Robert Anthony De Niro is an American actor, producer, and director. He is particularly known for his collaborations with filmmaker Martin Scorsese. He has won two Academy Awards, a Golden Globe Award, the Cecil B. DeMille Award, and a Screen Actors Guild Life Achievement Award. In 2017 he portrayed Bernie Madoff in The Wizard of Lies, earning a Primetime Emmy Award nomination. In 2019, he starred in two acclaimed films; the psychological thriller Joker, and the crime epic The Irishman.
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Robert Anthony De Niro (born August 17, 1943) is an American actor, producer, and director. He is particularly known for his collaborations with filmmaker Martin Scorsese. He has won two Academy Awards, a Golden Globe Award, the Cecil B. DeMille Award, and a Screen Actors Guild Life Achievement Award. In 2009, he received the Kennedy Center Honor and in 2016 he received a Presidential Medal of Freedom from U.S. President Barack Obama. He was born in New York City and grew up in the Greenwich Village and Little Italy neighborhoods of Manhattan. His father was of Irish and Italian descent, while his mother had Dutch, English, French, and German ancestry. His parents separated when he was two years old after his father announced that he was gay. In 2017 he portrayed Bernie Madoff in The Wizard of Lies, earning a Primetime Emmy Award nomination. In 2019, he starred in two acclaimed films; the psychological thriller Joker, and the crime epic The Irishman. He also co-founded the Tribeca Film Festival with producer Jane Rosenthal, and in 2002, he co- founded TriBeCa Productions, a film production company. His mother was raised Presbyterian, but as an adult, he became an atheist as his father had lapsed into the Catholic Church against his grandparents’ wishes. He made his stage debut in school at age 10, playing the Cowardly Lion in The Lion of Oz. He went on to study acting at HB Studio, Stella Adler Conservatory, and Lee Strasberg’s Actors Studio.
His first major onscreen appearance was in Greetings. He soon gained recognition with his role as a baseball player in the sports drama Bang the Drum Slowly. He then starred in This Boy’s Life, and directed his first feature film with 1993’s A Bronx Tale. He diversified into comic roles, such as by playing a stand-up comedian in The King of Comedy, and gained further recognition for his performances in Sergio Leone’s crime epic Once Upon a Time in America, Terry Gilliam’s dystopian satire Brazil, the religious epic The Mission, and the comedy Midnight Run. In 1980, he portrayed Jake LaMotta in Raging Bull which won him an Academy Award for Best Actor, his first in this category. In the 1990s he played gangster Jimmy Conway in the crime film Goodfellas, a catatonic patient in the drama Awakenings, and as a criminal in Cape Fear. In 2012 he earned another Academy Award nomination for his role in David O. Russell’s 2012 romantic comedy, Silver Linings Playbook. His other critical successes include the crime films Heat and Casino. He is also known for the films Wag the Dog, Analyze This, and Meet the Parents. His films have been inducted to the United States National Film Registry by the Library of Congress as being “culturally, historically, or aesthetically significant” In 1989, he and Jane Rosenthal co-founder Tri beCa Productions.
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