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Leonardo DiCaprio

Age: 35
Height: 183 cm

Birth Place: Hollywood, California, USA
Born: Nov. 11th, 1974

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Leonardo DiCaprio's Main TV Roles

Show	Character(s)
Growing Pains	Luke Brower
100 Greatest Teen Stars	Leonardo DiCa&hellip
Celebrities Uncensored	Leonardo DiCa&hellip
Parenthood	Garry Buckman

NOTE: Complete List of Works can be found at IMDB

BIOGRAPHY:

His name allegedly derives from his German mother Irmalin's having experienced a sudden kick from her unborn boy while enjoying a DaVinci painting at the Uffizi. In the year following his birth, she and his Italian father, George, were divorced. He grew up in Echo Park, then a particularly seedy, drug-dominated area of Los Angeles. At five he appeared on his favorite TV show "Romper Room" (1953) and was nearly thrown off for misbehaving. After a string of commercials, educational films ("Mickey's Safety Club"), occasional parts in TV series, a debut film role as Josh in Critters 3 (1991), a continuing role as the homeless boy Luke in the TV series "Growing Pains" (1985), he got his break-through part as Toby in This Boy's Life (1993), co-starring with Robert De Niro and Ellen Barkin.

The part led the New York Film Critics and the National Society of Film Critics to name him runner-up for Best Supporting Actor. His first Academy Award and Golden Globe nominations came for the difficult role of Arnie in What's Eating Gilbert Grape (1993). Equally challenging parts were a drug-troubled Jim Carroll in The Basketball Diaries (1995), the tormented homosexual poet Rimbaud in Total Eclipse (1995), and the angry teenage son of a harried mother in Marvin's Room (1996). He made a major impact with his starring role in a very updated Romeo + Juliet (1996). Superstardom came to DiCaprio playing Jack Dawson in Titanic (1997), highest grossing film ever, tied with Ben-Hur (1959) for most Academy Awards, though Leo himself was not nominated. His performance in the remake of The Man in the Iron Mask (1998/I) was poorly received, but the film still turned a profit. His next major film, The Beach (2000/I), was not a success, but he made another comeback in Catch Me If You Can (2002) and remains an A-list star.

TRIVIA:

Has said his two favorite performances are 'Robert De Niro' (qv)'s Travis Bickle in _Taxi Driver (1976)_ (qv) and 'James Dean (I)' (qv)'s Cal Trask in _East of Eden (1955)_ (qv).
Ranked #6 in Star TV's "Top 10 Box Office Stars of the 1990s" (2003).
Bought 'Kate Winslet' (qv) an inscribed gold ring, after they finished filming _Revolutionary Road (2008)_ (qv) together. The inscription, however, Winslet keeps a secret.
Was offered the role of the porn star Dirk Diggler in _Boogie Nights (1997)_ (qv) at around the same time as he was offered his role in _Titanic (1997)_ (qv). The Dirk Diggler role eventually went to 'Mark Wahlberg (I)' (qv).
'Quentin Tarantino' (qv) considered casting Leo as SS Colonel Hans Landa in _Inglourious Basterds (2009)_ (qv), but he eventually chose 'Christoph Waltz' (qv) to play the role instead.
(March 1998) Sues Playgirl magazine over plans to publish pictures --including full frontal nudity -- of himself.
Attended Seeds Elementary School at UCLA where he took summer courses in performance art
(October 1997) Ranked #75 in Empire (UK) magazine's "The Top 100 Movie Stars of All Time" list.