Robert De Niro Bio | Wiki
Robert De Niro is a popular American actor noted due to his collaborations with Martin Scorsese and is considered to be one of the best actors of his generation. He is the recipient of various accolades, such as two Academy Awards, a Golden Globe Award, the Cecil B. DeMille Award, and a Screen Actors Guild Life Achievement Award.
In 2009, Robert received the Kennedy Center Honor and got a Presidential Medal of Freedom from U.S. President Barack Obama in 2016. He studied acting at HB Studio, Stella Adler Conservatory, and Lee Strasberg’s Actors Studio. Robert’s first collaboration with Scorsese was with the 1973 film Mean Streets. He won two Academy Awards, one for Best Supporting Actor for his role as Vito Corleone in Francis Ford Coppola’s The Godfather Part II (1974) as well as the other for Best Actor portraying Jake LaMotta in Scorsese’s drama Raging Bull (1980).
Robert made his directorial film debut with A Bronx Tale (1993). Robert’s comedic roles include Midnight Run (1988), Wag the Dog (1997), Analyze This (1999), and Meet the Parents (2000). Also known due to his television roles, Robert 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 won further Emmy Award nominations for producing the Netflix limited series When They See Us (2019), and due to portraying Robert Mueller on Saturday Night Live.
He and producer Jane Rosenthal created the film and television production company TriBeCa Productions in 1989, which has produced many films alongside his own. Also with Rosenthal, Robert created the Tribeca Film Festival in 2002. Six of his films became inducted into the United States National Film Registry by the Library of Congress as “culturally, historically, or aesthetically significant”.
Robert De Niro Age
Robert was born on August 17, 1943, in the Manhattan borough of New York City, in the United States. He is 79 years old. Robert celebrates his birthday on August 17, every year.
Robert De Niro Height
He is a man of above-average stature. Robert stands at a height of 5 ft 10 in (Approx 1.75 m).
Robert De Niro Family
He was born in the Manhattan borough of New York City, the only child of painters Virginia Admiral and Robert De Niro Sr. Robert’s father was of Irish and Italian descent, while his mother had Dutch, English, French, and German ancestry. Robert’s parents, who had met at the painting classes of Hans Hofmann in Provincetown, Massachusetts, separated when Robert was two years old after his father reported that he was gay. He was brought up by his mother in the Greenwich Village and Little Italy neighborhoods of Manhattan.
Robert’s father lived nearby and remained close to Robert during his childhood. Nicknamed “Bobby Milk” due to his pale complexion, Robert befriended many street kids in Little Italy, much to the disapproval of his father. Robert’s mother was raised Presbyterian but became an atheist as an adult, while his dad had been a lapsed Catholic since the age of 12. Against his parents’ wishes, Robert’s grandparents had him secretly baptized into the Catholic Church while he was staying with them during his parents’ divorce.
Robert De Niro Wife
Robert was married to Diahnne Abbott an actress. The two married in 1976. The pair have a son, Raphael, a retired actor who serves in New York real estate. Robert also adopted Diahnne’s daughter Drena De Niro from a previous relationship. Robert and Diahnne divorced in 1988. Later on, Robert was in a relationship with model Toukie Smith between 1988 and 1996. He has twin sons, Julian and Aaron, conceived via in vitro fertilization and delivered through a surrogate mother in 1995.
In 1997, Robert married Grace Hightower an actress. The couple’s son, Elliot, was born in 1998 and the pair split in 1999. Their divorce was never finalized and in 2004 they renewed their vows. In December 2011, Robert and Grace has a daughter born via surrogate. In 2014, Robert and Grace moved into a 6,000-square-foot, five-bedroom apartment at 15 Central Park West.
Four years later, it was announced Robert and Grace had separated after 20 years of marriage. Robert has four grandchildren; one from his daughter Drena, and three from his son Raphael. On April 19, 2021, Robert’s lawyer argued in a virtual divorce hearing presided by a Manhattan judge that he is “working at an unsustainable pace” so as “to support Hightower and pay off all his back taxes”. His lawyer claimed that since the two filed for divorce in 2018, Robert had been “unfairly decreasing” the agreed-upon payments to her.
Robert De Niro Education
He went to PS 41, a public elementary school in Manhattan, through the sixth grade. Robert started 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 afterward went to Elisabeth Irwin High School, the upper school of the Little Red School House, for the seventh and eighth grades.
