Robert Anthony De Niro NEER-roh, Italian: de ˈniːro born August 17, 1943) is an American actor. Known for his collaborations with Martin Scorsese, he is considered to be one of the most influential actors of his generation. De Niro 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 earned a Presidential Medal of Freedom from 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 collaboration with Scorsese was with the 1973 film Mean Streets. De Niro 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). His other Oscar-nominated roles were for Taxi Driver (1976), The Deer Hunter (1978), Awakenings (1990), Cape Fear (1991), and Silver Linings Playbook (2012).
Robert De Niro 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 “culturally, historically, or aesthetically significan
Robert De Niro:Facts
- Born : Robert Anthony De NiroAugust 17, 1943 (age 80)New York City, U.S.
- Occupations:Actor film producer
- Years active : 1963–present
- Works: Full listScorsese collabs
- Spouses:Diahnne Abbottm. 1976; div. 1988)Grace Hightower(m. 1997; sep. 2018)
- Children 7 : including Drena and Raphael
- Parents :Robert De Niro Sr. ,Virginia Admiral
Robert De Niro:Early life and education
Robert Anthony De Niro was born in the Manhattan borough of New York City on August 17, 1943 the only child of painters Virginia Admiral and Robert De Niro Sr.[4] His father was of Irish and Italian descent, while his mother had Dutch, English, French, and German ancestry. 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. 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. Nicknamed “Bobby Milk” because of his pale complexion, De Niro befriended many street kids in Little Italy, much to the disapproval of his father Some, however, have remained his lifelong friends. His mother was raised Presbyterian but became an atheist as an adult, while his father had been a lapsed Catholic since the age of 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.
Robert De Niro De Niro attended PS 41, a public elementary school in Manhattan, through the sixth grade. He began acting classes at the Dramatic Workshop and made his stage debut in school at age 10, playing the Cowardly Lion in The Wizard of Oz. He later went to Elisabeth Irwin High School, the upper school of the Little Red School House, for the seventh and eighth grades. He was then accepted into the High School of Music & Art for the ninth grade, but attended for only a short time before transferring to a public junior high school: IS 71, Charles Evans Hughes Junior High School. De Niro attended high school at McBurney School and later, Rhodes Preparatory School.He found performing as a way to relieve his shyness, and became fascinated by cinema, so he dropped out of high school at 16 to pursue acting. He later said, “When I was around 18, I was looking at a TV show and I said, ‘If these actors are making a living at it, and they’re not really that good, I can’t do any worse than them.'”He studied acting at HB Studio and Lee Strasberg’s Actors Studio.De Niro also studied with Stella Adler, of the Stella Adler Conservatory, where he was exposed to the techniques of the Stanislavski system. As a young actor, De Niro was inspired by the work of Marlon Brando, Montgomery Clift, James Dean, Greta Garbo, Geraldine Page, and Kim Stanley.
Robert De Niro:Career
Robert De Niro In 1973, De Niro began collaborating with Martin Scorsese when he appeared in the crime film Mean Streets (1973), co-starring Harvey Keitel.Although De Niro was offered a choice of roles, Scorsese wanted De Niro to play “Johnny Boy” Civello, a small time criminal working his way up into a local mob.While De Niro and Keitel were given freedom to improvise certain scenes, assistant director Ron Satlof recalls De Niro was “extremely serious, extremely involved in his role and preparation”, and became isolated from the rest of the cast and crew. Mean Streets debuted at the Cannes Film Festival, followed by the New York Film Festival five months later, to a generally warm response. Film critic Roger Ebert thought De Niro gave a “marvelous performance, filled with urgency and restless
Robert De Niro desperation” Pauline Kael of The New York Times was equally impressed by De Niro, writing he is “a bravura actor, and those who have registered him only as the grinning, tobacco-chewing dolt of that hunk of inept whimsey Bang the Drum Slowly will be unprepared for his volatile performance. De Niro does something like what Dustin Hoffman was doing in Midnight Cowboy, but wilder; this kid doesn’t just act – Robert De Niro he takes off into the vapors”.In 1997, Mean Streets was selected for preservation in the U.S. National Film Registry by the Library of Congress as being “culturally, historically, or aesthetically significant”.
Robert De Niro:1974–1980: Scorsese collaboration and acclaim
Robert De Niro De Niro had a pivotal role in Francis Ford Coppola’s crime epic The Godfather Part II (1974), playing the young Vito Corleone. De Niro had previously auditioned for the first installment, The Godfather (1972), but quit the project in favor of doing The Gang That Couldn’t Shoot Straight. Coppola, having remembered him, gave De Niro a role in Part II instead To portray his character, De Niro spoke mainly in several Sicilian dialectsalthough he delivered a Robert De Niro few lines in English. The film was a commercial success and grossed $48 million at the worldwide box office. The Godfather Part II received eleven nominations at the 47th Academy Awards, winning six, including one for De Niro as Best Supporting Actor. It was De Niro’s first Academy win; Coppola accepted the award on his behalf as he did not attend the ceremony. De Niro and Marlon Brando, who played the older Vito Corleone in the first film, were the first pair of actors to win Academy Awards for portraying the same fictional character.
