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Leonardo Wilhelm DiCaprio. It is one of the oddest names ever to be uttered in Hollyweird. This peculiar name however has come to personify all that is young, hip and (dare we say it) cool. Hard to believe but, if life had taken a different turn, it could have been Lenny Williams. Lenny who? Apparently, early on in young Leo's career, when he was only ten years old, an agent had the audacity to proclaim that the actor would never make it in Hollywood with such an odd sounding name as Leonardo Wilhelm DiCaprio - "too foreign." He was counseled to change it to Lenny Williams. However DiCaprio refused to give up and he eventually found an agent daring enough to look past his name. Leo quickly found himself in front of the camera in numerous television commercials. The commercials soon lead to television shows. DiCaprio appeared on such family fare as The New Lassie Show and Growing Pains before leaving that all behind to pursue a career in film. Leonardo Dicaprio seems to be most at home on the big screen, playing a variety of challenging characters he never would have found on television...
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