Wilson, while protesting her innocence, claimed she thought Mr DiCaprio was, in fact, an ex-boyfriend who had been bad-mouthing her. DiCaprio needed 17 stitches for the gashes on his face and ear. Later, Wilson pleaded guilty and was sentenced to two years in prison in He also returned Picasso painting and other artifacts that he had received as his 38th birthday gift in from business associates at Red Granite Pictures, which also funded his film "Wolf of Wall Street.
The misappropriated funds were used to form the production company that funded the Martin Scorsese-directed movie "Wolf of Wall Street. In an open letter, more than 90 Indian environmental and rights groups, warned DiCaprio and his endorsement of the Cauvery Calling campaign was ill-advised. From the age of about eight, Leonardo spent all his vacations with us here in Germany. We went all over — to the Bahamas and Canada.
We also took him skiing in Austria. There was a major prostitution ring on my street corner, crime, and violence everywhere. Leonardo DiCaprio in His Teenage. His parents divorced when he was still a toddler. DiCaprio was mostly raised by his mother, a legal secretary born in Germany.
Despite his parents' early divorce, DiCaprio remained close to his father, a comic book artist and distributor. With his parents' urging, DiCaprio explored his creative side, developing an early interest in acting. I loved joking around with my parents and creating different characters. I liked doing my own little homemade skits," DiCaprio told Backstage. But he didn't have much success in Hollywood until he reached his early teens.
For years, DiCaprio had trouble landing an agent. One agent even recommended DiCaprio change his name to Lenny Williams to improve his appeal. However, by the early s, the burgeoning actor began landing regular television work.
His early credits included guest appearances on such programs as The New Lassie and Roseanne. He also landed a role in the dramatic comedy Parenthood. While the show proved to be short-lived, DiCaprio reportedly met fellow actor Tobey Maguire while making the series and the two have remained good friends ever since.
He made his film debut in the low-budget horror flick Critters 3 that same year but got the chance to demonstrate his talents as a serious actor two years later. The film delved into the difficult relationship between a young boy and his abusive stepfather in this adaptation of Tobias Wolff's memoir. DiCaprio impressed critics, holding his own on screen against acting heavyweight De Niro. His portrayal of a child with mental disabilities earned him an Academy Award nomination for Best Supporting Actor.
Is named after Leonardo Da Vinci because he first kicked in his mother's womb when she saw Leonardo Da Vinci's artwork at the Uffizi Gallery, his artist father felt it was apt. His paternal grandfather's middle name happens to be Leon.
He was also awarded the Special Jury Award and Socially Responsible Conservationist Award for this project, from three different, relevant film festivals. The painting was introduced by Marion Cotillard and Michael Fassbender. Possibly the only actor to play a character in almost every decade spanning the last years. Outbid Paris Hilton at a Cannes charity auction for a Chanel handbag, which he gave to his mother. After The Wolf of Wall Street , took a 2 year hiatus from acting, citing exhaustion.
Leo was born in L. While being interviewed by Entertainment Tonight at the red carpet of the Golden Globes, he stated that his long-time friend Kate Winslet is his favorite actress in the industry and he would love to work with her again.
DiCaprio appeared in two episodes of The New Lassie when he was 15 years old, while Williams made her film debut in Lassie , when she was Cate Blanchett is his only female co-star to be nominated and win an Oscar for a movie in which she co-starred with him, for her performance in The Aviator , for which DiCaprio was nominated for Best Actor.
Blanchett won the Oscar in and and DiCaprio won in The game places a miniature animated Leonardo DiCaprio in a never-ending quest to reach the end of the red carpet where his Oscar awaits him.
It featured a series of challenges involving DiCaprio's career: paparazzis, the iceberg that sinks Titanic , the Quaalude overdose from The Wolf of Wall Street , the bear from The Revenant , his competitors for the Best Actor Oscar, write an acceptance speech, find the black nominee, etc.
