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Contents Articles Robert De Niro 1 Robert De Niro filmography 9 Three Rooms in Manhattan 18 Greetings (film) 19 Sam's Song 21 The Wedding Party (film) 22 Bloody Mama 24 Hi, Mom! 26 Born to Win 28 The Gang That Couldn't Shoot Straight 30 Bang the Drum Slowly (film) 32 National Society of Film Critics Award for Best Supporting Actor 35 The Godfather Part II 37 Taxi Driver 46 1900 (film) 55 The Last Tycoon (film) 59 New York, New York (film) 62 The Deer Hunter 65 Raging Bull 83 True Confessions (film) 93 The King of Comedy (1983 film) 96 Once Upon a Time in America 101 Falling in Love (1984 film) 112 Brazil (film) 114 The Mission (1986 film) 122 Angel Heart 127 The Untouchables (film) 131 Midnight Run 137 Jacknife 143 We're No Angels (1989 film) 145 Stanley & Iris 147 Goodfellas 152 Awakenings 163 Guilty by Suspicion 166 Backdraft (film) 168 Cape Fear (1991 film) 172 Night and the City (1992 film) 176 Mistress (1992 film) 178 A Bronx Tale 180 Mad Dog and Glory 184 This Boy's Life (film) 187 Frankenstein (1994 film) 191 Casino (film) 195 Heat (1995 film) 201 The Fan (1996 film) 205 Sleepers (film) 208 Marvin's Room (film) 211 Cop Land 213 Jackie Brown (film) 220 Wag the Dog 224 Great Expectations (1998 film) 228 Ronin (film) 232 Analyze This 237 Flawless (1999 film) 240 The Adventures of Rocky and Bullwinkle 243 Men of Honor 247 Meet the Parents 250 Meet the Fockers 264 15 Minutes 269 The Score (film) 273 Showtime (film) 277 City by the Sea 279 Analyze That 281 Godsend (film) 285 Shark Tale 288 The Bridge of San Luis Rey (2004 film) 295 Hide and Seek (2005 film) 298 Arthur and the Invisibles 302 The Good Shepherd (film) 308 Stardust (2007 film) 317 Righteous Kill 324 What Just Happened 328 Everybody's Fine (2009 film) 331 Machete (film) 336 Stone (2010 film) 345 Little Fockers 349 Manuale d'amore 3 354 Killer Elite (film) 356 Late Night with Jimmy Fallon 360 Limitless 365 New Year's Eve (film) 370 Freelancers (film) 373 Red Lights (2012 film) 375 TriBeCa (TV series) 377 Faithful (film) 379 Witness to the Mob 381 Prison Song 383 About a Boy 385 Stage Beauty 389 Rent (film) 393 Public Enemies (2009 film) 400 Extras 410 30 Rock 419 Late Show with David Letterman 438 References Article Sources and Contributors 446 Image Sources, Licenses and Contributors 458 Article Licenses License 461 Robert De Niro 1 Robert De Niro Robert De Niro De Niro at the 2011 Tribeca Film Festival premiere of The Bang Bang Club Born August 17, 1943 New York, New York, U.S. Residence TriBeCa, Lower Manhattan Nationality American Citizenship United States and Italy Education High School of Music Art Alma mater Stella Adler Studio of Acting Occupation Actor, director and producer Years active 1959–present Home town Manhattan Spouse Diahnne Abbott (1976–88) Grace Hightower (1997–present) Children 5 (including Drena De Niro) Parents Robert De Niro, Sr. Virginia Admiral Robert De Niro, Jr. (born August 17, 1943) is an American actor, director and producer. His first major film roles were in Bang the Drum Slowly and Mean Streets, both in 1973. In 1974, he played the young Vito Corleone in The Godfather Part II, a role that won him the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor. His critically acclaimed, longtime collaboration with Martin Scorsese began with 1973's Mean Streets, and earned De Niro an Academy Award for Best Actor for his portrayal of Jake LaMotta in the 1980 film Raging Bull. He was also nominated for an Academy Award for his roles in Scorsese's Taxi Driver (1976) and Cape Fear (1991). In addition, he received nominations for his acting in Michael Cimino's The Deer Hunter (1978) and Penny Marshall's Awakenings (1990). Also in 1990, his portrayal as Jimmy Conway in Scorsese's Goodfellas earned him a BAFTA [1] nomination. Robert De Niro 2 He has earned four nominations for the Golden Globe Award for Best Actor – Motion Picture Musical or Comedy: New York, New York (1977), Midnight Run (1988), Analyze This (1999) and Meet the Parents (2000). De Niro directed A Bronx Tale (1993) and The Good Shepherd (2006). He has received accolades for his esteemed career, including the AFI Life Achievement Award and the Golden Globe Cecil B. DeMille Award. Early life [2] Robert De Niro was born in Greenwich Village, New York City, New York, the son of Virginia Holton Admiral, a [3] painter and poet, and Robert De Niro, Sr., an abstract expressionist painter and sculptor. His father was of Italian [4] [5] and Irish descent, and his mother was of English, German, French, and Dutch ancestry. His Italian great-grandparents, Giovanni De Niro and Angelina Mercurio, emigrated from Ferrazzano, in the province of Campobasso, Molise, and his paternal grandmother, Helen O'Reilly, was the granddaughter of Edward O'Reilly, an immigrant from Ireland. De Niro's parents, who had met at the painting classes of Hans Hofmann in Provincetown (Cape Cod), Massachusetts, divorced when he was three years old. De Niro was raised by his mother in the Little Italy neighborhood of Manhattan, and in Greenwich Village. His father lived within walking distance and Robert spent [6] much time with him as he was growing up. De Niro attended PS 41, a public elementary school in Manhattan, through the sixth grade, and then went to the private Elisabeth Irwin High School, the upper school of the Little Red [7] School House, for the seventh and eighth grades. He was accepted at the High School of Music and Art for the [8] ninth grade, but only attended for a short time, transferring instead to a public junior high school. He began high [9] [10] school at the private McBurney School, attended the private Rhodes Preparatory School, but never [11] graduated. Nicknamed "Bobby Milk" for his pallor, the youthful De Niro hung out with a group of street kids in [12] Little Italy, some of whom have remained lifelong friends of his. But the direction of his future had already been determined by his stage debut at age ten, playing the Cowardly Lion in his school's production of The Wizard of [13] [2] Oz. Along with finding relief from shyness through performing, De Niro was also entranced by the movies, [12] and he dropped out of high school at age sixteen to pursue acting. De Niro studied acting at the Stella Adler [11] Conservatory, as well as Lee Strasberg's Actors Studio. Career Acting De Niro's first movie role, in collaboration with Brian De Palma, was in 1963, at the age of 20, when he appeared opposite his friend Jill Clayburgh in The Wedding Party; however, the film was not released until 1969. He then played in Roger Corman's 1970 Bloody Mama, which starred Shelly Winters as Ma Barker. He gained popular [2] attention with his role as a dying Major League Baseball player in Bang the Drum Slowly (1973). That same year, he began his collaboration with Martin Scorsese, when he played the smalltime crook Johnny Boy, alongside Harvey [2] Keitel's Charlie, in Mean Streets (1973). Robert De Niro 3 In 1974, De Niro had a pivotal role in Francis Ford Coppola's The Godfather Part II, playing the young Vito Corleone - the director having remembered his previous auditions for the roles of Sonny Corleone, Michael Corleone, Carlo Rizzi and Paulie Gatto, in The Godfather. His performance earned him [2] his first Academy Award, for Best Supporting Actor, although Coppola accepted the award, as De Niro was not present at the Oscar ceremony. He became the first actor to win an Academy Award speaking mainly a foreign [2] language, in this case, multiple Sicilian dialects (although he delivered a few lines in English). De Niro and Marlon Brando, who played the older Vito Corleone in the first film, are the only actors to have won Oscars portraying the same fictional character. Brando and De Niro came together onscreen for the only time in The Score (2001). After working with Scorsese in Mean Streets, he had a successful working relationship with the director in films such as Taxi Driver (1976), New York, De Niro at the Cannes Film Festival, 2011 New York (1977), Raging Bull (1980), The King of Comedy (1983), Goodfellas (1990), Cape Fear (1991), and Casino (1995).
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