Leonardo DiCaprio American Actor Born 1974 in Los Angeles

Leonardo DiCaprio, born 11 November 1974 in Los Angeles, is an American actor. He is recognised for appearances in Titanic (1997) and Inception (2010).

Early life

George DiCaprio and Irmelin Indenbirken are his parents. Schooling on record includes John Marshall High School, Los Angeles Center for Enriched Studies and UCLA Lab School.

Career

His first listed screen credit dates to 1984, with Santa Barbara. Work from the 1990s includes What's Eating Gilbert Grape (1993, as Arnie Grape) and The Quick and the Dead (1995, as Fee Herod „The Kid“). Catch Me If You Can (2002, as Frank Abagnale, Jr.) and The Departed (2006, as William „Billy“ Costigan) are among his 2000s credits. In the 2010s, he appeared in Django Unchained (2012, as Calvin Candie) and The Wolf of Wall Street (2013, as Jordan Belfort). The 2020s brought Don't Look Up (2021, as Dr. Randall Mindy) and One Battle After Another (2025, as Bob Ferguson).

The list below counts 39 films and 2 TV series from 1984 to 2025. Drama is the most frequent genre among his listed titles (21), followed by comedy (8) and crime (8). Of his nine titles with worldwide box-office figures on record, Titanic (1997) has the highest, at $1.85 billion. Leonardo DiCaprio also worked as writer on The 11th Hour.

Robert De Niro appears in four of his listed titles, including Killers of the Flower Moon (2023) and This Boy's Life (1993). Other co-stars who recur in his credits are Jonah Hill (three titles) and Tobey Maguire (three titles). Martin Scorsese directed six of his titles on record, among them Gangs of New York (2002) and The Aviator (2004). Quentin Tarantino is credited as director on two of them, including Once Upon a Time in Hollywood (2019).

Recognition

Among his honours is the Academy Award for Best Actor, won in 2016 for The Revenant. Other wins include three Golden Globe Awards (2005, 2014 and 2016) and the Golden Globes (2005). Among his nominations is the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor in 1994 for What's Eating Gilbert Grape. In all, Leonardo DiCaprio has won 16 awards and received 33 nominations.