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Leonardo
DiCaprio Bio..
The famous Hollywood actor, who's full name
is Leonardo Wilhelm DiCaprio, was born on November
11, 1974 in Los Angeles, California to German-American
mother and Italian-American father. Leonardo's
parents signed divorce paper when he was one
year old. The actor was named after the famous
Italian painter Leonardo Da Vinci.
As
a child Leonardo DiCaprio had already appeared
on the TV screen. His first debut was on the
TV series "Romper Room", but his movie
debut role was in the year 1993 in "Critters
3". During the development of his career
he was recommended to change his name to Lenny
Williams, but he rejected to do it.
Later
on in early 90's DiCaprio played a role in "Parenthood",
in the TV series "Santa Barbara" and
"Growing Pains" and kept developing
himself as an actor in a number of movies through
1990's and 2000's. Leonardo has also shown an
interest in environmental
issues(w), in politics and in charities.
Leonardo
DiCaprio has been mostly involved in acting,
however he has also done film producing in such
movies as The Assassination of Richard Nixon
(2004) and The Aviator (2004). The movie "The
Aviator" brought Leonardo the Best Actor
award (Drama) at the Golden Globes 2005, but
his first Academy Award and Golden Globe nominations
were for the movie "What's Eating Gilbert
Grape" (1993).
Leonardo
is in a relationship with the world-famous Brazilian
model Gisele
Bundchen.
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