Who am I? In today’s ‘Who am I’ series, let’s try to find out more about this top Hollywood hottie who is 51 years old and still unmarried. She has starred in several box office blockbusters, winning her first Oscar at the age of 19. He received his first Academy Award nomination for Best Supporting Actor for What’s Eating Gilbert Grape (1993). Let us know his Indian connection in this feature. can you do Guess who it is?
leonardo dicaprio on stepmother
The actor told Times Magazine, “My stepmother is a Sikh. My father is from the hippie counterculture, grew up in San Fran, Los Angeles. He was involved with the underground art movement in Los Angeles in the ’70s.”
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The Hollywood superstar’s stepmother Peggy Ann Farrar is an Amritdhari Sikh, who wears a turban and is often seen in traditional Indian attire. She married her father, George DiCaprio, in 1995 and converted to Sikhism several years ago.
Who is Peggy Ann Farrar?
She is the second wife of George DiCaprio (Leonardo DiCaprio’s father) and Leonardo’s stepmother. After marrying George, she moved to Los Angeles with her son Adam (Leo’s half-brother). Reportedly, she was also involved in the 1970s counterculture movement in California, where she met Leo’s father.
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Leonardo DiCaprio’s early life
Leonardo is the only child of Irmelin Indenbirken, a German legal secretary, and George DiCaprio, an American underground comics artist and distributor. George’s grandparents, Salvatore DiCaprio and Rosina Casella, were Italian, while his mother, Olga Anne Jacobs, was of German descent.
When the actor was one year old, Irmelin and George divorced, with George later falling in love with another woman and moving out. However, to raise DiCaprio together, Irmelin and George moved into twin cottages with a shared garden in Echo Park, Los Angeles. There, according to Wiki information, George lived with his girlfriend and her son Adam Farrar.
Trivia About Leonardo DiCaprio
It is believed that the Hollywood icon got his name when a pregnant Irmelin (his mother) kicked him for the first time while she was looking at a painting by Leonardo da Vinci in the Uffizi Museum in Florence, Italy.
When Brad Pitt refused to believe…
In the same interview, Leo shared that his father once visited the set of Once Upon a Time in Hollywood with his stepmother. But co-star Brad Pitt refused to believe that they were his parents. Leo said, “I remember when we were turning the corner of Musso and Frank onto Hollywood Boulevard. I said to Brad, ‘There’s my dad and my stepmom,’ and he says, ‘Yeah, right!’ I said no, it’s the same one! He goes, ‘Yeah! Okay!’ I said I know they look like extras in this movie but that’s what they are! They dress like this every day. It was an amazing moment!”
Was Leo’s famous Titanic haircut banned?
Yes, the Jack Dawson hairstyle made hugely popular by Leonardo DiCaprio in Titanic was effectively banned by the Taliban in Afghanistan in the late 1990s, as it was seen as too Western and against their strict social code, forcing many youths to reportedly cut their hair.