Di Caprio, Leonardo

Born: November 11, 1974

Actor
Born in Los Angeles, USA.

Leonardo Wilhelm DiCaprio, is a three-time Academy Award-nominated, SAG Award-nominated and Golden Globe Award-winning American actor who garnered world wide fame for his role as Jack Dawson in Titanic (1997). DiCaprio has starred in many other successful feature films including Romeo + Juliet (1996), Catch Me If You Can (2002), and Blood Diamond (2006).

He has appeared in many Martin Scorsese's recent films, including Gangs of New York (2002), The Aviator (2004), and The Departed (2006), causing people to compare this relationship to that from which actor Robert De Niro benefited early in his career.

DiCaprio was born in Los Angeles, California, the only child of George DiCaprio, an underground comic artist and distributor of comic books, and Irmelin Indenbirken, a former legal secretary. His 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. 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 parents divorced when he was one. He lived mostly with his mother, although his father was around intermittently. During his childhood, he attended Seeds Elementary School. He was interested in baseball cards, comic books and frequently visited museums, with his father.[citation needed] He also spent part of his childhood in Germany, where his maternal grandparents, Wilhelm and Helene, still lived. DiCaprio and his mother lived in several neighborhoods, such as Echo Park.

During his teen years, he lived at 1874 Hillhurst Avenue, Los Feliz district of Los Angeles, California (which was later converted into a local public library) and his mother worked several jobs to support them. He attended John Marshall High School, a few blocks away, before attending the Los Angeles Center for Enriched Studies.

He was inspired to become an actor after Adam Starr, a stepbrother 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.

For more information on Leonardo Di Caprio's acting career please check Wikipedia.

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