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Robert De Niro

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Biography

Robert Anthony De Niro (/də ˈnɪəroʊ/ də NEER-roh, Italian: [de ˈniːro]; born August 17, 1943) is an American actor and film producer. He is 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. Description above from the Wikipedia article Robert De Niro, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.

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Known For

Saturday Night Live

Jimmy Kimmel Live!

Late Night with Seth Meyers

The Graham Norton Show

The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon

The Daily Show

Real Time with Bill Maher

Golden Globe Awards

The Late Show with Stephen Colbert

The Tonight Show with Jay Leno

The Oscars

LIVE with Kelly and Mark

Comedy Central Roasts

100 Years of Warner Bros.

Late Night with Jimmy Fallon

American Hustle

Val

How to Rob a Bank

Hot Potato: The Story of The Wiggles

Amsterdam

Arthur and the Invisibles

Sergio Leone: The Italian Who Invented America

Stardust

Comedy Central Roast of Alec Baldwin

Breslin and Hamill: Deadline Artists

#LoveArmy : Où es-tu Jérôme ?

The Adventures of Rocky & Bullwinkle

The Godfather Family: A Look Inside

The Good Shepherd

I Knew It Was You: Rediscovering John Cazale

Marvin's Room

The Godfather Part II

Silver Linings Playbook

The Untouchables

Mario Puzo's The Godfather: The Complete Novel for Television

The Irishman: In Conversation

Scorsese's GoodFellas

Meet the Fockers

Killers of the Flower Moon

Once Upon a Time in America

Production Credits

Me and Earl and the Dying Girl

The Adventures of Rocky & Bullwinkle

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