“My name is Jordan Belfort. The year I turned 26, I made 49 million dollars, which really pissed me off because it was three shy of a million a week.”
Leonardo
Wilhelm DiCaprio was born November 11, 1974 he is an American actor
and film producer. DiCaprio began his career by appearing in television
commercials, after which he had recurring roles in TV series such as the soap
opera Santa Barbara and
the sitcomGrowing Pains in
the early 1990s. He began his film career by starring as Josh in Critters 3 before
starring in the film adaptation of the memoirThis Boy's Life (1993) alongside Robert De
Niro. DiCaprio was praised for his supporting role in the
drama What's Eating Gilbert Grape (1993),
and gained public recognition with leading roles in the drama The Basketball Diaries (1995)
and the romantic drama Romeo +
Juliet (1996), before achieving international fame with James
Cameron's epic romance Titanic (1997), which became
the highest-grossing film to that point.
Since the 2000s, DiCaprio has received critical acclaim for his work in
a wide range of film genres. His subsequent films include The Man in the Iron Mask (1998),
the biographical crime drama Catch Me If You Can (2002) and the
epic historical drama Gangs of New
York (2002) which also marked his first of many
collaborations with director Martin
Scorsese. DiCaprio was also acclaimed for his performances in the
political war thrillerBlood Diamond (2006), the
neo-noir crime drama The Departed (2006),
the espionage thriller Body of Lies (2008), the
drama Revolutionary Road(2008), the
psychological thriller Shutter Island (2010), the
science fiction thriller Inception (2010),
the biographical film J. Edgar (2011),
the western Django
Unchained (2012), and the period drama The Great Gatsby (2013).
DiCaprio's portrayal of Howard Hughes in The Aviator (2004) and Hugh Glass in The Revenant (2015) won him
the Golden Globe Award for Best Actor –
Motion Picture Drama, and his role as Jordan
Belfort in The Wolf of Wall Street (2013)
won him the award for Best Actor –
Motion Picture Musical or Comedy. He won his first BAFTA award for Best Actor for The Revenant. He has been nominated
for six Academy Awards—five for acting and one for
producing—and in 2016, won the Academy Award for Best Actor for The Revenant.[2] In
addition to acting, DiCaprio is the founder of his own production company,
named Appian Way Productions. He is also a
committed environmentalist.
Early
career
DiCaprio's
career began with his appearance in several commercials and educational films.
After being removed from the set of children's television series Romper Room for being disruptive at the age of
five, he followed his older stepbrother
Adam Farrar into television commercials, landing an ad for Matchbox cars at 14. In 1990, he got his break on television when he was cast in the short-lived series based on the movie Parenthood. After Parenthood, DiCaprio had bit
parts on several shows, including The New
Lassie and Roseanne, as well as a brief stint on
the soap opera Santa Barbara, playing the young Mason
Capwell. His involvement in Parenthood and the daily soap earned him a
nomination for the Young Artist Award for Best Young Actor each.
personal life
DiCaprio's romantic relationships
have been widely covered in the media. He dated actress Bijou Phillips in the late 90s. DiCaprio dated model Kristen
Zang on-and-off for several years, and British model and socialite Emma Miller.
In 2000, he met Brazilian model Gisele Bündchen with whom he had an on-and-off relationship
until their separation in 2005. DiCaprio began a relationship with Israeli
model Bar Refaeli in
November 2005 after meeting her at a Las Vegas party thrown for
members of U2. In the course of their trip
to Israel in March 2007, the couple met with Israeli president Shimon Peres and visited
Refaeli's hometown of Hod HaSharon. The relationship
was on hold for a period of six months starting in June 2009; in early 2010,
the romance was rekindled but it ended in early 2011. DiCaprio was in a
relationship with actress Blake Lively from May to
October 2011, then with model Erin Heatherton from
December 2011 to October 2012. From May 2013 to December 2014, he dated German
model Toni Garrn.
He dated model Kelly Rohrbach from summer to late 2015.
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