Robert De Niro
Robert Anthony De Niro (born August 17, 1943) is an American actor and film producer. 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.
Filmography (102)
The Whisper Man
The Alto Knights
Tin Soldier
Ezra
Killers of the Flower Moon
About My Father
Amsterdam
Savage Salvation
The War with Grandpa
The Comeback Trail
Artemis Fowl
Joker
The Irishman
Bohemian Rhapsody
The Wizard of Lies
Dirty Grandpa
Hands of Stone
The Intern
Joy
Heist
Me and Earl and the Dying Girl
The Bag Man
Grudge Match
American Hustle
Last Vegas
Killing Season
The Big Wedding
The Family
Silver Linings Playbook
Red Lights
Being Flynn
Limitless
New Year's Eve
Killer Elite
The Ages of Love
Little Fockers
Machete
Stone
Everybody's Fine
Public Enemies
Righteous Kill
What Just Happened
Stardust
The Good Shepherd
Arthur and the Invisibles
Hide and Seek
Rent
Meet the Fockers
Godsend
Shark Tale
Analyze That
Showtime
City by the Sea
About a Boy
The Score
15 Minutes
Meet the Parents
The Adventures of Rocky & Bullwinkle
Men of Honor
Analyze This
Flawless
Ronin
Great Expectations
Jackie Brown
Cop Land
Wag the Dog
The Fan
Sleepers
Marvin's Room
Casino
Heat
Panther
Mary Shelley's Frankenstein
This Boy's Life
A Bronx Tale
Mad Dog and Glory
Night and the City
Thunderheart
Cape Fear
Guilty by Suspicion
Backdraft
GoodFellas
Awakenings
Jacknife
We're No Angels
Midnight Run
The Untouchables
Angel Heart
The Mission
Brazil
Once Upon a Time in America
Falling in Love
The King of Comedy
True Confessions
Raging Bull
The Deer Hunter
New York, New York
Taxi Driver
The Last Tycoon
The Godfather Part II
Mean Streets
