Is Leonardo DiCaprio Irish

Answer 1

He is 1/4th Italian.

Answer 2

1. Robert De Niro, thought of as one of the greatest American actors of all time, was born in New York City, to artists Virginia (Admiral) and Robert De Niro Sr. His paternal grandfather was of Italian descent, and his other ancestry is Irish, Dutch, English, French, and German.

Answer 3

No. Robert De Niro was born into a nonpracticing Christian family.

• His father was a lapsed Catholic born into an Irish Catholic family.

• His mother was an atheist and born and raised into a Protestant (Presbyterian) family.
• Robert De Niro's mother has no Jewish ancestry.
• As for the rumours that his mother had a Jewish ancestry...

This is an urban Jewish legend that happened 20 years ago in The Independent.

She may have practiced Judaism, but she was not born Jewish.

Answer 4

1. Robert De Niro, Jr. was born in Greenwich Village, New York City, the son of Virginia Holton Admiral, a painter and poet, and Robert De Niro, Sr., an abstract expressionist painter and sculptor. De Niro is of English, French, German, Dutch, Irish, and Italian ancestry.

Answer 5

De Niro's father was of Italian and Irish descent, and his mother was of German, French, and Dutch ancestry.

Answer 6

He was raised Catholic. Deniro being Jewish is an urban legend.

Answer 7

No, Leonardo DiCaprio is not Irish. He's an American with German/Italian ancestry. He did play Americans of Irish descent in the movies Gangs of New York and The Departed however.

Answer 8

His father was of Italian and Irish descent, his mother was of German, English, Dutch and French ancestry. So no, he is not of Albanian origins.

Answer 9

Yes