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16 Interesting Leonardo DiCaprio Facts You Must Know

Leonardo DiCaprio is the master of romantic acting who has won everyone’s love in Hollywood cinema. And can be pointed out as a very talented award-winning actor.

DiCaprio is a person who often plays lovable characters and he has the ability to play different types of characters as well. Also, at a certain time, he was a very popular character among young people. That’s because of Titanic, which was a great movie.

At that time he really became a worldwide craze. He was the crush who won the hearts of girls. Also, his elegant hair style also became popular all over the world.

If you are also his fan, then you must know these facts. There will be things you know and things you don’t know. Previously we have written articles about Hollywood superstars Dwayne The Rock Johnson, Tom Cruise and Vin Diesel, you can read them if you like.

16 Interesting Leonardo DiCaprio Facts You Must Know

01. He Turns 49 in 2023

Leonardo Wilhelm DiCaprio was born on November 11, 1974 in Los Angeles, California, United States.

02. Story Behind His Name

Her mother is Irmelin and she visited the Uffizi museum in Florence, Italy when he was in the womb. While enjoying a painting by Leonardo da Vinci, the first kicks of her unborn child have been hit. Because of that occasion, this great actor was given the name Leonardo.

03. He is 6′ in Height

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Actors who appear the most gigantic on the big screen are not that tall and some are really tall, but don’t look that tall on screen. DiCaprio is like that, even though he doesn’t look tall on screen, he is actually 6 feet tall.

04. His Nicknames

Some fans call this romantic actor by the nicknames Leo and Lenny D.

05. Leo Mania

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He became a world famous superstar with the role of Jack Dawson in Titanic. Then the huge popularity, fascination and craze he created among girls and young women became known as Leo Mania.

06. Motivated by Father

After participating in more than 100 auditions for about a year and a half, he thought of calling it quits due to no success and family financial problems at that time, but his father, George DiCaprio, encouraged him to continue.

07. First Movie

His first film is the low-budget film Critters 3. At that time he was about 17 years old. But his major debut is This Boy’s Life (1993). But his most commercially successful film was What’s Eating Gilbert Grape in 1993.

08. Third Highest Grossing Movie

The movie Titanic, in which he became more popular and famous, was a movie that was made at the highest cost of that time. Even today, Titanic still holds the third place among the highest box office records in the world. The total worldwide revenue is said to be $2.2 billion.

09. Salary

He was paid $75,000 for What’s Eating Gilbert Grape. He was paid 2.5 million dollars for Titanic and for the 2002 movie Catch Me If You Can, he received 20 million dollars. He received $59 million for the 2010 film Inception, which is his highest grossing ever.

10. Popular Movies

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Romeo + Juliet, The Aviator, Blood Diamond, The Great Gatsby, Wolf of Wall Street are some other films in which he acted.

11. TV Series

Before acting in films, he acted as a child actor in TV series. He starred in Romper Room at the age of five. After that, he acted in TV series like The Outsiders, Santa Barbara, The New Lassie, Roseanne, Parenthood.

12. Oscar Winner

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He is not only a very talented, handsome, high earning actor, he has also won an Oscar once. DiCaprio won the 2016 Oscar for Best Performance by an Actor in a Leading Role for The Revenant. In addition, his name has been nominated for the Oscar award several times.

13. Awards

Even if there are talented actors, they are sometimes very under-appreciated. According to that, Leonardo DiCaprio is a very lucky actor. He has been awarded many times. He has won around 101 awards and has been nominated 261 times. He has won many awards for Best Actor, Best Leading Actor and Best Supporting Actor.

14. Partners

He has been in relationships with Gisele Bündchen from 2000 – 2005, Bar Refaeli from 2005 – 2011 and Camila Morrone from 2017 – 2022. The fact that Camilla was much younger than him drew some criticism.

15. Environmental Activism

He is a person who cares about the environment and its existence. For that, he has established a foundation called Leonardo DiCaprio Foundation to maintain environmental awareness. He has donated $1 million to the Wildlife Conservation Society at Russia’s Tiger Summit and has donated money from his foundation and his personal money to environmental and other good causes.

16. Fanbase

The handsome, sexy actor has over 55 million followers on Instagram and over 19 million followers on Facebook.

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