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FIRST YEARS
DiCaprio was born in Hollywood, California, the only child of Irmelin -Indenbirken, single, a secretary born in Germany, and George DiCaprio, an underground comic artist and producer / distributor of comic books. Her father has half Italian (Naples) and half German (Bavaria) ancestry, her maternal grandfather, Wilhelm Indenbirken, was German, while her maternal grandmother, Helene Indenbirken, was a German citizen born in Russia as Yelena Smirnova. -
FIRST JOBS AS AN ACTOR
DiCaprio's career began with his appearance in several advertisements and educational films. After casting the cast of the Romper Room children's television series as being detrimental to him, at the age of five, 22 DiCaprio followed his older half-brother Adam Farrar into television commercials, until he starred in an ad for the brand of Matchbox cars at fourteen. -
TV
In 1990, he made his television debut when he was cast in the cast of Parenthood, a series based on the film of the same name. -
TV
In 1995, Rapid and mortal Sam Raimi, a western in which he appeared with Gene Hackman, Sharon Stone and Russell Crowe, in which he played the son of Hackman, Kid, a young gunman.26 The film raised 18 5 million USD in the United States, and received mixed reviews from critics. -
GLOBAL SUCCESS
In 1996, DiCaprio appeared along with Claire Danes in Baz Luhrmann's film Romeo and Juliet, an abbreviated modernization of the work of William Shakespeare, although it maintains the original dialogue of the book -
TITANIC
In 1997, DiCaprio starred in James Cameron's 1997 movie, Titanic alongside Kate Winslet. He played a twenty-year-old boy named Jack Dawson, a poor man from Wisconsin who wins two third-class tickets at the RMS Titanic -
NEW RECOGNITIONS
DiCaprio's first project in 2002 was the crime-comedy film Atrápame si puedes, based on the life of Frank Abagnale Jr., who before turning 19 used his charm, confidence, and several different identities to make millions in the 1960s using fake checks. -
RECOGNITIONS
In 2006, DiCaprio starred in Blood Diamond and The Departed. In Edward Zwick's war film, Blood Diamond, DiCaprio co-starred with Jennifer Connelly and Djimon Hounsou and played a diamond smuggler from Rhodesia, participating in Sierra Leone's civil war. -
LAST YEARS
In 2015, he filmed the film The Revenant where he played Hugh Glass under the direction of Alejandro González Iñárritu, with very favorable reviews that until now have left him an Oscar for the best actor in 2016, being the first time he wins this award after of 4 previous nominations.
