Leo History



Back in 1974, a pregnant woman named Irmelin stood looking at a Leonardo da Vinci painting in Florence, when her baby gave a pre-birth kick. She took this as a sign, and when that baby was born on the 11th of November that year, she named him Leonardo Wilhelm DiCaprio. He was raised in a modest house in East Hollywood, with Iremlin splitting with his father, George, not long after his birth.
It wasn't until Leonardo's step-brother, Adam, got paid big $$$$ to star in a TV commercial, that Leo, age six, decided he wanted to be an actor. After a few hiccups to begin with, Leo found an agent at age 14, and did heaps of commercials, before appearing as Garry in Parenthood in 1990, and as Luke in Growing Pains in 1991-1992. But it was This Boy's Life in 1993 with Robert De Niro that things really started going good. Leo's film career took off - the role of Arnie Grape in What's Eating Gilbert Grape earned him an oscar nomination at age 18. He played gay poet Arthur Rimbaud in Total Eclipse, and 'The Kid' in The Quick And The Dead, before going on to more recent roles in The Basketball Diaries, Romeo + Juliet, Marvin's Room, Titanic, and The Man In The Iron Mask.