Caprio Leonardo Biography

St. Petersburg 2nd Krasnoarmeyskaya St. At the time of their acquaintance, they were students, later she worked as a secretary in court, and he became a distributor of comics and painted himself, some experts believe that he contributed to the comic Revolution X. Leonardo DiCaprio with parents even before birth, in the maternal womb, the future star designated its attitude to art. The fruit began to push in the mother’s bosom when she admired the creations of Leonardo da Vinci in the Florentine Uffizi Gallery.

George decided that his unborn son was giving a signal - his name is Leonardo! So when on November 11, a boy was born in Los Angeles, he was given the name Leonardo Wilhelm DiCaprio. Leonardo DiCaprio in childhood in the pedigree actor has Italian, German, as well as Russian roots. His maternal grandmother is called Elizaveta Smirnov. Another girl, fleeing the consequences of the revolution, she fled to Germany with her parents.

The woman assimilated, changed her name to Helen, married a German and took the name of Indenbirken, but did not forget her native speech. Mom Leonardo was born in the year, at the height of World War II, right on the floor of the bomb shelter. The Indenbirken family never supported the atrocities of the Nazis and in, as soon as it was possible, emigrated to New York. George moved to East Hollywood.

Leo lived with dad and his new lover Peggy Farrar, who had a son Adam from a previous marriage, then with his mother. The boy himself loved to spend time in his father’s house: there was a bohemian atmosphere, other artists and cult figures like Matt Grunning and Timothy lyri often went to visit. Kid Leo Mom drove him to a prestigious elementary school at the university, spending 4 hours a day on the road there and back.

Then there were 4 years of study at a school for gifted children, but it was difficult for a guy to concentrate on the academic sciences. Either the explosive mixture of blood, the Italian on the part of his father, German and Russian on the part of his mother, or participation in the children's television show at 2.5 years old influenced the choice of a profession, but at the age of 14 the guy knew that he would be an actor.

The last place of study was the secondary school of John Marshall. Despite the early divorce of his parents, Leonardo always felt the support of his father, an artist of comics. Parents encouraged and developed their son’s creative nature, supporting an early interest in acting. But he maintained relations with them and often visited his beloved granny until her death in the year.

The actor is proud of Russian roots and sometimes jokingly calls himself "half Russian." It was Elena who introduced Leo to Dostoevsky’s work and explained that the drama genre is a magnifying glass that reflects the human character. I liked to joke with my parents and create different characters, ”the actor recalled about his childhood. Leonardo admitted that he grew up in poverty: "Our family was poor, truly poor." At the same time, he is grateful to his parents because they taught him to be content with small, not to pay attention to which store the clothes were bought or in which store the food was bought, because it does not matter if you have something to wear and you do not starve.

They also taught the boy not to feed unnecessary pity for himself, focus on goals and go to her step by step. Therefore, DiCaprio hates conversations that he "was just lucky to be in the right place, in the sense, to be born in Hollywood." Children's roles Acting career Leonardo DiCaprio began at a tender age. At the age of five, he was invited to the television show for preschoolers Romper Room, broadcast on the screens from the beginning of x.

But before he had time to get comfortable on the set, he was kicked out of the show for poor behavior. When, a few years later, Adam Farrar, his half -brother, 3 years older, began to act in commercials and soon became indented, the summer Leonardo was inspired by his example and demanded from his parents to also be taken to audition. Leonardo DiCaprio and his eldest brother Adam with the first advertisement, in which the young Leonardo DiCaprio played, was a video about Matchbox toy cars.

The young actor reincarnated into a gangster. I was just terribly nervous and forgot everything. ” Young Leonardo DiCaprio in the Bubble Yum advertising as usual, the blonde with an angel face soon noticed casting managers from television, and by the beginning of X the boy was regularly busy in television shows. The frame from the series “New Adventures of Lassy” in the career of the younger actor occurred.

In the same year, a debut took place in a low -budget, but popular horror with the funny name “tooth”. Leonardo DiCaprio with her mother 2 years later, Leo got the opportunity to demonstrate the talent of a serious actor. In the film “The Life of this guy”, the boy played the first dramatic role of a teenager who fell into a complex family situation, and the legendary Robert de Niro played an evil stepfather.

The future “Spider-Man” Toby Maguire became a screen comrade. Since then, he and Toby have remained friends.Leonardo, although he was already under 20, so convincingly played a mentally inferior teenager that he was nominated for an Oscar. He starred in the drama of the “Basketball player diaries”. The modern love story, created by the Lurman Base based on the immortal tragedy of William Shakespeare, turned out to be touching, and world fees amounted to million dollars.

The film went down in history as a kind of record holder: I collected 11 Oscar statuettes, the budget amounted to a fabulous amount of million for that time, the world box office exceeded 1.5 billion dollars, and Leo became an adored idol of millions of spectators, especially their female half. The soundtrack of the film "Titanic" James Cameron was not mistaken in choosing actors.

The success of the film showed that Leonardo can cope with traditional Hollywood roles. He became a worldwide celebrity, and was recognized by the American magazine “People” one of the 50 most beautiful people in years. Muse Scorsese and Spielberg after the Titanic was a small recession in his career, since the “man in the iron mask” and “beach” were not successful either financial or artistic.

