Leonardo Wilhelm DiCaprio is an American actor, film producer, and environmentalist.

He has often
played unconventional roles, particularly in biopics and period films. As of 2019, his films have grossed
$7.2 billion worldwide, and he has placed eight times in annual rankings of the world's highest-paid
actors.

Born in Los Angeles, DiCaprio began his career by appearing in television commercials in the late 1980s.
In the early 1990s, he played recurring roles in various television series, such as the sitcom Parenthood.
Leonardo DiCaprio had his first major film role as Tobias "Toby" Wolff in This Boy's Life (1993). 19-year-
old Leonardo received critical acclaim and first Academy Award and Golden Globe Award nominations
for his supporting role as a developmentally disabled boy Arnie Grape in What's Eating Gilbert Grape
(1993), becoming the seventh-youngest nominee in the category. He achieved international stardom in
the epic romance Titanic (1997), which became the highest-grossing film to that point. After a few
commercially unsuccessful films, DiCaprio starred in two successful features in 2002: the biographical
crime drama Catch Me If You Can and the historical drama Gangs of New York, which marked his first of
many collaborations with director Martin Scorsese.

DiCaprio portrayed Howard Hughes in The Aviator (2004) and continued to receive acclaim for his
performances in the political thriller Blood Diamond (2006), the crime drama The Departed (2006), and
the romantic drama Revolutionary Road (2008). In the 2010s, he starred in the science fiction thriller
Inception (2010), the western Django Unchained (2012), the biopic The Wolf of Wall Street (2013), the
survival drama The Revenant (2015), and the comedy-drama Once Upon a Time in Hollywood (2019), all
of which were critical and commercial successes. His accolades include an Academy Award, a BAFTA, and
a Golden Globe Award for The Revenant as well as two other Golden Globes for The Aviator and The
Wolf of Wall Street.

DiCaprio is the founder of Appian Way Productions—a production company that has produced some of
his films and the documentary series Greensburg (2008–2010)—and the Leonardo DiCaprio Foundation,
a nonprofit organization devoted to promoting environmental awareness. He regularly supports
charitable causes and has produced several documentaries on the environment. In 2005, he was named
the commander of the Ordre des Arts et des Lettres for his contributions to the arts, and in 2016, he was
named one of the 100 most influential people in the world by Time magazine.