World Famous Actors
Leonardo DiCaprio
Born: 1974-11-11 Age: 40
Birthplace: LA, California, US
Occupation: actor, producer
Leonardo Wilhelm DiCaprio (born November 11, 1974) is an American actor and film producer. He has been nominated for ten Golden Globe Awards, winning one for Best Actor for his performance in The Aviator (2004), and has also been nominated by the Screen Actors Guild, Satellite Awards, and the British Academy of Film and Television Arts. He won the Golden Globe Award for Best Actor – Motion Picture Drama, Screen Actors Guild Award for Outstanding Performance by a Male Actor in a Leading Role and the BAFTA Award for Best Leading Actor in The Revenant (2015). DiCaprio began his career by appearing in television commercials in the late 1980s. He next had recurring roles in various television series, such as the soap opera Santa Barbara and the sitcom Growing Pains. He debuted in his film career by starring as Josh in Critters 3 (1991). He starred in the film adaptation of the memoir This Boy’s Life (1993), and received acclaim and his first Academy Award nomination for his supporting role in What’s Eating Gilbert Grape (1993). He gained public
World Famous Actors is a list of actors, actresses, and child actors from every country in the world. The list also includes some actors from other countries, such as Canada and France.
World Famous Actors includes actors who have been nominated for, or won, Academy Awards, Golden Globe Awards, BAFTA Awards and/or Emmy Awards, or who have performed in major motion pictures.
The list is not intended to be comprehensive; it only lists notable individuals with at least one national award win or nomination.
The list is divided into four sections: A-Z by last name; by nationality; by gender (male or female); and by decade (e.g., 2000s).
The island of Kauai has many world-famous actors living there. Some most people know about, like Pierce Brosnan and Bette Midler. Others are more obscure, like the first person I called when I got there, who had a small part in Raiders of the Lost Ark.
The last person I called was my friend Michael Crichton. He was far more famous than any actor. But he was also an actor, having played a role in Runaway, one of his movies. Like all actors he had been hired to do something that was not quite him: in this case play the lead scientist in a thriller about robots gone bad.
The movie turned out so bad that it is not often mentioned, but at the time (1984) it was taken very seriously, because it was Crichton’s followup to Westworld, which had been a big hit (and incidentally the first feature film to use computer graphics).
But Hollywood being Hollywood, they decided to make more movies about robots gone bad– because they had worked before! So Crichton’s next movie after Runaway became Jurassic Park. It too was about robots gone bad (well, dinosaurs). The point is that Jurassic Park did not take the world by storm because it followed up
As a young aspiring actor in the late 1960s and early 70s, it was always my dream to become a “world famous actor.” It became my mantra. I used to say it to myself when I woke up in the morning, and before I went to sleep at night. To me, it wasn’t just a phrase. It was my goal. My dream.
I wanted to be known around the world not only for acting, but for being an actor of substance and depth. An actor who could do anything and everything, from comedy to drama, from Shakespeare to Albee…from Broadway theatre to movie stardom.
I’m still working on that last one!
In 1982, I was lucky enough to be cast as Steve Carrington on the ABC television soap opera Dynasty. And so began my next adventure into the world of acting…and stardom…the playboy son of Denver oil magnate Blake Carrington, who becomes involved in a tumultuous love affair with his father’s secretary Krystle Carrington (Linda Evans). In addition to Dynasty, John Forsythe (Blake Carrington) and Joan Collins (Alexis Carrington) were already TV stars of another venerable ABC soap opera series called The Colbys – a Dynasty spin
James Bond was engaged in the fight of his life. The villain had kidnapped the world-famous secret agent’s love interest, and the only way to save her from certain death was by snatching a pair of nuclear warheads from the hands of international terrorists.
As 007 infiltrated a mile-high volcano base high in the Austrian Alps, he ran into an old foe: Oddjob, a five-foot-eight bodyguard who was famous for his ability to decapitate people with his steel-rimmed bowler hat. The two enemies fought as Bond made his way deeper into the fortress, but eventually he managed to put Oddjob out of commission.
Finally reaching his destination, Bond found himself face to face with his nemesis: Hugo Drax, a wealthy British industrialist who was planning to destroy Earth in order to create a new master race in outer space.
A familiar theme to fans of James Bond movies? Yes, but this time it wasn’t Sean Connery or Roger Moore playing the role of Britain’s favorite spy – it was George Lazenby, an Australian soap opera actor with little more than a haircut and some snappy catchphrases on his side.
I have been acting for over three years, and I have learned so much from this craft. Acting is not just my favorite activity, it is a part of me. I am always acting, because I am always being myself. When I work with an acting coach, I know that we are working together to make me better at being myself.
I knew I wanted to be an actor before I started acting. The first time I auditioned for anything, at age 9 for a school play, the director gave me two small parts. It was so much fun! Over the next three years in school plays, I gradually got bigger parts. Then at age 12, while on a skiing trip with my family in California, we saw a huge billboard advertising auditions for the national tour of Mary Poppins. This was the big time!
The day after we got back home to Philadelphia, my Mom drove me to New York City for auditions. The studio was huge, with hundreds of kids there like me hoping to get a role. We were given scripts and told to prepare short scenes for our auditions later in the afternoon. While walking around Manhattan with my Mom waiting for our audition time slot, I remember feeling very nervous and excited at the same time….
I was fascinated by the [famous actor] thing. They wanted to give us a lot of money and they wanted us to be famous, and this is the kind of thing you dream of as a little kid. So we were on the set and these people are throwing money at us and we were trying to act how we thought actors would act – very cool, you know?
And I remember at one point we were sitting in this place in San Francisco where they were filming, just waiting around with nothing to do, and Lars Ulrich turns around to me and goes “This is great, this acting thing.” And I said “Yeah, isn’t it?” And he said “I wonder if anyone will ever want us to do music again.”
We had no idea how hard acting is! I mean, these guys make it look easy, but it’s not. You have to hit your marks and you have to say your dialogue and you have to project this aura of confidence even when you don’t feel confident.
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