Leonardo Wilhelm DiCaprio (born November 11, 1974) is an American actor and film producer. Known for his work in biopics and period films, DiCaprio is the recipient of numerous accolades, including an Academy Award, a British Academy Film Award, and three Golden Globe Awards. As of 2019, his films have grossed over $7.2 billion worldwide, and he has been placed eight times in annual rankings of the world's highest-paid actors. Born in Los Angeles, DiCaprio began his career in the late 1980s by appearing in television commercials. In the early 1990s, he had recurring roles in various television shows, such as the sitcom Parenthood, and had his first major film part as author Tobias Wolff in This Boy's Life (1993). At age 19, he received critical acclaim and his first Academy Award and Golden Globe Award nominations for his performance as a developmentally disabled boy in What's Eating Gilbert Grape (1993). He achieved international stardom with the star-crossed romances Romeo + Juliet (1996) and Titanic (1997). After the latter became the highest-grossing film at the time, he reduced his workload for a few years. In an attempt to shed his image of a romantic hero, DiCaprio sought roles in other genres, including crime drama in Catch Me If You Can (2002) and Gangs of New York (2002); the latter marked the first of his many successful collaborations with director Martin Scorsese. DiCaprio portrayed Howard Hughes in The Aviator (2004) and received acclaim for his performances in the political thriller Blood Diamond (2006), the crime drama The Departed (2006), and the romantic drama Revolutionary Road (2008). In the following decade, DiCaprio starred in several high-profile directors' projects, including the science fiction thriller Inception (2010), the western Django Unchained (2012), the biopic The Wolf of Wall Street (2013), the survival drama The Revenant (2015), for which he won an Academy Award and a BAFTA Award for Best Actor in a Leading Role, and the comedy-drama Once Upon a Time in Hollywood (2019), all of which were critical and commercial successes. DiCaprio is the founder of Appian Way Productions, a production company that has produced some of his films and the documentary series Greensburg (2008–2010), and the Leonardo DiCaprio Foundation, a nonprofit organization devoted to promoting environmental awareness. He regularly supports charitable causes and has produced several documentaries on the environment. In 2005, he was named a Commander of the Ordre des Arts et des Lettres for his contributions to the arts, and in 2016, he appeared in Time magazine's 100 most influential people in the world.

Filmography

• 2026A Gorilla Story: Told by David Attenborough — Executive Producer
• 2026Death Boom — Producer
• 2026Sleepwalker — Producer
• 2026The Lake — Executive Producer
• 2026Werewolf in the Waves — Executive Producer
• 2026Yanuni — Producer
• 2025One Battle After Another — Bob
• Sitting Bull — Executive Producer
• 2025Snow Leopard Sisters — Executive Producer
• 2024Checkpoint Zoo — Executive Producer
• 2024OZI: Voice of the Forest — Producer
• 2023Killers of the Flower Moon — Ernest Burkhart, Executive Producer
• 2022Path of the Panther — Executive Producer
• Shining Girls — Executive Producer
• 2022The Volcano: Rescue from Whakaari — Executive Producer
• 2021Dean Martin: King of Cool — Executive Producer
• 2021Don't Look Up — Dr. Randall Mindy
• 2021Fin — Executive Producer
• 2021From Devil’s Breath — Producer
• 2021The Loneliest Whale: The Search for 52 — Executive Producer
• The Titans That Built America — Executive Producer
• Beyond the Spotlight — Executive Producer
• Grant — Producer
• The Right Stuff — Executive Producer
• Whose Vote Counts, Explained — Narrator (voice)
• 2019And We Go Green — Self, Producer
• 2019Ice on Fire — Self - Narrator, Producer
• 2019Once Upon a Time... in Hollywood — Rick Dalton
• 2019Richard Jewell — Producer
• 2019Sea of Shadows — Executive Producer
• Jonestown: Terror in the Jungle — Executive Producer
• 2018Robin Hood — Producer
• 2018Struggle: The Life and Lost Art of Szukalski — Producer
• The Men Who Built America: Frontiersmen — Executive Producer
• Fire Chasers — Executive Producer
• 2017Ryuichi Sakamoto: CODA — Hugh Glass (archive footage)
• 2017The Last Shaman — Executive Producer
• 2016A Plastic Ocean — Executive Producer
• 2016Before the Flood — Self, Executive Producer
• 2016Live by Night — Producer
• 2016The Ivory Game — Executive Producer
• 2016When Two Worlds Collide — Executive Producer
• 2015Catching the Sun — Executive Producer
• 2015The Revenant — Hugh Glass
• 2014Cowspiracy: The Sustainability Secret — Executive Producer
• 2014Virunga — Executive Producer
• 2013Out of the Furnace — Producer
• 2013Runner Runner — Producer
• 2013The Great Gatsby — Jay Gatsby
• 2013The Wolf of Wall Street — Jordan Belfort, Producer
• 2012Django Unchained — Calvin J. Candie
• 2012Final Cut: Ladies and Gentlemen — (archive footage)
• 2011J. Edgar — John Edgar Hoover
• 2011Red Riding Hood — Producer
• 2011The Ides of March — Executive Producer
• 2010Inception — Dom Cobb
• 2010Shutter Island — Teddy Daniels
• 2009Orphan — Producer
• 2008Body of Lies — Roger Ferris
• Greensburg — Producer, Creator
• 2008Revolutionary Road — Frank Wheeler
• 2007Gardener of Eden — Producer
• 2007The 11th Hour — Self - Narrator (voice), Producer, Screenplay
• 2006Blood Diamond — Danny Archer
• 2006The Departed — Billy
• 2004The Assassination of Richard Nixon — Executive Producer
• 2004The Aviator — Howard Hughes, Executive Producer
• 2002Catch Me If You Can — Frank Abagnale Jr.
• 2002Don's Plum — Derek
• 2002Gangs of New York — Amsterdam Vallon
• 2000The Beach — Richard
• 1998Celebrity — Brandon
• 1998The Man in the Iron Mask — King Louis XIV / Philippe
• 1997Titanic — Jack Dawson
• 1996Marvin's Room — Hank Lacker
• 1996Romeo + Juliet — Romeo
• 1995The Basketball Diaries — Jim Carroll
• 1995The Quick and the Dead — Kid
• 1995Total Eclipse — Arthur Rimbaud
• 1995X-Girl — Leonardio DiCaprio (uncredited)
• 1994The Foot Shooting Party — Bud
• 1993This Boy's Life — Toby
• 1993What's Eating Gilbert Grape — Arnie Grape
• 1992Poison Ivy — Guy
• The Tonight Show with Jay Leno
• 1991Critters 3 — Josh
• Parenthood — Garry Buckman-Lampkin
• The Outsiders — Kid Fighting Scout
• The Word
• 1989Mickey's Safety Club: Street Safe, Street Smart — Alex (voice)
• The New Lassie
• Roseanne — Darlene's Classmate
• Growing Pains — Luke Brower
• Santa Barbara — Young Mason Capwell
• Romper Room — Child
• Carthage Must Be Destroyed — Executive Producer
• Chasing Truth — Executive Producer
• Evel Knievel on Tour — Evel Knievel
• Heat 2 — Chris Shiherlis
• Home
• Howl — Executive Producer
• Howl — Producer
• Just Me, Jane — Producer
• Midnight Vendetta — Joseph Macheca
• Monolith — Producer
• Nine Little Indians — Executive Producer
• Oz — Producer
• The Corporation — Producer
• The Devil in the White City — Producer
• The Montreal Protocol — Producer
• The Sigma Force — Executive Producer
• Untitled Barry Jenkins 'Virunga' Adaptation — Writer, Producer
• Untitled Bela Lugosi Biopic — Producer
• Untitled Hawaiian Gangster Project — Producer
• Untitled Jane Goodall Film — Producer
• Untitled Volkswagon Project — Producer
• What Happens at Night — Producer
• Wilson — Producer

