Leonardo DiCaprio Birthday & Age: Real Name, Family, Oscar Win & Career Timeline
Leonardo DiCaprio celebrates his birthday on November 11. Born in Los Angeles in 1974, the Titanic and The Revenant star is 52 years old and remains one of the biggest leading men in Hollywood, as well as one of its loudest voices on climate change.
| Full Name | Leonardo Wilhelm DiCaprio |
|---|---|
| Known For | Titanic, The Revenant, Inception, The Wolf of Wall Street |
| Professions | Actor, Film Producer |
| Birthday | November 11, 1974 |
| Age | 52 years old |
| Birthplace | Los Angeles, California, USA |
| Nationality | American (🇺🇸 United States) |
| Zodiac Sign | ♏ Scorpio (Oct 23 – Nov 21) |
| Chinese Zodiac | Wood Tiger |
| Birthstone | Topaz |
| Birth Flower | Chrysanthemum |
| Generation | Generation X |
| Born on a | Monday |
| Parents | Irmelin Indenbirken, George DiCaprio |
| Siblings | None (only child) |
| Occupation | Actor, film producer |
| Company | Appian Way Productions |
| Academy Awards | 1 (Best Actor) |
Leonardo DiCaprio’s Real Name and How He Got It
His full real name is Leonardo Wilhelm DiCaprio. The story behind it is famous: while his mother was pregnant, she was standing in front of a Leonardo da Vinci painting at the Uffizi museum in Florence, Italy, when she first felt him kick. His middle name, Wilhelm, is shared with his maternal grandfather, Wilhelm Indenbirken.
Family Background
| Relation | Name | Details |
|---|---|---|
| Mother | Irmelin Indenbirken | Legal secretary, born in Germany |
| Father | George DiCaprio | American underground comix artist and distributor |
| Siblings | None | He is an only child |
| Grandparents | Wilhelm & Helene Indenbirken; Italian and German roots on his father’s side | Mixed German and Italian heritage |
His parents met in college and moved to Los Angeles after graduating. They divorced when Leonardo was one year old, but they chose to live near each other so they could raise him together. He grew up in Los Angeles and began acting in TV commercials in the late 1980s.
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Career Timeline
- 1991–1992: Joins the sitcom Growing Pains in its final season.
- 1993: First major film, This Boy’s Life, and a first Oscar nomination for What’s Eating Gilbert Grape.
- 1996: Stars as Romeo in Baz Luhrmann’s Romeo + Juliet.
- 1997: Titanic becomes the highest-grossing film in the world at the time and makes him a global star.
- 2002: Catch Me If You Can and Gangs of New York — his first film with Martin Scorsese.
- 2004–2006: The Aviator, Blood Diamond and The Departed.
- 2010: Christopher Nolan’s Inception.
- 2012–2013: Django Unchained and The Wolf of Wall Street.
- 2015: The Revenant finally wins him the Academy Award for Best Actor.
- 2019: Once Upon a Time in Hollywood.
- 2023: Killers of the Flower Moon, another Scorsese collaboration.
- 2025: Leads Paul Thomas Anderson’s action film One Battle After Another.
Awards and Records
DiCaprio’s long wait for an Oscar became a pop-culture joke until he won Best Actor for The Revenant. Across his career he has collected an Academy Award, an Actor Award (formerly the SAG Award), a BAFTA, an Emmy, a Silver Bear and three Golden Globes. His starring films have grossed around $7 billion worldwide, and he has appeared eight times in yearly lists of the world’s highest-paid actors.
| Honour | Year / Film |
|---|---|
| Academy Award for Best Actor | The Revenant |
| Commander of the Order of Arts and Letters (France) | 2005 |
| Time 100 most influential people | 2016 |
| United Nations Messenger of Peace | Climate advocacy |
Films with Martin Scorsese
Few actor–director partnerships in modern Hollywood are as celebrated as DiCaprio and Martin Scorsese. Their films together have earned many Oscar nominations and include some of his most praised performances.
| Film | Year | His Role Type |
|---|---|---|
| Gangs of New York | 2002 | Young Irish immigrant seeking revenge |
| The Aviator | 2004 | Billionaire pilot Howard Hughes |
| The Departed | 2006 | Undercover police officer |
| Shutter Island | 2010 | US Marshal investigating an asylum |
| The Wolf of Wall Street | 2013 | Stockbroker Jordan Belfort |
| Killers of the Flower Moon | 2023 | War veteran Ernest Burkhart |
Climate Activism and the DiCaprio Foundation
DiCaprio has called global warming the world’s “number-one environmental challenge”. As a child he watched documentaries about rainforests and endangered species, and in 1998 — just after Titanic — he founded the Leonardo DiCaprio Foundation to support environmental groups and campaigns. Through his company, Appian Way Productions, he has also produced environmental documentaries such as the series Greensburg. The United Nations later named him a Messenger of Peace.
Private Life
DiCaprio rarely gives interviews about his personal life and is not married. He has no children. Because so much of what is written about his relationships is tabloid speculation, we do not repeat it here — his public focus stays on his films and environmental work.
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Frequently Asked Questions
Leonardo DiCaprio was born on November 11, 1974, so he is 52 years old.
His full name is Leonardo Wilhelm DiCaprio. He was named after Leonardo da Vinci.
Yes. He won the Academy Award for Best Actor for The Revenant (2015) after several earlier nominations.
No. He is the only child of Irmelin Indenbirken and George DiCaprio.
It is a nonprofit he founded in 1998 to promote environmental awareness and support conservation and climate projects.
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