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Leonardo DiCaprio

Birth name: Leonardo Wilhelm DiCaprio

Birth date: 11.11.1974

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" (1970)_ 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 male lead 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.

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Filmography

# The Chancellor Manuscript (2008) .... Peter Chancellor # The Rise of Theodore Roosevelt (2008) ( .... Theodore Roosevelt # Blink (2007) # Blood Diamond (2006) .... Danny Archer # The Departed (2006) .... Billy Costigan # The Aviator (2004) .... Howard Hughes # Catch Me If You Can (2002) .... Frank Abagnale Jr. # Gangs of New York (2002) .... Amsterdam Vallon # Don's Plum (2001) .... Derek # The Beach (2000/I) .... Richard # Celebrity (1998) .... Brandon Darrow # The Man in the Iron Mask (1998/I) .... King Louis XIV/Philippe # Titanic (1997) .... Jack Dawson # Marvin's Room (1996) .... Hank # Romeo + Juliet (1996) .... Romeo ... aka Romeo and Juliet ... aka William Shakespeare's Romeo + Juliet (USA: complete title) # Total Eclipse (1995) .... Arthur Rimbaud ... aka Eclipse totale (France: DVD title) ... aka Poeti dall'inferno (Italy) ... aka Rimbaud Verlaine (France) # The Basketball Diaries (1995) .... Jim Carroll # The Quick and the Dead (1995) .... Fee Herod "The Kid" # Cent et une nuits de Simon Cinéma, Les (1995) .... Un acteur muet à Hollywood ... aka A Hundred and One Nights ... aka A Hundred and One Nights of Simon Cinema ... aka Cent et une nuits, Les (France: short title) # The Foot Shooting Party (1994) # What's Eating Gilbert Grape (1993) .... Arnie Grape # This Boy's Life (1993) .... Tobias 'Toby' Wolff # Poison Ivy (1992) (as Leonardo Di Caprio) .... Guy # "Growing Pains" .... Luke Brower (23 episodes, 1991-1992) - The Last Picture Show: Part 1 (1992) TV Episode (credit only) .... Luke Brower - The Last Picture Show: Part 2 (1992) TV Episode .... Luke Brower - The Wrath of Con Ed (1992) TV Episode (credit only) .... Luke Brower - Maggie's Brilliant Career (1992) TV Episode .... Luke Brower - The Truck Stops Here (1992) TV Episode .... Luke Brower (18 more) # "Roseanne" .... Darlene's Classmate (1 episode, 1991) - Home-Ec (1991) TV Episode .... Darlene's Classmate # Critters 3 (1991) .... Josh ... aka Critters 3: You Are What They Eat (USA) # "Santa Barbara" (1984) TV Series .... Young Mason Capwell (unknown episodes, 1990) # "The New Lassie" (1 episode, 1990) - Livewire (1990) TV Episode # "Parenthood" (1990) TV Series .... Garry Buckman (unknown episodes)