Leonardo Dicaprio

Leonardo Wilhelm DiCaprio(born November 11, 1974) is an actor and film producer. He has many awards including the Golden Globe for Best Actor for his performance in The Aviator (2004) has been received, and Oscar, Screen Actors Guild and British Academy of Film and Television named.

Born and raised in Los Angeles, California, DiCaprio started his career appeared in commercials before landing roles on television shows like the soap opera Santa Barbara and comedy Growing Pains in 1990. He made his film debut in the comedy sci-fi horror movie creature 3 (1991) and the first critical acclaim for his role in the lives of boys (1993). DiCaprio was honored for his work in the role later in the What's Eating Gilbert Grape (1993) and Marvin (1996), as well as roles in Basketball Diaries (1995) and Romeo + Juliet (1996) was found to achieve an international reputation in James Cameron's Titanic (1997). Since 2000, DiCaprio has been nominated for awards for his work in films like Catch Me If You Can (2002), Gangs of New York (2002), The Aviator (2004), Blood Diamond (2006), The Departed (2006) and time Revolutionary Road (2008). Iceland's newest film Shutter (2010) and original (2010) is the most commercially successful of his career. DiCaprio has a production company called Appian Way Productions, the production of the film Gardener of Eden (2007) and Orphan (2009). Perfect environment, DiCaprio has received praise from environmental groups for his commitment.

Early life and family

DiCaprio, an only child, born in Los Angeles, California. His German mother Irmelin (néeIndenbirken), a former law clerk, and his father, George DiCaprio, an underground artist and producer / distributor of comic books. DiCaprio's mother moved from OER-Erkenschwick in Ruhr, Germany, the United States in the decade since 1950, while his father Leonardo DiCaprio is a fourth generation American of German descent in the southern half of Italy (Napoli), and half (from Bavaria in southern Germany). DiCaprio maternal grandmother, Helen Birch indene (1915-2008), who was born Elena Smirnova, a Russian immigrant to Germany. In 2010, an interview with Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin said DiCaprio two grandparents were Russian. DiCaprio's parents met at school and then moved to Los Angeles. He was named Leonardo because pregnant women are Leonardo da Vinci's drawings in a museum in Italy when DiCaprio first kicked. DiCaprio was raised Catholic. Her parents divorced when he was a year and mostly lived with his mother. DiCaprio and his mother lived a few blocks from Los Angeles, Echo Park, and in 1874 Hillhurst Avenue, Los Feliz district (which then become local public library), and his mother worked several jobs to support them. He was still in elementary school and graduated from high school John Marshall High seed a few blocks away, after a visit to downtown Los Angeles for Advanced Study in four years.

Career: Started his career

DiCaprio's career began with appearances in several advertisements and educational films. After starting from the set of the TV room for Violations of children's series, as detrimental to the age of five years, DiCaprio has followed his stepbrother Adam Farrar age in television advertising, with Matchbox landings of commercial vehicles in 1990, it was a break in television when he published a series of length based on the birth of film. After the family, DiCaprio has supported a role in several shows, including New Lassie and Roseanne, as well as a brief on the soap opera Santa Barbara Mason Capwell play young. Your participation in child rearing and soap every day he was nominated for Young Artist for Best Actor in a young one.

His first film role in the terror of the sci-fi creature comedy 3, in which he, the evil landlord stepson, DiCaprio's role as "the media is not explained very normal boy playing with his hair blond." Published in 1991, went to the movies directly to video. Shortly thereafter, he became an actor in ABC's Growing Pains series regular, playing Luke Brower, a homeless boy, who Seaver family.DiCaprio breakthrough to the big screen in 1992, when he learned from Robert De Niro for 400 young actor chosen to play a role major in the life of this child, co-starring Ellen Barkin and Robert De Niro himself. Then, in 1993, DiCaprio starred as Johnny Depp's mentally disabled brother in What's Eating Gilbert Grape, the odyssey of a tragic comic dysfunctional family in Texas. Director Lasse Hallström admitted that he was originally looking for an actor less attractive, but in the end, Leonardo DiCaprio, because he, "[members of] the majority of observers" to all auditioners. With a budget of 11.0 million dollars, the film is financially successful and critically, who won the overall box office of $ 9.1 million in the U.S. and won several awards for DiCaprio, the National Board of Review and nominated for an Oscar and a Golden Globe for her performance. The New York Times, Janet Maslin praised DiCaprio's performance, writing, "the film is a real turn-stopping event from DiCaprio, who for many ticks Arnie is so incredibly bright that at first difficult to see the act of desperate intensity from beginning to end .."