Quick Facts About  Leonardo Dicaprio

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Critters 3 was Leonardo DiCaprio's first movie role. 

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He briefly attended the experimental and progressive University Elementary School, which is now known as UCLA Lab School, when he was a child. 

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In order to get ready for Wolf of Wall Street, he had to talk to a drug expert because he had never used drugs. 

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His mother gave him the name Leonardo because, when he first kicked, she was pregnant and looking at a Da Vinci painting in a museum.

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In 1993, DiCaprio was nominated for an Academy Award for his performance as Arnie Grape in the film What's Eating Gilbert Grape.

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DiCaprio won his one and only Oscar for best actor in 2016 for the movie called "The Revenant".

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For the 1995 film The Quick and the Dead, it is said that Sharon Stone paid for his entire salary because she wanted him to be in the movie so badly. It failed.

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DiCaprio met the real Frank Abagnale Jr - the swindler character he played in 2002's Catch Me if you can - while working in the film.

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There is erotic fan fiction which is about Leonardo DiCaprio as the Other Man.  

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DiCaprio uses electronic cigarettes. 

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He was initially considered for the role of genius codebreaker Alan Turing in The Imitation Game, but Benedict Cumberbatch was chosen instead.