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Name: Leonardo DiCaprio

Age: 43 years

Place of birth: Los Angeles, USA

Height: 183 cm

Occupation: actor and producer

marital status: Not maried

Leonardo DiCaprio: biography

The only child of a judge's assistant and an illustrator was born in the poorest area of ​​Los Angeles. Leo is an American, but Italian, German and Russian blood flows in his veins: Leonardo's maternal grandmother Elena Smirnova was born in pre-revolutionary Russia.

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For one commercial, Leonardo DiCaprio receives five million, his average fee per film is 20 million, and the star’s entire fortune is estimated at $245 million. Raised in poor family, who barely scraped together money for food, today DiCaprio is buying luxury real estate in Manhattan and an island in the Caribbean - planning to build an eco-resort on it. After all, Leonardo sees his true purpose not as cinematography, but as the protection of the planet. His foundation raises tens of millions of dollars, and DiCaprio personally donated 15 million to protect African animals.

IN ordinary life Leonardo does not look like a millionaire: he wears clothes from non-prestigious brands, walks the streets of New York; he does not have collections of diamonds or cars - there is only one eco-car in the actor's garage. However, Hollywood jokers claim that Leo does have one hobby: he “collects” beautiful models.

Leonardo DiCaprio: biography of personal life

Young DiCaprio's first strong passion was the Danish model Helena Christensen, one of the few brunettes on his list of girlfriends, who was also five years older than the actor. She was replaced by the Brazilian model Gisele Bündchen, whose relationship lasted five years. Giselle has the status of the highest paid model on the planet, so her relationship with Leo was definitely not mercantile.

On February 28, 2016, after 22 long years and 6 nominations, Leonardo DiCaprio finally won his first Oscar for Best Actor for The Revenant, as his latest triumph was expected and celebrated by millions of fans. and was one of the main events of the 88th awards ceremony, we decided to pay tribute to this phenomenal actor by compiling a list of the most interesting and little-known things that you might not know about Leonardo DiCaprio.

Did you like Leonardo as Jack Dawson in epic drama 1997 Titanic or Frank William Abagnale in the 2002 crime drama Catch Me If You Can, or as Jordan Belfort in the 2013 black comedy The Wolf of Wall Street or Hugh Glass in the 2015 Oscar-winning action-western The Revenant ", this actor is undoubtedly one of the greatest and most famous modern Hollywood actors.

However, apart from his Hollywood fame, Leonardo DiCaprio is also a strong advocate environment and philanthropist. He has donated large sums of money to help save tigers, protect the ocean, and help those affected by the 2010 Haiti earthquake. No wonder he made it to the list of the 50 most beautiful people planets according to People magazine.

Leonardo DiCaprio is constantly in the spotlight, so we hope you are a little familiar with this wonderful man. However, we are pretty sure that there are quite a few things that you might still not know about Leonardo DiCaprio, despite his fame.

From his first screen appearance to his unexpected and dangerous encounter with a shark, here are 25 interesting facts you may still not know about Leonardo DiCaprio.

25. Leonardo DiCaprio was born in California - an American, but a lot of different blood flows in his veins. His mother Imelin was born in Germany, his father George is half Italian, half German, and one of his grandmothers is Russian. In one of the interviews given during a trip to Russia, the actor even called himself “half Russian.”

24. A dedicated environmentalist, Leonardo donated $3 million to save tigers in Nepal in 2013, and another $3 million in 2014 to protect the ocean. He also donated $1 million in 2010 to help Haitians affected by the devastating earthquake.

23. Leonardo was named after the famous Italian polymath and universal genius Leonardo Da Vinci, because he first pushed into his mother’s stomach when she looked at the artist’s work at the Uffizi Gallery in Florence, and his artist father considered the name apt and appropriate.

22. When Leonardo began his acting career, his agent advised him to change his name to something more harmonious for Americans - Lenny Williams. Needless to say, the actor did not follow his advice.

21. Leo has an adopted daughter. During the filming of Blood Diamond, he worked with 24 orphans from the SOS Children's Village in Mozambique. With one of the orphan girls, the actor established close connection, and he decided to adopt her. The actor sends her money for room and board every month and is said to call her regularly to keep in touch.

20. In 2009, Kate Winslet also helped pay for accommodation in a nursing home for the last surviving Titanic passenger, so she did not have to sell off her memorabilia.

19. The actor was offered the role of Patrick Bateman in the film American Psycho, but he turned it down, since at that time his fans were overwhelmingly teenage girls.

18. In 1997, the actor was offered to play the role of porn star Dirk Diggler in the film Boogie Nights, but almost at the same time he received an offer to star in Titanic. The role of Dirk Diggler eventually went to his friend Mark Wahlberg.

