Leonardo DiCaprio
| November 19, 2007 at 7:00 pm | Category: Celebrity Spotlight |
| by hollywoodjoker | |
Fun Facts :
| Year | Age | Events |
| 1974 | 0 | Birthday : 11th November Birthplace : Los Angeles, California Real name : Leonardo Wilhelm DiCaprio (named after artist Leonardo da Vinci) Father : George DiCaprio Mother : Irmelin Indenbirken |
| 1975 | 1 | His parents divorced. |
| 1976-1985 | 02-11 | Attended Canterbury Elementary School. Interested in baseball cards, comic books and frequently visited museums, with his father Spent part of his childhood in Germany and still speaks German fluently. During his teen years, shifted to Los Angeles, California. Attended John Marshall High School in Los Angeles. Inspired to become an actor because of his stepbrother, Adam Starr, who appeared in commercials. |
| 1986-1988 | 12-14 | Began searching for an agent, but was turned down many times. One agent suggested that he anglicize his name to “Lenny Williams”, which DiCaprio rejected. |
| 1989 | 15 | Got a break in the TV version of the film Parenthood. Here he met Tobey Maguire and till today they remain best friends. Also, DiCaprio appeared in the soap opera Santa Barbara, as Mason Capwell (in flashbacks as a teenager). |
| 1990 | 16 | Played the role of Luke Brower, a homeless boy in Growing Pains |
| 1991 | 17 | Debuted in Critters 3 as Josh |
| 1992 | 18 | Starred in Poison Ivy |
| 1993 | 19 | Breakthrough role as Toby in This Boy’s Life, co-starring with Robert De Niro. New York Film Critics named him runner-up for Best Supporting Actor for this role. Leonardo DiCaprio played a mentally handicapped boy in What’s Eating Gilbert Grape. For this role he got an Academy Award nomination. |
| 1994 | 20 | |
| 1995 | 21 | Total Eclipse as gay French poet. The Basketball Diaries as Jim Carroll, a heroin addict. |
| 1996 | 22 | Starred in Romeo + Juliet, a slick and updated modern-day version of William Shakespeare’s play. DiCaprio was reportedly so dedicated to the project, he flew coach class, for free to Australia a year before production started to workshop the film. Starred in Marvin’s Room alongwith Meryl Streep and Diane Keaton. |
| 1997 | 23 | Leonardo DiCaprio created history when he played the famous Jack Dawson in the super blockbuster love story on a sinking ship, Titanic. In nominal terms, this film remains the highest grossing movie ever till date. The film got eleven Academy Awards. He instantly became a “teenage heart-throb” and superstar forever. |
| 1998 | 24 | DiCaprio fronted scores of magazine covers ranging from Vanity Fair to Rolling Stone, and was once the most searched for personality in the early years of the Internet. played King Louis XIV in The Man in the Iron Mask. spoofed his own real life “teen idol” persona in Woody Allen’s satirical parody, Celebrity. He and his mother donated $35,000 for a state-of-the-art “Leonardo DiCaprio Computer Center” at the Los Feliz branch of the Los Angeles Public Library which happens to be the site of his childhood home. |
| 1999 | 25 | In the Japanese media, he was referred to as Leo-sama , with the “sama” suffix given to show the utmost respect. |
| 2000 | 26 | His The Beach flopped at the box-office and was involved in controversy over the illegal permission granted to the film company to physically alter the environment inside Phi Phi Islands National Park. In a Time Magazine interview, DiCaprio commented : “I have no connection with me during that whole Titanic Phenomenon and what my face became around the world. I’ll never reach that state of popularity again, and I don’t expect to. It’s not something I’m going to try to achieve either.” |
| 2001 | 27 | The black-and-white movie Don’s Plum, a low-budget drama featuring the DiCaprio as Derek and Tobey Maguire was filmed between 1995 and 1996. Its release was later blocked in the United States and Canada by DiCaprio and Maguire, who argued they never intended to make it a theatrical feature. Nevertheless, it later premiered on February 9, 2001 in Berlin. |
| 2002 | 28 | DiCaprio began a shift away from his stereotypical image and moved to engage himself with critically acclaimed directors by starring in two epic movies: Gangs of New York (directed by Martin Scorsese), and Catch Me If You Can (directed by Steven Spielberg). Both films were very well received by critics. |
| 2003 | 29 | |
| 2004 | 30 | Forging a collaboration with Scorsese, the two paired again for a biopic of American businessman Howard Hughes in The Aviator. A registered Democrat in California, DiCaprio has been active in promoting liberal causes, and in 2004 supported Senator John Kerry’s presidential campaign. |
| 2005 | 31 | For Aviator he was nominated for Best Actor at 2005 Academy Awards. He won a Golden Globe. |
| 2006 | 32 | DiCaprio continued his run with Scorsese (some claim him to be Scorsese’s “new De Niro”) in The Departed as Billy Costigan, a smart undercover cop in Boston. For his film, Blood Diamond, DiCaprio was praised for the authenticity of his Zimbabwean Afrikaner accent, known as a difficult accent of English to emulate.During the filming of Blood Diamond , DiCaprio worked with 24 orphaned children from the SOS Children’s Village in Maputo, Mozambique, and was said to be extremely touched by his interactions with the children. |
| 2007 | 33 | For Blood Diamond, he was nominated for Best Actor at 2007 Academy Awards and Golden Globe. For The Departed, he was nominated for Best Actor at 2007 Golden Globe. He has been in a relationship with Israeli model Bar Refaeli since November 2005 which was broken off in October 2007.A committed environmentalist, DiCaprio has received praise from environmental groups for opting to fly on commercial flights instead of chartering private jets, which use more fuel. He has also mentioned that he drives a hybrid car and that his house has solar panels. His actions have inspired other celebrities, such as Orlando Bloom and Penelope Cruz. In an article in Ukula about his new film 11th Hour, DiCaprio cites global warming as “the number one environmental challenge.” DiCaprio and former vice-president Al Gore announced at the 2007 Oscar ceremony that the Oscars had incorporated environmentally intelligent practices throughout the planning and production processes, thus affirming their commitment to the environment. On July 7, 2007, DiCaprio presented at the American leg of Live Earth Concert, New York. On March 22, 2007, DiCaprio signed on to re-team with his Titanic co-star, Kate Winslet, on an adaptation of Richard Yates’s critically-lauded 1961 novel Revolutionary Road. The film of the same name is being directed by Winslet’s husband, Sam Mendes. They are currently shooting in New York City. |
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