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Robert Anthony De Niro (born August 17, 1943) is an American actor. Known for his collaborations with Martin Scorsese, he is considered to be one of the best actors of his generation. De Niro is the recipient of various accolades, including two Academy Awards, a Golden Globe Award, the Cecil B. DeMille Award, and a Screen Actors Guild Life Achievement Award. In 2009, De Niro received the Kennedy Center Honor, and earned a Presidential Medal of Freedom from U.S. President Barack Obama in 2016. De Niro studied acting at HB Studio, Stella Adler Conservatory, and Lee Strasberg's Actors Studio. His first collaboration with Scorsese was with the 1973 film Mean Streets. De Niro earned two Academy Awards, one for Best Supporting Actor for his role as Vito Corleone in Francis Ford Coppola's The Godfather Part II (1974) and the other for Best Actor portraying Jake LaMotta in Scorsese's drama Raging Bull (1980). His other Oscar-nominated roles were for Taxi Driver (1976), The Deer Hunter (1978), Awakenings (1990), Cape Fear (1991), and Silver Linings Playbook (2012). Other notable roles include in 1900 (1976), The King of Comedy (1982), Once Upon a Time in America (1984), Brazil (1985), The Mission (1986), Goodfellas (1990), This Boy's Life (1993), Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein (1994), Heat (1995), Casino (1995), Jackie Brown (1997), The Good Shepherd (2006), Joker (2019), and The Irishman (2019). He made his directorial film debut with A Bronx Tale (1993). His comedic roles include Midnight Run (1988), Wag the Dog (1997), Analyze This (1999), the Meet the Parents films (2000-2010), and The Intern (2015). Also known for his television roles, De Niro portrayed Bernie Madoff in the HBO film The Wizard of Lies (2017), earning a Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Lead Actor in a Limited Series or Movie nomination. He received further Emmy Award nominations for producing the Netflix limited series When They See Us (2019), and for portraying Robert Mueller on Saturday Night Live.[1] De Niro and producer Jane Rosenthal founded the film and television production company TriBeCa Productions in 1989, which has produced several films alongside his own. Also with Rosenthal, he founded the Tribeca Film Festival in 2002. Six of De Niro's films have been inducted into the United States National Film Registry by the Library of Congress as "culturally, historically, or aesthetically significant".
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Robert Anthony De Niro (born August 17, 1943) is an American actor. Known for his collaborations with Martin Scorsese, he is considered to be one of the best actors of his generation. De Niro is the recipient of various accolades, including two Academy Awards, a Golden Globe Award, the Cecil B. DeMille Award, and a Screen Actors Guild Life Achievement Award. In 2009, De Niro received the Kennedy Center Honor, and earned a Presidential Medal of Freedom from U.S. President Barack Obama in 2016. De Niro studied acting at HB Studio, Stella Adler Conservatory, and Lee Strasberg's Actors Studio. His first collaboration with Scorsese was with the 1973 film Mean Streets. De Niro earned two Academy Awards, one for Best Supporting Actor for his role as Vito Corleone in Francis Ford Coppola's The Godfather Part II (1974) and the other for Best Actor portraying Jake LaMotta in Scorsese's drama Raging Bull (1980). His other Oscar-nominated roles were for Taxi Driver (1976), The Deer Hunter (1978), Awakenings (1990), Cape Fear (1991), and Silver Linings Playbook (2012). Other notable roles include in 1900 (1976), The King of Comedy (1982), Once Upon a Time in America (1984), Brazil (1985), The Mission (1986), Goodfellas (1990), This Boy's Life (1993), Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein (1994), Heat (1995), Casino (1995), Jackie Brown (1997), The Good Shepherd (2006), Joker (2019), and The Irishman (2019). He made his directorial film debut with A Bronx Tale (1993). His comedic roles include Midnight Run (1988), Wag the Dog (1997), Analyze This (1999), the Meet the Parents films (2000-2010), and The Intern (2015). Also known for his television roles, De Niro portrayed Bernie Madoff in the HBO film The Wizard of Lies (2017), earning a Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Lead Actor in a Limited Series or Movie nomination. He received further Emmy Award nominations for producing the Netflix limited series When They See Us (2019), and for portraying Robert Mueller on Saturday Night Live.[1] De Niro and producer Jane Rosenthal founded the film and television production company TriBeCa Productions in 1989, which has produced several films alongside his own. Also with Rosenthal, he founded the Tribeca Film Festival in 2002. Six of De Niro's films have been inducted into the United States National Film Registry by the Library of Congress as "culturally, historically, or aesthetically significant".
Known For
The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon
Jimmy Kimmel Live!
Saturday Night Live
Late Night with Seth Meyers
The Daily Show
Real Time with Bill Maher
The Late Show with Stephen Colbert
The Tonight Show with Jay Leno
The Graham Norton Show
The Oscars
LIVE with Kelly and Mark
Comedy Central Roasts
SNL Digital Shorts
Golden Globe Awards
The Cleveland Show
30 Rock
100 Years of Warner Bros.
Extras
Late Night with Jimmy Fallon
American Hustle
Val
How to Rob a Bank
Hot Potato: The Story of The Wiggles
Amsterdam
Arthur and the Invisibles
Sergio Leone: The Italian Who Invented America
Comedy Central Roast of Alec Baldwin
Stardust
Breslin and Hamill: Deadline Artists
#LoveArmy : Où es-tu Jérôme ?
The Adventures of Rocky & Bullwinkle
The Godfather Family: A Look Inside
The Good Shepherd
The Untouchables
Marvin's Room
I Knew It Was You: Rediscovering John Cazale
The Godfather Part II
Killer Elite
Backdraft
Silver Linings Playbook
Jackie Brown
Mario Puzo's The Godfather: The Complete Novel for Television
The Irishman: In Conversation
Heat
Joker
Sleepers
Brazil
Savage Salvation
Red Lights
Bang the Drum Slowly
Meet the Fockers
Killers of the Flower Moon
Scorsese's GoodFellas
Angel Heart
About My Father
Joy
Hands of Stone
Limitless
Shark Tale
Heist
Mr. Saturday Night
Meet the Parents
Wag the Dog
City by the Sea
A Bronx Tale
The Big Wedding
The Deer Hunter
Once Upon a Time in America
Raging Bull
Little Fockers
Zero Day
The King of Comedy
Grudge Match
The Alto Knights
The War with Grandpa
The Score
Mad Dog and Glory
Dirty Grandpa
Last Vegas
We're No Angels
Analyze This
Cape Fear
Flawless
1900
The Last Tycoon
Awakenings
The Comeback Trail
Ronin
The Irishman
The Wizard of Lies
Casino
Men of Honor
Falling in Love
Midnight Run
The Intern
The Family
This Boy's Life
GoodFellas
Taxi Driver
Righteous Kill
Production Credits
About a Boy
Little Fockers
The Irishman
When They See Us
We're No Angels
Meet the Parents
Bohemian Rhapsody
Meet the Fockers
A Bronx Tale
Artemis Fowl
The Adventures of Rocky & Bullwinkle
NYC 22
The Good Shepherd
Zero Day
Marvin's Room
Holiday Heart
Wag the Dog
The Wizard of Lies
Public Enemies
Rent
Me and Earl and the Dying Girl
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