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For his father, the painter, see Robert De Niro Sr.

\"De Niro\" redirects here. For other people with this surname, see De Niro (surname).

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Robert De Niro
De Niro in 2016
Born	Robert Anthony De Niro (1943-08-17) August 17, 1943 (age 81) New York City, U.S.
Citizenship	United States Italy
Occupations	\n Actor \n film producer \n
Years active	1963\u2013present
Works	Full list Scorsese collaborations
Spouses	\n Diahnne Abbott \n (m. 1976; div. 1988) \n Grace Hightower \n (m. 1997; sep. 2018)
Children	7, including Drena and Raphael
Parents	Robert De Niro Sr. Virginia Admiral
Awards	Full list

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Robert Anthony De Niro (/d\u0259 \u02c8n\u026a\u0259ro\u028a/ d\u0259 NEER-roh, Italian: [de \u02c8ni\u02d0ro]; born August 17, 1943) is an American actor and film producer. He is considered to be one of the greatest and most influential actors of his generation.^[a] De Niro is the recipient of 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 honored 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.\n

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).\n

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 both 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\u20132010), and The Intern (2015).\n

Also known for his television roles, De Niro portrayed Bernie Madoff in the HBO film The Wizard of Lies (2017), earning a nomination for 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.^[6]\n

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.^[7] Five films are featured on the American Film Institute's (AFI) list of the 100 greatest American films of all time. Timeout magazine's list of 100 best movies included seven of De Niro's films, as chosen by actors in the industry.^[8]\n

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v t e Robert De Niro
\n Filmography \n Awards and nominations \n
Films directed	\n A Bronx Tale (1993) \n The Good Shepherd (2006) \n
Family	\n Diahnne Abbott (first wife) \n Drena De Niro (adoptive daughter) \n Raphael De Niro (son) \n Grace Hightower (second wife) \n Robert De Niro Sr. (father) \n Virginia Admiral (mother) \n
Related articles	\n Collaborations with Martin Scorsese \n Travis Bickle \n Tribeca Enterprises \n Tribeca Festival \n Tribeca Grill \n

v t e Cannes Film Festival jury presidents
1946\u20131975	\n Georges Huisman (1946) \n Georges Huisman (1947) \n Georges Huisman (1949) \n Andr\u00e9 Maurois (1951) \n Maurice Genevoix (1952) \n Jean Cocteau (1953) \n Jean Cocteau (1954) \n Marcel Pagnol (1955) \n Maurice Lehmann (1956) \n Andr\u00e9 Maurois (1957) \n Marcel Achard (1958) \n Marcel Achard (1959) \n Georges Simenon (1960) \n Jean Giono (1961) \n Tetsur\u014d Furukaki (1962) \n Armand Salacrou (1963) \n Fritz Lang (1964) \n Olivia de Havilland (1965) \n Sophia Loren (1966) \n Alessandro Blasetti (1967) \n Andr\u00e9 Chamson (1968) \n Luchino Visconti (1969) \n Miguel \u00c1ngel Asturias (1970) \n Mich\u00e8le Morgan (1971) \n Joseph Losey (1972) \n Ingrid Bergman (1973) \n Ren\u00e9 Clair (1974) \n Jeanne Moreau (1975) \n
1976\u20132000	\n Tennessee Williams (1976) \n Roberto Rossellini (1977) \n Alan J. Pakula (1978) \n Fran\u00e7oise Sagan (1979) \n Kirk Douglas (1980) \n Jacques Deray (1981) \n Giorgio Strehler (1982) \n William Styron (1983) \n Dirk Bogarde (1984) \n Milo\u0161 Forman (1985) \n Sydney Pollack (1986) \n Yves Montand (1987) \n Ettore Scola (1988) \n Wim Wenders (1989) \n Bernardo Bertolucci (1990) \n Roman Polanski (1991) \n G\u00e9rard Depardieu (1992) \n Louis Malle (1993) \n Clint Eastwood (1994) \n Jeanne Moreau (1995) \n Francis Ford Coppola (1996) \n Isabelle Adjani (1997) \n Martin Scorsese (1998) \n David Cronenberg (1999) \n Luc Besson (2000) \n
2001\u2013present	\n Liv Ullmann (2001) \n David Lynch (2002) \n Patrice Ch\u00e9reau (2003) \n Quentin Tarantino (2004) \n Emir Kusturica (2005) \n Wong Kar-wai (2006) \n Stephen Frears (2007) \n Sean Penn (2008) \n Isabelle Huppert (2009) \n Tim Burton (2010) \n Robert De Niro (2011) \n Nanni Moretti (2012) \n Steven Spielberg (2013) \n Jane Campion (2014) \n Joel and Ethan Coen (2015) \n George Miller (2016) \n Pedro Almod\u00f3var (2017) \n Cate Blanchett (2018) \n Alejandro Gonz\u00e1lez I\u00f1\u00e1rritu (2019) \n Spike Lee (2021) \n Vincent Lindon (2022) \n Ruben \u00d6stlund (2023) \n Greta Gerwig (2024) \n

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Early life and education

Career

1963\u20131973: Early roles and breakthrough

1974\u20131980: Scorsese collaboration and acclaim

1981\u20131991: Dramas, comedies and awards success

1992\u20131997: Directorial debut and crime dramas

1998\u20132006: Comic roles, thrillers, and slump

2007\u20132016: Further film roles

2017\u2013present: Resurgence and Scorsese reunion

Reception and legacy

Business interests

Personal life

Relationships

Legal issues

Filmography and accolades

See also

Notes

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