Leonardo DiCaprio donates £7.6m to fund for Ukraine – where his grandmother was born

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Leonardo DiCaprio has donated an impressive £7.6million ($10m) to fund for Ukraine, where his grandmother is from.The 47 year old Hollywood actor, who recently starred alongside EastEnders' Himesh Patel in Don't Look Up, was reportedly very close with his maternal grandmother Helene Indenbirken, who was born in Ukraine in 1915.

He is said to have taken her to the premiers of many of his films and would call her 'Oma'.The Revenant actor's incredible donation was announced by the International Visegrad Fund, according to Polish News.

Leonardo's grandmother was born in Odesa as Jelena Stepanovna Smirnova and migrated to Germany with her parents two years later in 1917.

Get exclusive celebrity stories and fabulous photoshoots straight to your inbox with OK!'s daily newsletter She left the city one year before the Odesa Bolshevik uprising, where power was transferred over to the Soviets, and stayed in Germany.