BIOGRAPHY

Leonardo Wilhelm DiCaprio (English: Leonardo Wilhelm DiCaprio) is a famous American actor and producer, Oscar winner, four times nominated for an Oscar, winner of three Golden Globe awards, nominee for the Saturn Award, Screen Actors Guild Award “, “Satellite”.

Leonardo DiCaprio’s childhood:

Leonardo DiCaprio was born on November 11, 1974 in Los Angeles, California. Leonardo is the only child in the family.

Leonardo’s father, George DiCaprio (b. 1943), has half Italian (from Naples), half German (from Bavaria) roots. DiCaprio Sr. is a comic book author.
Leonardo DiCaprio lived in several Los Angeles neighborhoods, such as Eco Park and Hillhurst Avenue. These were not the most prosperous places.

Leonardo recalled: “…I saw what drugs do to people: you no longer belong to yourself. I never wanted this, drugs never interested me. Growing up, I didn’t have many friends; I mostly spent time with my family. But it was thanks to my parents that life in this neighborhood didn’t affect me so much.”

Leonardo DiCaprio began his education at Sidd Elementary School, and then entered the Los Angeles Advanced Science Center, studying there for four years.

Leonardo’s film career began at the age of 2.5 in a children’s show, where the baby was brought by his father. Then, as a teenager, DiCaprio starred in commercials. Leonardo even managed to star in feature films – he appeared in an episode of the popular TV series Santa Barbara. Then young Leo participated in the series “Roseanne” and “The New Adventures of Lassie.”

But DiCaprio’s main roles, of course, were ahead. Leonardo DiCaprio was truly noticed in 1991, when he starred in the horror comedy Critters 3. Then Leonardo was invited to the series “Growing Pains” and immediately DiCaprio received a more lucrative offer – a role in the film “This Guy’s Life.” It was in this film that Leonardo DiCaprio met Robert De Nir
Leonardo’s mother, Irmelin Indenbirken (b. 1943), was born in a bomb shelter in the West German city of Or-Ekenschwick. On his mother’s side, Leonardo DiCaprio also has Russian roots. DiCaprio’s grandmother is Russian emigrant Helena Indenbriken, née Elena Stepanovna Smirnova (1915−2008). Leonardo’s grandfather is German Wilhelm Indenbirken, although DiCaprio himself said in an interview that his grandfather was also Russian, and therefore he himself is “not a quarter, but half Russian.”

In 1955, Wilhelm and Helena left for the United States when Irmelin was 12 years old.

The mother named her son Leonardo in honor of the great Leonardo da Vinci, whose works she admired while visiting museums in Italy. When Leo was one year old, George and Irmelin divorced, and the son remained with his mother. DiCaprio’s father soon married, but his mother never remarried. Her mother, the actor’s Russian grandmother Elena Stepanovna, helped raise Leonardo.

Having an angelic appearance, Leonardo was forced to act in the role of sugary handsome men, and he eventually got tired of it. In 1993, Leonardo DiCaprio had the opportunity to play the unusual role of a mentally retarded boy, Arnie, in the film What’s Eating Gilbert Grape, alongside Johnny Depp. The actor was 19 years old, and for the first time he was nominated for an Oscar and a Golden Globe. What’s Eating Gilbert Grape was one of DiCaprio’s best films.

In those years, Leonardo DiCaprio’s list of star partners included, in addition to Johnny Depp and Robert De Niro, Sharon Stone, Gene Hackman and Russell Crowe.

1996 brought Leonardo colossal success in the film Romeo + Juliet. Although the film was an interpretation of Shakespeare’s tragedy, the events of the play were transferred to modern times. The film was a great financial success, although it suffered from critics.

The next film with Leonardo DiCaprio, James Cameron’s Titanic, caused even more success and a real sensation. The film received 11 Oscar awards. However, film academics did not nominate Leonardo in the Best Actor category. DiCaprio refused to attend the ceremony. The actor’s fans were outraged, and thus began a long history of complex relationships between Leonardo and the Oscars.

The kiss between Kate Winslet and Leonardo DiCaprio in the film Titanic is recognized as the best kiss in the history of Hollywood cinema. Leonardo DiCaprio was nominated for a Golden Globe Award, and his role in Titanic established Leonardo as the highest paid actor in Hollywood. And in 1997, DiCaprio was included in the list of the 50 most beautiful people in the world according to People magazine.

The actor’s role as Leonardo DiCaprio in the crime tragicomedy directed by Steven Spielberg “Catch Me If You Can” (2002) also brought success to the actor. The film received positive reviews from critics and became one of the highest-grossing films of DiCaprio’s career. He brought Leonardo DiCaprio a third nomination for the Golden Globe Award. In the same 2002, DiCaprio starred with director Martin Scorsese in the film “Gangs of New York” about the clash between gangs of “native” Americans and immigrants in New York . Leonardo failed again, and the film itself did not receive a single award out of 10 Oscar nominations. But Gangs of New York was a success and the film became one of DiCaprio’s best films.

