Leonardo Wilhelm DiCaprio, an American actor and film producer, was born on November 11, 1974. DiCaprio has garnered multiple awards for his efforts in biopics and period films, including an Academy Award, a British Academy Film Award, a Screen Actors Guild Award, and three Golden Globe Awards.
His movies have made over $7.2 billion worldwide as of 2019, and he has been ranked eighth in annual lists of the world’s highest-paid actors eight times. DiCaprio, who was born in Los Angeles, 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).
For his performance as a developmentally handicapped youngster in What’s Eating Gilbert Grape at the age of 19, he won critical acclaim and his first Academy Award and Golden Globe Award nominations (1993). He rose to international fame after starring in the romantic drama Titanic (1997), which went on to become the highest-grossing film of all time.
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 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 regularly 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.
