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Robert De Niro

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Biography

Robert Anthony De Niro (born August 17, 1943) is an American actor. Known for his collaborations with Martin Scorsese, he is considered to be one of the best 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). Other notable roles include in 1900 (1976), The King of Comedy (1982), Once Upon a Time in America (1984), Brazil (1985), The Mission (1986), Goodfellas (1990), This Boy's Life (1993), Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein (1994), Heat (1995), Casino (1995), Jackie Brown (1997), The Good Shepherd (2006), Joker (2019), and The Irishman (2019). He made his directorial film debut with A Bronx Tale (1993). His comedic roles include Midnight Run (1988), Wag the Dog (1997), Analyze This (1999), 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 Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Lead Actor in a Limited Series or Movie nomination. 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.[1] 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 significant".

Overview

Known For

Saturday Night Live

The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon

Jimmy Kimmel Live!

Late Night with Seth Meyers

The Oscars

The Graham Norton Show

The Daily Show

Real Time with Bill Maher

The Late Show with Stephen Colbert

The Tonight Show with Jay Leno

LIVE with Kelly and Mark

Comedy Central Roasts

Golden Globe Awards

The Cleveland Show

30 Rock

100 Years of Warner Bros.

Extras

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

Stardust

Comedy Central Roast of Alec Baldwin

Breslin and Hamill: Deadline Artists

#LoveArmy : Où es-tu Jérôme ?

The Godfather Family: A Look Inside

The Adventures of Rocky & Bullwinkle

The Good Shepherd

The Untouchables

The Godfather Part II

I Knew It Was You: Rediscovering John Cazale

Marvin's Room

Backdraft

Jackie Brown

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

Silver Linings Playbook

The Irishman: In Conversation

Limitless

Red Lights

Killers of the Flower Moon

Heist

Meet the Fockers

Bang the Drum Slowly

Scorsese's GoodFellas

Once Upon a Time in America

Production Credits

The Adventures of Rocky & Bullwinkle

Me and Earl and the Dying Girl

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