
Robert De Niro
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Biography
Robert Anthony De Niro is an American actor and film producer. He is considered one of his generation's greatest and most influential actors. De Niro has received various accolades, including two Academy Awards and a Golden Globe Award, as well as nominations for eight BAFTA Awards and four Emmy Awards. He was honoured with the AFI Life Achievement Award in 2003, the Kennedy Center Honors in 2009, the Cecil B. DeMille Award in 2011, and the Screen Actors Guild Life Achievement Award in 2019. De Niro was presented with the Presidential Medal of Freedom by 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 credited screen role was in Brian de Palma's Greetings (1968). De Niro's first collaboration with Martin Scorsese was with the crime drama film Mean Streets (1973). De Niro has 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). De Niro was also Oscar-nominated for Taxi Driver (1976), The Deer Hunter (1978), Awakenings (1990), Cape Fear (1991), Silver Linings Playbook (2012), and Killers of the Flower Moon (2023).
He is also known for his film roles in Bang the Drum Slowly (1973), 1900 (1976), The King of Comedy (1982), Once Upon a Time in America(1984), Brazil (1985), The Mission (1986), Angel Heart (1987), The Untouchables (1987), Goodfellas (1990), This Boy's Life (1993), Mary Shelley's Frankenstein (1994), Heat (1995), Casino (1995), Jackie Brown (1997), Joker (2019), and The Irishman (2019). He directed and acted in A Bronx Tale (1993) and The Good Shepherd (2006). His comedic roles include Hi, Mom! (1970), Midnight Run (1988), Wag the Dog (1997), Analyze This (1999) and its sequel, Analyze That (2002), 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 nomination for the Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Lead Actor in a Limited Series or Movie. 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.
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. Many of De Niro's films are considered classics of American cinema. 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" as of 2023. Five films are featured on the American Film Institute's (AFI) list of the 100 greatest American films ever. Timeout magazine's list of 100 best movies included seven of De Niro's films, as chosen by actors in the industry.
Known For

Jimmy Kimmel Live!

The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon

Saturday Night Live

Late Night with Seth Meyers

The Oscars

The Daily Show

Real Time with Bill Maher

The One Show

Golden Globe Awards

The Late Show with Stephen Colbert

The Tonight Show with Jay Leno

The Graham Norton Show

LIVE with Kelly and Mark

Comedy Central Roasts

The Cleveland Show

30 Rock

100 Years of Warner Bros.

Extras

Mr. Scorsese

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

Comedy Central Roast of Alec Baldwin

Sergio Leone: The Italian Who Invented America

Breslin and Hamill: Deadline Artists

#LoveArmy : Où es-tu Jérôme ?

The Godfather Trilogy: 1901-1980

The Godfather Family: A Look Inside

The Adventures of Rocky & Bullwinkle

Stardust

The Good Shepherd

Marvin's Room

The Godfather Part II

I Knew It Was You: Rediscovering John Cazale

The Untouchables

Backdraft

Mario Puzo's The Godfather: The Complete Novel for Television

Tin Soldier

Jackie Brown

Killer Elite

Silver Linings Playbook

Ennio Morricone

Red Lights

Heat

Limitless

Joy

Bang the Drum Slowly

Savage Salvation

Joker

Brazil

Killers of the Flower Moon

Mr. Saturday Night

Meet the Fockers

Wag the Dog

Hands of Stone

Scorsese's GoodFellas

Meet the Parents

About My Father

Shark Tale

Heist

The Irishman: In Conversation

Sleepers

Angel Heart

Raging Bull

Grudge Match

GoodFellas

Focker-In-Law

The Family

Falling in Love

Ronin

Cape Fear

The Deer Hunter

This Boy's Life

The Last Tycoon

The Intern

The Irishman

Awakenings

The Wizard of Lies

Zero Day

Taxi Driver

The War with Grandpa

The Comeback Trail

Mad Dog and Glory

Little Fockers

Casino

Righteous Kill

Once Upon a Time in America

Last Vegas

The Big Wedding

Midnight Run

Men of Honor

A Bronx Tale

Analyze This

The Score

We're No Angels

The Alto Knights

Flawless

1900

The King of Comedy

City by the Sea

Dirty Grandpa

Showtime
Production Credits

We're No Angels

About a Boy

Meet the Parents

Artemis Fowl

Me and Earl and the Dying Girl

The Good Shepherd

When They See Us

The Wizard of Lies

Rent

Meet the Fockers

Zero Day

Bohemian Rhapsody

A Bronx Tale

Wag the Dog

Public Enemies

Marvin's Room

Holiday Heart

Focker-In-Law

The Adventures of Rocky & Bullwinkle

The Irishman

NYC 22

Little Fockers
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