DiCaprio's next project was the drama film The Beach ( 2000 ), an adaption of Alex Garland's same-titled 1996 novel.

* In the film Blood Diamond ( 2006 ), Leonardo DiCaprio's character Danny Archer refers to Djimon Hounsou's character Solomon Vandy as a Kaffir, which triggers the start of a vicious fistfight.

The film received mixed reviews, although DiCaprio's performance as Hoover was widely praised.

DiCaprio's first effort of 1995 was Sam Raimi's The Quick and the Dead, a western film in which he appeared alongside Gene Hackman, Sharon Stone, and Russell Crowe, playing the role of Hackman's alleged son named Kid.

Sony Pictures was dubious over DiCaprio's casting, and as a result, Stone decided to pay for the actor's salary herself.

" DiCaprio's last film of the year 1995 was The Basketball Diaries, a biopic about Jim Carroll.

The project was one of the first films to cash in on DiCaprio's future star-status, with a worldwide box office take of $ 147 million.

Though DiCaprio's performance was generally well-received, with Entertainment Weekly critic Owen Gleiberman writing that " the shockingly androgynous DiCaprio looks barely old enough to be playing anyone with hormones, but he's a fluid and instinctive actor, with the face of a mischievous angel ," he was awarded a Golden Raspberry Award for Worst Screen Couple for both incarnations the following year.

Budgeted at $ US50 million, the film became a financial success, grossing $ US144 million worldwide, but as with DiCaprio's previous project, the film was largely panned by critics.

DiCaprio's first film of 2002 was the crime-comedy Catch Me If You Can, based on the life of Frank Abagnale Jr., who, before his 19th birthday, used his charm, confidence, and several different personas, to make millions in the 1960s writing bad checks.

DiCaprio's acting was well-received but remained overshadowed by Daniel Day-Lewis ' performance among most critics.

DiCaprio's performance in The Departed was applauded by critics and earned him a Satellite Award for Best Supporting Actor.

On November 1, 2010, it was announced that DiCaprio's production company had acquired the rights to the Erik Larson novel, The Devil in the White City.

In 2005 DiCaprio's face was seriously injured when Aretha Wilson, a model, hit him over the head with a broken bottle at a Hollywood party.

In addition to DiCaprio's first Academy Award nomination in this film, he was nominated for a Golden Globe Award.

Sony was also dubious over DiCaprio's casting.

Another was made for Titanic, in which Leonardo DiCaprio's character swims to the surface after Kate Winslet is rescued to celebrate finally escaping her clutches.

In the film Blood Diamond, Leonardo DiCaprio's Rhodesian character " Danny Archer " was a former member of 32 Battalion.

This was Leonardo DiCaprio's first film.

Roger Ebert wrote that the film is " fascinating ," " masterful ," and praised DiCaprio's performance.

DiCaprio's parents met while attending college and subsequently moved to Los Angeles.

DiCaprio's career began with his appearance in several commercials and educational films.

New York Times critic Janet Maslin praised DiCaprio's performance, writing " the film's real show-stopping turn comes from Mr. DiCaprio, who makes Arnie's many tics so startling and vivid that at first he is difficult to watch.

* The book has been optioned by Leonardo DiCaprio's production company, Appian Way Productions.

A grave marked " J. Dawson " gained fame following the release of the 1997 film Titanic, since the name of Leonardo DiCaprio's character in the film is Jack Dawson.

Tardy also ends some of his sentences or when he is frightened with a high-pitched squeal much like Leonardo DiCaprio's character, Arnie Grape, in What's Eating Gilbert Grape.

New York Times film critic Janet Maslin praised DiCaprio's performance, writing " the film's real show-stopping turn comes from Mr. DiCaprio, who makes Arnie's many tics so startling and vivid that at first he is difficult to watch ....

She was the second granddaughter of the Emperor Augustus, sister-in-law, stepdaughter and daughter-in-law of the Emperor Tiberius, mother of the Emperor Caligula, maternal second cousin and sister-in-law of the Emperor Claudius and the maternal grandmother of the Emperor Nero.

Apart from being the late maternal grandmother of Nero, she was the late paternal grandmother of Princess Julia Drusilla, the child of Caligula.

His maternal grandmother Beatrice of Savoy was a daughter of Amadeus IV of Savoy and Anne of Burgundy.

A stone block from Mehallet el-Kubra also establishes that his maternal grandmother — Tashereniset's mother — was a certain Tjenmutetj.

Her maternal grandmother was the Italian-born fashion designer Elsa Schiaparelli, and her maternal grandfather was Count Wilhelm de Wendt de Kerlor, a Theosophist and psychic medium.

Cecilia " Leilie " Beaux and her sister Etta were subsequently raised by their maternal grandmother and aunts, primarily in Philadelphia.

Eleanor or Aliénor was the oldest of three children of William X, Duke of Aquitaine, whose glittering ducal court was on the leading edge of early – 12th-century culture, and his wife, Aenor de Châtellerault, the daughter of Aimeric I, Viscount of Châtellerault, and Dangereuse, who was William IX's longtime mistress as well as Eleanor's maternal grandmother.

After this separation, he lived with his maternal grandmother, Betty Bailey.

His father, Achille La Guardia, was a lapsed-Catholic from Cerignola, and his mother, Irene Coen, was a Jew from Trieste, then part of the Austro-Hungarian Empire ; his maternal grandmother Fiorina Luzzatto Coen was a Luzzatto, a member of the prestigious Italian Jewish family of scholars, kabbalists and poets and had among her ancestors the famous rabbi Samuel David Luzzatto better known as Shadal.

Blair's maternal grandmother lived at Moulmein, so he chose a posting in Burma.

In April 1926 he moved to Moulmein, where his maternal grandmother lived.

His maternal grandfather was an immigrant from Derry in northern Ireland and his maternal grandmother was of German ancestry.

His family moved frequently, finally settling in Danville, Illinois, where they lived in the house of his English-born maternal grandmother, Beatrice.

She was succeeded by her second cousin, George I, of the House of Hanover, who was a descendant of the Stuarts through his maternal grandmother, Elizabeth, daughter of James VI & I.

His primary language was his father's French, but growing up in the bilingual Brussels, he also learned how to speak Flemish, developing a Marollien accent from his maternal grandmother.

The name of Julian's maternal grandmother is unknown.

Initially growing up in Bithynia, raised by his maternal grandmother, at the age of seven he was under the guardianship of Eusebius of Nicomedia, the semi-Arian Christian Bishop of Nicomedia, and taught by Mardonius, a Gothic eunuch, whom Julian wrote warmly of later.

The first Hohenzollern claimant to descend from both Anna and her younger sister Elisabeth, was John George, Elector of Brandenburg ( 1525 – 98 ), his maternal grandmother having been Barbara Jagiellon.

Euler's early formal education started in Basel, where he was sent to live with his maternal grandmother.

However, Brando was closer to his maternal grandmother, Bessie Gahan Pennebaker Meyers, than to his mother.

#* Antonia Major, married Lucius Domitius Ahenobarbus ( consul 16 BC ); maternal grandmother of the Empress Valeria Messalina and paternal grandmother of the Emperor Nero.