17. Instead of wasting money on expensive cars, Leonardo DiCaprio owns only one - an environmentally friendly Toyota Prius. Also, unlike other people of the same level of fame and wealth, he always flies commercial flights, not wanting to buy a private jet. This allows you to both save money and protect the environment from unnecessary harmful emissions.

16. A Time newspaper journalist once called DiCaprio boring because the actor could name 20 species of endangered animals from memory.

15. Leonardo DiCaprio has 11 favorite films: The Bicycle Thieves (1948), The Third Man (1949), Sunset Boulevard (1950), East of Eden (1955), The Bodyguard (1961) ), Lawrence of Arabia (1962), Eight and a Half (1963), 2001: A Space Odyssey (1968), Taxi Driver (1976), Manhattan (1979) and The Shining (1980).

14. After finishing filming the film "Revolutionary Road", which became the second joint film Leonardo DiCaprio and Kate Winslet, he gave to his good friend Golden ring with secret engraving. The actress still keeps secret what exactly is written on the ring.

13. Now Leonardo DiCaprio and Mark Wahlberg - Good friends, but in a 2013 interview with the Hollywood Reporter, Wahlberg admitted that he and Leonardo initially hated each other when they starred in 1995's The Basketball Diaries.

12. In 2006, Leonardo DiCaprio had a close and dangerous encounter with a great white shark. While practicing cage diving in the waters of Cape Town ( South Africa) a great white shark, which usually does not pay attention to divers, suddenly burst into Leo’s cage. According to the actor, the 6-meter predator climbed almost halfway into the cage and chattered its teeth at arm's length. Fortunately, Leo managed to keep a sufficient distance by sinking to the bottom of the cage and trying to lie flat, which saved him. Divers who witnessed this scene said they had not seen anything like it in 30 years. The actor did not receive a single scratch.

11. Leo also almost died during a tandem skydive. When the parachute did not open, the instructor simply cut off the lines, after which he pulled out a second parachute, the lines of which were also tangled. Fortunately, the lines were eventually untangled and both skydivers landed without injury.

10. Leonardo DiCaprio first appeared on screen at the age of 5 in the children's TV show Romper Room, but was fired for unruly behavior.

9. In 1998, Leonardo was named one of the 50 most beautiful people on the planet by People magazine.

8. His favorite actress of all time is Meryl Streep.

7. DiCaprio is a dedicated liberal Democrat who contributed both personally and financially to the campaigns and elections of Bill Clinton, Al Gore, John Kerry and Barack Obama.

6. Leonardo DiCaprio has dated many people famous models, including Helena Christensen, Bar Refaeli, Erin Heatherton, Naomi Campbell, Toni Garrn and Gisele Bündchen.

5. Leo is an excellent athlete: he loves to play basketball, hockey, football, rollerblading and surfing.

4. At the Tiger Summit, held in St. Petersburg in 2010, Vladimir Putin called the actor a real man. “In our country, among the people, they say about such people as “real men.” And if the matter of protecting nature is in such hands, then we are simply doomed to success,” said the Russian president.

3. After his parents’ divorce, he stayed with his mother and German grandmother, who often took him with her to Germany. That's why the actor speaks German fluently.

2. In 2009, Leonardo DiCaprio purchased an island located off the coast of Belize. The actor plans to build an eco-resort on it.

1. In 2005, Leonardo DiCaprio's face was seriously damaged after model Aretha Wilson hit him on the head with a broken bottle at a Hollywood party. After pleading guilty in 2010, Wilson was sentenced to 2 years in prison.

And actively advocates for environmental protection? Let's get to know Leo better! Bubie brings to your attention 10 little-known facts about DiCaprio.

1. Leonardo DiCaprio was named after Leonardo da Vinci

Leo's mother was standing in front of a painting by the great Renaissance artist Leonardo da Vinci when little DiCaprio first stirred in her belly.

2. DiCaprio suffered from obsessive-compulsive disorder as a child, just like his character Howard Hughes in the film “The Aviator”

This role was not easy for Leo, because he had to “return” to his childhood and remember his OCD disease in order to get used to the character. However, it paid off - DiCaprio was nominated for an Oscar for his role as Howard Hughes... However, as you know, he did not receive the coveted statuette.

3. Leonardo DiCaprio refused to attend the Oscars after Titanic

Over the past 20 years, Leo has played more than one main role in acclaimed films. However, he never received the main film award, which is why he even refused to attend the Oscar ceremony.

4. Leonardo DiCaprio has been interested in anthropology since childhood

Yours unusual hobby DiCaprio shares with another famous actor - Nicolas Cage. They go to auctions together and buy dinosaur remains for huge sums.

