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| Leonardo Dicaprio |  |
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General Information: Full Real Name: Leonardo Wilhelm DiCaprio Nicknames: Leo, The Noodle Birthdate: November 11, 1974 Birthplace: Los Angeles, CA, USA Astrological Sign: Scorpio Residence: Hollywood, CA, USA Education: John Marshall High School & Center for Enriched Studies, Los Angeles, CA, USA Height: 6 ft Weight: 140 Ibs Hair Color: Blond Eye Color: Blue-green Parents: George & Irmelin DiCaprio Siblings: Adam Farrar (step-brother) Favorites: Favorite book(s): "The Old Man and the Sea" (Ernest Hemmingway) Favorite Sport(s): Basketball & baseball Favorite Animal(s): All animals Favorite Car: '69 Mustang Favorite Song: "Sitting on the Dock of the Bay" Favorite Game: Pool Favorite Music: Rap music Favorite Musician: Harry Conick Jr. Favorite Band(s): Pink Floyd, The Beatles, & Led Zeppelin Favorite Actor(s): Robert De Niro, Al Pacino, & Jack Nicholson Favorite Actress: Meg Ryan Favorite TV Show: The Twilight Zone Favorite Vacation Place: Germany Favorite Food: Pasta Favorite Drink: Lemonade, Diet Coke, and Fruitopia Favorite Colors: Black, green, & purple Favorite Childhood Memory: Terrorizing his neighborhood with practical jokes Favorite Cities: New York & San Francisco Favorite Movie(s): The Godfather (I, II, III) Favorite Birthday: "My 16th because I started to drive." Favorite Spare-time Activity: Writing poetry and short stories Least Favorite Food: Meat Least favorite Kind of People: James Dean wannabes Other Facts: Habits: "Twisting my hair and biting my nails." Musical Instrument Played: "I used to play the organ." Highest Wishe(s): To save the environment and live in peace. Little-known Fact: Leo speaks fluent German. Childhood Description: "Funny, goofy, and cute." Best Quality: "I have a good sense of humor." Car Owned: Silver BMW coupe Pets: A Rottweiler (named Baby) and a Bearded Dragon (named Lizard). Shoe Size: 11 Main Goal in Life: To be a successful actor. Leonardo Wilhelm DiCaprio was destined from the beginning to be a wild and spirited boy. He received his first name after swiftly kicking his mother from her womb as she admired a Leonardo DaVinci painting in the Uffizi. He was born in Los Angeles, CA on the eleventh of November of 1974 to George and Irmalin DiCaprio. Leo was an only child (though he does have a stepbrother named Adam), and his parents divorced each other within a year after his birth. His mother is German and his father is Italian, and their backgrounds had a major influence on his upbringing. His father produces underground comic books and comic arts out of his garage. His mother was a legal secretary (before she began managing Leo's affairs.) They might be best described as liberal, pot-smoking hippies: "Whatever I did would be something they'd already done. I mean, my dad would welcome it if I got a nose ring." He remembers such household guests as comic-book artist Robert Crumb, writer Charles Bukowski, and novelist Hubert Selby, Jr. visiting as a child. "We're not the hippie family who only eats organic and the children meditate and go to a school of the arts. But we're not apple-pie and Republican, either." Leo was educated at the Center for Enriched Studies and John Marshall High School, both in LA. He often cheated in school (especially in math), and seemed more interested in entertaining his classmates than in doing his homework. "School, I never truly got the knack of. I could never focus on things I didn't want to learn. I used to, like, take half of the school and do break-dancing skits with my friend in front of them at lunchtime." But his troubles concentrating in school didn't stifle his acting dreams. Leo's acting debut was on the television show Romper Room, at age five. Booted from the set because of his uncontrollable behavior, it would be eleven years until he would land a big-screen role. At age ten, on the way home from a casting call where he had just been callously rejected, he cried to his father, "Dad, I really want to become an actor, but if this is what it's all about I don't want to do it." Leo recalls his father put his arm around him and said, "Someday, Leonardo, it will happen for you. Remember these words. Just relax." When searching for an agent Leo was further discouraged by the commercialism of the industry, exemplified by an attempt from one agent to alter his "wrong" haircut and change his ethnic-sounding name to Lenny Williams. He was finally signed at the age of fourteen, and struggled to break into the movie