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Leonardo DiCaprio
Biography
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Full Real Name: Leonardo Wilhelm DiCaprio
Nicknames: Leo, The Noodle
Birthdate: November 11, 1974
Birthplace: Los Angeles, CA, USA
Astrological Sign: Scorpio Current
Residence: Hollywood, CA, USA
Education: John Marshall High School &
Center for Enriched Studies, Los Angeles, CA,
USA
Height: 6 ft
Weight: 140 Ibs
Hair Color: Blond
Eye Color: Blue-green
Parents: George & Irmelin DiCaprio
Siblings: Adam Farrar (step-brother)
Leo’s Favorites :
Favorite book(s): "The Old Man and the Sea"
by Ernest Hemmingway
Favorite Sport(s): Basketball & baseball
Favorite Animal(s): All animals
Favorite Car: '69 Mustang
Favorite Song: "Sitting on the Dock of the
Bay"
Favorite Game: Pool
Favorite Music: Rap music
Favorite Musician: Harry Conick Jr.
Favorite Band(s): Pink Floyd, The Beatles, &
Led Zeppelin
Favorite Actor(s): Robert De Niro, Al Pacino, &
Jack Nicholson
Favorite Actress: Meg Ryan
Favorite TV Show: The Twilight Zone
Favorite Vacation Place: Germany
Favorite Food: Pasta
Favorite Drink: Lemonade, Diet Coke, and
Fruitopia
Favorite Colors: Black, green, & purple
Favorite Childhood Memory: Terrorizing his
neighborhood with practical jokes.
Favorite Cities: New York & San Francisco
Favorite Movie(s): The Godfather (I, II, III).
Favorite Birthday: "My 16th because I started
to drive."
Favorite Spare-time Activity: Writing poetry
and short stories.
Least Favorite Food: Meat
Least favorite Kind of People: James Dean
wannabes
Other Facts
Habits: "Twisting my hair and biting my nails."
Musical Instrument Played: "I used to play the
organ."
Highest Wishe(s): To save the environment
and live in peace.
Little-known Fact: Speaks fluent German.
Childhood Description: "Funny, goofy, and
cute."
Best Quality: "I have a good sense of humor."
Worst Quality: Procrastinates
Car Owned: Silver BMW coupe
Pets: A Rottweiler (named Baby) and a
Bearded Dragon (named Lizard).
Shoe Size: 11
Main Goal in Life: To be a successful actor.
At
twenty-three, Leonardo DiCaprio has achieved the kind of success
that
most actors strive their entire career for. In addition to receiving
an
Academy Award and a Golden Globe nomination for his
work in
WHAT'S
EATING GILBERT GRAPE, DiCaprio was voted Best Supporting
Actor
by the National Board of Review for WHAT'S EATING GILBERT
GRAPE,
Most Promising Actor from the Chicago Film Critics for
WHAT'S
EATING GILBERT GRAPE and THIS BOY'S LIFE, and was
given
the New Generation Award for both films by the Los Angeles Film
Critics.
Additionally, he was voted runner-up for Best Supporting Actor of
the
year by the New York Film Critics Association and the National
Society
of Film Critics. DiCaprio will star this winter in James Cameron's
epic
drama TITANIC. This movie will open in Japan on November 1st
and
then premier in the US on December 17th. Last year his work in Baz
Luhrmann's
ROMEO AND JULIET playing Romeo opposite Claire
Danes
as Juliet, and in Miramax's MARVIN'S ROOM, with Diane
Keaton,
Meryl Streep, and Robert DeNiro won him critical recognition.
- From the movie Romeo and Juliet
Last summer in Paris, DiCaprio completed work on THE MAN IN THE
IRON
MASK,with Gerard Depardieu,John Malkovich Gabriel Byrne and
Jeremy
Irons. The premiere will take place in Berlin, Germany between
February
11 and 22, 1998. This Fall, he completed work on a Woody
Allen
movie, yet to be named. A native of Los Angeles, DiCaprio has
been
acting since he was fourteen. Beginning with commercials and
educational
films, he was soon working on episodic television. His last
work
on television was as a series regular on GROWING PAINS
portraying
the homeless boy Luke. In addition to his work in THIS
BOY'S
LIFE and WHAT'S EATING GILBERT GRAPE,DiCaprio received
critical
acclaim for his stunning portrayal of Jim Carroll in New Line's
THE
BASKETBALL DIARIES. He also co-starred with Sharon
Stone in
Sam
Raimi's off-center western, QUICK AND THE DEAD,had
a starring
role
in Touchstone's twenty minute short entitled THE
FOOT
SHOOTING
PARTY and
co-starred with David Thewlis in Agniezka
Holland's
TOTAL ECLIPSE.
- From The Man In The Iron Mask
Pictures
Filmography
1992 - Poison Ivy
1993 - Critters III
This Boy's Life
What's Eating Gilbert Grape?
1994 - The Foot Shooting Party
1995 - Hundreds
and One Night
The Quick and Dead
The Basketball Diaries
Total Eclipse
1996 - Romeo &
Juliet
Marvin's Room
1997 - Don's Plum
On the Road
Exit Now
Harvard Man
The Inside Man
1998 - Titanic
The Man in the Iron Mask
Forthcoming Films ( 1998-1999
)
Honesty Anyway
Celebrity
TV Appearances
1988
Santa Barbara
The Outsiders
1989
The New Lassie
1990
Parenthood
1991-1992
Growing Pains
Interviews
Leonardo DiCaprio's Interviews
The
Challenges of Titanic A memorable moment on the set
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