Leonardo DiCaprio is an American actor who began his career performing as a child on television. He appeared on the shows The New Lassie (1989) and Santa Barbara (1990) and also had long-running roles in the comedy-drama Parenthood (1990) and the sitcom Growing Pains (1991). DiCaprio played Tobias "Toby" Wolff opposite Robert De Niro in the biographical coming-of-age drama This Boy's Life in 1993. In the same year, he had a supporting role as a developmentally disabled boy Arnie Grape in What's Eating Gilbert Grape, which earned him nominations for the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor and the Golden Globe Award for Best Supporting Actor – Motion Picture. In 1995, DiCaprio played the leading roles of an American author Jim Carroll in The Basketball Diaries and the French poet Arthur Rimbaud in Total Eclipse. The following year he played Romeo Montague in the Baz Luhrmann-directed film Romeo + Juliet (1996). DiCaprio starred with Kate Winslet in the James Cameron-directed film Titanic (1997). The film became the highest grossing at the worldwide box-office, and made him famous globally. For his performance as Jack Dawson, he received the MTV Movie Award for Best Male Performance and his first nomination for the Golden Globe Award for Best Actor – Motion Picture Drama.

In 2002, DiCaprio played con-artist Frank Abagnale Jr. opposite Tom Hanks in the Steven Spielberg-directed biographical crime-drama Catch Me If You Can and also starred in the Martin Scorsese-directed historical drama Gangs of New York. He founded his own production company, Appian Way, in 2004. The next two films he starred in were both directed by Scorsese: the Howard Hughes biopic The Aviator (2004) and the crime drama The Departed (2006). For his portrayal of Hughes in the former, DiCaprio won the Golden Globe Award for Best Actor – Motion Picture Drama and garnered his first nomination for the Academy Award for Best Actor.

DiCaprio produced the environmental documentary The 11th Hour and the comedy drama Gardener of Eden in 2007. The following year, he reunited with Kate Winslet in the Sam Mendes-directed drama Revolutionary Road and appeared in the Ridley Scott-directed action film Body of Lies. DiCaprio reteamed with Scorsese in 2010 in the psychological thriller Shutter Island and also starred in the Christopher Nolan-directed science fiction heist thriller Inception. In 2011, he portrayed J. Edgar Hoover, the first director of the FBI, in the Clint Eastwood-directed biopic J. Edgar. The following year, he played a supporting role in the Quentin Tarantino-directed western Django Unchained. DiCaprio starred in two film adaptations of novels in 2013; he first appeared as Jay Gatsby in the Luhrmann-directed adaptation of F. Scott Fitzgerald's novel The Great Gatsby, and later as Jordan Belfort in the Scorsese-directed film The Wolf of Wall Street, an adaptation of Belfort's memoir of the same name. The latter earned him a third Academy Award nomination for Best Actor and a Golden Globe Award for Best Actor – Motion Picture Musical or Comedy. In 2015, DiCaprio played fur trapper Hugh Glass in the Alejandro González Iñárritu-directed survival drama The Revenant, for which he won the Academy Award for Best Actor. In 2019, he starred as an actor on the decline in the Tarantino-directed comedy-drama Once Upon a Time in Hollywood with Brad Pitt and Margot Robbie. In 2023, he portrayed Ernest Burkhart, a World War I veteran, in the Scorsese-directed epic anti-Western crime drama Killers of the Flower Moon. In 2025, he starred as a washed-up former member and explosive device expert of a revolutionary group known as the French 75 in the Paul Thomas Anderson-directed black comedy action-thriller One Battle After Another.

Film As an actor

Year Title Role Notes 1991 Critters 3 Josh Direct-to-video 1993 This Boy's Life What's Eating Gilbert Grape 1995 Total Eclipse 1996 Romeo + Juliet Marvin's Room 1997 Titanic 1998 Celebrity 2000 Richard 2001 Derek 2002 Gangs of New York Catch Me If You Can 2004 2006 Blood Diamond 2007 Himself / narrator Documentary; also writer 2008 Body of Lies Revolutionary Road 2010 Shutter Island Edward "Teddy" Daniels Hubble Narrator (voice) Documentary Inception 2011 J. Edgar 2012 Django Unchained 2013 2015 Himself Short film 2016 Before the Flood Himself Documentary 2019 Once Upon a Time in Hollywood Ice on Fire Narrator (voice) Documentary 2021 Don't Look Up 2023 Killers of the Flower Moon 2025 One Battle After Another "Ghetto" Pat Calhoun / Bob Ferguson What Happens at Night The Man Post-production

As producer

Year Title Credit 2004 Executive producer 2007 Producer Gardener of Eden 2009 Orphan 2011 Red Riding Hood Executive producer 2013 Runner Runner Producer Out of the Furnace 2014 Virunga Executive producer 2015 Catching the Sun Cowspiracy 2016 Before the Flood Producer Live by Night 2018 Delirium Robin Hood Struggle: The Life and Lost Art of Szukalski 2019 And We Go Green Richard Jewell 2021 Kid 90 Executive producer Fin 2023 We Are Guardians Killers of the Flower Moon Ozi: Voice of the Forest Producer 2025 Yanuni 2026 The Lake Executive producer What Happens at Night Producer

Television

Year(s) Title Role Notes 1989 Glen 2 episodes 1990 Alex Episode: "Street Safe, Street Smart" Kid Fighting Scout Episode: "Pilot" Santa Barbara 5 episodes 1990–1991 Parenthood 12 episodes 1991 Roseanne Darlene's Classmate Episode: "Home-Ec" (Uncredited) 1991–1992 Growing Pains 23 episodes 2008–2010 Greensburg Executive producer and co-creator 2014Saturday Night Live Himself (cameo) Episode: "Jonah Hill/Bastille" 2018 Executive producer 2020 Grant Executive producer The Right Stuff Executive producer Whose Vote Counts, Explained Narrator (voice) Episode: "The Right to Vote" 2021 Executive producer 2022 Theodore Roosevelt Executive producer

Music videos Year(s) Title Performer Role Notes 2019 "Earth" Lil Dicky Himself

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See also List of awards and nominations received by Leonardo DiCaprio

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