Leonardo DiCaprio on his debt to his parents, Alejandro Iñárritu's perfectionism, and how climate change affected The Revenant. 2016 Oscar Winners, 2016 Oscars, Oscar Winners Complete List, Best Picture, Actor in a Supporting Role, Actress in a Supporting Role, Actor in a Leading Role, Actress. LEONARDO DICAPRIO spoke up about that shocking bear attack in Oscar heavy-hitter The Revenant after early reports claimed he was raped. See the latest Leonardo DiCaprio news on movies, Oscar award nominations, red carpet and girlfriend updates after the Titanic star's split from Nina Agdal. Leonardo Di. Caprio - Biography - IMDb. Few actors in the world have had a career quite as diverse as Leonardo Di. Caprio's. Di. Caprio has gone from relatively humble beginnings, as a supporting cast member of the sitcom Growing Pains (1. Critters 3 (1. 99. Romeo + Juliet (1. Titanic (1. 99. 7), to then become a leading man in Hollywood blockbusters, made by internationally renowned directors such as Martin Scorsese and Christopher Nolan. Leonardo Wilhelm Di. Caprio was born November 1. Los Angeles, California, the only child of Irmelin Di. Caprio (n. His father is of Italian and German descent, and his mother, who is German- born, is of German and Russian ancestry. His middle name, . Leonardo's father had achieved minor status as an artist and distributor of cult comic book titles, and was even depicted in several issues of American Splendor, the cult semi- autobiographical comic book series by the late 'Harvey Pekar', a friend of George's. Leonardo's performance skills became obvious to his parents early on, and after signing him up with a talent agent who wanted Leonardo to perform under the stage name . While Critters 3 (1. Di. Caprio's acting abilities, it did help him develop his show- reel, and attract the attention of the people behind the hit sitcom Growing Pains (1. Leonardo was cast in the . While Di. Caprio's stint on Growing Pains (1. Di. Caprio into the public's attention and, after the sitcom ended, Di. Caprio began auditioning for roles in which he would get the chance to prove his acting chops. Leonardo took up a diverse range of roles in the early 1. What's Eating Gilbert Grape (1. The Quick and the Dead (1. Jim Carroll in The Basketball Diaries (1. River Phoenix originally expressed interest in. While these diverse roles helped establish Leonardo's reputation as an actor, it wasn't until his role as Romeo Montague in Baz Luhrmann's Romeo + Juliet (1. Leonardo became a household name, a true movie star. The following year, Di. Caprio starred in another movie about doomed lovers, Titanic (1. Titanic (1. 99. 7) became the highest grossing movie of all time, and cemented Di. Caprio's reputation as a teen heartthrob. Following his work on Titanic (1. Di. Caprio kept a low profile for a number of years, with roles in The Man in the Iron Mask (1. The Beach (2. 00. In 2. 00. 2, he burst back into screens throughout the world with leading roles in Catch Me If You Can (2. Gangs of New York (2. Martin Scorsese. With a current salary of $2. Di. Caprio is now one of the biggest movie stars in the world. However, he has not limited his professional career to just acting in movies, as Di. Caprio is a committed environmentalist, who is actively involved in many environmental causes, and his commitment to this issue led to his involvement in The 1. Hour, a documentary movie about the state of the natural environment. As someone who has gone from small roles in television commercials to one of the most respected actors in the world, Di. Caprio has had one of the most diverse careers in cinema. Di. Caprio continued to defy conventions about the types of roles he would accept, and with his career now seeing him leading all- star casts in action thrillers such as The Departed (2. Shutter Island (2. Christopher Nolan's Inception (2. Di. Caprio continues to wow audiences by refusing to conform to any clich. The Quick and the Dead, Romeo + Juliet, Titanic, The Departed, The Great Gatsby etc.). April 1. 6, 1. 99. While filming The Beach (2. Thailand, Leonardo and others were swept off a camera boat by strong winds and waves. No one was injured. In 2. 00. 4, the lawsuit was dismissed. Judge Paula Omansky said the lawsuit could proceed against a fourth man, Todd Healy, who admitted to hitting Wilson, though Healy claimed the move was in self- defense when he thought he saw Wilson reaching for something, possibly a weapon. In dismissing the action against Di. Caprio, the jurist said Healy never heard the actor's alleged remark, and therefore could not have been incited by it. He went around 1. Bush Administration has damaged it. His mother, Irmelin Di. Caprio, is of German and Russian ancestry and a former legal secretary. However, Winslet keeps the inscription a secret. Other real estate holdings include: A 1. Carbon Beach in Malibu that he purchased in 1. A 2. 