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
LEONARDO DICAPRIO IS NOT WHITE. HE’S PART ITALIAN.
You write this on every white actor’s page. Sometimes you get the attention you want, sometimes you do not.
I really wish this site would weed out these moronic racists. What a joke…
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I thought Leo was just of german and italian ethnicity. Overall, I dont really know, but I honestly think that him being russian is a fraud made up by the users who edit in fairytale stories to impress the fans. According to what I heard was totally different. Here is what I heard. In a 1995 interview with David Letterman, David was asking him about his middle name being german and last name italian. It was clear that I heard leo annouunce his mother is german and father was italian. But, there was nothing mentioned on him being russian. For instance, no part of his names are russian. Also, on Leo mania in 1998 the announcer even revealed he was born to a german mom and an italian dad! I think thats the biggest answer you will get from me. If you still dont believe me then youtube Leo mania(1998) and his interview with Letterman(1995) and you will possibly beleive it may be true. Thank you! Brandon
He’s started about his Russian grandmother in many Russian interviews. Of course he said what his mother is German! She was born in Germany, has german name. He was also never asked about ethnicity. And his father also half German, but this he did not say, and it does not mean that his father is 100% Italian.
I honestly think that if he himself says that he’s half russian, then he’s half russian.Think about it! Both of his grandparents on his mothers side look nothing more than russian, and even he says it himself. I honestly think there is a 99.9% chance he is half russian.For example, just because this site says what it says, that doesn’t mean its right.Here’s a clear hint: whatever the actuall leonardo says is most likely true.So, with that being said, I honestly think he is of half russian, part italian, and part german.Please understand me.Thank you.
Have you heard, he “said himself”? I just saw a quote
from some communist newsletter. But I heard him
times claiming, his maternal randparents are german
I think he’ could be half russian, but based on what I heard he’s probably part italian, part russian, and half german.