After working with Scorsese in Mean Streets, De Niro collaborated with him again for the psychological drama Taxi Driver (1976). Set in gritty and morally bankrupt Robert De Niro New York City following the Vietnam War, the film tells the story of Travis Bickle, a lonely taxi driver who descends into insanity. In preparation for the role, De Niro spent time with members of a U.S. army base to learn their Midwestern accent and mannerisms.He also lost 30 pounds (13 kg) in weight, took firearm training and studied the behavior of taxi drivers. The film was critically acclaimed, in particular for De Niro’s performance; The Washington Post critic hailed it as his “landmark performance”, and the San Francisco Chronicle wrote “De Niro is dazzling in one of his signature roles”.The film was nominated for four Academy Awards, including Best Actor for De Niro. His “You talkin’ to me?” quote, which he improvised, was selected as the 10th most memorable quote in the AFI’s 100 Years…100 Movie Quotes by the American Film Institute. In 2005, the film was chosen byRobert De Niro Time magazine as one of the 100 best films of all time.
De Niro and Dominique Sanda play a married couple in the film 1900.
De Niro had two other film releases in 1976. He starred in 1900,Robert De Niro a historical drama directed by Bernardo Bertolucci. Starring an ensemble cast, the film is set in the Emilia region of Italy, and tells the story of two men, the landowner Alfredo Berlinghieri (De Niro) and the peasant Olmo Dalcò (Gérard Depardieu), as they witness and participate in the political conflicts between fascism and communism in the first half of the twentieth century. Next, he played a CEO in The Last Tycoon, based on F. Scott Fitzgerald’s novel of the same name, as adapted by British screenwriter Harold Pinter. De Niro lost 42 pounds (19 kg) for the role, and director Elia Kazan observed that De Niro would rehearse on Sundays, adding “Bobby and I would go over the scenes toRobert De Niro be shot. Bobby is more meticulous… he’s very imaginative. He’s very precise. He figures everything out both inside and outside. He has good emotion. He’s a character actor: everything he does he calculates. In a good way, but he calculates”.: 766 The film received mixed reviews; Variety magazine’s critic opined that the film was “unfocused” and called De Niro’s performance “mildly intriguing”. Film critic Marie Brenner wrote, “it is a role that surpasses even his brilliant and daring portrayal of Vito Corleone in The Godfather Part II… his performance deserves to be compared with the very finest”.
Robert De Niro For De Niro’s sole project of 1977, he starred in Scorsese’s musical drama New York, New York opposite Liza Minnelli. De Niro learned to play the saxophone from musician Georgie Auld, to portray saxophonist Jimmy, who falls in love with a pop singer (Minnelli). The film received generally mixed reception, although critics were kinder to De Niro. The film was nominated for four Golden Globe awards including BestRobert De Niro Actor in a Motion Picture Musical or Comedy for De Niro. In 1978, De Niro starred in Michael Cimino’s epic war film.
Robert De Niro:1998–2006: comic roles, thrillers, and slump
Robert De Niro De Niro began 1998 with an appearance in Great Expectations, a modern adaptation of Charles Dickens’ 1861 novel of the same name, in which he played Arthur Lustig. Later that year, his next major role came in Ronin (1998), about a team of former special operatives that are hired to steal a mysterious briefcase while navigating a maze of shifting loyalties. De Niro plays Sam, an American mercenary formerly associated with the CIA. Ronin premiered at the 1998 Venice Film Festival to favorable response; Janet Maslin of The New York Times praised De Niro’s confident portrayal as an action hero In 1999, De Niro ventured back into crime-comedy; he was cast as an insecure mob boss opposite Billy Crystal and Lisa Kudrow in Harold Ramis’ Analyze This. The film was a box office hit, earning $176 million worldwide, and De Niro was nominated for Best Actor at the Golden Globes.In Flawless (1999), De Niro appeared as a homophobic police officer, who suffers a stroke, and is assigned to a rehabilitativeRobert De Niro program with a gay singer. The critic from the BBC gave the film 3 out of 5 stars, and thought De Niro gave a “refreshingly low-key” Robert De Niro performance, in comparison to his previous work.
Robert De Niro:Personal life
Robert De Niro In 2016, De Niro initially defended the inclusion of a controversial documentary, Vaxxed, at the 2016 Tribeca Film Festival.He explained that his interest in the film was from his personal experience with his autistic son, Elliot.The film was withdrawn from the schedule after consultation with the festival
organizers and scientific community. In February 2017, De Niro took part in a joint presentation with Robert F. Kennedy Jr., chairman of the anti-vaccine non-profit Children’s Health Defense, to discuss
Robert De Niro their concerns with vaccine safety. De Niro has stated that he is not anti-vaccination, but does question their efficacy.
Robert De Niro:Relationships
Robert De Niro De Niro married actress Diahnne Abbott in 1976. They have a son, Raphael, a former actor who works in New York real estate.De Niro also adopted Abbott’s daughter Drena De Niro from a previous relationship. He and Abbott divorced in 1988. Afterwards, he was in a relationship with model Toukie Smith between 1988 and 1996. The couple has twin sons, Julian and Aaron, conceived by in vitro fertilization and delivered by a surrogate mother in 1995.
In 1997, De Niro married actress Grace Hightower. Their son, Elliot, was born in 1998 and the couple split in 1999. The divorce was never finalized and in 2004 they renewed their vows.[249] In December 2011, their daughter Helen was born via surrogate. In 2014, he andRobert De Niro Hightower moved into a 6,000-square-foot, five-bedroom apartment at 15 Central Park West.Four years later, De Niro and Hightower separated after 20 years of marriage. De Niro has four grandchildren: one from his daughter Drena and three from his son Raphael.On April 19, 2021, De Niro’s lawyer argued in a virtual divorce hearing presided by a Manhattan judge that he is “working at an unsustainable pace” in order “to support Hightower and pay off all his back taxes”.Robert De Niro Robert Hightower’s lawyer claimed that since the pair filed for divorce in 2018, De Niro had been “unfairly decreasing” the agreed-upon payments to her.