Full name: Leonardo Wilhelm DiCaprio Birthdate: November, 11, 1974; Los Angeles, California Height: 6' Weight: 140 lbs. Favorite Colors: Black, Purple, Green, and Blue Nicknames: Leo, The Noodle Education: Center for Enriched Studies, Los Angeles Hair color: Blond Eye color: Blue-Green Favorite Actors: Robert De Niro, Jack Nicholson, Al Pachino Favorite Actress: Meg Ryan Favorite Movie: All three Godfather films Favorite TV Show: The Twilight Zone Favorite food: Pasta Favorite drink: Lemonade, Fruitopia, and Diet Coke Habits: "Twisting my hair, and biting my nails." Favorite Sports: Basketball, baseball Favorite music:(there have been two different stories...) One: Pink Floyd, Ledd Zeplin Two: "I like rap. Nas, Wu-Tang, that sort of thing." Favorite Book: "The Old Man in the Sea" by Ernest Hemingway Hobbies: Playing basketball, playing pool, and sea animals
Fact: Leo speaks German fluently.
Fact: Cappy was born on November 11, 1974 and is now consisdered one of the preeminent actors of his generation. His family was poor and he first started acting as a way to earn money for his family to live on. Leo often resorted to tomfoolery in school (especially in math) and he is quoted as saying: "School, I never truly got the knack of. I could never focus on things I didn't want to learn."
Fact: Leo's mother (Irmelin DiCaprio) was in an art gallery and stopped to look at a Leonardo Da Vinci painting. She suddenly felt a strong kick from her unborn baby, and she then named him Leonardo!
Fact: Cappy began his career by booking a range of commercials, including Matchbox Cars. His acting debut was on the children's televison show "Romper Room" when he was five. When he was ten, he remembers that after he was rejected from a casting call, he cried to his father, "Dad, I really want to become an actor, but if this is what it's all about I don't want to do it." Leo's dad tried to console the heartbroken, future teen heartthrob by putting his arm around him and saying, "Someday, Leonardo, it will happen for you. This will happen, my son."
Fact: The thing that first inspired Leo to seriously try acting was when his stepbrother, Adam earned $50,000 from doing a Golden Grahams cereal commercial. "It just kepy going throught my head--My brother has 50,000 dollars! And that kept on being my driving force. I just remembered that for, like, five years, thinking my brother was better than me because he had that."
Fact: Leo's first break was his standout performance as Tobias Wolff in "This Boy's Life" with Robert De Niro. He later went on to star in "What's Eating Gilbert Grape?" and received an Oscar nomination for Best Supporting Actor in the film.
Fact: Cappy has been linked romantically to numerous fashion models, and can often be spotted in New York City clubs into the morning hours, dancing the night away with the ultra-glamorous supermodels.
Fact: Recently, Leo went sky-diving and his chute didn't open. Leo said, "That was really scary. Luckily, I was doing a tandem jump with this guy on my back. He cut off the chute that didn't open and it floated away so we started to free-fall again for a while. I started to freak out again, until he pulled the reserve chute and steered us down. That was pretty crazy."