Leonardo DiCaprio Facts

Name: Leonardo Wilhelm DiCaprio. Kids used to call him Leonardo Retardo!
Age: 23
Birthday: November 11, 1974
Birth Time: 2:47 A.M., PST
Zodiac Sign: Sun in Scropio, Moon in Libra
Birth Place: Los Angeles, California, USA
Height: 185cm (or 6 feet)
Shoe size: 11
Education: Center for Enriched Studies, Los Angeles
Family: George and Irmalin DiCaprio, stepbrother Adam.
Favorite Book: The Old Man and the Sea by Ernest Hemingway
Favorite Bands: Pink Floyd, The Beatles and Led Zeppelin
Favorite Actors: Robert De Niro, Jack Nicholson
Favorite Actress: Meg Ryan
Favorite Movie: All three Godfather movies.
Favorite Basketball Team: LA Lakers
Hobbies: Skiing, doing impressions of people.

Leonardo DiCaprio's favorite person is his mom!

When Leonardo was just about to make it big his agent tried to get him to change his name to Lenny Williams. We surely don't want our Leo to be called Lenny Williams!

Has everyone heard of the classic story of how Leonardo got his name? Well, for those who haven't, it's said that Irmalin was looking at a Di Vinci when little Leo kicked out, so Leonardo's named after the great Leonardo Di Vinci!

He was named "The best actor under 21" in seventeen's 6th annual reader's poll (this was a couple of years ago!)

He got nominated for an Oscar when he was 19 for What's Eating Gilbert Grape? and was glad that he lost! He get stage fright so he was happy he didn't have to get up in front of people and say a speach.

Our Romeo can already demand $21 million for a movie, not bad considering he was turned down for films at the age of 10 because he had a bad haircut!

Leonardo only just recently moved out of the house he shared with his mom into his own.

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