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{{quote|''[[Titanic|I'm the king of the world! Woo-hoo!]]''}}
[[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 ''[[What's Eating Gilbert Grape]]''. His performance as the mentally handicapped brother of [[Johnny Depp]], in the title role, brought him nominations for the Golden Globe and [[Academy Award]] for Best Supporting Actor. He gained fame for his role as Jack Dawson in ''[[Titanic]]'', and has starred in many other successful films including ''[[William Shakespeares Romeo and Juliet|Romeo + Juliet]]'', ''[[Catch Me If You Can]]'', ''[[Blood Diamond]]'' (which earned him an Academy Award nomination for Best Actor),
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 the Dead]]'', ''Total Eclipse'', ''[[Titanic]]'', ''[[The Man in the Iron Mask (1998 film)|The Man in the Iron Mask]]'', ''[[Gangs of New York]]'', ''[[The Aviator]]'', ''[[Revolutionary Road]]'', ''[[Shutter Island]]'', ''[[J. Edgar]]'', the upcoming ''[[The Great Gatsby]]'' and ''Django Unchained'') and to [[Chronically-Killed Actor|die in many of his movies]]: {{spoiler|''[[The Quick and the Dead]]'', ''Total Eclipse''}}, ''[[William Shakespeares Romeo and Juliet|Romeo + Juliet]]'', ''[[Titanic]]'',
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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]]
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* ''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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* ''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 ''[[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)''}}
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* [[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.
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* [[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.
{{quote|Director of ''This Boy's Life'', Michael Caton-Jones (affectionately):"He was a smart-mouthed little fuck."
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** 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 ''[[What's Eating Gilbert Grape]]'' (real age 18), 16 in ''Total Eclipse'' and ''Basketball Diaries'' (real age 20), 16 in ''Romeo + Juliet'' (real age 21), 16 in ''[[Catch Me If You Can]]'' (real age 28).... you get the drift. Recently he's been looking his age, [[Your Mileage May Vary|which may or may not be a good thing]].
** 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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* [[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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