The game racked up 6, plays per minute two hours after the official launch and quickly spread around the world, inexplicably finding its largest audience in Russia. His first Oscar win in February 28, broke the internet and generated , Tweets per minute, making it the most-tweeted moment of an Oscars telecast ever, surpassing Ellen DeGeneres ' selfie from the ceremony. Hundreds of people blocked streets in Mexico to celebrate his win.
Fans in Russia's Republic of Yakutia donated their jewelry to craft an Oscar of their own for the actor. Around 1. His first agent refused to sign him in the beginning unless he would change his name to "Lenny Williams", saying that Leonardo Wilhelm DiCaprio was "too ethnic" to work.
Voluntarily surrendered several works of art worth millions of dollars and an Oscar statuette that once belonged to Marlon Brando to the U.
Government, as part of its ongoing investigation into a money laundering operation connected to Malaysian prime minister Najib Razak. Some of that money was used to finance Red Granite, and several of the company's films. By many publications such as Variety, The Economist, The Atlantic, he is said to be the last true American "movie star", because he has remained the most bankable actor while eschewing genres such as superhero films.
He is the fourth actor to portray the character of Jay Gatsby in a major motion picture released in cinemas. As of , hasn't worked with a female director since Total Eclipse One of his first TV appearances was "Romper Room". He got himself ejected from the set for being disruptive. Was rejected for the role of Hobie Buchannon on "Baywatch". In later years, DiCaprio considered this setback a blessing in disguise. In early , CNN did a segment at the factory where the Oscar statue and nameplates are made.
Presenter Ted Rowlands held Leonardo DiCaprio's nameplate leading people to assume CNN spoiled the big surprise, though voting hadn't even taken place yet. The award ended up going to Matthew McConaughey. He has appeared in one film that has been selected for the National Film Registry by the Library of Congress as being "culturally, historically or aesthetically" significant: Titanic The project sadly, has remained in development hell.
Donated a substantial sum of money to the Australian Bushfire Appeal in and was one of the first celebrities to do so. 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. People want you to be a crazy, out-of-control teen brat. They want you miserable, just like them. They don't want heroes; what they want is to see you fall. That's why he went over budget and over schedule. You can either be a vain movie star, or you can try to shed some light on different aspects of the human condition.
It's a really obvious thing to say, but the more people know too much about who you really are, and it's a fundamental thing, the more the mystery is taken away from the artist, and the harder it is for people to believe that person in a particular role.
On fame: As soon as enough people give you enough compliments and you're wielding more power than you've ever had in your life, it's not that you become an arrogant little prick, or become rude to people You actually think you've altered the course of history. I don't really have many extravagances. I don't fly private jets and I don't have bodyguards and I don't buy crazy things.
I have a couple of houses here and there. I bought a very expensive watch, and I am going to buy a really expensive movie poster, the original for The Thief of Bagdad I love movie posters.
On turning I kind of feel like the same person except more time has gone by. I hate to say that I feel like an adult now. I have to admit I wish I was still After all, even through the time while I was representing that wild kid, I really wasn't. I was just living my life. I was just not making movies at the time. On Martin Scorsese : Martin has brought so much to the art form of film, and he is not the type of person who would be upset by not receiving an Oscar, although it is a practical joke that he has not won an Academy Award after all these years.
Whatever opinions critics will have of The Aviator , I really think that this is a great piece of art: once again, he has made a great classic film. The great thing about turning 30 in this business is that you get to perpetuate being young or old as long as we want. On whether there are any aspects of fame he dislikes: You kidding? I feel very fortunate. A lot of people would love to be in my position.
There are so many people out there who are suffering trillions of times more than I could ever suffer, and would love to be me. I am a lucky little bastard.
Yes, I can play younger than my age. But I can play characters older than I am, too. I'm not an actor who can just play the kid. I think people read the tabloids because they want to see you eating a burger, or out of your makeup or doing something stupid because they just want to see that you're like everyone else.