industry through obscure commercials and educational films such as "How to Deal With a Parent Who Takes Drugs" and "Mickey's Safety Club." He took part in over thirty commercials in all, and eventually procured guest appearances on such television shows as Lassie, The Outsiders, Roseanne, and Parenthood. Though he was cast in his first movie in 1991, Leo would rather forget his minor and embarassing contribution to Critters III altogether. At sixteen, he finally landed a successful, regular role as a homeless boy in the teen sitcom Growing Pains that lasted for a year. Though only a small part, Leo's performance proved he had great potential; he easily outshined the rest of the cast. His big break was undoubtedly his leading role as Tobias Wolff in This Boy's Life. Though Leo's natural, brilliant performance in this "coming of age" movie didn't hit home at the box office, he gained instant recognition as a talented rising actor. Leo received a few prestigious awards for his performance (see below) and herein began his rise to fame. Now given the opportunity to be picky about his roles, Leo chooses them carefully. He welcomes help from his father in sifting through the facile, mainstream roles most actors gleefully accept. Leo has turned down such commercially popular roles as Robin in Batman Forever, and continues to look for the more challenging "dark roles such as Arnie Grape, the mentally handicapped teenager in What's eating Gilbert Grape, the drug-troubled Jim Carrol in Basketball Diaries, and the homosexual French poet Arthur Rimbaud in Total Eclipse. "I want to take my time with each role and that's how you plan a long career rather than doing it all at once in a big explosion. I turned down a lot of movies about death and a few cheesy little comedies as well." With the electrifying and modern-day adaptation of Romeo and Juliet by Baz Luhrman, DiCaprio finally began to reach out to a larger audience. He also worked again with Robert de Niro as the rowdy son of Meryl Streep, an unstable and insolent teenager. However, his career didn't truly explode until Titanic, the blockbuster movie that landed no fewer than eleven Oscars. His good looks and outstanding acting skills made this romantic lover of the third class an instant idol around the world. Though Leo wasn't among the Oscar nominees for Titanic, he remained busy with promotional tours and starring in his new movie, The Man in the Iron Mask. After a short role in Woody Allen's Celebrity, Leo played the role of an American backpacker searching for a secret island in The Beach. He just finished the shooting of Martin Scorsese "Gangs of New-York", with Cameron Diaz and Daniel Day-Lewis and he is signed to star in "Catch me if you Can" next year, as the youngest criminal to ever land on the F.B.I.'s 10-most-wanted list. He now has his own Los Angeles-based production company, Appian Way and with Initial Entertainment Group, he will develop projects in which he will serve as producer and/or star. The first one could be "Alexander", directed by Martin Scorsese. Leo is a favorite of many professional and amateur critics because of his unique ability to play the "boy/man" border with such ease and natural spontaneity. Though 32, Leo's boyish looks allow him to apply his learned experience and charm to younger roles that many of his competitors cannot handle. "The best thing about acting is that I get to lose myself in another character and actually get paid for it. It's a great outlet. As for myself, I'm not sure who I am. It seems that I change every day." |
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| Leonardo DiCaprio was born on November 11, 1974 in Los Angeles, California to Irmalin and George DiCaprio. He was named after Leonardo DaVinci. His parents divorced when he was one year old and has one stepbrother. He went to school at the Center for Enriched Studies and John Marshall High School in Los Angeles. He always wanted to be an actor and at the age of fourteen began doing commercials. His agent also got him small parts on various TV shows such as Parenthood (nominated for the Young Artist Award for Best Young Actor Starring in a New Television Series) and Santa Barbara (nominated for the Young Artist Award for Best Young Actor in a Daytime Series). He even had a small role in his movie debut, appearing in Critters III. However, in 1991, he finally received a steady role as a troubled teenage on the once popular television show Growing Pains where he was nominated for the Young Artist Award for Best Young Actor Co-starring in a Television Series. He