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Robert De Niro

Robert Anthony De Niro (born August 17, 1943) is an American actor and film producer. 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.

Filmography

2025
Tin Soldier

as Emmanuel Ashburn

Movie
2025
The Alto Knights

as Vito Genovese / Frank Costello

Movie
2023
Killers of the Flower Moon

as William Hale

Movie
2022
Sergio Leone: The Italian Who Invented America

as Self

Movie
2022
Amsterdam

as General Gil Dillenbeck

Movie
2019
The Irishman

as Frank Sheeran

Movie
2019
Joker

as Murray Franklin

Movie
2015
The Intern

as Ben Whitaker

Movie
2013
The Family

as Fred Blake / Giovanni Manzoni

Movie
2012
Silver Linings Playbook

as Pat Solatano Sr.

Movie
2011
New Year's Eve

as Stan Harris

Movie
2007
Stardust

as Captain Shakespeare

Movie
2006
Arthur and the Invisibles

as King (voice)

Movie
2004
Meet the Fockers

as Jack Byrnes

Movie
2004
Shark Tale

as Don Lino (voice)

Movie
2000
Meet the Parents

as Jack Byrnes

Movie
1998
Ronin

as Sam

Movie
1997
Jackie Brown

as Louis Gara

Movie
1995
Heat

as Neil McCauley

Movie
1995
Casino

as Sam "Ace" Rothstein

Movie
1995
One Hundred and One Nights

as The Husband of The Star-Fantasy on a Cruise

Movie
1993
A Bronx Tale

as Lorenzo Anello

Movie
1991
Cape Fear

as Max Cady

Movie
1990
Awakenings

as Leonard Lowe

Movie
1990
GoodFellas

as James Conway

Movie
1985
Brazil

as Harry Tuttle

Movie
1984
Once Upon a Time in America

as David 'Noodles' Aaronson

Movie
1980
Raging Bull

as Jake LaMotta

Movie
1978
The Deer Hunter

as Michael Vronsky

Movie
1976
Taxi Driver

as Travis Bickle

Movie
1974
The Godfather Part II

as Vito Corleone

Movie
1971
The Gang That Couldn't Shoot Straight

as Mario

Movie