I was waiting for my Oscar so much that I almost lost it, taking a bottle of alcohol instead of a figurine: guess who we are talking about

This American actor has been acting since childhood. He spends $300,000 a year to age as slowly as possible.

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The boy was born in Los Angeles on November 11, 1974. His parents divorced a year after their son’s birth. The father soon remarried. But my mother never remarried and raised the boy herself, torn between two jobs. Only the Russian grandmother helped her, whom the hero simply adored.
The grandmother’s family emigrated from Russia during the October Revolution, when the girl was only 2 years old. Grandmother married a German and took his last name. The mother of our hero was born in a bomb shelter in a West German city.
The boy dreamed of becoming an actor since childhood. At 2.5 years old, he already played in an episode of a children’s TV show. His cinematic biography began with work in . In childhood and adolescence, our hero starred in three dozen commercials. But the young actor also managed to appear in films.
As a teenager, the future film actor began attending theater courses and studios, where he diligently studied acting. Then he entered the theater department at the University of Los Angeles.
The first work on the screen was a small role in the cult TV series Santa Barbara. Then there were serial tapes “Roseanne” and “Lassie’s New Adventures”.
The real debut of the actor in the movie took place in 1991 after filming in the comedy horror film Critters 3.
Immediately after him, work began in the serial film Growing Pains, but soon the actor received a better offer in the project This Guy’s Life. In the film, the young artist first worked with the world screen star – Robert De Niro.

Actor as a child with his parents

In 1993, he was offered to play the mentally retarded boy Arnie, the brother of the protagonist, whose role was played by Johnny Depp. For this work, the actor was first nominated for an Oscar. At that time he was only 19 years old.
Two years later, the actor starred in films that made him recognizable and popular. In the western The Quick and the Dead, the artist played with Russell Crowe and Sharon Stone. Immediately after this film, the film “Total Eclipse” followed, where the hero appeared in the title role, playing the homosexual poet Arthur Rimbaud.
After the release of the film “Romeo and Juliet”, the young artist was recognized as the new sex symbol of Hollywood.
The hero became a world-famous star after the release of the film “Titanic” directed by James Cameron. It is noteworthy that the artist almost refused the role in the film, but the director convinced the American of the success of the film adaptation of the movie drama. Subsequently, “Titanic” received 11 “Oscars”, and the film actor “Golden Globe” and became one of the highest paid Hollywood stars. And People magazine included him in the list of the fifty most beautiful people on the planet.
The most famous films after “Titanic” were the films “The Beach”, “Gangs of New York”, “Inception” and “Catch Me If You Can”. They were followed by no less successful paintings “The Aviator”, “The Departed” and “Shutter Island”.
The hero was nominated for an Oscar 6 times, but the award went to other hands 5 times.
In 2016, a new film “The Revenant” was released, starring Tom Hardy, Will Poulter, Domhnall Gleason and our hero. The number of fans of the artist’s talent increased exponentially, and the Oscar jury finally recognized him as the best actor of the year.
The celebration of the long-awaited event led to the fact that the hero forgot his reward in a restaurant in Los Angeles. At the exit from the entertainment establishment, instead of a figurine, the actor mistakenly took a bottle of alcohol. The Oscar was brought to him in the car.
In 2017, the press reported that the actor spends fabulous money on rejuvenation procedures, 300 thousand dollars a year. According to insiders, at the mere thought of aging, our hero is horrified and is constantly engaged in cleansing the body. At the same time, the actor is addicted to alcohol. Although there is no need to talk about true alcoholism, he knows how to stop in time.
Our hero is still not married and is considered an enviable Hollywood bachelor. In the life of a celebrity, there were many novels and beautiful women, but none of them managed to marry a handsome Hollywood man.
In 2016, the actor’s net worth was $27 million. Thanks to his huge income, he does charity work and sponsors the Wildlife Conservation Society, and also supports a fund to help people who have survived natural disasters.