Biography of Leonardo Dicaprio
Leonardo DiCaprio was born on November 11, 1976 in Hollywood, Los Angeles,
California, United States.
Family
His mother named him Leonardo because when she was pregnant and
looking at a Da Vinci painting in a museum, she gave her first kick.
The only child of George DiCaprio, an Italian artist and
producer, and Irmelin Indenbirken, a secretary of German origin who was born
in a bomb shelter during World War II. In the United States he met a comic
book artist who shared his pacifist and environmental ideas and from that
union DiCaprio was born.
His parents divorced amicably when he was a year old, and he
would live mostly with his mother in Los Angeles neighborhoods like Echo
Park. He also spent part of his childhood in Germany with his maternal
grandparents, Wilhelm and Helene.
He lived his childhood in Los Feliz, California; place known as
the ghettos of California, there he met some of the damned at that time,
people like Robert Crumb or the writers Charles Bukowski and Hubert Selby
Jr.
He studied at the Center for Enriched Studies and John Marshall
High School, Los Angeles.
The Beginning
Sometimes compared to James Dean, he started out by
appearing in various commercials. At the age of fourteen he made commercials
for Matchbox toys and educational films for parents and children.
Television
He later appeared in such television series as Lassie, The Outsiders,
and Growing Pains, where he played a homeless boy. In that last performance,
director Michael Caton-Jones included him in the cast of This Boy's
Life.
First relations
He was associated with some models: Bridget Hall, Kristin Zang and
Helana Christiensen, and with actresses: Juliette Lewis, Alicia Silverstone
and Liv Tyler.
Films
His first film was Critters 3 (1991); Later he worked on My Life as a
Son, whose director, Robert De Niro (one of his idols), chose him from among
400 candidates. He appears in Quick and Dead (Sharon Stone hired him
personally); then he continued with The Basketball Diaries and The Fire and
the Shadow. He continued with Reunion and Romeo and Juliet. He had a leading
role in Titanic, winner of eleven Oscars, and in the Man in the Iron
Mask.
After becoming a s-x symbol for millions of teenagers, he
played The Beach, a Danny Boyle film. After shooting Gangs of New York with
Martin Scorsese, he returned to the director's orders to give life to the
eccentric millionaire Howard Hughes in The Aviator for which he received a
Golden Globe for Best Actor in 2004.
He then made Blood Diamond (2006), The Departed (2006),
Revolutionary Road (2008), Shutter Island (2010), and Inception (2010). On
May 10, 2013, he premiered The Great Gatsby film adaptation of F. Scott
Fitzgerald's novel.
In April 2014, he participated in The Revenant, directed
by Alejandro González Iñárritu. On August 10, 2015, it was announced that
Scorsese would direct an adaptation of Erik Larson's The Devil in the White
City, which would star DiCaprio.
In 2019 he co-stars in Quentin Tarantino's Once Upon a Time in
Hollywood, about the relationship between Rick Dalton (DiCaprio), a
television actor, and his stunt double, Cliff Booth (Brad Pitt). To help
finance the film, DiCaprio and Pitt agreed to cut their salaries, each
receiving $10 million.
Awards
Awarded with the Silver Bear, a Chlotrudis Award and a Satellite
Award, among others, being nominated for the Oscar Awards, the Screen Actors
Guild Awards and the BAFTAs. On January 12, 2014, he received a Golden Globe
Award for Best Actor in a Musical or Comedy for his histrionic role in The
Wolf of Wall Street. He never used drugs, and had to talk to an expert to
prepare for the role in The Wolf of Wall Street.
He was chosen by People magazine as one of the "50 Most
Beautiful People in the World" in 1998.
Owner of a production company called Appian Way Productions. In
October 2015, Appian Way acquired the film rights to a book about the
Volkswagen emissions scandal.
Oscar for Best Actor
On February 28, 2016, and after six nominations, he won the Oscar for
Best Leading Actor.
DiCaprio was romantically linked to models Kristen Zang and Emma Miller.
During 2000, he met the Brazilian model Gisele Bündchen from
whom he separated in 2005 and began his relationship with the model Bar
Refaeli in November of that same year. They separated for six months from
June 2009; but in early 2010, they resumed their relationship. Finally, in
May 2011, it was reported that they were splitting up for good.
He went public in 2011 about his relationship with actress
Blake Lively; they ended their relationship in October of the same
year.
He dated model Erin Heatherton from December 2011 to October 2012.
From May 2013 to December 2014, he was in a relationship with another model, Toni Garrn.
In April 2018, hereported that he was dating model Camila Morrone since 2017.
Stroke
In 2005, her face was badly injured when model Aretha Wilson attacked
her with a broken bottle at a Hollywood party. After pleading guilty in
2010, Wilson was sentenced to two years in prison.
Properties
Among other properties, she bought a house in Los Angeles and
an apartment in Battery Park City, in Lower Manhattan, and in 2009, an
island off the mainland of Belize.
In 2014, she bought Dinah Shore, an exclusive residence in Palm
Springs for more than five million dollars. The property of just over an
acre of land is located 250 kilometers east of Los Angeles and was designed
by architect Donald Wexler.