63. 3- square- foot house in the Malibu Colony that he purchased in 2. A 4. 55. 1- square- foot house in the Bird Streets area of Los Angeles' Hollywood Hills that he bought in late 1. A 3. 98. 0- square- foot house in the Bird Streets area of Los Angeles' Hollywood Hills (next door to the one mentioned above) that he purchased in the summer of 2. A two- bedroom, 2. Malibu, California that he paid $6. And in Las Vegas, he spent $1. Las Vegas's Panorama Towers in 2. They began a relationship in December 2. October 2. 00. 7. However, they later reconciled in December 2. May 2. 01. 1. Petersburg, Russia to attend the International Tiger Conservation Forum as a guest of the World Wildlife Fund (WWF), but he was held up not once, but twice by flights. The first, Delta Flight 3. JFK bound for Moscow, was forced to make an emergency landing back at JFK shortly after takeoff due to engine flame out and malfunction, later his replacement flight had to make an unscheduled landing in Helsinki, Finland to refuel due to strong winds over the Atlantic ocean that used up the plane's fuel. Prime Minister of Russia, Vladimir Putin, who hosted the event, acknowledged that a lesser man, . The summit's aim is to double wild tiger populations worldwide from 3,5. While in St. Petersburg, Di. Caprio committed $1 million to WWF for urgent tiger conservation efforts through his Fund at the California Community Foundation. Street. He was ranked #5 in 2. Banks (2. 01. 3), Captain Phillips (2. Rush (2. 01. 3), Nightcrawler (2. Arrival (2. 01. 6), respectively. Over 5. 00 guests attended the event, including Marion Cotillard, Jared Leto and Bono. The event raised $2. 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. Di. Caprio appeared in two episodes of The New Lassie (1. Williams made her film debut in Lassie (1. The game places a miniature animated Leonardo Di. Caprio 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 Di. Caprio's career: paparazzis, the iceberg that sinks Titanic (1. Quaalude overdose from The Wolf of Wall Street (2. The Revenant (2. 01. Best Actor Oscar, write an acceptance speech, find the black nominee, etc. The game racked up 6,0. Russia. Hundreds of people blocked streets in Mexico to celebrate his win. Government, as part of its ongoing investigation into a money laundering operation connected to Malaysian prime minister Najib Razak. It's a great outlet. As for myself, I'm not sure who I am. It seems that I change every day. 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 (1. I love movie posters. Whatever opinions critics will have of The Aviator (2. I really think that this is a great piece of art: once again, he has made a great classic film. 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. 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. 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. She turned to me and goes, . Don't you wish he'd just disappear? I choose to avoid that. I'm probably not going to get married unless I live with somebody for 1. But these people took a chance and they did it. We don't have the guts that Romeo did. I usually sat next to someone extremely smart. 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. 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. I used to think, . The whole thing was blown out of proportion. It's the color of nature and the color of money and the color of moss! I've never tried anything. That's not a lie! I rarely get angry, I rarely cry. I guess I do get excited a lot, but I don't get sad and enormously happy. I think a lot of people who talk about all that crap are lying. Right now I'm just trying to maintain happiness - that's all I really care about. Anyway, when you're my age and your hormones are kicking in, there's not much besides sex that's on your mind. I love doing that. If you're not perfect in every film, then people say . They want you to be miserable, just like them. They don't want heroes. What they want is to see you fall. If I want to go to a party with a few male friends, it doesn't mean that I'm gay. I don't see why I can't have friends of both sexes without rumors being spread about me. I went to dinner the other night, and the girls in the restaurant ignored me. It was so annoying. He is 4. 1 years old, a Scorpio and the most bankable male movie star in Hollywood. Nobody can touch him: neither Tom Hanks nor Tom Cruise, not Brad Pitt, Johnny Depp or Matt Damon. The Revenant official trailer. Play! 0. 2: 4. 