Leonardo DiCaprio

Described as

American actor and producer (born 1974)

Other names

Leonardo Wilhelm DiCaprio, Leonardo Wilhelm di Caprio, Leonardo di Caprio, Leo DiCaprio, Leo di Caprio, DiCaprio, Di Caprio, Lenny Williams

Born

November 11, 1974 · 10 references

Born in

Hollywood · 1 reference

Name at birth

Leonardo Wilhelm DiCaprio

Citizen of

United States

Occupation

actor · 2 references; film actor · 1 reference; screenwriter; television actor; film producer · 1 reference; stage actor · 1 reference; environmentalist

Political party

Democratic Party

Education

John Marshall High School · 1 reference; Los Angeles Center for Enriched Studies; UCLA Lab School; Young Actors Space

Member of

SAG-AFTRA; Martin Scorsese and Leonardo DiCaprio

Awards

Silver Bear for Best Actor (1997); Golden Globe Award for Best Actor – Motion Picture Drama (2 times) (2005, 2016); Golden Globe Award for Best Actor – Motion Picture Musical or Comedy (2014); Academy Award for Best Actor (2016); Horatio Alger Award (2011) · 1 reference; Alliance of Women Film Journalists Award for Best Actor (2015); BAFTA Award for Best Actor in a Leading Role (2016); Golden Globes (2005); Silver Bear (1997); AACTA Award for Best Actor in a Leading Role (2013); MTV Movie Award for Best Male Performance; MTV Movie Award for Best Jaw Dropping Moment (2014); Chevalier des Arts et des Lettres (2005) · 2 references; Crystal Award (2016) · 1 reference; Screen Actors Guild Award for Outstanding Performance by a Male Actor in a Leading Role

Father

George DiCaprio

Mother

Irmelin Indenbirken

Religion

Roman Catholic · 1 reference

Lived in

Los Angeles; Battery Park City

Wikipedias with a page

150

Wikidata item Q38111 (wikidata.org/wiki/Q38111), public domain (CC0). Copied November 13, 2026.

Leonardo Wilhelm DiCaprio ( ; Italian: [diˈkaːprjo]; born November 11, 1974) is an American actor and film producer. Regarded as one of Hollywood’s defining leading men, his work spans character-driven cinema and major blockbusters across genres, exploring themes of ambition, corruption, and moral decline. He is the recipient of numerous accolades, including an Academy Award, an Actor Award, a BAFTA Award, an Emmy Award, a Silver Bear and three Golden Globes. With his starring films grossing $7 billion worldwide, he has placed eight times in annual rankings of the world's highest-paid actors.
Born in Los Angeles, DiCaprio began his career in the late 1980s by appearing in television commercials. He had a starring role in the last season of the sitcom Growing Pains (1991–1992), and had his first major film part as author Tobias Wolff in This Boy's Life (1993). He received critical acclaim and his first Academy Award nomination for playing a developmentally disabled boy in What's Eating Gilbert Grape (1993). DiCaprio achieved international stardom with the star-crossed romances Romeo + Juliet (1996) and Titanic (1997). After the latter became the highest-grossing film in the world at the time, he attempted to shed his image as a romantic hero, seeking roles in other genres, including the 2002 crime dramas Catch Me If You Can and Gangs of New York; the latter marked the first of his many successful collaborations with director Martin Scorsese.
DiCaprio continued to gain acclaim for his performances in the biopic The Aviator (2004), the political thriller Blood Diamond (2006), the crime thriller The Departed (2006), the romantic drama Revolutionary Road (2008), the action thriller Inception (2010), the western Django Unchained (2012), the biopic The Wolf of Wall Street (2013), the survival drama The Revenant (2015)—for which he won the Academy Award for Best Actor—the comedy-drama Once Upon a Time in Hollywood (2019), the crime drama Killers of the Flower Moon (2023) and the action film One Battle After Another (2025).
DiCaprio is the founder of Appian Way Productions—a production company that has made some of his films and environmental documentaries, such as the series Greensburg (2008–2010)—and the Leonardo DiCaprio Foundation, a nonprofit organization devoted to promoting environmental awareness. A United Nations Messenger of Peace, he regularly supports charitable causes. In 2005, he was named a Commander of the Order of Arts and Letters for his contributions to the arts, and in 2016, he appeared in Time magazine's 100 most influential people in the world. DiCaprio was voted one of the 50 greatest actors of all time in a 2022 readers' poll by Empire magazine.

Born, in its opening lines

November 11, 1974

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