Leonardo DiCaprio

Leonardo DiCaprio

Leonardo Wilhelm DiCaprio born November 11, 1974 in Hollywood is an American actor and film producer. He is the only child of  Irmelin Inderbirken and former comic book artist George DiCaprio. 

• nominated for six Academy Awards
• won the Academy Award for Best Actor for The Revenant
• founder of his own production company Appian Way Productions

DiCaprio's father is of Italian and German descent, his mother, who was born in Germany, is of Russian and German ancestry. DiCaprio's parents met while attending college, later moved to Los Angeles, California. 

DiCaprio was named leonardo, because when his mother was pregnant, she was looking at a DaVinci painting in a museum when he first kicked. 

In 1992, he had a breakthrough in his career, when he was handpicked by Robert de Niro out of 400 boys to play the lead role in This Boy's Life. 

Next year, he played a role a handicapped brother of Johnny Deep's character in What's Eating Gilbert Grape. The film became a huge success and DiCaprio was nominated for both an Academy Award and a Golden Globe. 

The film Titanic made in 1997 transformed Leonardo into a commercial movie star, resulting in fan worship among teenage girls that became known as ''Leo-Mania''. 

The role of a stockbroker who was arrested in late 1990s for money laundering in Woolf of Wall Street made Leonardo win a Golden Globe Award for Best Actor in a Musical or Comedy. DiCaprio said that he was going to take a break from acting and would ''fly around the world doing good for the environment''.

Additionally, he's never done drugs, and had to speak to a drug expert to prepare for Wolf of Wall Street. 

The Revenant (2015) was received well by the critics. DiCaprio earned numerous awards, including his first at the Academy Awards in the Best Actor category. 

Task:

Find information about his environmental activism. Write a short essay about his involvement on that score. It should not be shorter thatn 200 words.