Leonardo DiCaprio continued to work with Scorsese. He starred in the film “The Aviator,” for which he received his first Golden Globe and was again nominated for an Oscar, but the award again passed him by. DiCaprio was nominated for an Oscar 6 times in total, in five cases the award went into other hands. According to astrologer Pavel Globa, Russian roots have long prevented DiCaprio from winning an Oscar. In Chelyabinsk they promised to reward Leonardo DiCaprio with their own.

Blood Diamond (directed by Edward Zwick) and The Departed (directed by Martin Scorsese) are 2006 films starring Leonardo DiCaprio. He was again nominated for the Golden Globe and BAFTA.

In 2008-2013, Leonardo DiCaprio starred in the film Body of Lies (2008, directed by Ridley Scott), the psychological thriller Shutter Island (2010, directed by Martin Scorsese), and the science fiction film Inception “(2010, dir. Christopher Nolan). All of these films are considered among the best in DiCaprio’s filmography.

DiCaprio’s starring roles include the villainous slave owner in Quentin Tarantino’s Django Unchained and Jay Gatsby in the film adaptation of Francis Scott Fitzgerald’s The Great Gatsby. The film received mixed reviews from critics, but DiCaprio’s performance was highly praised. After finishing work on the film Silence, American director Martin Scorsese, together with actor Leonardo DiCaprio, began a new project. Scorsese’s new film, The Devil in the White City, will be an adaptation of Erik Larson’s book of the same name. The novel tells the story of the first officially registered American serial killer, Henry Howard Holmes.

Leonardo DiCaprio’s first Oscar:

Since the fall of 2014, DiCaprio participated in the months-long filming of the film “The Revenant,” directed by Alejandro González Iñárritu. With this role, according to critics, Leonardo DiCaprio should once again qualify for an Oscar.

By the Oscars 2015 ceremony, the hysteria about DiCaprio not being awarded this award had reached its climax. In the news of the world and Russian media, a lot was written about whether Leonardo would receive the prize that had not been given to him so many times. Leonardo DiCaprio was nominated for an award for Best Actor; he himself asked his agent to ensure that journalists did not ask him questions about the possibility of him receiving an Oscar.

After all, the film “The Revenant” brought DiCaprio the long-awaited Oscar for the leading male role. The audience gave a standing ovation to the famous actor. From the stage of the Dolby Hall in Los Angeles, Leonardo DiCaprio thanked his family for their support and called for protecting the environment.

DiCaprio received a number of other awards for this role, including another Golden Globe and a BAFTA award. Previously, the British Academy of Television and Film Arts recognized the film “The Revenant” as the best film of 2015, and Leonardo DiCaprio also received the Critics’ Choice Award in the “Best Actor” category.

But this story did not end with receiving an Oscar. Leonardo DiCaprio celebrated winning the Oscar so well that he forgot his long-awaited trophy in the restaurant, however, the statuette was not stolen.
Latest films with DiCaprio

In 2018, it became known that Leonardo DiCaprio would play the role of United States President Ulysses Grant in Steven Spielberg’s new film. Cinema news wrote that this would be a biographical film about the head of the United States, who led the country from 1869 to 1877. The film will be based on the biographical book by historian Ron Chernow, published last November.

It was also reported that Leonardo DiCaprio is preparing to work on Quentin Tarantino’s Once Upon a Time in Hollywood. In it, the hero of “The Revenant” will play in a duet with Brad Pitt. “SP” reported that Tarantino persuaded Brad Pitt and DiCaprio to star in the new film “Once Upon a Time in Hollywood” about the sect of serial maniac Charles Manson and the murder of director Roman Polanski’s wife Sharon Tate.

The premiere of the film “Once Upon a Time in Hollywood” took place on May 21, 2019 at the Cannes Film Festival, where, after the end of the screening, the audience gave “Once Upon a Time in Hollywood” a six-minute standing ovation. The Hollywood Reporter called the film “Tarantino’s love letter to ’60s Hollywood” and praised the casting, according to Wikipedia.

The film became the leader at the Russian box office, collecting 516.9 million rubles over the first weekend.

It was also reported that Leonardo DiCaprio will try himself as a producer of the comedy series “The Facts of Life.” His partner in the new project will be actress, singer and model Jessica Biel.

DiCaprio and Russia:

Leonardo DiCaprio has a lot in common with Russia, besides his grandmother. He said that he loves Russia, he likes old Soviet films and even dreams of playing the leader of the world proletariat, Vladimir Ilyich Lenin. DiCaprio met with Russian President Vladimir Putin and received public praise from him. This happened in November 2010, when Leonardo, with great difficulty, reached St. Petersburg from the United States for the International Forum dedicated to the conservation of Amur tigers. “A real man!” — this is how Putin described the actor’s insistence on coming to Russia, despite two emergency landings of Leo’s planes at the airports of New York and Helsinki.