5. In 2012, Leo released his coffee

All profits from the sale of this coffee (under the name Lyon) go to finance environmental activities carried out by the DiCaprio Foundation and the World Wide Fund wildlife WWF.

6. Early in his career, Leonardo DiCaprio was a frequenter of bars.

He hung out with guys including Tobey Maguire, Harmony Korine, David Blaine, and they even created their own group called The Pussy Posse.

7. Leo and Tobey Maguire starred in a film that they are ashamed of

The film is called Don's Plum Cafe, and almost no one has heard of it. And all because Leo and Toby tried to do everything to prevent the picture from becoming widely known. They are simply ashamed of her!

8. Patrick DiCaprio was supposed to play Bateman in American Psycho

But Leo had a busy schedule at that time, and the role went to Christian Bale. However, many are sure that he simply did not want to kill young women in the film!

9. While preparing to film The Wolf of Wall Street, DiCaprio looked to YouTube videos for inspiration.

It was not easy for Leo to play the “drunk” scenes, so he watched it on repeat video The Drunkest Guy in the World(“The Drunkest Guy in the World”).

10. Leonardo DiCaprio - big fan electronic cigarettes

Despite the fact that he cares about the environment and is against smoking.

Was last modified: June 15th, 2016 by Olga Kulygina

Leonardo DiCaprio is one of the most famous actors Hollywood, who achieved success solely due to his talent. Next they are waiting for you little known facts from the life of an actor and quite interesting news, which were not widely publicized.

Leonardo DiCaprio is one of the most outstanding actors in Hollywood, who became famous as a young man in the melodramatic roles of Romeo and Jack from the Titanic, which he took far beyond melodrama, which earned him the fame of the main sex symbol of the planet and practically a movie god. The second half of the 90s can easily be called the era of DiCaprio in cinema. Today Leonardo did everything to get away from melodrama. He plays in complex psychothrillers, choosing heavier characters. He is a five-time Oscar nominee.
To explain why the choice was not in favor of Leonardo, film critics used various arguments, which many considered, and still consider, extremely ridiculous. Perhaps the absence of an Oscar in DiCaprio’s collection of film awards only plays into the actor’s hands - he still has something to strive for.

Leonardo DiCaprio was born into a hippie family and grew up in one of the most dangerous suburbs of Los Angeles.
Named after Da Vinci, but not because his parents loved the work of the Italian painter.
While on vacation in Florence, DiCaprio's parents walked through the Uffizi Gallery. His mother was already pregnant with him. In front of one of Da Vinci's paintings, the baby began to kick violently. The father could only say: “This is omen.”

He considers himself half Russian, which he personally stated in a conversation with Vladimir Putin during one of his visits to Moscow. The actor’s grandmother, Elena Stepanovna Smirnova, left the USSR for Germany, where she married a German, Wilhelm Indenbirken. The actor himself, however, in a conversation with Russian President noted that his grandfather was Russian. Irmelin DiCaprio feels deep affection for his mother - she has more than once accompanied the actor on the red carpet of social events and, according to rumors, influences the choice of her son’s beloved. But little is known about Leonardo’s father - George DiCaprio divorced Irmelin when Leo was only a year old; he works as an author and publisher of satirical comics magazines.

Little Leo first appeared in front of the camera at 2.5 years old, when his father brought him to a children's television show. At first, the producers were glad to see a stormy, colorful child appear in the frame, but he later became so popular that they regretted it. In fact, the boy caused a lot of trouble for the film crew.
Leonardo DiCaprio studied at primary school at Seeds University, where he also attended acting courses. Then he went to Los Angeles to receive a more in-depth education. It always seemed to him that these lessons were not enough; he really had a great desire to participate in performances in front of a live audience. Therefore, the boy joined an avant-garde troupe called “The Mud People” and began touring with them in Los Angeles.

Matthew McConaughey, Jared Leto, Stephen Dorff and even Tom Cruise auditioned for the lead male role in Titanic. But director James Cameron chose Leonardo DiCaprio - this role became a real breakthrough for the young actor.
By the way, Kate Winslet never takes off the ring that Leonardo gave her on the set of Titanic. There is an inscription on the ring, but only Kate knows what it is.

Lucky ticket“Titanic” became the world of cinema for both actors. The roles of Jack and Rose not only made the artists famous throughout the world, but also helped them become friends. During filming with James Cameron, Winslet helped DiCaprio cope with excitement and even tears ( young actor I was very worried when the director began to criticize his acting). The test of fame brought celebrities together. They continued to communicate 11 years later, when a proposal for a new joint project directed by Sam Mendes (at that moment he was listed as Kate's husband). "Revolutionary Road" told the story married couple, tired from many years life together. After the film's release, DiCaprio himself joked that this is exactly the routine that would have ended the relationship between Jack and Rose if they were both destined to survive the disaster. The film helped Kate win a Golden Globe, while Leonardo only received a nomination.