Appearances as themselves (67)

• 2026David Attenborough's 100 Years on Planet Earth — Self
• 2026Killers of the Flower Moon: A Historic Collaboration — Self
• 2026Learning, Studying… Always Perfecting: The Making of One Battle After Another — Self
• 2026OceanGate Disaster: Minute by Minute — Self (archive footage)
• 2025Clint Eastwood : la légende — Self
• Mr. Scorsese — Self
• Variety & CNN Actors on Actors — Self
• Faut Voir - L'Hebdo cinéma — Self - Guest
• 2023Titanic: Stories from the Heart — Self (archive footage)
• 2021Adele One Night Only — Self - Audience Member (uncredited)
• Clint Eastwood: A Cinematic Legacy — Self
• 2021Leonardo DiCaprio: Most Wanted! — Self - Actor (archive footage)
• 2021The Lost Leonardo — Self - Actor (archive footage)
• 2021The Savior for Sale — Self - Actor (archive footage)
• 2021kid 90 — Self
• 2020Citizen Penn — Self
• The Last Dance — Self
• 2019Teslafy Me — Self
• Patriot Act with Hasan Minhaj — Self (archive footage)
• 2017Spielberg — Self
• 2016A World Unseen: 'The Revenant' — Self
• 2016Koko: The Gorilla Who Talks to People — Self (archive footage)
• 2015Scorsese's GoodFellas — Self
• 2015The Audition — Self
• The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon — Self - Guest
• 2014The Wolf Pack — Self
• 201212-12-12 | The Concert for Sandy Relief — Self
• 2012Reflections on Titanic — Self
• 2011The Love We Make — Self
• 2010Dreams: Cinema of the Subconscious — Self
• 2010IMAX Hubble — Self (Narrator)
• 2010VM-krönika 2010 — Self (archive footage)
• 2009Actionable Intelligence: Deconstructing 'Body of Lies' — Self
• Live from Studio Five — Self
• Markus Lanz — Self
• 2008Notes on an American Film Director at Work — Self
• 2007Crossing Criminal Cultures — Self
• 2007Everything's Cool — Self (archive footage)
• 2007Stranger Than Fiction: The True Story of Whitey Bulger, Southie and 'The Departed' — Self
• 2005Earth to America — Self
• 2005Nos Bastidores de Hollywood — Self (archive footage)
• 2005Shelter from the Storm: A Concert for the Gulf Coast — Self - Presenter
• 2003Catch Me If You Can: Behind the Camera — Self
• Celebrities Uncensored — Self
• Jimmy Kimmel Live! — Self, Self - Guest
• 2002David Blaine: Fearless — Self
• 2002Heart of the Festival — Self (archive footage)
• Critics Choice Awards — Self
• 2001The Concert for New York City — Self
• 2000Hangin' with Leo!! — Self (archive footage)
• Teen Choice Awards — Self
• The Early Show — Self
• 1998Leonardo: King of the World — self (archival)
• 1998Portrait of Leonardo: The Kid Who Took Hollywood — Self (archive footage)
• The Entertainment Biz — Self
• 1998Titanic: Breaking New Ground — Self
• 1998To Leo with Love — Self (archive footage)
• Taff — self
• GMTV — Self
• HBO First Look — Self
• Entertainment Tonight — Self
• Wetten, dass..? — Self
• Saturday Night Live — Self - Cameo (uncredited)
• The Oscars — Self
• Today — Self
• Golden Globe Awards — Self - Nominee
• Monty and the Movies — Self (archive footage)