Leonardo DiCaprio
DiCaprio in 2011, Helga Esteb / Shutterstock.com
Birth Name: Leonardo Wilhelm DiCaprio
Place of Birth: Los Angeles, California, United States
Date of Birth: November 11, 1974
Ethnicity: German, one quarter Italian, Russian, likely small amount of Polish
Leonardo DiCaprio is an American actor, film producer, and environmentalist. He won the Academy Award for Best Actor for The Revenant (2015). He has also starred in the films Critters 3, This Boy’s Life, What’s Eating Gilbert Grape, The Basketball Diaries, The Quick and the Dead, Total Eclipse, William Shakespeare’s Romeo + Juliet, Marvin’s Room, Titanic, The Man in the Iron Mask, Celebrity, The Beach, Gangs of New York, Catch Me If You Can, The Aviator (2004), The Departed, Blood Diamond, Body of Lies, Revolutionary Road, Shutter Island, Inception, J. Edgar, Django Unchained, The Great Gatsby (2013), The Wolf of Wall Street, Once Upon a Time… in Hollywood, Don’t Look Up, and Killers of the Flower Moon, and on television’s Growing Pains and Parenthood (1990). He founded production company Appian Way Productions. He has also created the Leonardo DiCaprio Foundation, for the environment, and is a United Nations Messenger of Peace.
He is the son of Irmelin (Indenbirken), a legal secretary, and George DiCaprio, a comic book writer and distributor. His paternal grandfather was of Italian descent, and his paternal grandmother was of German, and some Polish, ancestry. Leonardo’s mother is a German immigrant, and is of German and Russian descent. A picture of Leonardo with his mother and maternal grandmother can be seen here.
He is said to have been 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, to Italian parents, from Alife, Province of Caserta, Campania. Salvatore was the son of Biase/Biagio Di Caprio/DiCaprio and Maria Emanuela/Emanuele Incagnoli. Rosina was the daughter of Cipriano Cassella and Camilla Conzales.
Leonardo’s paternal grandmother was Olga Anne Jakubowsky, later Jacobs (the daughter of Paul Jakubowsky/Jacobs/Jacub/Jackes and Bertha Minna Ludwig). Leonardo’s grandmother Olga was from Braunschweig, Germany. Paul was born in Liebau, Schlessin, Germany, now Lubawka, Poland, the son of Paul Jakubowsky and Olga Breuer. Bertha was born in Zerbst, Germany, the daughter of Ludwig Christian and Minna Muller.
Leonardo’s maternal grandfather was Wilhelm Heinrich Indenbirken (the son of Wilhelm Indenbirken and Adelheid Grachowski). Leonardo’s grandfather Wilhelm was born in Herne, Arnsberg, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany. Leonardo’s great-grandfather Wilhelm was the son of August Indenbirken.
Leonardo’s maternal grandmother was named Yelena/Helene Lisbeth Smirnova/Smirnow (the daughter of Stefan/Stepan Petrovich Smirnov and Irene/Irina). Yelena was of Russian origin, possibly with roots in Mishkinsky District, Bashkortostan. Leonardo’s great-grandfather Stefan was the son of Pyotr/Petr Smirnov.
Sources: People Magazine mention of Leonardo’s Russian ancestry – http://www.people.com
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
U.S. Naturalization record of Leonardo’s paternal grandmother, Olga Anne Jakubowsky/Jacobs – https://www.familysearch.org
U.S. Naturalization record of Leonardo’s paternal great-grandfather, Paul Jakubowsky/Jacobs/Jacub/Jackes – https://www.familysearch.org
Death record of Leonardo’s paternal great-grandmother, Bertha Minna Ludwig – https://www.familysearch.org
Interesting. Now Leonardo in Russia, St. Petersburg and he met with Putin, and is part of their communication http://www.rian.ru/society/20101124/300147350.html :
The Russian prime minister and DiCaprio also talked about the Russian roots of the actor. “Yes, the name of my ancestors was Smirnov,” – said DiCaprio.
He asked the actor if he says in Russian.