He was later accepted into the High School of Music and Art for the ninth grade, but went for only a short time prior to transferring to a public junior high school: IS 71, Charles Evans Hughes Junior High School. Robert attended high school at McBurney School and later, Rhodes Preparatory School. He also studied with Stella Adler, of the Stella Adler Conservatory, where he became exposed to the techniques of the Stanislavski system.
Robert De Niro Movies
– Three Rooms in Manhattan (1965) as Client At The Diner
– The Young Wolves (1968) as Un Hippie Chez Popov
– Sam’s Song aka The Swap (1969) as Sam
– The Deer Hunter (1978) as Staff Sergeant Michael ‘Mike’ Vronsky
– Once Upon a Time in America (1984) as David ‘Noodles’ Aaronson
– Falling in Love (1984) as Frank Raftis
– Brazil (1985) as Archibald ‘Harry’ Tuttle
– Goodfellas (1990) as James ‘Jimmy The Gent’ Conway
– Cape Fear (1991) as Maximilian ‘Max’ Cady
– Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein (1994) as The Creature
– Great Expectations (1998) as Arthur Lustig
– The Adventures of Rocky and Bullwinkle (2000) as Fearless Leader
– Meet the Parents (2000) as Jack Tiberius Byrnes
– The Family (2013) as Giovanni Manzoni / Fred Blake
– The Bag Man (2014) as Dragna
– Dirty Grandpa (2016) as Lieutenant Colonel Richard ‘Dick’ Kelly
– The Irishman (2019) as Frank ‘The Irishman’ Sheeran
– The Comeback Trail (2020) as Max Barber
Robert De Niro Godfather
He had a pivotal role in Francis Ford Coppola’s crime epic The Godfather Part II (1974), starring the young Vito Corleone. Robert had formerly 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 Robert a role in Part II instead. To portray his character, Robert spoke mainly in many Sicilian dialects, although he delivered a few lines in English. The movie became a commercial success and earned $48 million at the worldwide box office.
Robert De Niro Taxi Driver
Following working with Scorsese in Mean Streets, Robert collaborated with him again for the psychological drama Taxi Driver (1976). Set in gritty and morally bankrupt New York City after the Vietnam War, the movie narrates the story of Travis Bickle, a lonely taxi driver who descends into insanity. In preparation for the role, Robert spent time with members of a U.S. army base to learn their Midwestern accent and mannerisms. Robert also lost 30 pounds (13 kg) in weight, took firearm training, and learned the behavior of taxi drivers.
Robert De Niro Casino
Casino (1995) marked Robert’s return to the crime genre with Scorsese in their eighth collaboration. Co-starring Sharon Stone and Joe Pesci, the movie is based on the book Casino: Love and Honor in Las Vegas by Nicholas Pileggi. Robert portrays Sam “Ace” Rothstein, a mob-connected casino operator in Las Vegas. The movie’s themes revolve around greed, betrayal, wealth, status, and murder that occur between two mobsters, Sam “Ace” Rothstein (De Niro) and Nicky Santoro (Pesci), as well as a trophy wife (Stone) over a gambling empire. The film became released to mostly positive critical reception and became a success at the worldwide box office.
Robert De Niro Goodfellas
He and Scorsese soon reunited for their sixth collaboration in 1990, with the crime film Goodfellas. Goodfellas is an adaptation of the 1985 non-fiction book Wiseguy by Nicholas Pileggi. Goodfellas tells the life of mob associate Henry Hill (Ray Liotta) and his friends and family from 1955 until 1980. Robert played James Conway, an Irish truck carjacker and gangster. The film premiered at the 47th Venice International Film Festival to an “enthusiastic” response from Italian critics, although it earned a moderate $46 million upon its wider release.
Robert De Niro Heat
He appeared in 1995’s crime thriller Heat, about a group of professional bank robbers. Art Linson, who had formerly produced films starring Robert, sent him the script first.
Robert De Niro Net Worth
Robert gets his wealth from his work as an actor noted due to his collaborations with Martin Scorsese and is considered to be one of the best actors of his generation. Therefore, Robert has accumulated a decent fortune over the years. Robert’s estimated net worth is $500 million.
How Old Is Robert De Niro
Robert is a 79-year-old who was born on August 17, 1943, in the Manhattan borough of New York City, in the United States.
Who Is Robert De Niro
Robert is an actor noted due to his collaborations with Martin Scorsese and is considered to be one of the best actors of his generation. He is the recipient of various accolades, such as two Academy Awards, a Golden Globe Award, the Cecil B. DeMille Award, and a Screen Actors Guild Life Achievement Award. In 2009, Robert received the Kennedy Center Honor and got a Presidential Medal of Freedom from U.S. President Barack Obama in 2016.