This is Leonardo DiCaprio. You know him from Titanic, The Wolf of Wall Street, and this year’s triumphant Once Upon a Time in Hollywood. His 30-year résumé of award-winning performances and box office smashes have earned him an Oscar, a Bafta, two Golden Globes and a swag of nominations besides…

… His record of environmental activism and acts of philanthropy have shamed politicians. Far from just offering pledges and good intentions, DiCaprio deals with a problem as he sees it. Not only has he donated his own funds to worthy causes, but his climate crisis-tackling Leonardo DiCaprio Foundation (LDF) works in more than 50 countries around the world. Through his eponymous foundation, he has awarded $15.6m to organisations actively protecting wildlife, ecological systems and the rights of Native Americans, and has made two online documentaries about climate change. He previously sat on the board of the World Wildlife Fund, donated $35,000 for an eponymous computer centre at Los Angeles public library, and gave $1m to the US-based Wildlife Conservation Society at Russia’s Global Tiger Summit in 2010. He uses his considerable fame as a platform to raise awareness at every opportunity…

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