At the beginning of his career, DiCaprio had difficulty finding an agent. When he found one, the agent suggested DiCaprio change his name to Lenny Williams to appeal to American audiences, which he declined to do.
DiCaprio explains, "I tried to get an agent, but I didn't succeed because they wanted to change my name to Lenny Williams. They thought my name was a little too ethnic, so they sort of dissected it and said hey, Leonardo, Lenny, my middle name's Wilhelm, so they changed that to Williams."
Leonardo Wilhelm DiCaprio was born in Los Angeles, California, the only child of Irmelin DiCaprio (née Indenbirken) and former comic book artist George DiCaprio. His father is of Italian and German descent, and his mother, who is German-born, is of German, Ukrainian and Russian ancestry.
While filming the movie "Blood Diamond", he worked with 24 orphaned children from the SOS Children's Village in Mozambique. There was one little girl he made a close connection with and he decided to adopt her.
In an article for the Spectator in 2019, however, vegan singer Moby appeared to let slip that DiCaprio was indeed vegan. In the piece, Moby said he'd become friends with DiCaprio after he sold a house to his parents in LA.
What do Leonardo DiCaprio, Bradley Cooper and Mila Kunis all have in common? They're famous polyglots! A bilingual person can speak two languages, whereas polyglots can speak several languages.
Italian (Campania): from Latin caprae 'goats' or possibly from Greek kapros '(wild) boar' and so a metonymic occupational name for a goatherd or swineherd or a nickname for someone thought to resemble a goat or boar. Source: Dictionary of American Family Names 2nd edition, 2022.
When the film began production during the summer of 1996, Leonardo DiCaprio, who was born on November 11, 1974, was only 21. His character, Jack Dawson, was a 20-year-old artist that never managed to live in one place for too long.
DiCaprio was raised Catholic. Sources have falsely claimed his maternal grandmother was born in Odesa, Ukraine; there is no evidence that DiCaprio has any relatives of Ukrainian birth or heritage.
"I'm a pupusa man, myself," DiCaprio said. "Better than tacos to me, I gotta go with them," Remezcla reported and as cited by Fox News. Pupusas - a thick corn tortilla often stuffed with cheese, refried beans or meat - are actually Salvadoran, not Mexican, but that didn't stop the Internet from going crazy.
Apparently, the reason the actor is looking for partners under the age of 25 is because they are not yet thinking of starting a family, something DiCaprio is not contemplating. "By the time girls reach 25, they're looking for more, they're looking to get married and settle down," the source told New York Post.
As for his surname, DiCaprio's father, George DiCaprio, is a half-Italian comic book artist and distributor, though most of DiCaprio's immediate ancestry is German (his middle name is Wilhelm) and Russian, with the actor having previously described himself as “half-Russian”.
The name Leonardo is a boy's name of Spanish, Italian origin meaning "brave lion". For centuries this name was associated primarily with the towering figure of Italian Renaissance painter-scientist-inventor Leonardo da Vinci, and was scarcely used outside the Latin culture.
Natalie Portman – Hebrew, French, Japanese, German and Spanish. The grand finale! She speaks a total of six languages but is also able to dabble in a few others, including Arabic. Natalie is originally from Jerusalem and graduated from Harvard.
Not necessarily. If the country they live in is polyglot, then you would expect to see the normal distribution of IQ scores across the whole population.
While DiCaprio has claimed to be a “CarbonNeutral citizen,” for years his critics have noted his extensive use of private jets to travel the world. In 2014 he reportedly rented the world's fifth largest yacht owned by a UAE oil tycoon, to watch the World Cup in Brazil.
Many are curious to know about the star's diet. While she's not vegan, she does seem to eat a lot of plant-based foods and have sustainability on her mind. In a 2022 interview with Allure, Jennifer Aniston made it abundantly clear that she enjoys a nice homemade shake.
Top of our list is Norwegian physician and environmental activist Gunhild Stordalen, otherwise known as the world's most glamorous vegan billionaire. Her plant-based way of life is so hardcore, her entire career revolves around it.
