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[[Leonardo DiCaprio]] (born 1974) is an American actor and film producer whose career rose with his role in the television sit-com ''[[Growing Pains]]''. His critically acclaimed breakthrough film performance came in ''This Boy's Life'', and was quickly followed by ''[[
DiCaprio received another Academy Award nomination came for his role as Howard Hughes in ''[[The Aviator]]'', directed by [[Martin Scorsese]]. He has also worked with Scorsese in films such as ''[[Gangs of New York]]'', ''[[The Departed]]'' and ''[[Shutter Island]]''. This partnership was compared to the earlier working relationship between Scorsese and [[Robert De Niro]].
Tends to appear in a lot of [[Period Piece|Period Pieces]] (''[[The Quick and
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If you are ever in need of explaining to a non-Japanophile what a [[Bishonen]] is, try suggesting Leonardo DiCaprio on his youth.
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* ''[[Growing Pains]]'' (1992): as [[Cousin Oliver|Luke Brower]]
* ''This Boy's Life'' (1993): as Tobias Wolff, co-starring [[Robert De Niro]] as his [[Abusive Parents|abusive stepdad]]
* ''[[
* ''[[The Quick and
* ''The Basketball Diaries'' (1995): biopic of Jim Carroll's [[Dark and Troubled Past|teenage years]]
* ''Total Eclipse'' (1995): biopic of 19th-century poet [[Troubled but Cute|Arthur Rimbaud]]
* ''Don's Plum'' (1995 but released in 2002): as [[Jerkass|Derek]]
* ''
* ''Marvin's Room'' (1996): as [[Jerkass Woobie|Hank]] opposite [[Meryl Streep]]
* ''[[Titanic]]'' (1997): as [[Star-Making Role|Jack Dawson]]
* ''[[The Man in the Iron Mask (1998 film)|The Man in the Iron Mask]]'' (1998): as twins [[Cain and Abel|King Louis XIV]] and [[The Only One Allowed to Defeat You|Phillipe]]
* ''Celebrity'' (1998): cameo appearance as [[Draco in Leather Pants|Brandon Darrow]]
* ''[[The Beach]]'' (2000): as Richard
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* ''[[Shutter Island]]'' (2010): as Teddy Daniels
* ''[[Inception]]'' (2010): as [[The Caper|Dom Cobb]]
* ''[[
* ''[[The Great Gatsby]]'' (2012): as Jay Gatsby in [[William Shakespeares Romeo and Juliet|Baz]] [[Moulin Rouge|Luhrmann's]] film adaptation.
* ''Django Unchained'' (2012): Calvin Candie
* ''The Wolf of Wall Street'' (2013): Jordan Belfort
* ''The Revenant (2015)'': Hugh Glass
* ''Once Upon a Time in Hollywood'' (2019): Rick Dalton
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* [[Adorkable]]: His real-life persona. He watches Barney, goes on Youtube and searches for obscure stuff like; 'frogs mating', makes slapstick jokes on the set, is a comic book and baseball card geek, watches anime...<ref>Reportedly including ''[[
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▲* [[Adorkable]]: His real-life persona. He watches Barney, goes on Youtube and searches for obscure stuff like; 'frogs mating', makes slapstick jokes on the set, is a comic book and baseball card geek, watches anime...<ref>Reportedly including ''[[Akira (Manga)|Akira]]'', ''[[Code Geass]]'', ''[[Gundam]]'', ''[[Ninja Scroll]]'', and the works of [[Hayao Miyazaki]]</ref>
▲{{quote| '''Claire Danes''': ''When I first met Leo I was quite shy and nervous but he was very easy to get along with, [...] In fact I found him quite geeky...but an entertaining geek (laughs)''}}
* [[Age Lift]] /PlayingGertrude: In [[Catch Me If You Can]] he played 16-year-old Frank Abagnale. Two years later he was playing 40-year old Howard Hughes. A lot of people accuse the casting of being ambitious, to say the least.
* [[Anti-Hero]]: Tends to play this type of character in most of his movies
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* [[Bishonen]]: Particularly in his early roles.
* [[The Charmer]]: Cheeky, hyperactive and playful during his youth. It's no wonder he scored a lot of ladies.
* [[Chronically
* [[Deadpan Snarker]]: Has a sarcastic sense of humor off-screen.
* [[Did Not Get the Girl]]: Surprisingly, there are a lot of movies where his character doesn't live happily ever after with his love interest; ''[[Titanic]]'', ''[[Catch Me If You Can]]'', ''[[Inception]]'', ''[[The Great Gatsby]]''...
* [[Even the Guys Want Him]]: Two words. ''[[The Departed]]''.