7If Di. Caprio says he wants to be in a film, it not only gets made, but it also gets seen; in the past four years, the films in which he has starred (Django Unchained, The Great Gatsby, The Wolf of Wall Street) have made collectively $1. He has been nominated for an Oscar five times (four acting nominations and one for best film, as a producer on The Wolf of Wall Street). But for every certainty there is also a rumour, a supposition where the void of celebrity leaves a blank. He’s an environmentalist whose jet- set lifestyle leaves a huge carbon footprint. He’s a party boy, a playboy, a commitment- phobe modeliser who might, or might not, have proposed recently to his Sports Illustrated model girlfriend, Kelly Rohrbach, over dinner. With the run- up to the release of The Revenant, this sort of conjecture has reached whole new levels. Never mind the gripping subject matter – the true story of fur trapper Hugh Glass’s refusal to succumb to death after being mauled by a bear and abandoned by his hunting team – or the truly astonishing cinematography; what most of the coverage thus far has focused on is as follows. Did Leo have fleas in his enormous beard? Did his character get raped by a bear (twice)? And is this finally the performance that will win him that elusive Oscar? Di. Caprio as fur trapper Hugh Glass in The Revenant. Credit. The man who prowls, some 4. He does this without saying a word. He doesn’t go in for small talk or niceties. He is serious, imposing even, sinking into the sofa, sighing heavily and puffing ominously on an e- cigarette as he awaits my questions. It makes perfect sense that the tiger is Di. Caprio’s favourite animal (in 2. WWF to help counter the dwindling numbers in Nepal). It’s all there: the heavy- set beauty, the clear- eyed glare, the powerful, predatory silence. Based on the performances that have made Di. Caprio’s name, one could be forgiven for expecting an entirely different creature: the frivolous charm of Romeo (Romeo + Juliet), Jack Dawson (Titanic) or Jay Gatsby (The Great Gatsby); the verbose shape- shifting of Frank Abagnale Jr (Catch Me If You Can), Howard Hughes (The Aviator) or Jordan Belfort (The Wolf of Wall Street); or the complex vulnerability of Arnie Grape (What’s Eating Gilbert Grape), Danny Archer (Blood Diamond) or Frank Wheeler (Revolutionary Road). In truth, Di. Caprio is all of these things and none of them. And that, of course, is his secret. Like a master painter painting a landscape. Leonardo Di. Caprio. All those who worked with Di. Caprio on The Revenant are unanimous in their praise, not only for his performance but for his commitment to a project that, during the nine months of arduous filming, pushed all of those involved to their physical, spiritual and emotional limits. When I remind him of something he once said, 'Pain is temporary, film is forever’, a slow smile creeps across his face. And yet he is adamant that any suffering that he and his fellow cast and crew members went through was undertaken willingly in pursuit of a higher cause.'We all knew that we were a part of something pretty revolutionary. From the outset, Alejandro had an extraordinary vision: to create a film the likes of which audiences had never seen before. You don’t get those sort of results without going above and beyond the call of duty.’From one day to the next, cast and crew of The Revenant could not predict what they might be up against. Quite apart from environmental factors beyond their control – frozen sets or, conversely, days and days of waiting for snow that never came – there were also logistical challenges to contend with. Speaking at COP2. Paris as a UN Peace Ambassador. Because of I. Like a master painter painting a landscape.’'I was not the only one!’ jokes the surprisingly light- hearted I. I think we both suffer from the same disease, which is called chronic dissatisfaction.’'I get unhappy doing things that I’m not passionate about,’ admits Di. Caprio. As soon as my name alone was enough to make this happen, I vowed to myself that I was going to work with directors who were changing cinema, doing something important, you know? This goes back to when I was a teenager, feverishly watching movies like Taxi Driver and Apocalypse Now and saying to myself, someday, I’m going to be a part of films like this.’I play fictitious characters often solving fictitious problems. I believe mankind has looked at climate change in the same way, as if it were a fiction. Leonardo Di. Caprio. A pretty, precocious only child – 'essentially a dwarf with the biggest mouth in the world’ –the young Leonardo (so- called because his German mother, Irmelin, had first felt him kick while admiring a Da Vinci painting in Florence) had always had, he says, a 'strange, almost sickening desire to perform’. In fact, his earliest memory, aged three, is of going to a hippie concert with his Italian- American father, George, and leaping on to the stage to tap- dance for the restless audience who were chanting for the band to come on. Unable to focus in the