Leonardo Dicaprio
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PERSONAL DATA OF LEONARDO DICAPRIO
Age: 46 years old
Height: 183 cm
Born in: Hollywood, California, USA
Born on: 11/11/1974
BIOGRAPHY OF LEONARDO DICAPRIO
Leonardo Wilhelm DiCaprio was born in 1974 a Hollywood, from an Italian-American cartoonist father and a German secretary mother. His mother decides to call him Leonardo when, pregnant, she feels inside herself the first kick in front of a painting by Leonardo da Vinci, in Italy. His parents divorce when he is just one year old, while the entertainment world opens up to him from an early age. At the age of five, he makes some trouble on the set of a program for the little ones, Romper Room, but as he grows up he continues to tread on advertising sets or photo shoots. At 14 he is one of the faces for Matchbox electric tracks. In the third year of high school, he leaves school (he will make amends later on, taking his diploma).
Between 1989 and 1992 he took his first steps as an actor on TV: he was in episodes of Lassie and Santa Barbara, to then become an almost fixed presence in Between grandparents and grandchildren is Parents in Blue Jeans, in the role of Luke. Meanwhile, he makes his first film appearance in trash Critters 3 (1991), famous only for his appearance.
1993 is the year of the double turning point: Robert De Niro in person chooses it among the provinants for Want to start over. Almost at the same time he convinces the public alongside Johnny Depp in Happy Birthday Mr. Grape; Arnie’s role yields him a double, even though he is so young nomination to Golden Globe is Oscar for best supporting actor. When it is said to forge ahead.
There is still some apprenticeship to do, before being counted among the stars: it is Sharon Stone same that covers her pay in the western Ready to die (1995), against the skepticism of production. The disappearance of River Phoenix it also makes him enter the role of the poet Rimbaud in Poets from Hell. In 1996 he is Romeo, alongside Claire Danes-Juliet, in the hyperkinetic Romeo + Juliet of Baz Luhrmann, film that gave him the award for best actor at the Berlin Festival.
Not even his holding up to two holy monsters like Diane Keaton is Meryl Streep in Marvin’s room (1996) allows him the big leap, but luckily in his career the time has come Titanic (1997). At first the part offered to him by James Cameron he does not even care, but it is the extraordinary success of the blockbuster that opens the doors of the stardom to him and assures him another nomination ai Golden Globe. Curiosity: his fans are already starting to protest his exclusion from the Oscar nominations. Will meet again Kate Winslet, here his partner on the set, in a very different and more bitter way Revolutionary Road in 2008 (further nomination ai Golden Globe). The years immediately following Titanic they don’t see him very fit: i Raids they target him for the swashbuckle of The Iron Mask (1998) and The Beach (2000). He consoles himself with various relationships with renowned models: from 2000 to 2005 he is with Gisele Bündchen, from 2005 to 2011 will be very envied for its history (albeit suffered) with Bar Refaeli.
Di Caprio gets up with decision in 2002, with two fundamental encounters for his artistic career: Steven Spielberg is Martin Scorsese. He defends himself with his head held high in Try to catch me (2002) by Spielberg, a new one for him Golden Globe nominations. At the same time, it is his presence that guarantees that Gangs of New York (2002) of Scorsese is finished: it will not be the best film they will make together, but Leo has the firm intention of not disappearing from Hollywood’s radar.
The role of Howard Hughes in The Aviator (2004), offered by the actor himself to direct Scorsese after that Michael Mann he rejected it, leads DiCaprio for the first time to win a Golden Globe, accompanied by a nomination forOscar. The partnership with Martin Scorsese will continue three more times: the noir The Departed (2006, Golden Globe nomination), the hallucinated Cormanian thriller Shutter Island (2010) and the biography of the cynical businessman Jordan Belfort in The Wolf of Wall Street (2013), the latter heralding Leo’s second Golden Globe and yet another unrealized Oscar nomination.
In the meantime, DiCaprio does not live by Scorsese alone: in Blood Diamond (2006) his diamond smuggler expresses himself with a perfect South African accent and earns another double nomination for Oscar is Golden Globe. Between South Africa in the latter film and the Middle East in the thriller No truth (2008) of Ridley Scott, DiCaprio consolidates its focus on humanitarian as well as environmental causes. In 2009 he bought aisland off the Belize to make it an eco-friendly resort, use only electric and / or hybrid cars, make abundant donations (including one for earthquake victims in Haiti). From 2014 it becomes officially represented UN for climate change, seven years after he co-produced, co-wrote and narrated the documentary The eleventh hour on the same topic. In 2008 and 2012 he openly supports the campaigns of Barack Obama.
Not that cinema and its re-awards take a back seat. No film of this period can be defined as “minor”: it is a traveler of the unconscious in Inception (2010) by Christopher Nolan, is Hoover in J. Edgar (2011) of Clint Eastwood (Golden Globe nominated), is a proud slaver landowner in Django Unchained (2012) of Quentin Tarantino (yet another Golden Globe nomination) and is the overflowing protagonist of the Great Gatsby (2013) in the version of Baz Luhrmann.
The physical commitment of the Revenant – Revenant of Alejandro González Iñárritu, earned him his third personal Golden Globe and finally, at the sixth nomination, the coveted Oscar as best leading actor. Leo he did not miss the opportunity, on the stage of the Academy Awards with a billion people watching him on TV, to remember how important it is to take action to solve the threat of climate change that the human race is facing.
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THE MOST RECENT FILMS BY LEONARDO DICAPRIO
Killers of the Flower Moon
Role: Actor
Year: 2021
Once Upon a Time … in Hollywood
Role: Actor
Year: 2019
Revenant – Revenant (The Revenant)
Role: Actor
Year: 2015
The Great Gatsby (The Great Gatsby)
Role: Actor
Year: 2013 Go to Complete Filmography …
