Birth Name: Leonardo Wilhelm DiCaprio
Place of Birth: Los Angeles, California, United States
Date of Birth: November 11, 1974
Ethnicity:
*Italian, German (father)
*German, Russian (mother)
Leonardo DiCaprio is an American actor and producer. He won the Academy Award for Best Actor for The Revenant (2015).
He is the son of Irmelin (Indenbirken), a legal secretary, and George DiCaprio, a comic book writer and distributor. His father is of half Italian and half German ancestry, while his mother, a German immigrant, is of German and Russian descent.
He was named Leonardo because he first started kicking inside his mother’s womb when she was viewing a Leonardo Da Vinci painting in a museum.
Leonardo’s paternal grandfather was George Leon DiCaprio (the son of Salvatore D. DiCaprio and Rosina Cassella). George was born in New York. Salvatore was born in Piedimonte d’Alife (now Piedimonte Matese), Province of Caserta, Campania, Italy, to Biagio/Biage DiCaprio and Maria Emmanuella/Emanuele Gorgagnioli. Rosina was also born in Piedimonte d’Alife, to Cipriano Cassella and Camilla Conzales.
Leonardo’s paternal grandmother was Olga Anne Jacobs (the daughter of Paul Jacobs and Bertha Ludwig). Leonardo’s grandmother Olga was a German immigrant.
Leonardo’s maternal grandfather was Wilhelm Heinrich Indenbirken (the son of Wilhelm Indenbirken and Adelheid Grachowski). Leonardo’s great-grandfather Wilhelm was the son of August Indenbirken.
Leonardo’s maternal grandmother was Yelena/Helene Lisbeth Smirnova/Smirnow (the daughter of Stefan Petrovich Smirnov and Irene). Leonardo’s great-grandfather Stefan was the son of Pyotr/Petr Smirnov.
Sources: Genealogies of Leonardo DiCaprio – http://www.geni.com
http://www.wikitree.com
Notes on Leonardo’s paternal grandfather, George Leon DiCaprio’s, ancestry – http://blogs.ancestry.com
Birth record of Leonardo’s paternal grandfather, George Leon DiCaprio – https://familysearch.org
Leonardo’s paternal grandfather, George Leon DiCaprio, on the 1910 U.S. Census – https://familysearch.org
People Magazine mention of Leonardo’s Russian ancestry – http://www.people.com
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