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.
Personal info
Gender
Male
Birthday
1943-08-17
Place of birth
Greenwich Village, New York City, New York, USA
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Cast
Brazil
1985
7.67
Taxi Driver
1976
8.13
The Untouchables
1987
7.76
Jackie Brown
1997
7.36
Mean Streets
1973
7.06
The Godfather Part II
1974
8.57
The King of Comedy
1982
7.80
Once Upon a Time in America
1984
8.39
Heat
1995
7.93
Casino
1995
7.99
The Good Shepherd
2006
6.35
Wag the Dog
1997
6.94
Angel Heart
1987
7.13
Raging Bull
1980
7.91
Cop Land
1997
6.80
Cape Fear
1991
7.25
Meet the Parents
2000
6.69
Meet the Fockers
2004
6.26
A Bronx Tale
1993
7.87
GoodFellas
1990
8.45
Mary Shelley's Frankenstein
1994
6.44
Sleepers
1996
7.60
Stardust
2007
7.29
Shark Tale
2004
6.03
1900
1976
7.80
15 Minutes
2001
5.90
Mad Dog and Glory
1993
6.02
Backdraft
1991
6.66
Awakenings
1990
7.78
Godsend
2004
4.86
Hide and Seek
2005
6.33
Born to Win
1971
5.24
The Score
2001
6.69
We're No Angels
1989
6.16
The Mission
1986
7.39
Showtime
2002
5.54
Guilty by Suspicion
1991
6.47
The Deer Hunter
1978
7.98
Bloody Mama
1970
5.50
Flawless
1999
6.19
Marty and Bobby
2011
0.00
Raging Bull: Before the Fight
2005
10.00
Raging Bull: Inside the Ring
2005
9.00
Raging Bull: After the Fight
2005
8.00
Raging Bull: Outside the Ring
2005
8.00
The 'New York, New York' Stories
2005
0.00
Machete
2010
6.34
This Boy's Life
1993
7.13
Ronin
1998
6.96
Men of Honor
2000
7.48
True Confessions
1981
6.10
What Just Happened
2008
5.44
Great Expectations
1998
6.62
Midnight Run
1988
7.20
Analyze This
1999
6.50
The Fan
1996
6.00
New York, New York
1977
6.50
Analyze That
2002
5.82
Marvin's Room
1996
6.70
Everybody's Fine
2009
6.83
Righteous Kill
2008
5.88
537 Votes
2020
7.07
Jennifer on My Mind
1971
3.00
City by the Sea
2002
5.78
Stanley & Iris
1990
6.50
Night and the City
1992
5.70
Bang the Drum Slowly
1973
5.99
Hi, Mom!
1970
6.28
New Year's Eve
2011
5.88
The Last Tycoon
1976
6.30
Stone
2010
5.29
The Bridge of San Luis Rey
2004
5.10
Grudge Match
2013
6.10
Jacknife
1989
6.33
Killer Elite
2011
6.27
Little Fockers
2010
5.66
Casting By
2012
6.86
Limitless
2011
7.19
Falling in Love
1984
6.70
Mistress
1992
5.50
Silver Linings Playbook
2012
7.15
Greetings
1968
5.50
The Wedding Party
1969
4.30
Le Cirque: A Table in Heaven
2007
5.50
Corman's World
2011
7.10
Red Lights
2012
6.17
Aretha Franklin: Duets
1993
8.00
Ages of Love
2011
5.28
Final Cut: Ladies and Gentlemen
2012
7.53
One Hundred and One Nights
1995
6.00
Killing Season
2013
5.53
Being Flynn
2012
6.17
The Big Wedding
2013
5.84
Freelancers
2012
5.06
The Making of 'Cape Fear'
2001
7.30
The Family
2013
6.36
Ronin: Filming in the Fast Lane
2004
0.00
Last Vegas
2013
6.40
Hands of Stone
2016
6.61
The Man Who Saved the World
2014
6.84
Ezra
2024
6.95
Tin Soldier
2025
4.70
Miracle Rising: South Africa
2013
8.50
Making 'Taxi Driver'
1999
6.90
The Bag Man
2014
5.32
The Intern
2015
7.23
Elia Kazan: An Outsider
1982
6.00
American Hustle
2013
6.85
Hello Actors Studio
1988
6.50
The Past Goes Fast
2022
0.00
The Making of 'Heat'
2005
5.00
The Alto Knights
2025
6.25
Dirty Grandpa
2016
5.94
After Exile
0.00
Sam's Song
1969
5.20
Albert Brooks: Defending My Life
2023
7.09
God's Lonely Man
2007
6.00
9/11
2002
7.90
Joy
2015
6.55
Heist
2015
6.14
You Talkin' to Me?
1994
7.00
Inside Rupert Pupkin
2014
0.00
Sly
2023
7.22
David Blaine: Real or Magic
2013
6.70
Close Up
2012
9.50
Night of 100 Stars II
1985
8.00
Ellis
2015
6.60
The Concert for New York City
2001
4.80
The Wizard of Lies
2017
6.60
The Audition
2015
6.20
The Comedian
2016
5.70
I Am JFK Jr.
2016
6.00
Crazy, Not Insane
2020
7.21
How to Rob a Bank
2024
6.70
The Irishman
2019
7.58
Making Casino
2007
0.00
Junket Whore
1998
3.50
Movies Are My Life
1988
6.00
The Beaches of Agnès
2008
7.67
The War with Grandpa
2020
6.45
Three Rooms in Manhattan
1965
5.94
Arthur and the Invisibles
2006
6.38
Alec Baldwin: One Night Only
2017
0.00
Tony Bennett Celebrates 90
2016
8.00
Jim Norton: Mouthful of Shame
2017
6.44
Peggy Guggenheim: Art Addict
2015
6.50
Martin Scorsese Directs
1990
9.00
Trespassing Bergman
2013
6.57
Jackie Brown: How It Went Down
2002
7.70
Joker
2019
8.13
Young Wolves
1968
4.00
Hollywood Mavericks
1990
6.00
Club Oscar
2005
5.11
I Am Durán
2019
6.80
Killers of the Flower Moon
2023
7.40
9/11: 10 Years Later
2011
7.80
Don Rickles: One Night Only
2014
7.60
The Words That Built America
2017
6.00
The Irishman: In Conversation
2019
7.50
The Comeback Trail
2020
5.84
Ennio Morricone
1995
6.70
Scorsese's GoodFellas
2015
8.30
Savage Salvation
2022
6.20
Father of the Bride Part 3 (ish)
2020
7.50
Making 'The Irishman'
2020
7.00
Behind Bars: The Making of Stone
2011
10.00
Amsterdam
2022
6.06
Abicinema
1975
6.00
About My Father
2023
6.04
The Swap
1979
3.70
Fahrenheit 9/11
2004
7.08
Night of 100 Stars
1982
6.70
Focker-In-Law
2026
0.00
The Whisper Man
0.00
SNL50: The Homecoming Concert
2025
6.85
The Making of Moonwalker
1989
0.00
Il segreto di Otello
2015
0.00
Making "The Score"
2001
0.00
The Godfather Trilogy: 1901-1980
1992
8.90
Shutout
0.00
GoodFellas: Behind Closed Doors
2020
0.00
Fuck Coin
2021
0.00
Nobu
2025
6.50
Megadoc
2025
6.90
American Prince: JFK Jr.
2025
0.00
Python Legs!
2012
0.00
Breakdown: 1975
2025
6.40