33 Facts About Dicaprio

Dicaprio achieved international stardom with the star-crossed romances Romeo + Juliet and Titanic.

Dicaprio currently serves as one of the United Nations Messengers of Peace.

Dicaprio is the only child of Irmelin, a legal secretary, and George DiCaprio, an underground comix writer, publisher, and distributor of comic books; they met while attending college and moved to Los Angeles after graduating.

Dicaprio's maternal grandfather, Wilhelm Indenbirken, was German, and his maternal grandmother, Helene Indenbirken, was a Russian immigrant living in Germany.

Dicaprio attended the Los Angeles Center for Enriched Studies for four years and later the Seeds Elementary School, before enrolling at the John Marshall High School.

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Dicaprio dropped out of high school following his third year, eventually earning a general equivalency diploma.

Dicaprio was motivated to learn acting by his stepbrother's appearance in a television commercial, for which Farrar earned $50,000.

Dicaprio began appearing in several commercials when he was fourteen for Matchbox cars by Mattel, which he cites as his first role.

Dicaprio later appeared in commercials for Kraft Singles, Bubble Yum, and Apple Jacks.

Dicaprio was nominated for a Young Artist Award for Best Young Actor Co-starring in a Television Series.

Dicaprio was nominated for other high-profile awards, including a Golden Globe Award for Best Actor.

Dicaprio was interested in finding "out of the box" material from an actor's perspective and developing it in a way it stayed true to its original source.

Dicaprio received his first Golden Globe Award for Best Actor — Motion Picture Drama and nominations for an Academy Award, a BAFTA Award, and a Screen Actors Guild Award for Best Actor.

Dicaprio played one of three agents battling a terrorist organization in the Middle East.

Dicaprio ended the 2000s by producing director Jaume Collet-Serra's psychological horror thriller film Orphan, starring Vera Farmiga, Peter Sarsgaard and Isabelle Fuhrman.

Dicaprio played Edward "Teddy" Daniels, a US Marshal investigating a psychiatric facility located on an island, who comes to question his own sanity.

Dicaprio's first was in the role of millionaire Jay Gatsby in Baz Luhrmann's The Great Gatsby, an adaptation of F Scott Fitzgerald's 1925 novel of the same name, co-starring Carey Mulligan and Tobey Maguire.

Dicaprio learned to shoot a musket, build a fire, speak two Native American languages and apply ancient healing techniques.

Dicaprio drew from real-life experience of witnessing the struggles and rejections of his actor friends in the industry.

Dicaprio spent five months changing the film's script with McKay before agreeing to the part.

Dicaprio praised McKay for envisioning a project on how humans would react to a serious issue from a political, social and scientific standpoint.

Dicaprio has since admitted feeling nervous to star in big-budget studio films because of their hype and marketing campaigns.

Dicaprio wrote that DiCaprio's inclination toward films about dysfunctional families and characters seeking a father figure allude to his own troubled childhood.

Dicaprio tends to play antiheroes and characters who lose their mental stability as the narrative progresses.

Dicaprio has said he does not believe in focusing on appearance—as this is only temporary and can negatively affect one's profession in the industry—and looks for career longevity instead.

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Dicaprio was eager to learn about ecology from an early age, watching documentaries on rainforest depletion and the loss of species and habitats.

Dicaprio has said that the environment is more important to him than spirituality, and that he is agnostic.

Dicaprio established the Leonardo DiCaprio Foundation in 1998, a non-profit organization devoted to promoting environmental awareness.

Dicaprio has been an active supporter of numerous environmental organizations and sat on the board of the World Wildlife Fund, Global Green USA, and International Fund for Animal Welfare.

Dicaprio chaired the national Earth Day celebration in 2000, where he interviewed Bill Clinton and they discussed plans to deal with global warming and the environment.

Dicaprio was romantically involved with Israeli model Bar Refaeli from 2005 to 2011, during which time he met with Israeli president Shimon Peres and visited Refaeli's hometown of Hod HaSharon.

Dicaprio later dated German fashion model Toni Garrn from July 2013 until December 2014, and later in 2017.

Dicaprio has been criticized by some for the age gaps in his relationships.