Leonardo Di Caprio is an American actor and film producer. He has been nominated for numerous awards, and has won three Golden Globe Awards. DiCaprio was born in Hollywood, California,the only child of Irmelin , a German-born legal secretary, and George DiCaprio, an underground comics artist and producer and distributor of comic books.DiCaprio's father is of half Italian (from theNaples area) and half German (from Bavaria) descent.DiCaprio's maternal grandfather, Wilhelm Indenbirken, was German. His maternal grandmother, Helene Indenbirken (1915–2008),a German citizen, was born as Yelena Smirnova in Russia.In an interview in Russia, DiCaprio referrer to himself as "half Russian" and said that two of his late grandparents were Russians.