Born and raised in Los Angeles, California, DiCaprio started his career by appearing in television commercials prior to landing recurring roles in TV series such as the soap opera Santa Barbara and the sitcom Growing Pains in the early 1990s. in a 2010 conversation with Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin, DiCaprio stated that two of his grandparents were Russian. DiCaprio’s parents met while attending college and subsequently moved to Los Angeles. Soon after, he became a recurring cast member on the ABC sitcom Growing Pains, playing Luke Brower, a homeless boy who is taken in by the Seaver family. New York Times critic Janet Maslin praised DiCaprio’s performance, writing “the film’s real show-stopping turn comes from Mr. DiCaprio, who makes Arnie’s many tics so startling and vivid that at first he is difficult to watch. The performance has a sharp, desperate intensity from beginning to end.” DiCaprio’s first effort of 1995 was Sam Raimi’s The Quick and the Dead, a western film in which he appeared alongside Gene Hackman, Sharon Stone, and Russell Crowe, playing the role of Hackman’s alleged son named Kid.
Leonardo DiCaprio & Beyonce To Star in New Clint Eastwood Film? Talk about random!Clint Eastwood is working with Beyonce to get Leonardo DiCaprio on board with his new biopic, A Star is Born.The musical, which will cover the life of J Edgar Hoover, has been in the works at Warner Bros. for several years now. After discussing different options for the male lead, Clint decided to [...] [link]