Robert De Niro
Biography
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.
Known For
Harry Tuttle
Brazil
Travis Bickle
Taxi Driver
Al Capone
The Untouchables
Louis Gara
Jackie Brown
John 'Johnny Boy' Civello
Mean Streets
Vito Corleone
The Godfather Part II
Rupert Pupkin
The King of Comedy
David 'Noodles' Aaronson
Once Upon a Time in America
Neil McCauley
Heat
Sam "Ace" Rothstein
Casino
Bill Sullivan
The Good Shepherd
Conrad Brean
Wag the Dog
Louis Cyphre
Angel Heart
Jake LaMotta
Raging Bull
Lt. Moe Tilden
Cop Land
Jack Byrnes
Meet the Fockers
Jack Byrnes
Meet the Parents
Lorenzo Anello
A Bronx Tale
Max Cady
Cape Fear
James Conway
GoodFellas
The Creature / Sharp Featured Man
Mary Shelley's Frankenstein
Father Bobby
Sleepers
Captain Shakespeare
Stardust
Don Lino (voice)
Shark Tale
Self
It's Alive: The True Story of Frankenstein
Alfredo Berlinghieri
Novecento
Eddie Flemming
15 Minutes
Wayne "Mad Dog" Dobie
Mad Dog and Glory
Donald Rimgale
Backdraft
Leonard Lowe
Awakenings
Richard Wells
Godsend
David Callaway
Hide and Seek
Danny
Born to Win
Nick Wells
The Score
Ned
We're No Angels
Rodrigo Mendoza
The Mission
Det. Mitch Preston
Showtime
David Merrill
Guilty by Suspicion
Michael Vronsky
The Deer Hunter
Walt Koontz
Flawless
Lloyd Barker
Bloody Mama
Self
Raging Bull: Before the Fight
Self
Marty and Bobby
Self (archive footage)
Raging Bull: Inside the Ring
Self (archive footage)
Raging Bull: After the Fight
Self (archive footage)
The 'New York, New York' Stories
Self (archive footage)
A Shot at the Top: The Making of 'The King of Comedy'
Self
Raging Bull: Outside the Ring
Senator John McLaughlin
Machete
Dwight Hansen
This Boy's Life
Sam
Ronin
Master Chief Leslie W. Sunday ('Billy')
Men of Honor
Father Des Spellacy
True Confessions
Ben
What Just Happened
Prisoner / Lustig
Great Expectations
John Wesley “Jack” Walsh
Midnight Run
Paul Vitti
Analyze This
Gil Renard
The Fan
Jimmy Doyle
New York, New York
Paul Vitti
Analyze That
Young Vito Corleone
The Godfather: The Complete Epic 1901–1959
Wallace "Wally" Carter
Marvin's Room
Frank Goode
Everybody's Fine
Turk
Righteous Kill
Self (archive footage)
537 Votes
Mardigian
Jennifer on My Mind
Vincent LaMarca
City by the Sea
Stanley Cox
Stanley & Iris
Harry Fabian
Night and the City
Bruce Pearson
Bang the Drum Slowly
Jon Rubin
Hi, Mom!
Great Sewer (voice)
Dear America: Letters Home from Vietnam
Stan Harris
New Year's Eve
Monroe Stahr
The Last Tycoon
Jack
Stone
Self
I Knew It Was You: Rediscovering John Cazale
Archbishop of Peru
The Bridge of San Luis Rey
Billy 'The Kid' McDonnen
Grudge Match
Joseph 'Jacknife' Megessey
Jacknife
Hunter
Killer Elite
Fearless Leader
The Adventures of Rocky & Bullwinkle
Jack Byrnes
Little Fockers
Self
Casting By
Carl Van Loon
Limitless
Frank Raftis
Falling in Love
Evan M. Wright
Mistress
Pat Solatano Sr.
Silver Linings Playbook
Jon Rubin
Greetings
Cecil
The Wedding Party
Self
Le Cirque: A Table in Heaven
Self - Actor
Corman's World
Simon Silver
Red Lights
Self
Aretha Franklin: Duets
Adrian
Manuale d'amore 3
(archive footage)
Final Cut: Hölgyeim és uraim
The Husband of The Star-Fantasy on a Cruise
Les Cent et Une Nuits de Simon Cinéma
Benjamin Ford
Killing Season
Jonathan Flynn
Being Flynn
Mario
The Gang That Couldn't Shoot Straight
Don Griffin
The Big Wedding
Self - Narrator (voice)
Lenny Bruce: Swear to Tell the Truth
Sarcone
Freelancers
Self
The Making of 'Cape Fear'
Self (uncredited) (archive footage)
Sesame Street: 40 Years of Sunny Days
Fred Blake / Giovanni Manzoni
The Family
Self
Ronin: Filming in the Fast Lane
Patrick 'Paddy' Connors
Last Vegas
Ray Arcel
Hands of Stone
Self (archive footage)
Prisoners of Our Own History: The First Four Films of Roland Joffé
Self
The Man Who Saved the World
Stan Bernal
Ezra
Emmanuel Ashburn
Tin Soldier
Self
Miracle Rising: South Africa
Self
Making 'Taxi Driver'
Dragna
The Bag Man
Ben Whitaker
The Intern
Self
Elia Kazan: An Outsider
Victor Tellegio (uncredited)
American Hustle
Self
Remembering the Artist: Robert De Niro, Sr.