schoolroom, Di. Caprio flourished in front of an audience. Plus, acting seemed like a golden ticket. His parents, respectively a legal secretary and a distributor of underground comic books (who separated amicably when he was one), didn’t earn much money. They listened to their kid saying, “This is what I want to do,” and they supported me unconditionally; they made me feel that all my dreams were within reach. Now I know a lot of people who have grown up in much better- off families, with much more solid family structures, who haven’t in any way had that level of love in their lives.’'Leo’s humanity in all the characters he has played,’ says Steven Spielberg, who directed him in Catch Me If You Can, 'can be traced directly back to how close he is to his family.’ One, or both, of his parents often accompany Di. Caprio when he travels; two days previous to our meeting, he and his father ('the wisest, most well- read man I’ve ever met’) were photographed attending the COP2. United Nations Conference on Climate Change in Paris (Di. Caprio is a UN Messenger of Peace). He and his mother ('honest, practical, real, no- nonsense’), with whom he continued to live for several years after Titanic made him the most famous young actor in the world, speak at least once a day. So obsessively does she photograph him when she is with him that he has apparently nicknamed her 'Mamarazzi’. When the 1. 6- year- old Di. Caprio – by now 6ft 1in after a sudden growth spurt – told his parents that he wanted to leave school to focus on his career, they supported him. And when, two years later, he beat off several other young hopefuls (including his friend Tobey Maguire) to land the role of a boy abused by his mum’s volatile boyfriend – as played by his hero, Robert De Niro – in This Boy’s Life, they made sure he knew how lucky he was. When, in 1. 99. 4, he earned his first Oscar nomination (best supporting actor) for his portrayal of a child with learning difficulties in Lasse Hallstr. A passionate counterculturalist, George has always steered his son towards unusual work. As a breathtakingly beautiful 1. Hollywood at his feet, Di. Caprio didn’t take the obvious commercial route, choosing instead to play a drug addict in The Basketball Diaries and the tortured poet Arthur Rimbaud in Total Eclipse. Who knows whether having this critical weight behind him helped Di. Caprio to retain credibility when Baz Luhrmann’s Romeo + Juliet and, subsequently, James Cameron’s Titanic – one of the highest- grossing films of all time – catapulted him into cover- boy madness, but he certainly came out the other side. That said, 'Leomania’, when it hit, was hard to take. On a trip to Brazil, he was recognised by rainforest Indians, in Paris a teenage girl hung on to his leg and refused to let go, and truckfuls of paparazzi followed him whenever he went out. After Titanic, Di. Caprio consciously didn’t work for two years, turning down commercial projects such as Spider- Man and Star Wars in favour of more left- field, director- lead films like Danny Boyle’s The Beach and Woody Allen’s Celebrity. Leonardo Di. Caprio's career - by numbers. Play! 0. 1: 5. 8'He wanted to prove himself, show that he was worthy of his success,’ says his Titanic and Revolutionary Road co- star, Kate Winslet. When the bar is set that high, you have to work 1. Never, for one moment, did Di. Caprio take his eyes off his ultimate goal: working with Martin Scorsese. When rumours reached him of his cinematic hero’s development of a 1. Gangs of New York in 2. When Di. Caprio talks about his mentor, he leans forward excitedly. Ultimately, like any artist, I want to make lasting pieces of art; movies that people will look at and appreciate in 5. In the 1. 3 years since the release of Gangs of New York, the two men have worked together on four further films, The Aviator, The Departed, Shutter Island and The Wolf of Wall Street (the first and last of which Di. Caprio was Oscar- nominated for). Their sixth collaboration, The Devil In the White City, due to start filming soon, will see Di. Caprio taking on the role of HH Holmes, the prolific 1. Because they don’t bring happiness ultimately. They really don’t. What matters is whether or not you’ve fulfilled the idea of having led an interesting life, whether you’ve contributed in some way to the world around you.’With Kate Winslet in Titanic in 1. Credit. In the 1. Leonardo Di. Caprio Foundation has worked on some of the most pressing environmental issues of our day, donating more than $1. California, tigers in Asia, elephants in Africa – and calling on world leaders to address climate change. For its founder, the global forecast is 'catastrophic unless we transition to a different way of producing energy in the next five years’.'2.
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