continued to receive other roles, such as Toby in the movie This Boy’s Life. However, his big break came in 1993 as Arnie Grape in Who’s Eating Gilbert Grape, in which he won the NBR Award for Best Supporting Actor and the CFCA Award for Most Promising Actor. He was also nominated for the Golden Globe Award for Best Performance by an Actor in a Supporting Role in a Motion Picture and an Academy Award for Best Actor in a Supporting Role. In 1993, he also won the LAFCAA New Generation Award. He and the cast of Marvin’s Room was nominated for the Screen Actors Guild Award for Outstanding Performance by a Cast in 1996. However, in 1996, he gave a critically acclaimed appearance as Romeo in the movie Romeo and Juliet where he won the BIFF Silver Berlin Bear for Best Actor and the Blockbuster Entertainment Award for Favorite Actor – Romance. He was also nominated for MTV’s Movie Awards for Best On-Screen Duo w/ Claire Danes, Best Male Performance, and Favorite Actor – Romance. His most memorable role of the 1990’s was as artist Jack Dawson on a sinking ship in the movie Titanic. Awards won for this role include MTV Movie Award for Best Male Performance and Blockbuster Entertainment Award for Favorite Actor – Drama. He was also nominated for several awards, including: Screen Actors Guild Award for Outstanding Performance by a Cast, MTV Movie Award for Best On-Screen Duo w/ Kate Winslet, MTV Movie Award for Best Kiss w/ Kate Winslet, Golden Satellite Award for Best Performance by an Actor in a Motion Picture – Drama and the Golden Globe Award for Best Performance by an Actor in a Motion Picture – Drama. The movie itself won many awards (including 11 Oscars) and nominations, as well as being a box office success. After Titanic, Leonardo followed up with roles in several other fairly successful movies including Catch Me if You Can in which he was nominated for the MTV Movie Award for Best Male Performance and the Golden Globe Award for Best Performance by an Actor in a Motion Picture – Drama. He was in another blockbuster movie in 2002, the Gangs of New York which was very successful, however, he was only nominated for one major award, the MTV Movie Award for Best Kiss w/ Cameron Diaz, which is not a bad consolation prize. In 2004, he saw his career soar to even greater heights with the release of The Aviatior, based on the life of Howard Hughes. He has already won the Golden Globe for Best Performance by an Actor in a Motion Picture – Drama and is nominated for many other similar awards. He has also been awarded the Hollywood Film Festival Actor of the Year in 2004. While in New York to film a movie in June 2005 Leonardo attended a party at a friends home. While at the party, a woman smashed a beer bottle across his face causing him to go to the hospital and receive stitches. It is unknown why the woman did this or if DiCaprio is going to press charges. |
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| On acting: "Don't think for a moment that I'm really like any of the characters I play. That's why it's called ACTING." "I've been planted here as a vessel for acting..." "Portraying emotionally ill characters gives me the chance to really act." "I really don't know what I'm doing, I don't. It's terrible. I go in there and learn how to be like the character and do the best I can. That's all I really do." "I don't care about being a star, I'm concerned about being an actor." "Romeo was restless, he was ready to kill..." "I'm just starting to scratch the surface of what makes me happy, and it has taken me a while to admit that acting like a child and a jerk is fun." . On success: "I've just been jolting along from one film to another... Now, it's sort of a shock to realize what I've achieved." "The last thing I want to turn into is a fat Hollywood jerk. I was brought up without much money and I was happy. I don't think that I will strive for money or success and end up greedy or big-headed. That only leads to unhappiness. I can still be down-to-earth and do this job as long as I enjoy it." "The main thing for me right now is just to live my life with my family and friends. They treat me like Leo, not 'Leonardo, Master Thespian'. That's all I need to keep my sanity." "If you can do what you do best and be happy, you're further along in life than most people." . On rumors: "I've heard some pretty bad rumors...that I'm gay..." "If I want to go to a party with a few male friends, it doesn't mean that I'm gay." "I don't see why I can't have friends of both sexes without rumors being spread about me. It's crazy." "People