“No, but if there was my grandmother, she would talk to you in Russian,” – said DiCaprio.
“I always wanted to bring my grandmother in St. Petersburg, but unfortunately, these plans have not come to fruition, as she died two years ago” – said the actor.
He also added that the Russian was and his grandfather.
“So I’m not on a quarter and I’m half-Russian,” – said the actor.
Российский премьер и Ди Каприо также поговорили о русских корнях актера. “Да, фамилия моих предков была Смирновы”, – сказал Ди Каприо.
Он спросил у актера, говорит ли тот по-русски.
“Нет, но если бы здесь была моя бабушка, она бы с вами поговорила по-русски”, – сказал Ди Каприо.
“Мне всегда хотелось привезти бабушку в Санкт-Петербург, но, к сожалению, этим планам уже не осуществиться, так как она два года назад скончалась”, – сказал актер.
Он также добавил, что русским был и его дед.
“Так что я не на четверть, а наполовину русский”, – сказал актер.
Maybe his maternal grandfather’s parents also were Russian emigrants, who changed their surname to the German style? I do not know what else to think about…
Check it out.
http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20101124/ts_alt_afp/russiausanimalsenvironmenttigerputindicaprio_20101124133435
http://www.isria.com/pages/24_November_2010_24.php
wtf does this mean
please, pic:)
HEy EtHNiC, i tHiNk LE0NARd0 DiCApRi0 iS ALS0 pARt jEWiSH, My tHE0Ry WHy, iS bECAUSE HiS pAtERNAL gRANdM0tHER, 0LgA ANNE jAC0BS iS gERMAN-b0RN, bUt SHE HAS A jEWiSH LASt NAME. S0 tHAtS WHAt MAkES ME tHiNk tHAt. HERE’Sz A LiNk: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jacobs_%28surname%29
Then she’s just German.
N0 bECAUSE HER NAti0NALiTy W0ULd bE gERMAN bUt EtHNiCALLy SHE W0ULd bE jEWiSH iF SHE REALLy iS jEWiSH. SHE MigHt N0t bE AN EtHNiC gERMAN. S0.. WH0 KN0WS….
you fucking jealous bitches.. who ever is hot you want him/her Jewish.. no he is not…! if he was he would state it..! bye
you can only dream of it.. he is.. German, Italian and Russian.! and freaking hot..mmm
Jacobs? Maybe.
But even if his grandmother was jewish, it doesn’t
make him jewish. BTW, he really almost became
jewish, as he wanted to convert for marriage
with Rafaeli. And he’s not russian at all
Follers, I know already, that all jewish names are
“german” for you: Warmbrot, Haushalter, SIEGEL.
I wonder, that you accept Trachtenberger as
a jewish name.
Jacobs: maybe jewish, maybe not
Idenbirken: if he’s “keeping saying”, that she’s
russian, he’s a liar, cuz he early told, she’s german.
Maybe she’s turk
Non-jewish name Israel. lol. What do you believe
else?
Strange. But it must have some explanation
oh and one thing more.. what do you thing that Germans are Jewish.. come on you are crazy.. Germans are Protestants and not Jewish there where a couple of them and they where later expelled by Hitler.. he would state that he is Jewish and he is actually Roman Catholic.. and why Jewish on Ethnic background that’s a religion not a ethnic background..! BYE
k chingon eh, i’m half italian too! &mexican. its thee italian parte tha makes hem so hot lol =)
he does not look like italian. so u know lol.
he looks russian. (North-Eastern European)
yeah he absolutely looks Slavic..:) (Slavic= Russian, Bosnia, Croatia, Serbia.. all those countries are Slavic that a Indo-European group of people.. they all look the same)
Bosnian, Croatian, Serbian**
that’s***
sorry for the mistakes
They don’t looks “the same”. Serbian and other
jugoslavian people are more “dark” because of
osmanic invasion. And ukrainean, too
di caprio it’s a southern name..the surname with “di” are very common in south italy,especially in the region of campania.
Great mix:southern european,german/nordic and russian!
and i know that he can speaks good german,while he lived in Germany when he was a baby…:)(like sandra bullock);)