* [[Estrogen Brigade Bait]]: The sudden heart-throb frenzy (dubbed 'Leomania') that erupted after the release of ''[[Titanic]]'' in 1997 was arguably on-par with the current ''[[Twilight (
* [[Fake Nationality]]: French in ''Total Eclipse'' and ''The Man in the Iron Mask'' (which were cases of [[Not Even Bothering
* [[Former Child Star]]: Subverted, he escaped the curse by picking good movies and directors (and was already a highly-talented actor to begin with).
* [[Former Teen Rebel]]: Not exactly, but he was known for his wild club-hopping and womanizing younger days.
* [[Growing the Beard]]/[[Rescued
* [[Hair of Gold]]
* [[Heterosexual Life Partners]]: With Tobey Maguire.
* [[Hey, It's That Guy!]]: Jack Dawson
* [[Hurting Hero]]: Nowadays he seems to end up playing this type of character a lot.
* [[I Just Want to Be Normal]]: Leo has admitted that he hated all the overexposure he got from ''[[Titanic]]'', and that he'd rather be known for his talent and not looks. Sometimes it seems like he's deliberately trying to look less attractive with every passing year.
* [[Memetic Mutation]]: Pics of his expressions on ''Django Unchained'' and ''Once Upon a Time in Hollywood'' have become standard reaction memes in social media.
* [[Mouthy Kid]]: In his teens.
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Ellen Barkin apparently lectured 17-year-old Leo about clowning around on-set with her and [[Robert De Niro]] and said that he should behave more like the two of them. And he retorted, "Like the two of you? Let's see, on one hand he did Raging Bull. On the other hand you did Switch. And you're the one who's telling me what to do?"
Leo (wincing): "Oh boy. Yeah. I was a little brick back then. Wow." (GQ Magazine, 2006) }}
** Apparently Leo was a small kid in school and had to learn to be a smartass because he couldn't fight the bullies with physical strength.
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* [[Old Shame]]: Any mention of ''Critters 3'' would most likely result in a dropkick.
** Also, he and Tobey Maguire sued to keep ''Don's Plum'' from being commercially shown in North America
* [[Older Than They Look]]: He looked 14 in ''[[
** However, based on [https://web.archive.org/web/20111121024741/http://justjared.buzznet.com/photo-gallery/2518030/leonardo-dicaprio-j-edgar-filming-01/ recent set pictures from ''J. Edgar''], the 36-year-old Leo looks right at home playing a 21-year-old Hoover. As one person put it, he looks about a decade younger clean-shaven.
* [[One of Us]]: See [[Adorkable]].
* [[Platonic Life Partners]]: With [[Kate Winslet]]. They've been bffs since ''[[Titanic]]'', and even collaborated again in ''[[Revolutionary Road]]''. Both have repeatedly stated that they were close friends and nothing else. [[Actor Shipping|Shippers]], however...
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* [[Playing Against Type]]: Funnily enough, his role as carefree, charming Jack Dawson in ''[[Titanic]]''. He usually plays tortured souls with either a heavy past or troubled personality.
** Ironically, Jack Dawson seems the closest character Leo has ever played that resembles his real personality off-screen...
*** That, or Arnie from ''[[
* [[Rule of Sean Connery]]
* [[Smoking Is Cool]]: He smokes in almost all of his movies, starting from the ''Basketball Diaries'' (age 20). In particular, watch out for the scene in ''Romeo + Juliet'' in which he's sitting by the beach, calmly puffing away while he writes in his diary and droning [[Radiohead]] music plays in the background.
* [[Star-Making Role]]: Jack Dawson in ''[[Titanic]]''
* [[Teen Idol]]: Developed an enormous fanbase of squealing teenage girls after ''[[Titanic]]''. Unlike most examples of the trope, his career didn't stop at this stage.
* [[Took a Level
* [[Typecasting]]: [[Double Subverted]]. After his [[Star-Making Role]] in ''[[Titanic]]'', media pundits almost unanimously predicted that Leo would be another flash-in-the pan celebrity, typecast as a [[Bishonen]] [[Teen Idol|teenage heart-throb]] before forever vanishing from the limelight after hitting 35. Unusually, he was [[Genre Savvy]] enough to move away from pretty boy roles into [[Darker and Edgier|something grittier]] and started a very fruitful creative partnership with [[Martin Scorsese]]. Ironically, this led DiCaprio to being typecast in crime and/or business dramas, Scorsese's signature genre, where he usually plays intense, morally ambiguous types. Leo's lead role in Christopher Nolan's sci-fi film ''[[Inception]]'' was seen as an attempt at broadening his acting range... right until it turned out he was playing an intense, morally ambiguous mind thief.
* [[What Might Have Been]]: [[Quentin Tarantino]] wrote the part of Hans Landa in ''[[Inglourious Basterds]]'' with Leo in mind, but later decided it was best given to a natural-born German with [[Omniglot|the necessary language skills]]. However, Leo
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