always like to make up stories. I am not planning on getting married. Then again, I might wake up tomorrow and decide to get married!" "If you hear of any incident about me - a fight, a change of clothes, a little extra gel in the hair, don't believe it till you talk to me." . On fame: "I hate being selected as 'Babe of the Month' and being called 'hunk'." "Fame is not the worst thing. I went to dinner the other night, and the girls in the restaurant ignored me. It was so annoying." "I insist on keeping a level head. I've maintained the same exact home life that I've had for 20 years. All I see is more people looking at me than before. But, you know, who cares? You just can't obsess yourself with this fame stuff." "My God, no! I hate this whole hunk thing! I feel when I see myself in that, and these other cute faces, that I'm just part of this meat factory, like, 'Wow! Here's the hunk of the month! This month we're shoving Leonardo DiCaprio down your throat! Isn't he cute. Let's put him on the cover and we'll sell so many more magazines...' That's definitely not what I want to be, and I've tried real hard to get away from that whole situation." "Everywhere I go, somebody is staring at me. I don't know if people are staring because they recognize me or because they think I'm a weirdo." "People want you to be a crazy out-of-control teen brat. They want you to be miserable, just like them. They don't want heroes. What they want is to see you fall." . On his career: He admits he's done a few lousy roles in the beginning of his career, like his role in "Critters III". "But at that age, you'll do anything for attention!" "It's tricky stuff. If you're not perfect in every film, then people say 'see, he was just lucky in one role'." . About himself: "I have the same problem as Edward Furlong. I'm so thin!" "I hate my body." "I'm nothing like Romeo in real life..." "I like to help the whales, the otters, and the dolphins. When I'm acting and I take a break, the first thing on my list is spending time by the sea." "I'm shy, but when the time comes to be wild, I'm fun-loving, adventurous, and mysterious." "One of my passions is to meet people and then imitate them. I love doing that." "I hate speaking in front of a large audience. I don't know where it came from...but its just this gut-wrenching fear of slipping up and doing something horrible." "I don't have emotions about a lot of things. I rarely get angry, I rarely cry. I guess I do get excited a lot, but I don't get sad and enormously happy. I think a lot of people who talk about all that crap are lying. Right now I'm just trying to maintain happiness - that's all I really care about. Anyway, when you're my age and your hormones are kicking in, there's not much besides sex that's on your mind." "I'm absolutely clean. I've never tried anything. That's not a lie!" "I'm not the sort of person who tries to be cool or trendy. I'm definitely an individual." "I'm not really the quiet type, although some people think I am. But I'm the rebel type in the sense that I don't think I'm like everyone else. I try to be an individual." "Dark green is my favorite color. It's the color of nature and the color of money and the color of moss!" "It's a weird adjustment living alone, because you don't realize how much you really miss Mumsie until she's not there." . On love: "I like girls who are intelligent, somewhat funny, and pretty with a nice personality." "My first date was with a girl named Cessi. We'd had a beautiful relationship over the phone all summer long. Then she came home and we met to go out for the first time to the movies. When I saw her I was petrified. I couldn't even look her in the eye to talk to her." "I don't know if I'm ever getting married. I'm probably not going to get married unless I live with somebody for 10 or 20 years. But these people took a chance and they did it. We don't have the guts that Romeo did." "Bridget Hall and I hung out for a week. The whole thing was blown out of proportion." . On his life: "What I would do in order to be popular was, I'd put myself on line and joke around and be funny, and I was always known as the crazy kid." "As a little kid growing up in Hollywood, I was called 'a little crazy'. And now I guess I'm still that way." "When I was young, I used to have this thing where I wanted to see everything. I used to think, 'How can I die without seeing every inch of this world?'" "I cheated a lot, because I just couldn't sit and do homework. I usually sat next to someone extremely smart." |
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