A committed environmentalist, DiCaprio has received praise from environmental groups for his activism. His German-born mother, Irmelin (née Indenbirken), is a former legal secretary, and his father, George DiCaprio, is an underground comic artist and producer/distributor of comic books. After being booted off the set of children’s television series Romper Room for being disruptive at the age of five, DiCaprio followed his older stepbrother Adam Farrar into television commercials, landing an ad for Matchbox cars at 14. After Parenthood, DiCaprio had bit parts on several shows, including The New Lassie and Roseanne, as well as a brief stint on the soap opera Santa Barbara, playing the young Mason Capwell. Later in 1993, DiCaprio co-starred as the mentally handicapped brother to Johnny Depp in What’s Eating Gilbert Grape, a comic-tragic odyssey of a dysfunctional Iowa family. Jonathan Rosenbaum from the Chicago Reader observed that “Raimi tries to do a Sergio Leone, and though The Quick and the Dead is highly enjoyable in spots, it doesn’t come across as very convincing.” Afterwards DiCaprio starred in Total Eclipse, a fictionalized account of the homosexual relationship between Arthur Rimbaud and Paul Verlaine, played by David Thewlis. The three are so full-bodied and so powerfully affecting that you’re carried along on the pleasure of being in the presence of their extraordinary talent.” in 1997, DiCaprio starred in James Cameron’s Titanic (1997), alongside Kate Winslet.
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