Profile:
Full name: Leonardo Wilhelm DiCaprio.
Born: November 11 1974 in Los Angeles, California.
Star sign: Scorpio.
Parents: Were hippies. Father George was a comic book distributor who hung out with drugs guru Dr Timothy Leary. Mother Irmeline was a legal secretary and social worker. They separated before Leo's first birthday. However, they remain close - dad screens Leo's scripts while mum handles his finances.
Education: Took summer courses in performance art at UCLA, attended John Marshall High School and the Centre for Enriched Studies in LA.
Lives: In Madonna's old pounds 2million mansion perched high on the Hollywood hills near Sunset Strip. Is reported to have a $4.5 million house in Beverly Hills, close to Elizabeth Taylor, and a flat in Middlesex, England.
Love life: Has a soft spot for models, such as Vanessa Hayden, Gisele Bundchen and long term on-off girlfriend Kristen Zang.
Trivia: His parents named him Leonardo because he first kicked from the womb when they were viewing a Da Vinci painting in Italy.
