series such as the soap opera Santa Barbara and the sitcom Growing Pains in the early 1990s.
Lenoardo parents
He made his film debut in the comedic sci-fi horror film Critters 3 in 1991. His mother Irmelin she is German. she is a former legal secretary, and his father, George DiCaprio, is an underground comic artist and producer/distributor of comic books.
He was named Leonardo because his pregnant mother was looking at a Leonardo da Vinci painting in a museum in Italy.
Awards and Films
He has received many awards, including a Golden Globe Award for Best Actor for his performance in The Aviator (2004), and has been nominated by the Academy Awards, Screen Actors Guild and the British Academy of Film and Television Arts.
He was the first notable critical praise for his performance in This Boy's Life in 1993. Leonardo obtained recognition for his subsequent work in supporting roles in What's Eating Gilbert Grape in 1993 and Marvin's Room 1996, as well as leading roles in The Basketball Diaries 1995 and Romeo + Juliet 1996, before achieving international fame in James Cameron's Titanic 1997.
Since the 2000s, Leonardo has been nominated for awards for his work in such films as Catch Me If You Can in 2002, Gangs of New York, The Aviator in 2004, Blood Diamond in 2006, The Departed in 2006, and Revolutionary Road in 2008.
His latest films Shutter Island and Inception was rank among the biggest commercial successes of his career. DiCaprio owns a production company named Appian Way Productions, whose productions include the films Gardener of Eden and Orphan.
Other Awards
- In 1993 he won the New Generation Award by Los Angeles Film Critics Association Awards.
- In 2004 he received Best Actor of the Year Award on Hollywood Film Festival.
- In 2009 Leonardo got Big Green Help Award by Kids Choice Awards.
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It's tough to be a Hollywood cool kid these days without your own tech investment, so it's no surprise Leonardo DiCaprio has claimed a seat on the start-up bandwagon. By TANIA KARAS Actor Leonardo DiCaprio and CEO of Mobli 2.0 Moshiko Hogeg attend ... |
| By WENN.com | Wednesday, May 16, 2012 The quartet are among the high-powered card sharks caught up in a legal battle between their former poker playing pal Bradley Ruderman and the people the jailed hedge fund manager conned out of millions. |
| Well, the same thing is kinda going down with Blake Lively. In this interview with David Letterman from 2007, Blake confesses that her two childhood crushes were David and Leonardo DiCaprio - who she is now rumoured to be dating. |
| Leonardo DiCaprio's current love interest Erin Heatherton has gone topless for Victoria's Secret. Posing in just animal print knickers, the 23-year-old babe flaunts her toned body. |
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| Actor Leonardo DiCaprio during the 13th annual GQ magazine 'Men of the Year' party in Los Angeles. Oscar nominee Jonah Hill (Moneyball) will join Leonardo DiCaprio in The Wolf of Wall Street to be directed by Martin Scorsese, starting production in ... |
| The kind of active investment we're seeing from celebrities like 50 Cent, Ashton Kutcher, Sean Combs and Leonardo DiCaprio is marked by market research, personal engagement in the product and an ownership stake. Sure, a lot of these glitzy ... |
Tobey Maguire, Leonardo DiCaprio, Ben Affleck, Matt Damon and a slew of Hollywood identities can rest assured - the secrets of their illegal high-stakes poker games won't be spilled in a Los Angeles court. |
| Surprisingly Leonardo DiCaprio was suffered little of that intervention despite being one of the biggest movies stars in the world. |
| CANCUN - April 15: In this handout image provided by Sony, Leonardo DiCaprio, Kerry Washington, Quentin Tarantino, Jamie Foxx and Christoph Waltz attend the 'Django Unchained' photo call at Summer of Sony 4 Spring Edition held at The Ritz Carlton Hotel ... |
| Comic actor Jonah Hill has joined Leonardo DiCaprio on Wolf Of Wall Street, the Martin Scorsese adaptation of the Jordan Belfort memoir. |
| Leonardo DiCaprio's current love interest Erin Heatherton has posed in sexy lingerie for Victoria's Secret. The 23-year-old hottie flaunts her toned bod in the fashion brand's summer range. |
| And it seems Leonardo DiCaprio is keen on maintaining his famous face, as he was spotted puffing away voraciously on an electronic cigarette in New Orleans yesterday. |
MUMBAI: Last year there was a huge buzz that Shah Rukh Khan is doing Hollywood filmmaker Martin Scorsese's movie with Leonardo DiCaprio. The rumours died down when Khan refused to confirm it. But recently Khan revealed that he is planning to meet ... |
| Leonardo DiCaprio is already on board to play the lead, Jordan Belfort, as the film is based on Belfort's memoir about his dramatic rise and fall on Wall Street, one punctuated with both bad personal (drugs! |
| Who gave you your big Leonardo DiCaprio break? Mary Kellogg at the Titanic Museum in Branson. That was my first gig. I worked at the museum for one month in July 2009 as Jack Dawson. |
| He will be seen opposite Jennifer Garner in this summer's family drama "The Odd Life of Timothy Green," and will appear with Leonardo DiCaprio and Carey Mulligan in "The Great Gatsby," which hits theaters later this year. In "The Felony," Edgerton will ... |
We estimate the star brought in $25 million between May 2011 and May 2012. Rounding out the top three: Leonardo DiCaprio. The actor ranks 46th on the Celebrity 100. |
| So while JLo took home a healthy $52 million last year, that's chump change compared to Glenn Beck, who, while #23 on the list, is #11 (tied with Elton John) in pay, taking home an estimated $80 million, more than Leonardo DiCaprio ($37M), ... |
| I have a unique perspective that perhaps people like Eminem and Leonardo DiCaprio share. There are certain people who are in my generation who were in the hot kitchen the same time as me, and whether I know them or not is incidental. |
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