However, Leo soon restored the reputation. Leonardo DiCaprio with Tom Hanks in the film “Catch me, if you can” he demonstrated his talent in two noteworthy paintings. The last film was the first of many projects in which the actor will work with the legend of Hollywood, director Martin Scorsese. His lover was played by Kate Blanchett. In the year he starred in two cult films: “Bloody Diamond” and “Speaking”.

The latter developed a brilliant acting trio with Matt Damon and Jack Nicholson. The heyday of his career in the year Leonardo reunited with Kate Winslet on the “Road of Changes”, a tense drama about a married couple living in the middle of the 20th century and encountering personal problems. Then, in he investigated a fantastic future in the “beginning” of Christopher Nolan, where technologies allow you to invade the dreams and subconscious of other people.

Leonardo DiCaprio in the thriller "Island of the Damned" "J. The actor was difficult to prepare, because the film was autobiographical and witnesses of events are still alive. The best roles of Leonardo DiCaprio, in the same year, he returned to Scorsese again, starring in the drama “Wolf with Wall Street”, based on the memoirs of Jordan Belfort, a famous financial fraud, who fooled investors in the 10s of the last century.

Matthew McConah and John Hill also participated in the film. The picture later caused legal problems with the former Assistant Belfort. Andrew Green filed a lawsuit for insulting honor and dignity, because the prototype, his former boss, is “depicted as a criminal, a drug addict, corrupted and devoid of any morality.” In Leonardo, he again worked with Scorsese on the set of the thriller “The Devil in the White City”, where he played a serial killer from Chicago.

In the same year, Quentin Tarantino gathered an impressive star composition for creating the criminal drama “Once in Hollywood”. The director also invited Maya Hawk, the daughter of the mind of Turman. The Oscar for the “surviving” at the end of the year DiCaprio starred in the film by Alejandro Gonzalez Injarrit, playing the frontier Hugh Glass, who was forced to survive in the inhuman conditions of the cold west of the early 19th century.

Glass, treacherously abandoned to die in the snow, crawled kilometers and was more than once in the balance of death before he reached the fort and did not take revenge on his failed killer. Three quarters of the screen time, he is alone if, of course, not to consider the bear, which his hero eventually defeated with his bare hands. It is terribly difficult.

A terrible physical pain added to moral pressure. But the director of the “survivor” is a principled person, he despises chromakey [Green screen, which allows you to apply the background when processing the shot material - approx. Someone else, maybe, would take pity on the actor and allowed to “finish” snow on the computer, but not injaritt. Throughout the shooting day, DiCaprio worked in the cold.

Hands, legs, ears and cheeks were numb from the cold. In the frame, Leonardo eats a real bison liver. The carcass of the horse in which he slept is also real, and he really climbed into it. Leonardo received the long -awaited Oscar for the “surviving”. Only in, after 4 nominations, he was awarded the highest award for acting. In his speech, after a rewarding, the actor spoke of climate change and the real threat that humanity carries to the planet.

On the set of the criminal drama, “Once in Hollywood,” Dalton understands that he went out of circulation, has grown old and can no longer play the handsome-peasants, and the audience is no longer interested in the same type of westerns. All that remains Dalton is to lead an idle lifestyle in the company of Cascader Cliff Buta and hope that he will be offered a contract for shooting in Italy.The frame from the film “Once in Hollywood”, especially the audience appreciated the monologue of the hero of DiCaprio on the set, when he retells the little actress Julia Batters the plot of the book about the coaring distillery of horses, as well as the moment of filming in Western, where he is no longer the main role, but the role of the villain, although he understands that he understands him now It is unlikely that it will be possible to get the role of a protagonist in a less or less standing project.

In the year, DiCaprio played one of the main roles in the satirical comedy “Do not look up! He plays cosmophysics, whose student Jennifer Lawrence discovers a comet flying to the ground. The calculations show that the planet and all living things will die. The professor and the student are trying to reach politicians and ordinary citizens, but everyone is more interested in watching the separation of the next pop star-and someone prefers just not to look upstairs.

Shot from the movie “Don't look up! Сам ДиКаприо как убежденный защитник природы отметил, что люди упорно игнорируют вещи, которые могут привести к вымиранию человечества. In the year, Leonardo took third place in the list of the highest paid actors. He earned this position thanks to the millionth fee for the thriller of the “Flower Moon killers” Martin Scorsese, where he starred with Robert de Niro.

Then Scorsese, who decided to try herself in a serial genre, approved his beloved actor for the main role in the series “The Devil in the White City”. Leonardo should play the serial killer of America, Henry Holmes, who built a hotel in Chicago and tortured his guests to death. However, in the end, Todd Field took the place of the director, instead of Dicaprio, Keanu Reeves was invited, and the series was abolished at an early stage of production soon.

The nature defender DiCaprio constantly draws public attention to environmental problems. He is the founder of the Leonardo Dicaprio Foundation Non -Profit Foundation and his main sponsor, who donated more than $ 30 million to the development of security projects in 40 countries. He even released the documentary “Eleventh Hour” and participated in the creation of the “Save the Planet” tape, both of which are devoted to climate changes.