Leonardo Wilhelm DiCaprio (born November 11, 1974) is an American film actor. He prochuva attempts for his role as Jack Dawson in Titanic and has starred in many successful movies including Romeo Juliet, Catch me if you can, and Blood Diamond. He has appeared in the recent Martin Scorsese film Bandata of New York, The Aviator and departed, as this leads people to compare this link to that from which actor Robert De Niro benefited early in his career. DiCaprio also was nominated twice for a BAFTA, three times a SAG and won a Silver Bear award.
DiCaprio was born in Los Angeles, California, the only child of Irmelin (nee Indenbirken), former legal secretary, and George DiCaprio, an underground comic artist and producer / distributor of comics. His mother moved from Oer-Erkenschwick, Germany, in the U.S. during his childhood and his father is the fourth generation of half American and half Italian German origin. DiCaprio parents met while attending college together and then moved to Los Angeles. It was named after artist Leonardo da Vinci, as his pregnant mother stood before a da Vinci painting in a museum in Italy when DiCaprio first kicked.
His parents when he was divorced one. He lived with his mother, although his father was around intermittently. During his childhood, he attended Seeds elementary school. He was interested in baseball cards, books, comics and frequently visited museums, with his father. DiCaprio and his mother lived in various areas, such as Echo Park.
During his division years, he lived at 1874 Hillhurst Avenue, Los Feliz district, Los Angeles, California (which was later converted to local public libraries) and his mother worked several jobs to support them. He graduated from John Marshall High School a few blocks you after attending a Los Angeles research center enriched for four years.
After the divorce, his father married Peggy Ann Farrar, who had a son named Adam Farrar, another actor / producer who happened to Leo stepbrother and who inspired DiCaprio to become an actor. DiCaprio began searching agent at the age of twelve, but was turned down several times, an agent suggested that he anglicize his name to Lenny Williams, which DiCaprio rejected.