Leonardo DiCaprio, in an interview with the German publication Welt am Sonntag, said that he was fascinated by Russia and would love to play Putin in a movie.

As reported in the news, the cultural program of SPIEF 2017 was built around the Hollywood star Leonardo DiCaprio.

And St. Petersburg artist Irina Romanovskaya, on the occasion of the first Oscar, painted a portrait of her favorite actor Lenardo DiCaprio with her breasts.

In 2018, Free Press reported that DiCaprio was frightened by frosts in Oymyakon, Russia. A post was published on the artist’s Instagram page dedicated to the coldest permanently inhabited place on Earth – the village of Oymyakon in Yakutia. The publication says that the village recorded an indicator close to the record – minus 62 degrees.
The Russian Ministry of Culture on its official Instagram page jokingly commented on the long-awaited Oscar win by American actor Leonardo DiCaprio using a photo of the actor with Vladimir Putin (from a meeting in 2010). The photo was accompanied by a fictional dialogue consisting of two lines. The first of them, on behalf of the actor, sounds like this: “Thank you, Vladimir Vladimirovich!” In response, the head of state says: “It’s bullshit, forget it.”

The news also published a photo of the people’s silver Oscar for DiCaprio from the residents of Yakutia. Silver for the figurine was collected all over the world, collecting a total of 1.4 kilograms. The Yakut “Oscar” represents a man of the Mongoloid race who looks into the sky and holds the national vessel Choroon in his hands, RIA Novosti reports. They called the figurine “Speaker to the Stars.” Leonardo DiCaprio himself warmly thanked Yakutia for the gift.

Public position of Leonardo DiCaprio:

On January 19, 2016, Leonardo DiCaprio received the Crystal Award for his contribution to environmental protection at the World Economic Forum in Davos (Switzerland). Having created the Leonardo DiCaprio Foundation in 1998, DiCaprio has committed more than $30 million to develop 70 innovative environmental projects in 40 countries. DiCaprio was appointed UN Peace Ambassador on climate issues in 2014. In March 2017, it became known that DiCaprio intends to invest in the Love The Wild company, which specializes in independently growing seafood and selling it in frozen form.

The Hollywood actor is interested in more than just earthly affairs. In 2016, Leonardo DiCaprio told Barack Obama that he was going to leave Earth and fly to Mars as one of the astronauts who would conquer the Red Planet.

Personal life of Leonardo DiCaprio:

Leonardo DiCaprio’s celebrity life is covered in detail in the news, and paparazzi track down the actor with his girlfriends to take photos. Naturally, Leonardo is a great success among women. In the 90s, Leonardo DiCaprio had an affair with the Danish model Helena Christensen; from 2000 to 2005, the handsome DiCaprio maintained a relationship with the Brazilian model Gisele Bündchen; from 2006 to 2009, Leonardo became interested in the Israeli model Bar Refaeli. Leonardo DiCaprio even planned to marry the last beauty, but then the couple separated in 2011.

Leonardo DiCaprio has had a new love – actress Blake Lively – since June 2011. But they soon separated and her place next to DiCaprio was taken by a model demonstrating Victoria’s Secret underwear, Erin Heatherton. And again the love did not last long. The couple broke up due to “busy work schedules for both of them.”

And then, since a holy place is never empty, in 2013 Leonardo began a love relationship with German model Toni Garrn, and it ended in December 2014. The media reported that DiCaprio and Danish supermodel Nina Agdal appeared together in public in the spring of 2016 in one of the nightclubs in New York. And in May 2017, gossip news reported that Leonardo had broken up with her. According to People, the 42-year-old film actor was not ready for a serious relationship and starting a family with the 25-year-old fashion model, but the celebrities maintained good and friendly relations.

Sometimes Leonardo DiCaprio gets into show business news for strange reasons. Thus, in January 2019, the physical features of a Hollywood celebrity were criticized. DiCaprio was publicly humiliated by being included in the list of stars with modest sized manhood.

Fans were able to examine the features of Leonardo’s figure in the 1995 film called “Total Eclipse,” where the actor was filmed completely naked. Along with the Titanic star, Tom Hardy, Jude Law and other famous artists were included in the humiliating list, the news reported.

Leonardo DiCaprio has a house in Los Angeles and an apartment in Battery Park City in Lower Manhattan. And back in 2009, the actor bought the island of Blackador near Belize, where he plans to open an environmentally friendly resort.

The Free Press reported that actor Leonardo DiCaprio has decided to sell his 3,560-square-foot mansion, built in 1931. The cost of the mansion is $1.749 million. The artist purchased the property in 1999 after filming “Titanic” for an amount greater than 870 thousand dollars.