Leonardo DiCaprio born in Los Angeles is an American actor and film producer who began his acting career in television advertisements in the late 1980s. He had recurrent parts in many television sitcoms in the early 1990s, including the sitcom Parenthood. In This Boy’s Life, DiCaprio played author Tobias Wolff, his first significant cinematic role (1993). He gained critical praise and his first Academy Award and Golden Globe nominations at the age of 19 for his performance as Arnie Grape, a developmentally handicapped youngster, in What’s Eating Gilbert Grape (1993).
DiCaprio is most known for portraying Howard Hughes in The Aviator (2004) and for his roles in the political thriller Blood Diamond (2006), the criminal drama The Departed (2006), and the romantic drama Revolutionary Road(2008). DiCaprio’s performances in Christopher Nolan’s science fiction 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 an Academy Award and a BAFTA Award for Best Actor in a Leading Role—and the comedy-drama Once Upon a Time in Hollywood (2019) were all critical and commercial successes.
DiCaprio is the creator of the Leonardo DiCaprio Foundation and Appian Way Productions, a production business that has produced some of his films as well as the documentary series Greensburg (2008–2010). He donates to philanthropic causes on a regular basis and has produced several environmental documentaries. For his contributions to the arts, he was made a Commander of the Ordre des Arts et des Lettres in 2005, and Time magazine named him one of the 100 most influential people in the world in 2016.
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