And that's okay. I don't want to catch myself anymore saying that my life is hard, because the good far outweighs the bad in my life. And it's easier to focus on those things, on the things that are important. You learn after you've been in the business for a while that it's not getting your face recognized that's the payoff. It's having your film remembered. I lived in Hollywood and, ironically, I didn't know you could just go out and get an agent and go on auditions and try and become an actor, I thought it was like a Masonic thing, like a blood line you had to belong to - until I was Then I realised what you had to do.
It is the one thing I know I want to do for the rest of my life. But I knew that cameras would be stuffed up my face so I had my response ready.
Anyone who says they don't practice is a liar. I was behind a woman at the checkout counter who was looking at the magazines. She turned to me and goes, "There he is again, that Leonardo DiCaprio. Don't you wish he'd just disappear? I choose to avoid that. 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. As a little kid growing up in Hollywood, I was called 'a little crazy'. And now I guess I'm still that way. I cheated a lot, because I just couldn't sit and do homework.
I usually sat next to someone extremely smart. 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. My mom and I lived at Hollywood and Western, a drug-dealer and prostitute corner. It was pretty terrifying. I got beat up a lot. I saw people have sex in the alleys. I remember I was five years old, and this guy with a trench coat, needles and crack cornered me.
Early on, seeing the devastation on my block, seeing heroin addicts, made me think twice about ever getting involved in drugs. It's evil. Once you take that step and experiment, drugs can take over your life. You are not yourself anymore. That's something I never wanted. I didn't have a lot of friends growing up.
It was kind of just me and my parents. But because of them, the neighborhood did not have a bad effect on me. My dad introduced me to artists, and every few months we'd go to some hippie doo-dah parade as Mudmen in our underwear, carrying sticks and covered in mud. My mother did everything to get me into the best schools she could find.
When a role for a young guy is being offered to me, I think of River Phoenix. It feels like a loss. 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? 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. Bridget Hall and I hung out for a week.
The whole thing was blown out of proportion. On love: I like girls who are intelligent, somewhat funny, and pretty with a nice personality. It's a weird adjustment living alone, because you don't realize how much you really miss Mumsie until she's not there. Dark green is my favorite color. It's the color of nature and the color of money and the color of moss! 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. I'm absolutely clean. After the release of the film on Internet, the memo "Leo and the cherished Oscar" appeared. Many users remembered that the actor went to the reward too long, turning such a "path" into a joke.
DiCaprio won Oscar in the nomination "Best Actor", and also received other awards. This work can be called a kind of example of a life where hatred and revenge help a person to survive even in seemingly hopeless situations.
In his struggle for life, Glass restores justice, which allows him to avenge his son, and also to kill the treacherous and mercenary John Fitzgerald. The personal life of Leonardo DiCaprio is the subject of constant attention of the media. Leo is still unmarried, although he is already over In the life of the celebrity, there were many relations and beautiful women, but none of them married the Hollywood star.
In 90's, Leonardo had relations with a blonde model Helena Christensen. Many people assumed that the girl would become the wife of the actor. The actor confirmed his love for models when he started relationship with a model from Israel Bar Refaeli.
The girl nearly brought Leo to the altar, but they broke up. The final point in these relations was set in May In and - the next two models: Blake Lively and Erin Heatherton. In and , the actor was dating the German model Toni Garrn. At the end of September DiCaprio again began to appear at public events alone. It is noted that the celebrities still have good and friendly relations. Previously, the media reported that DiCaprio and Agdal appeared together in public in spring, at a nightclub in New York.
American journalists are constantly watching the actions of the Hollywood star. In , the press reported that Leonardo DiCaprio spends a lot of money on rejuvenation procedures.
According to insiders, DiCaprio is thinking about aging with horror, and constantly makes body cleansing. Sources close to the actor say that on the way to "eternal youth" there is an obstacle - the addiction of the film actor to alcohol.
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