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Robert De Niro

Robert De Niro

Acting

August 17, 1943 (82 years old)
Greenwich Village, New York City, New York, USA
Male
257 Movies
50 TV Shows

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.

GoodFellas
GoodFellas

GoodFellas

1990 8.5

as James Conway

Age 47 (now 82)
Taxi Driver
Taxi Driver

Taxi Driver

1976 8.1

as Travis Bickle

Age 32 (now 82)
Joker
Joker

Joker

2019 8.1

as Murray Franklin

Age 76 (now 82)
Once Upon a Time in America
Once Upon a Time in America

Once Upon a Time in America

1984 8.4

as Noodles

Age 40 (now 82)
Casino
Casino

Casino

1995 8.0

as Sam "Ace" Rothstein

Age 52 (now 82)
The Irishman
The Irishman

The Irishman

2019 7.6

as Frank Sheeran

Age 76 (now 82)
The Intern
The Intern

The Intern

2015 7.2

as Ben Whitaker

Age 72 (now 82)
Raging Bull
Raging Bull

Raging Bull

1980 7.9

as Jake LaMotta

Age 37 (now 82)
The Deer Hunter
The Deer Hunter

The Deer Hunter

1978 8.0

as Michael Vronsky

Age 35 (now 82)
Heat
Heat

Heat

1995 7.9

as Neil McCauley

Age 52 (now 82)
Limitless
Limitless

Limitless

2011 7.2

as Carl Van Loon

Age 67 (now 82)
Cape Fear
Cape Fear

Cape Fear

1991 7.3

as Max Cady

Age 48 (now 82)
A Bronx Tale
A Bronx Tale

A Bronx Tale

1993 7.9

as Lorenzo Anello

Age 50 (now 82)
Awakenings
Awakenings

Awakenings

1990 7.8

as Leonard Lowe

Age 47 (now 82)
The King of Comedy
The King of Comedy

The King of Comedy

1982 7.8

as Rupert Pupkin

Age 39 (now 82)
Men of Honor
Men of Honor

Men of Honor

2000 7.5

as Master Chief Leslie W. Sunday ('Billy')

Age 57 (now 82)