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[h3]Born in Hollywood in 1974, Leonardo’s parents divorced when he was a baby. The couple remained friends and shared in his upbringing, which is probably best described as ‘bohemian’. [/h3]

The young Leonardo was encouraged to embrace his creative side and, by the age of five, he had already landed his first TV role on a popular children’s television show.

To make up for his lack of academic skills, Leo enrolled on summer courses to study acting and performance art. When he was 14 he signed to an agency and began to land television commercials work. His first real acting role came on the TV soap ‘Santa Barbara’ and in 1990 he starred in the short-lived series ‘The Outsiders’ alongside David Arquette.

The ambitions young Leo was keen to make the leap onto the big screen and his chance came in the teen horror flick ‘Critters 3’ in 1991. Casting agents soon took notice of the rising blonde star and he saw off hundreds of hopefuls to land a role in ‘This Boy’s Life’ with Ellen Barkin and Robert De Niro. The role gave Leo the chance to show off the full range of his acting talents and helped secure a string of movie offers.

‘What's Eating Gilbert Grape?’ in 1993 saw Leo team up with Johnny Depp to play a teenager with learning difficulties. The film was a huge critical success and earned the young star an Academy Award nomination. Roles in ‘The Quick and the Dead’ and ‘The Basketball Diaries added to his rising bankability, but it was his role in 1995’s ‘Total Eclipse’ that raised a few eyebrows. Leo played the tormented, bisexual poet Arthur Rimbaud opposite David Thewlis and the film’s graphical nature was a brave move for a young actor still conquering Hollywood.

Returning with a mainstream hit in 1996, Leo starred in Baz Luhrmann’s adaptation of ‘Romeo and Juliet’. The movie was a huge hit among the MTV generation and succeeded in bring Shakespeare to the masses once more.

However, no matter how successful ‘Romeo and Juliet’ may have been, it was to be eclipsed in 1997 by the film of the year – ‘Titanic’. The £100 million epic picked up 11 Oscars.

Leo had now hit the big time and started to live the life of a big time movie star - dating models, hard partying and tabloid tales that included suing Playgirl magazine over their plans to publish naked snaps of him.

Despite joining the $20 million earning club for ‘The Beach’ in 2000, the film was savaged by the critics and it would be two years before he returned with the hits ‘Gangs of New York’ and ‘Catch Me If You Can’. Another two year absence saw Leo return with one of the most critically acclaimed films of 2004, Martin Scorsese’s ‘The Aviator’.

When he’s not flicking through the scripts of multi-million dollar movies, Leo is a keen environmentalist and has up his own foundation and eco-site through his official website.

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- Leo’s name is rumoured to have been chosen by his mother after she felt the unborn Leo kick while she was looking at a DaVinci painting at the Uffizi.

- Despite early agents suggesting that Leo change his name to Lenny Williams, in 1999 his lawyers filed an application to allow the copyright of ‘DiCaprio’.

- It’s rumoured that after the release of the film ‘Titanic’, 28 barbers in Kabul were arrested by the Taliban for giving young men DiCaprio haircuts.
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The Blood Diamond (2007)

The Chancellor Manuscript (2006)

The Departed (2006)

The Aviator (2004)

Catch Me If You Can (2002)

Gangs of New York (2002)

Don's Plum (2001)

The Beach (2000)

Celebrity (1998)

The Man in the Iron Mask (1998)

Titanic (1997)

Marvin's Room (1996)

Romeo + Juliet (1996)

Total Eclipse (1995)

The Basketball Diaries (1995)

The Quick and the Dead (1995)

The Foot Shooting Party (1994)

What's Eating Gilbert Grape (1993)

This Boy's Life (1993)

Poison Ivy (1992)

Growing Pains (1985)

Critters 3 (1991)

Santa Barbara (1984)

Parenthood (1990)
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