Leonardo DiCaprio

Leonardo DiCaprio, born on November 11, 1974, is an American actor and film producer. He began in television commercials in the late 1980s, appeared in the sitcom Growing Pains, and drew his first Academy Award nomination for What's Eating Gilbert Grape. International stardom followed with Romeo and Juliet and Titanic, and he then built a long collaboration with the director Martin Scorsese beginning with Gangs of New York. His films include The Aviator, The Departed, Inception and The Wolf of Wall Street, and he won the Academy Award for Best Actor for The Revenant. He founded the production company Appian Way and an environmental foundation, and serves as a United Nations Messenger of Peace. This entry rests on the lead of his English Wikipedia article.