He has also been nominated by the Academy Awards, Screen Actors Guild, Satellite Awards, and the British Academy of Film and Television Arts. DiCaprio obtained recognition for his subsequent work in supporting roles in What’s Eating Gilbert Grape (1993) and Marvin’s Room (1996), as well as leading roles in The Basketball Diaries (1995) and Romeo + Juliet (1996), before achieving international fame in James Cameron’s Titanic (1997). His father, George DiCaprio, is an underground comic artist and producer/distributor of comic books. DiCaprio’s mother moved from Oer-Erkenschwick in the Ruhr, Germany, to the U.S. during the 1950s with her parents. DiCaprio’s maternal grandmother, Helene Indenbirken (1915-2008), was born Yelena Smirnova in Russia. in a 2010 conversation with the Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin, DiCaprio said that two of his grandparents were Russian.
Leonardo Dicaprio ‘tried out for Baywatch’ LEONARDO DiCAPRIO missed out on starring in TV hit Baywatch after losing the role to Jeremy Jackson, according to David Hasselhoff. [link]
