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Robert Anthony De Niro Jr. (/də ˈnɪəroʊ/ də NEER-oh, Italian: [de ˈniːro]; born August 17, 1943) is an American actor and producer. Considered one of the greatest actors of all time, [1][2] he 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 received a Presidential Medal of Freedom from U.S. President Barack Obama in 2016.

Born in Manhattan in New York City, De Niro studied acting at HB Studio, Stella Adler Conservatory, and Lee Strasberg’s Actors Studio. His first major role was in Greetings (1968), and he gained early recognition with his role as a baseball player in the sports drama Bang the Drum Slowly (1973). De Niro’s first collaboration with Martin Scorsese was Mean Streets (1973), where he played small-time NYC crook “Johnny Boy”. Stardom followed with his role as young Vito Corleone in Francis Ford Coppola’s crime epic The Godfather Part II (1974), which won De Niro the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor. For his portrayal of Travis Bickle in Taxi Driver (1976), and a soldier in the Vietnam War drama The Deer Hunter (1978), he earned two nominations for the Academy Award for Best Actor.

De Niro won the Academy Award for Best Actor for his portrayal of world middleweight boxing champion Jake LaMotta in Scorsese’s biographical drama Raging Bull (1980), his first Oscar in this category. He soon thereafter diversified to other roles, playing a stand-up comic in The King of Comedy (1982), and gained further recognition for his performances in Bernardo Bertolucci’s epic 1900 (1976), Sergio Leone’s crime epic Once Upon a Time in America (1984), Terry Gilliam’s dystopian satire Brazil (1985), the religious epic The Mission (1986), and the comedy Midnight Run (1988). De Niro portrayed gangster Jimmy Conway in Goodfellas (1990), a catatonic patient in the drama Awakenings (1990), and a criminal in the psychological thriller Cape Fear (1991). All three films received praise for De Niro’s performances. He then starred in This Boy’s Life (1993), and directed his first feature film with 1993’s A Bronx Tale. His other critical successes include the crime films Heat (1995) and Casino (1995).

He is also known for his comic roles in latter Wag the Dog (1997), Analyze This (1999), and Meet the Parents (2000). After appearing in several critically panned and commercially unsuccessful films, he earned an Academy Award nomination for Best Supporting Actor for his performance in David O. Russell’s 2012 romantic comedy Silver Linings Playbook. In 2017, De Niro portrayed Bernie Madoff in The Wizard of Lies, earning a Primetime Emmy Award nomination. He then starred in the psychological thriller Joker (2019) and Scorsese’s crime epic The Irishman (2019).

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 being “culturally, historically, or aesthetically significant”.

Robert Anthony De Niro Jr.[3] was born in the Manhattan borough of New York City on August 17, 1943,[4] the only child of painters Virginia Admiral and Robert De Niro Sr.[5] His father was of Irish and Italian descent,[6] while his mother had Dutch, English, French, and German ancestry.[7] His parents, who had met at the painting classes of Hans Hofmann in Provincetown, Massachusetts, separated when he was two years old after his father announced that he was gay.[8] He was raised by his mother in the Greenwich Village and Little Italy neighborhoods of Manhattan. His father lived nearby, and remained close with De Niro during his childhood.[9] Nicknamed “Bobby Milk” because of his pale complexion, De Niro befriended many street kids in Little Italy, much to the disapproval of his father.[10] Some, however, have remained his lifelong friends.[11] His mother was raised Presbyterian but became an atheist as an adult, while his father had been a lapsed Catholic since the age of 12.[12][13] Against his parents’ wishes, his grandparents had De Niro secretly baptized into the Catholic Church while he was staying with them during his parents’ divorce.

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