DiCaprio, Winslet 'help last Titanic survivor'

Leonardo DiCaprio and Kate Winslet have stepped in to provide financial assistance to the last remaining survivor from the Titanic.

The pair, who co-starred in James Cameron's 1997 movie about the ill-fated ship, have donated $30,000 to 98-year-old Millvina Dean after learning that she was struggling to pay her nursing home fees.

According to Access Hollywood, the actors made the gesture following an appeal by photographer Don Mullan, who is selling limited edition photographs of Dean to raise money.

"I figured that if the edition sold out, it would secure Millvina for a full year," he told the Irish Independent. "My plan, however, was to double the impact and thereby secure her for two years.

"I decided, therefore, at the opening of the exhibition, to publicly challenge James Cameron, Leonardo DiCaprio, Kate Winslet, 20th Century Fox and Celine [Dion] to match me dollar for dollar."

It is thought that Mullan is still waiting to hear from Dion, who won an Academy Award for the film's theme song 'My Heart Will Go On'.

Dean was just nine weeks old and the youngest passenger on board the ship when she made the journey from Southampton to New York with her parents and older brother in 1912.