Self
Hello Actors Studio
G.B.
Untitled De Niro/Ramirez/Jakubowicz Project
Self
The Past Goes Fast
Self
Pacino and De Niro: The Conversation
Self
The Making of 'Heat'
Vito Genovese / Frank Costello
The Alto Knights
Dick Kelly
Dirty Grandpa
Self
Bertolucci secondo il cinema
Ted Delaney
After Exile
(archive footage)
SNL Presents: A Very Gilly Christmas
Self
Sergio Leone - L'italiano che inventò l'America
Sam Nicoletti
Sam's Song
Self
Albert Brooks: Defending My Life
Self - Archive Footage
God's Lonely Man
Self
Influence And Appreciation: A Martin Scorsese Tribute
Self
9/11
Rudy
Joy
Self (archive footage) (uncredited)
Hot Potato: The Story of The Wiggles
Self
Martin Scorsese, l'Italo-Américain
The Pope
Heist
Self
You Talkin' to Me?
Self (archive footage)
Inside Rupert Pupkin
Self (archive footage) (uncredited)
Sly
Self (archive footage) (uncredited)
The Randall Scandal: Love, Loathing, and Vanderpump
Self
David Blaine: Real or Magic
Self (archive footage)
Close Up
Self
Night of 100 Stars II
Ellis
Self - Speaker
Tony Bennett: An American Classic
Self
The Concert for New York City
Bernie Madoff
The Wizard of Lies
Self
The Audition
Jackie Burke
The Comedian
Self
I Am JFK Jr.
Self
Mr. Warmth: The Don Rickles Project
Self (archive footage)
Crazy, Not Insane
Self
Getting Made: The Making of 'GoodFellas'
Self
De Niro, New York
Self
The Godfather Family: A Look Inside
Neil McCauley (archive footage)
How to Rob a Bank
Frank Sheeran
The Irishman
Self
Making Casino
Self
Junket Whore
Self
Movies Are My Life
Self (archive footage)
Les Plages d'Agnès
Ed
The War with Grandpa
Client at the Diner (uncredited)
Trois chambres à Manhattan
King (voice)
Arthur et les Minimoys
Self
Alec Baldwin: One Night Only
Self
Tony Bennett Celebrates 90
Self (uncredited)
Jim Norton: Mouthful of Shame
Self
Peggy Guggenheim: Art Addict
Self
Martin Scorsese Directs
Self
Trespassing Bergman
Self
Jackie Brown: How It Went Down
Murray Franklin
Joker
Self
National Museum of African American History and Culture Grand Opening Ceremony
Un hippie chez Popov (uncredited)
Les Jeunes Loups
Self
Hollywood Mavericks
Self
Breslin and Hamill: Deadline Artists
Don Lino (voice)
Club Oscar
Self
I Am Durán
William Hale
Killers of the Flower Moon
Self
Comedy Central Roast of Alec Baldwin
Host
9/11: 10 Years Later
Self
Don Rickles: One Night Only
Self - Reader: Declaration of Independence
The Words That Built America
Self
The Irishman: In Conversation
Max Barber
The Comeback Trail
Self (archive footage)
Ennio Morricone
Self
Scorsese's GoodFellas
Self
The Collaboration Of A Lifetime: Scorsese’s Epic The Irishman
Sheriff Church
Savage Salvation
James
Father of the Bride Part 3 (ish)
Self
Making 'The Irishman'
Self
Behind Bars: The Making of Stone
General Gil Dillenbeck
Amsterdam
Self
Abicinema
Salvo Maniscalco
About My Father
Sam Nicoletti (archive footage)
The Swap
Self (archive footage) (uncredited)
Fahrenheit 9/11
Self
Night of 100 Stars
Self (archive footage)
Quentin Tarantino: From a Movie Buff to a Hollywood Legend
Self (archive footage)
Raging Bull: Reflections on a Classic
Jack Byrnes
Focker-In-Law
The Whisper Man
Self
SNL50: The Homecoming Concert
Self
The Making of Moonwalker
Self
Il segreto di Otello
Himself
Making "The Score"
Vito Corleone
The Godfather Trilogy: 1901-1980
Jake Kejeune
Shutout
Self (Archive Footage)
GoodFellas: Behind Closed Doors
Self
Fuck Coin
Self
Nobu
Self (archive footage) (uncredited)
Megadoc
Self
American Prince: JFK Jr.
Self
Easy Riders, Raging Bulls: How the Sex 'n' Drugs 'n' Rock 'n' Roll Generation Saved Hollywood
Python Legs!
Travis Bickle (archive footage)
Breakdown: 1975
Personal Info
Known For
Acting
Known Credits
219
Gender
Male
Birthday
1943-08-17
Place of Birth
Greenwich Village, New York City, New York, USA
Also Known As
Robert DeNiro