Scorsese demanded that everything in the film "Gangs of New York" be natural. That's why Cameron Diaz actually hit Leo in the face on set. Then the actor complained: “Cameron has a hard shot. After several takes, my face went numb and my head was clouded.” DiCaprio nearly drowned while filming The Beach. He and the other actors were washed off the boat by a sudden wave. Leo also suffered on the set of Quentin Tarantino’s western “Django Unchained”: during one of the scenes he had to violently hit the table with his hand, but the blow fell on a crystal glass. According to eyewitnesses, the artist courageously continued filming - his bloody hand can be seen in the frame.

Leonardo DiCaprio is persistent. Chapter Warner Bros. Jeff Robinov believes that if "Leonardo DiCaprio had an idea for a film, it will definitely be made."
DiCaprio received public praise from Vladimir Putin. 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 characterized the actor’s persistence to come to Russia, despite two emergency landings of Leo’s planes at the airports of New York and Helsinki.

Leonardo DiCaprio is an ardent Lakers fan. Once, for the sake of their game, he missed a party to which Gwen Stefani, Salma Hayek, Halle Berry and many other celebrities were invited.

Leonardo DiCaprio doesn't have a favorite movie genre.
DiCaprio never tries to predict what kind of work he will like. He reads the script. Then intuition works: is something pushing the actor towards this project? If yes, then he will be removed.
She dreams of playing Joseph Stalin more than anything else. The only thing that stops the actor is that he still hasn’t met good script.

Leonardo DiCaprio has been interested in anthropology since childhood. At the age of five he did not leave the Museum national history. Now in his house you can see the remains of several predatory dinosaurs. Also collects art. For a long time the actor liked Jean-Michel Basquiat. His drawing is DiCaprio's first investment as a collector.

After the 2014 Oscars, the entire Internet was filled with ridicule of DiCaprio. The reason for this was the coveted figurine, which slipped out from under Leo’s hand for the fifth time. In 2013, Leo, realizing that the title " best actor“There’s definitely no chance for him anymore - he went into producing. But even here, only a nomination awaited him (for “The Wolf of Wall Street”).
Thus, over a 25-year career, DiCaprio earned 4 Oscar nominations for best actor and one for producing.
DiCaprio is nominated for the first time. His start at the Oscars was a nomination for Best Supporting Actor (What's Eating Gilbert Gray). The competitors were: Ralph Fiennes, Pete Postlethwaite, John Malkovich, Tommy Lee Jones. Tommy Lee Jones overtook Leo's kid in '94.
In 2005, the premiere of the film “The Aviator” was a resounding success, for which DiCaprio was nominated in the “Best Actor” category. His competition included: Don Cheadle, Johnny Depp, Clint Eastwood, and Jamie Foxx won.

In 2007, Leonardo DiCaprio played the lead role in the film Blood Diamond, for which he was nominated. “God loves a trinity,” DiCaprio thought encouragingly, awaiting the announcement of the winner. But this time God did not help Leo. He was outpaced by Forest Whitaker.
The fattest Oscar for DiCaprio was in 2014. Leo starred in two of the best films of the year: The Wolf of Wall Street and The Great Gatsby. This time the competition for Best Actor was Christian Bale, Bruce Dern, Chiwetel Ejiofor, and Matthew McConaughey won. Become a producer" Best movie 2013" was interrupted by a competitor - "12 Years a Slave", produced by Brad Pitt (well, finally, friend "in misfortune" Brad got at least something).

Leonardo DiCaprio has a large apartment in New York and several houses in Los Angeles. He also bought himself an island in Belize in 2009, where he wants to create an ecological resort. The actor actively participates in environmental movements, uses a hybrid car, and flies on regular flights rather than charter flights; Solar panels were installed in his house.

In 1998, he founded the Leonardo DiCaprio Foundation, an environmental protection foundation, and actively collaborates with the Environmental Protection Council. natural resources USA, Global Green USA, National Geographic Kids, makes significant donations to WWF.

Even with the constant coverage of Leonardo DiCaprio's life in the media, there are many things that you might still not know about the actor, despite his fame.

Here are 10 facts about DiCaprio that you probably didn't know:

1 At Kate Winslet's wedding, he acted as her father.

2 Helped the last surviving passenger of the Titanic

3 Could have played the role of Patrick Bateman in the movie “American Psycho”

4 Almost died twice

5 Is the proud owner of a Toyota Prius

6 He has an adopted daughter

7 Лео не любит слово “ниггер”

8 He was named after Leonardo Da Vinci

9 He needed more than 10 stitches after an incident at one party.

10 He is an ardent environmentalist